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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
2
Algona Courier outlines subscription options with one year and six month prepaid plans. The notice also lists display advertising rates per inch and notes mail handling at the Algona Iowa post office as second class matter.
The Panama Canal open to commerce has suffered slides and bulging at the Culebra Cut, costing over 100 million. Utah mining expert Thomas Kearns proposes a gas pressure fault as a cause and suggests sinking gas vents as a remedy. The piece also compares political stability fears in France and the U.S. amid leadership debates and notes rising tensions in the Middle East as Arabia rebels against Turkey.
In the article the author argues that foreign interests oppose Wilson amid Balkan tensions and defend domestic policy. It asserts the US justified in violating Mexican sovereignty to protect its people and criticizes Mexican leadership for lawlessness and insolence while urging proper duties and responsibilities.
About 800 New York bankers gathered in Atlantic City on June 9 to laud the banking law recently enacted by Congress and to thank President Wilson for his role in its passage. Paul M. Warburg spoke on foreign trade, the Federal Reserve system, and cautioned against lowering banking standards. Joseph E. Davies, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, urged stronger national coordination, resource conservation, and industrial stability amid postwar changes.
Robert Spear of Rampey township, brother of John Spear of German, died Tuesday near noon from lockjaw caused by a finger scratch that became infected after a pin prick. He had recently contracted with Logan to build a barn in Titonka and contracted Wallace to treat a hand sore. Buffalo Center physicians attended him through Monday night into Tuesday, but he died at about 11 o'clock Tuesday. Funeral services will be held from his home Friday. Spear leaves a large family including a wife and several children.
A 1890s newspaper clipping notes Gardner Cowles as a strong legislative candidate with support from Republican rivals. Whittemore contemplates incorporation while social and business notices drift through the Iowa town. The item mentions marriages, a shoe shop opening, legal consultations, a wedding, a death, and a near drowning near West Bend with a child lost in the river.
Abundant supply of choice old and new corn available. Iowa car lots submitted. Visit or call at 301 E State St for details. Bowles Billings Kesaler Grain Co.
Owing to coal price rises drain tile prices rise effective July 1 1916 Sand 6 in now 1.00 per 1000 ft Tand Sin 2.00 EF Algona Brick & Tile Works HANDS PARK at Silver Lake offers milk fed chicken dinner on one hour notice open till 8 PM dinner 50c baths and grounds lit for evening swims also haying and simmer borders advertised John Lamuth Auto Co reports vehicle sales including Saxon Six to Leonard Drager Saxon roadster to L. H. Funk Paige Six to Reding Bros Paige Six to Jake Winkel Rentals include modern dwelling 3 blocks from Court House E J Van eas For Sale several hundred bushels 1914 corn F W Dingley Torr ent new modern house J J McCall 621 E State St Have a home piano tuned R M Mountford phone 751 For Sale Herrick refrigerator nearly new Geo W Platt W Nebr St pasture for four cows
A list of Agona grocers and hardware dealers announces their stores will be closed all day on July 4th and will reopen at 10 p.m. on Monday July 3rd. Named signatories include Kohlhaas Brothers Thos Akre Moe and Sjogren Tare Sorensen Long Brothers Henderson Jas Patterson J H Peterson E Skinner Andersal Brothers.
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