A Mediterranean Cruise and Athens in Marble City
The narrator sails from Jaffa to Athens aboard a steamer, recounting St. Paul’s biblical journeys and modern Greece. In Salamis and Athens they tour the Acropolis, Theater of Dionysus, Temple of Jupiter ruins, and Beale Gate, contrasting ancient grandeur with a growing marble city. They recall Periclean Athens and King George’s modernizing reign, as Belvedere offers a panoramic view of a new Athens with universities and museums.
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Piraeus
New York
South Hampton
Hamburg
Athens
Greece
Homer
Plato
Socrates
Jupiter
Deucalion
Noah
Acropolis
Dionysus
Silenus
Aesculapius
Odeon
Beale ‘Gate
Calla
Iing
Attica
Aegelos
Xerxes
Salamis
Pentelicus
Phidias
Praxitiles
Hymettos
Pericles
Belvedere
National Library
Academy
George
Danish George
Wm Paetz Takes a Trip to Explore Crop Prospects
Wm Paetz describes a summer journey from Algona through Minnesota and the Dakotas, noting drought-damaged crops in Minnesota and parts of South Dakota, but finds promising yields in the Red River valley. He visits Crookston Donaldson and Miles City, selling horses and returning via the Great Northern and Northern Pacific lines.
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Algona
Courier
Minnesota
Dakota
Miles City
Montana
Butterfield
Sanborn
South Dakota
Canby
St. Paul
Donaldson
Minn
Crookston
Red River Valley
Peter McEnroe
Donald Gon
Wm. Pagrz
Editors Visit Detroit on Pan American Tour
Iowa editor J W H files a lively Detroit visit diary from the 1911 editorial convention. He notes modest attendance due to heat and travel, praises city hospitality, and recounts a Canada annexation debate stirred by Govornor Gaborn and Judge Sutherland. He observes Detroit’s auto industry strength, the Windsor ferry, Belle Isle, and local commerce as he previews a banquet.
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Detroit
Canada
New Orleans
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Gulf
Caribbean
Panama Canal
Chicago
W.F. Parrott
Waterloo
Harry Green
Decorah
Ed Medary
Waukon
Marrette
Fort Dodge Messenger
Goen
Independence
Mr. Gilmore
Tipton
Parrott
Medary
Green
Gilmore
Hodges
Sleepy Bye
Minn
Hemenger
Findlay
Ohio
Amos
Joe Chapple
Boston
Richardsson
Mississippi
Higgins
Oswald
New York
Bell
Missouri
Craig
Indiana
Castle
Panama
Michigan
Detroit Board of Commerce
Lake Erie
Qaborn
Polar Sea
Stara and Stripes
Collins
Minneapolis
RK. F. Sutherland
High Court. of Justice of
Toronto
United States
Lone Rock Visitor Describes Alarming Fall Lie by Airship
Charley Sharp of Lone Rock visited the Courier office on Friday morning claiming injuries from a fall from an airship. His face was discolored with bruises and skin peeled, drawing concern before comments on his condition from Mr. Frisby who was present.
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Lone. Rock
Charley Sharp
Lone Rock
Lnst
Mr. Frisby
Algona Man Fined for Assault on Elderly Man
A rugged man about 45 assaulted Mr. Sharp, striking him in the face several times. Sharp drew a jackknife, Frisby retreated, then Frisby struck with a chair as Sharp walked away. Frisby, brought to Algona, paid a $16.50 fine and costs after witnesses Shackelford and Worthington testified.
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Mr. Sharp
Mr. Frisby
Lone Rock Bank
Fatal Auto Crash near Crystal Lake Claims Tom Gray
Tom Gray of Wesley died when hisRec runabout overturned crossing a culvert about a mile from Crystal Lake. Dr Weston of Des Moines survived with minor injuries after being trapped under the car. Gray leaves a wife and two children. Funeral set for Friday at 2 30 p m.
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Algona
Tom Gray
Wesley
Crystal Lake
Gray
Dr. Weston
Des Moines
Ed Immersall
Ae Tom Gray
Swanson proposes $160000 Algona factory project
H S Swanson of Ottawa Illinois seeks to build a 160000 dollar manufacturing plant in Algona to produce a grain elevator and stacker three corn cultivators and a street flusher. He owns the patents and has been making them in Ottawa. He asks for at least five acres and 60000 to 70000 dollars of capital stock from locals. The plant would start with seventy five workers. The Commercial Club directors met Tuesday with Swanson present and a responsive committee was formed to investigate and push the project if details check out.
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H.S. Swanson
Ottawa
Algona. i
The
Commercial Club
Commercial Club Committee
Swanson
City Election On Bonds To Extend Water Mains
The city votes next Monday on issuing 18000 in bonds to extend water mains and boost power plant capacity. The Mayor notes women may vote this election and warns the city could struggle to meet growth if the proposition fails. Algona sees strong growth with 25 plus new residences, increasing demand for light and water. the council must act to expand capacity.
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Algona
J Council Myat
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Windsor
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Kos Suth
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Lowa
Thos. Gray
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