The Canal Gates Largest Ever Built for Panama Locks
A Pittsburg dispatch reports the Panama Canal gates will be the world’s largest. Ninety-two gates in forty-six pairs, 77 to 2 feet high and 60 to 65 feet wide, weigh about 600 tons each, and hinge on 60,000 tons of steel. Cost surpasses five million dollars, with total project costs around 65.5 million. Construction to begin next year, three-year timeline, Gates placed at Gatun, Pedro Miguel, and Mira Flores.
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Pittsburg
Panama Canal
Paris
McClintic Marshall Steel Construction Company
Baltimore
Gatun
Pacific
Pedro Miguel
Miraflores
Atlantic
Panama
Alze
Suez Canalia
Veanala
Definition of Home as a Moral Shield Against Evils
A fragment reflecting on home as a world’s dignity and a shield against anti-trust monopoly and licensure. It portrays home as the anteroom of heaven and the only earthly place where faults and failings are touched by charity, likening home to a blossom preceding heavenly fruit.
Autumn An Rowa Poem and Editorial Note
A Bod Burdette poem laments autumnal decline with playful phonetics and nature imagery. It contrasts fading summer with cold November skies and a lingering brook chorus. A Bancroft Register note in Emmetsburg Tribune cites an Anna Donovan editorial on the topic of a "deadly cold bed" and sympathy.
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Bod Burdette
Tal de de di Nook
Anna
Bancroft Register
Anna Donovan
Emmetsburg Tribune
Unjust Suspicion Over Bancroft Robbery Suspects
A week in Estherville reveals three men seen nearby stirred Bancroft robbers rumors. Later information clarifies they were drainage commission workers from Estherville, reducing the guilt by association.
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Bancroft
Estherville
Rexall 93 Hair Tonic Promises Repair for Falling Hair
An advertisement touts Rexall 93 Hair Tonic as a scientific antiseptic remedy to halt hair loss and restore health. It claims microbes are destroyed, circulation is stimulated, dandruff removed, and nourishment provided. Available in two sizes at Rexall Rexel stores in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rexall
the Central Drug Co
Algona
Town
Bryce Spots a Peculiar Rock in Panama Cut
British Ambassador James Bryce observed an unusual igneous and water rock formation in the Culebra Cut while en route from Peru. He informed the President, who sent G Willard Hayes of the Geological Survey to Panama to study the rock, noting the finding relates to science, not canal construction.
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Washington
James Bryce
Peru
Panama
Culebra
G. Willard Hayes
Geological Survey
Postal Savings Banks Picks for Trial Towns
Trustees named Decorah Iowa for a postal savings bank and listed one town per state or territory for a nationwide trial. The selections include Bessemer Alabama and many others. Postmasters and clerks will be trained and offices equipped before deposits begin.
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Business Lawa
Posta Savings Bank
Hitchcock
Treasury
McVeagh
Wickersham Yorlowa
Decorah
Bessemer
Ala
Globe, Ariz
Stuttgart
Provo
Utah
Montpelier
Clifton Forge
Olympia
Wash
Grafton
W. Va
Manitowoc
Wis
Laramie
Wye
Washington
Public Auction Near Algona
Farm sale begins at 10 on Friday November 26 at the Hart farm two miles northeast of Algona. Livestock include 4 horses 2700 lb total weight, 9 Jersey cattle and 21 thoroughbred Duroc Jersey Red hogs with brood sows and henge. Farm machinery listed with a wide assortment from wagons to plows and a De Laval cream separator. Household goods and furniture also offered. Cash for sums under ten dollars. over that on bankable notes at 6 percent interest. No property to be removed until settled. Auctioneers L Larson GC Chubb Clerk.
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Algona
Plymouth Rock
Surrey
Herrick
W. C. Hart
Notice of Dissolution of The Algona Milling & Grain Co
Notice announces the dissolution by mutual consent of the partnership of Jayperson and O W McMurray doing business as The Algona Milling & Grain Company. A M Jasperson will continue the business, pay all firm obligations and collect all indebtedness. Dated November 30, 1910.
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Jayperson
O.W
Automobile Owners Urged to Store Cars in Freezing Weather
A fragmented ad warns motorists not to leave cars out in freezing temperatures as finishes and engines suffer. Algona Auto and Machine Co offers storage at low rates and urges early service. The ad also lists miscellaneous farm implements and livestock notes from local area names and places.
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Algona Auto’ & Machine Co
Eczema Cure Promoted by Local Store
R H Miller in Algona advertises D D D Prescription as the eczema cure after a long look at remedies. The copy claims oil of wintergreen and D D D cleanses, soothes, heals, and supports nature’s repair, citing ten years of complete cures and urging patrons to visit the store.
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R. H. Miller
Algona In
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International Harvester + Company of America
Chicago
U.S. A
Woodford-Wheeler Shr. Co
Scranton
Kentucky
G. A. Watts
Iowa
Chase, Bros
Chase-Hackley, Story & Clark
H. P.nelson
Uncle Sam
Ringsted
Dispatch
Chris Hansen
Graettinger
Bryce
Postal Savings
Algo
Curtis
Cresco
Church
Durge
Aleo
Asareee
Maton
J. P. Byson
J.P. Bryson
DB Clarke & CO
Algona, Lowa
Old Water Mill
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