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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1913
Page
5
A 1988 reprint recalls Algona life with cash merchants adopting a local cash system. It notes residents, marriages, and local trades, including Danes marrying at a Byson residence, hotel management shifts, and farm sales. A humorous verse about pug dogs contrasts with daily town life.
A retro plea urges youths to act as gentlemen, not rowdies, promising social rewards and long life. Amid the moral advice, a notice dissolves the partnership Matson & Strom, with A Matson taking over. Other items advertise furniture for sale and a farm, listing a piano and household goods.
Humboldt region records a home raised herd of 238 hogs sold by Clyde Boore to Tom Sawyer for 6068 dollars. Boore fed and tended the pigs, even aiding farrow and disease prevention, claiming the sale as a local farming milestone.
A young man around 22 named Guy Comatock had part of his upper ear torn by a large St Bernard at a Tuesday auction. The dog, provoked by residents tail pulling, lunged without warning and clamped its jaws. Dr Luedtke treated the wound but the ear could not be reattached.
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