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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1900
Page
6
A Seattle man sent lavish, romantic letters to his sweetheart over three months then ceased visiting and writing. She sues for breach of promise. a jury awards her damages. The report mixes product ads and miscellaneous notices alongside the tale, mentioning cures, remedies, and local business promotions.
Powder kept in cold storage as magazines on warships to prevent explosions. Experiments have progressed with plans by Rear Admiral O Neil, U S N, and success is claimed. If adopted, future vessels may include magazine refrigerating apparatus among marine auxiliary machinery.
A March Ladies Home Journal excerpt notes the old custom of showering rice on departing brides is being abandoned due to vulgarity and harm. Many now prefer rose leaves or loose flowers, which guests scatter and then preserve as mementos.
The sultan is said to control about 2,600 horses in his stables, with nearly every breed represented. His finest is an Arabian bay, and he favors Arabian mounts for his army regiments. He enjoys palace grounds rides and is noted as a skilled horseman and marksman.
The text notes that among thirty four great battles twelve occurred on Sunday, six on Thursday, five on Wednesday, two on Friday, and three each on Monday Tuesday and Saturday. Sunday battles included Waterloo Inkerman and the fall of Delhi. Gravelotte Omdurman occurred Thursday. Tel el Kebir Alma Balaklava were on Wednesday. Trafalgar on Tuesday Sebastopol on Friday. Marengo and Abu Keia on Saturday.
A correspondent notes Europe is scarce of coal due to the South African war, boosting Maryland and West Virginia mine output. Unprecedented shipments reach Baltimore Lambert's Point and Newport News, with a French company contracting 75,000 tons of Cumberland coal and Russia negotiating for 2,000,000 tons.
A Greek lady living in England who runs an infant school near Athens translated classics such as Jack and Jill and Old Mother Hubbard into Greek and set them to music. The works are very popular with local children and reflect England’s literary influence. A Sunny Slope vineyard near San Gabriel claims the world’s largest acreage for a single vineyard. About 1,900 acres total, 735 in grapes, with orange trees numbering 12,000 and lemon and olive trees also present.
In military fieldwork the prismatic compass is standard for sketching but becomes practically useless beyond the Drakensberg in Zululand due to iron in the earth. This renders magnetic readings unreliable for observations in that region.
The infamous Borodino conflict on September 7, 1812 saw Napoleon face the Russians in a brutal clash. About 80,000 soldiers were killed wounded or rendered hors de combat in the Russian village battle.
The Denver and Rio Grande railroad has issued a second edition of Fertile Lands of Colorado describing the state’s agricultural, horticultural and grazing districts along its line in Colorado and New Mexico Territory. It explains stock interests sugar beet farming and irrigation and is offered free by request to eight dollar cost or through railroad officials.
The Industrial Commission’s report to Congress urges state level action on labor laws, seeking to curb child labor, ban women and girls under 14 from mining, restrict under 18 telegraph operators on railroads, and require color blindness exams for engineers and switchmen. It favors conciliation over strict arbitration and supports labor bureaus in all states, while defending workers’ right to organize.
A mob blocked a Jefferson avenue line and opened fire on a southbound car. Patrolman Peter Well was wounded in the left armpit after about 100 shots exchanged. Two strikers were hurt but hurried away to avoid arrest as police dispersed the crowd. Officials later said railway management and union leaders had reached an adjustment, easing immediate danger of further strikes.
Chicago lawyer Frank B Blair visits Capt Oberlin M Carter at Fort Leavenworth to discuss legal avenues for release. Blair, among a group of leading attorneys, believes a process exists to win freedom while Carter maintains his innocence and rejects a pardon.
In Niagara Falls on May 28 Jeshua J O Donnell a Roman Catholic priest jumped into the whirlpool rapids after discarding his hat and cane shouting Good bye He disappeared amid visible water for about 200 feet before vanishing He was once assistant pastor at the Church of the Sacred Heart in New York and for a year a patient in a Buffalo asylum. A separate note from St Paul Minnesota reports Mrs Mary Jive Scott filing divorce suit against Thomas Blythe Scott formerly president of the Northern Exchange Bank now in Chicago They were married in Nashville in 1888 and have two children
Chicago May 28. Albert Ishupr obtained a marriage license to prevent sending his sweetheart to a reformatory. The couple married at Morrison Street police station. Margaret Guilfoyle, nearly 15, was arrested earlier in St. Louis on a runaway claim by her father.
May 28 in Mich. Forest patrols report tracking a pair of dilipinas fugitives in the Benguer area while torrential rains feed wildfires. Seven sections of land owned by James B. Goodin & Co. of Chicago burned over in Ingalls township. Fire covers about nine miles.
May 28 report says a wildfire in the Catalina Mountains continues to burn a timber tract fifteen miles long and ten miles wide. Workers are battling the flames to contain the blaze as firefighters operate on site.
Three inmates Dale, McCoy, and Willie Hile escaped from a jail in Jadd Muunt Sterling Illinois on May 28. Sheriff and deputies pursued without locating the trio.
A historical advertisement blend warns against back pain and kidney disease, touts Morley's Liver and Kidney Cordial as a system renovator and cure, promotes Allen's Foot-Fuse for shoe fit, Kemp's Balsam for cough, and mentions dental snags in a casual reader notice style with multiple product pitches and social notes.
Advertising copy extols Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for female disorders, claiming widespread relief and urging women to write for free advice from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. The notice closes with a wry remark about a kid glove manufacturer and a U.S. News stamp.
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