This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Local notes from Algona district and nearby towns
Readable items include visits to St Paul Minneapolis and the Republican convention, arrivals home from Texas and Minnesota trips, church construction and relocation, a sheriff meeting in Dubuque, farm and crop reports, market prices for hogs corn oats and wheat, and local gossip about dances, drinks, and electric lights. Mentions of Fenton creamery, Parsons of Marion, and Spirit Lake revivalist Sam Small.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nichols
Thorington
John Goeders
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Charley Palmer
Houston
Texas
David Gilmore
Fort Dodge
D. S. Miller
U. S
Spurbeck
Hoxie
Ferguaod
McEnroe
Sheriffs
Dubuque
Roy McGetchie
John Grove
Anamosa
Clark
Marion
Clarion
Spirit Lake
Tailor Foss
Minneapolia
Chicago
Jas, Taylor
J. J. Wilson
C. L. Lund
Peter Purvis
Peter Marty
J. G. Graham
P. J. Byrne
Tom Sherman
B. W. Haggard