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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1905
Page
7
Over 14 000 rolls of premium wallpaper are being sold to clear stock before the store moves to a new brick building. Prices slashed on all rolls with claim the sale offers a rare chance to save money and urges customers to visit soon.
The piece argues that truly perfect diamonds exist and are rare, with only about five percent of mined stones reaching perfection at four carats or larger after cutting. It notes most perfect stones enter America rough for cutting, leaving few in Europe, and claims availability of flawless stones in white or blue white, with offers to exchange for a larger stone and to open accounts with responsible parties.
The readable fragments indicate a schedule with times around 4:30 pm to 5:00 pm and mention of a person or unit initials, but the text is incomplete and offers no verifiable event, name, place, or organization to anchor a full summary.
Readable items describe Algona events and people including court term, visits from Mrs. J F Auner and Effie Bingaman, land sales and farm purchases, bank meetings, a ball game loss to Garner, local travel to Des Moines, Chicago and Colorado, school and church notes, and a surprise wedding anniversary with gifts.
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