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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1901
Page
3
A Beaumont correspondent notes Texas oil boom wealth, with a restaurant owner displaying $18,000 in small bills and coins, saying locals require large change as $300 and $1,000 bills are common. He notes dramatic shifts from debt to cash flow, and speculators moving quickly in the market.
The city sees a flood of visitors investing in boarding houses laundries and oil ventures. Wealthy newcomers arrive daily with cash seeking opportunities while existing residents try to shield the boom but trains continue to bring in prosperous people eager to profit.
A New Jersey judge argues common civility is the law of the land and citizens must consent to speaking, a stance amid labor disputes at a Paterson silk mill. The piece then discusses Mr Yerkes and Americans leading in scrap heap use, noting junking of old gear, presses, and even warships as progress, with broader doubts about tariffs and politics.
A long Indianapolis News inspired vignette describes an elderly man on a streetcar who, for kindness to a fellow passenger, attempts to brush a bug from a young woman’s hair. The bug is a Brazilian beetle on a pin, and the woman exclaims Beiri, leaving the man shocked and embarrassed as he alights at the next stop. The piece also includes humorous reflections of a cat and a series of unrelated quips and poems.
In a tense exchange at the household, the Woman of the House scolds Tufford Knott for returning without learning, while Knott defends his study of conditions. Uncle Allen Sparks weighs in, asserting Mrs Herron is the sole beneficiary of a $60,000 settlement for a husband he deems valueless.
Diggs asks if living with a genius requires genius. Biggs replies he never considered his wife a genius, offering a blunt take on the saying and marriage.
A fragmentary dialogue questions a lawyer Sharp and his rival Thick in a humorous exchange. The text notesSharp faced natural disadvantages yet achieved notable success as a lawyer, while Thick distrusts his opponent’s mechanisms.
A collage of figures and lines features a dog pound keeper and visitor quarreling over scraps of meat and feeding, a humor about weed beds and flowers, a cartoonish exchange about Christian faiths, a pair arguing over delivering a message, a brief journalist note on blunders by editors, plus a French academy mention of Mme Sklowdawska Currie amid radium discovery and a 4000 franc prize.
An old newspaper ad promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute with mocha like flavor and grain base. It also touts Defianch Starch as a 16 oz package for 10 cents with a money back guarantee, plus Rosa Bleaching Bite for whiter clothes and general grocery items.
An OCR fragment lists Hall's Catarrh Cure with a price of 750 and repeats the claim as a constitutional cure. It also notes a Dr King nerve remedy with a free trial bottle offer, a Defiance Starch 16 oz for 10 cents, and a remark about Queen Victoria’s wine sale excluding certain brands.
The Missouri Pacific Railway adds double daily through trains from St. Louis and Kansas City to Colorado Utah and the Pacific coast with sleeping cars between St. Louis and San Francisco. Trains depart St. Louis at 9:00 a.m. and 10:10 p.m. and Kansas City at 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Excursion tickets now on sale. for details contact H. C. Townsend G. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis.
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