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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1903
Page
3
A proverb-like saying notes that seeking deep pleasure yields more gravel than pearls, cautioning against chasing shallow gains. The line contrasts surface rewards with the hidden costs of deeper pursuits. It reflects a moral about value versus effort in risky or ambitious endeavors.
A Chesterfieldian official recalls a Nebraska stop where a bath request yields a joke about a goat and “dam up the crick.” The page blends humorous vignettes with numerous 1900 era ads and health cures, including Allen’s Foot-Ease and Hall’s Catarrh Cure, plus varied notices and classifieds.
Notre Dame University in Notre Dame Indiana advertises free catalogs with course and term details and a preparatory school. It touts facilities for Sophomore to Senior students plus a private room policy and emphasizes thoroughness, care, and 60 years of educational work. Also promotes piano and organ sale by WW Kimball Co with large cash discounts and free catalogs.
A race riot in Danville Illinois resulted in two deaths and many wounded. A mob attacked the jail seeking to Lynch Joe Wilson who assaulted Mrs Burgess of Alvan. Henry Gatterman was shot dead by J D Mayfield, the lynching mob then burned Wilsons body and attacked the jail. State troops restored order by morning.
The July 24 stock exchange suspensions of Talbot J. Taylor & Company and W. L. Stow & Company mark a peak in excited selling and a suspected speculative collapse. The failures stem from market manipulation and pools, with Keene tied to Talbot’s collapse through large credit, while Mexican Central difficulties and United States Steel operations loom over the turmoil.
London July 24 A Daily Mail Tokyo correspondent reports alarm over Russia’s Manchuria gains and the Manchurian frontier. He says Japan is stockpiling stores buying ships and moving south, with fleets ready for action, while Russia and France may clash in a prolonged conflict. The note mentions Anglo Japanese ties and a Balkan style danger in Corea. A second item notes Pope Leo’s catholic view praised by Russian press as the “great pope,” and a Hague rental ad offering a tidy room for sixty-two cents weekly.
Rome July 26. The body of Leo XII was sealed in its triple cosin and entombed after a funeral marked by grand ceremony. Two hundred thousand mourners passed through the cathedral as Italian troops cleared the chapel and diplomats signed condolences to the Sacred College. The pope’s death prompts the sacred college to prepare for the conclave to choose his successor. A separate note from Rome July 20 confirms Leo XII’s death at four o'clock this afternoon. Washington July 21. The State Department sent a message to Cardinal Rampalli expressing profound sorrow and praising Leo XIII’s life and reign.
From Des Moines an Iowa capital column details regimental strength aims for Fort Riley maneuvers with the Fifty-first guard details and camp dates for Fifty- third to Fifty-sixth. It reports a destructive hail storm across western Iowa damaging crops, insurance estimates in the hundreds of thousands, and storm path through Lyon Osceola O'Brien Cherokee Monona Warren Greene Shelby Polk Crawford Cass counties. It notes the Des Moines horse show August 21–29 promising strong heavy horse entries judged by Professor Curtiss. It covers the Scandinavian relief fund of 10 870.30 with expenses and distribution to Sweden Norway and Finland. It mentions Iowa militia costs from the Dubuque strike, executive council assessments, and telephone and telegraph valuations. It previews lectures by Captain Hobson and William Jennings Bryan at the Chautauqua in Des Moines and a medical board ruling on itinerant practitioners license. It ends with humorous quips and a local mis-spoken exchange and a note on higher odds of lightning in rural counties.
Dealers tout Defiance Starch as superior and versatile for cold or boiled use. The ad touts a 16 ounce package offered at the same price as 12 ounce rival goods. It claims aboriginal jewelry uses telegraph wire and warns the adjutant marabout bird swallows small animals.
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