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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1915
Page
11
Two friends discuss Flightly, a fiction writer whose real fame comes from creating advertisements for summer resorts. They note his vivid imagination and growing wealth, while remarking he does not publish books.
While touring Italy, Ravengelo plotted a ransom stunt. Robbers seized him but, upon learning he was an actor, made him work for his sustenance instead of delivering a ransom. A judge described the scheme and its outcome.
A conversation reveals a request for aid denied due to a single bar of soap available and the servant using it. The tone shows social friction as the party refuses immediate help and suggests returning another time.
A speaker notes human nature in a remark about a grocer who respects cash payers less than a neighbor using credit. The exchange contrasts cash and credit dynamics, suggesting perceived fairness and social standing in a small shop setting. The tone resembles a reflective aside on everyday commerce and personal perception.
A humorous exchange unfolds over a Victrola arm during a social quarrel. One character laments giving nothing desired while the other icily counters. The scene references a two hour at home concert and the need to wind the machine repeatedly.
“Mine Ethel,” said Charlie Staylate, “Str. should tell you I was going away tomorrow would you feel sorry?” “Tomorrow,” she answered, glancing at the clock. “Yes, I should feel sor ry-I thought you might go away to night.” Om An Enumeration, “Anybody play poker in Crimean Gulch?” asked the breezy stranger, “Yep,” replied Broncho -Bob, “me an' 'Finger Sam . an' Rattlesnake Pete plays the gare 'an' about. sev enty-five other citizens' thinks they does,”
Lord Kinnaird, famed for charitable efforts, now supports a fund for Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps members. An anecdote recalls his spirited football days and a quip from Lady Kinnaird about him returning with a broken leg, prompting a playful reply about another’s leg.
A humorous Irish tale has two friends hunting ducks. Mike keeps aiming but never fires as every time his gun is aimed a new duck appears between him and the target. The friend asks why and Mike explains the flock keeps moving between them.
Prepared narration shows Belle and Beulah debating a romance sparked by a character who claims to have loved from first sight. He says he knew her from reading about her in Bradstreet’s, prompting incredulity and a playful, dramatic exchange.
The surgeon who treated appendicitis warns a scar will remain and the patient replies with a wry hope that any mark will deter another surgeon from operating. This excerpt from the Kansas City Journal captures a tense exchange over medical certainty and patient autonomy.
In a dialogue fragment a speaker taunts Dobbs about his wife, asking what he said. The other replies that he told Marks he owes everything to her, prompting a skeptical response about whether it counts as bragging.
A humorous item presents a chatty exchange about dancing and a quirky basement window misadventure. The vignette riffs on a neighbor’s improvised tale and ends with a pun about a preferred earlier drawing, reflecting playful newspaper humor.
A fragment discusses officials potentially destroying natural beauty to unlock future funding, with Crabshaw noting plans to seek millions to make the city “beautiful.” The exchange reflects early urban development tensions and fiscal priorities.
In a brief quip the Grouch questions women’s street employment while the Old Fogg probes the claim. The exchange turns on wit about women steering men where to go, highlighting a playful gender remark from a humor panel.
A fragmented dialogue portrays Betty and Jack sparring over wireless gadgets and messages. The exchange mimics a clipped wartime style with snappy phrases and a playful tone. The snippet hints at misunderstandings and humorous banter about communication devices.
Readable text shows a fragmented remark opposing imprisonment for men. The snippet hints at a discussion of punishment philosophy but lacks clear attribution, date, or full context.
Idaho Experiment Station advice outlines quick identification by long slender spike and underground rhizomes. Emphasizes early action to dig up patches, burn roots, and avoid letting seeds mature, with deep plowing and thorough pulverizing to weaken and destroy the root system.
A fragment discusses an implement capable of destroying young weeds in a ship that will eventually damage grain. It notes possibly replowing the same fall, but generally not until the following spring. The cultivation timing guidance is incomplete.
A fragment notes Galige of Roup addressing troublesome diseases among chickens. The brief hints at health challenges facing poultry and references to ongoing concerns in farming communities.
Laketon Kentucky farmer L G Johnson details timber care on 46 acre tract. He removes diseased trees early to salvage lumber or posts, clears undergrowth, culls poor timber, seeds with blue grays pasture, and uses cattle manure to enrich soil for stronger healthier growth.
Alfalfa emerged as the king of forage crops amid its history in the United States. First seen in New York around 1821, it faded due to unknown cultural needs, then resurfaced from Mexico via Chile. Planted in California, it thrived in irrigated Western hay production, prompting later East attempts. Once its needs were understood, alfalfa spread coast to coast, proving its great value to planters.
Periscope on land demonstrates how the device enables precise observation by bringing special field parts under accurate scrutiny. The evolving periscope design allows targeted sections to be monitored as development progresses.
The article describes evolving periscope concepts from land warfare mirrors to submarine systems. It outlines multiple telescope arrangements, reversers, and prisms, detailing two to three telescopes end to end, a rotating inner optical system, and fixed eyepiece. Aiming to show bearing with a scale and distance estimation, it notes improvements by Howard Grubb and Goerz of Berlin.
An informal note outlines pruning principles for trees and shrubs. It contrasts light pruning for weak, fast-growing varieties with stronger cuts for vigorous, heavily branched plants to encourage balanced growth, noting the aim to shape woodful growth patterns.
A poem-like passage recalls vast European trench lines from Switzerland to the North Sea, noting endless dugouts on opposing sides and the immense toll on soldiers. It contrasts the scale of trenches with the U.S. forces and honors various Allied symbols while reflecting on the protracted fighting before winter.
A 19th century note explains the term batman as a driver or manager of packhorses for officers. A bat horse is a packhorse carrying luggage, with “bat” meaning a saddle. The passage notes many military words are French and cites a proverb about saddles and burden.
A damaged OCR fragment mentions an address or branch office and a distant date. The readable words suggest a formal notice or filing related to a bank or organization. No clear names, places, or concrete actions are discernible due to missing text.
Julius Grossmann of New York patents a bar and lock system that drops a dead bolt inside the door to block the latch from outside. The mechanism, shown in a diagram, uses a Yale external appearance while providing internal turning via a key to drop the bolt over door hasps, resisting picking or jimmying.
England dominates submarine telegraph cables with Germany producing some. Cables arrive in two mile lengths tested for resistance, then placed on cable ships to be submerged. Over forty steamers repair and lay cables, Atlantic runs typically take about a week, the Colonia being the largest.
A local rascal dubbed the meanest man stole the scales from the welfare station at the Violet Street playground, leaving 20 mothers with hungry babies unable to weigh them. Later arrivals were aided with borrowed scales as the city health department clinic faced disrupted weighed-out feeds for undernourished infants.
Annstazio Chelotti a Reverender of Savona Italy celebrated the birth of his thirty first child whom he named Candida. Chelotti who has just turned sixty recalled marrying at twenty one a nineteen year old wife who bore him a yearly male child each year since their union.
A fragmented OCR item mentions Mali Satan in a brief local note with unclear context. Names and details are unreadable, offering only a stray reference to a person and a dated or numeric fragment. The record captures the incomplete notice without fillable event or outcome.
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