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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1901
Page
5
Nearly every farmer seeks new equipment for 1901 operations as the season approaches, highlighting widespread need for plows, seeders, mowers, and other farm machinery to sustain productivity and support upcoming planting and harvest cycles.
A meeting of county fair secretaries at City Hall agreed to form a circuit including Sheldon Emmetsburg Forest City Estherville and Algona with $300 purses for two trots and two pacing races. Fairs rotate dates through August to September with planned extra races and a second meeting later this month.
In Whittemore’s Whittemore Champion a peculiar event occurred Saturday night as Lou Kortie sat near the counter being social. Harry Filer the night watchman joked by kicking at Kortie’s pistol pocket, causing an explosion like a revolver discharge. The blast came from Kortie’s loaded pocket weapons misfired by accident.
The article notes railroads in Iowa valued at over 450 million dollars, assessed at 45 million, suggesting political leverage to escape taxation. A sale ad lists farm property near Hobart and Algona to occur March 14, 1901 at 10 a.m. featuring livestock, equipment, and hundreds of bushels of corn, with payment terms and auctioneers listed.
Public sale at my business in St Benedict on Wednesday March 13 1800s at 10 o clock. Includes work mares, driving mare, two cows, three sows, one boar, wagon, buggy, cultivator, iron drag, feeder, disc barrow, Rock Island riding plow, Champion binder, watering trough, household goods and more. Also merchandise stock reduction with cash under 5 dollars and on approved notes over that. Joan W Marinus. Also notices about farm loans, bronze turkeys for sale from Wa McDermott Titonka Iowa. County Savings Bank offers 4 percent loans on improved farms with optional payments. Shoe store advert follows.
A brief historical classified note lists a ledge of offers including a girl for housework by Mrs Orro Palkenslaine r, a Jersey cow for sale by L E Wheelock, White Pearl flour praised by Patterson & Son, and A D Clarke & Co offering loans at 5 percent with annual interest. The ad contrasts living dollars versus dead money, urging savings in County Savings Bank.
An old agricultural and medicinal advertisement notes markets for corn oats butter and hogs, then promotes Green's August Flower as a universal remedy for indigestion biliousness and nervous complaints. The ad urges readers to obtain Green's Prize Almanac via H Miller, the local druggist.
The notice outlines a savings department offering 4 percent interest on savings accounts and deposits earning interest from the first of the month if made by the 30th. It states plans to issue drafts and letters of credit payable worldwide, and loans on approved security, inviting new business. Officers and directors are listed: Geo. C. Call president, E. J. Gilmore vice president, ly, A. Vesper cashier, and others.
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