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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1910
Page
5
A sprawling, garbled page from the Algona Courier features disparate quips on divorce, games, aviation, fashion, and science. It touches on poker in Esperanza, Paris hats, bridge, hobble skirts, and oddities like boneless codfish, with stray references to airmen, comets, and a star trust.
In the gardens of the British Agency of Zanzibar several specimens of the Zanzibar suni are on display. The small, pretty animal is rarely seen in the wild, preferring dense scrub in its native haunts, but also occurs on the African mainland. Captives in the agency gardens thrive, each doe bearing nine offspring.
A fifty year old woman left a London hospital with a new nose fashioned from a flap of skin taken from her own forehead. Surgeons cut a racquet shaped flap from the nose bridge, swung it around to cover the nude area, and stitched it in place with nostril openings left for breathing. A forehead skin graft completed the reconstruction, and the patient, after three weeks, was pleased with the artificial features.
Noting a tall 8 ft chapel named Gates of Heaven near Peakskill New York a sign on the front duplicates another sign placed while the pastor was away. A passerby reads the wording read beneath the first sign, revealing a mix of messages and confusion.
Local temple announces seasonal shutdown for summer months as staff take annual leave. No services will be held at the usual hours, with ministers returning to resume activities in early autumn.
A newborn child at Willesden England arrives missing the left arm from just below the shoulder. Doctors report condition as a rare congenital anomaly and will monitor infant health and development closely. Local authorities have not issued further details.
A gold dollar engraved by American engraver A W Overbaugh has been discovered in a Staten Island town. The tiny circle bears the Lord's Prayer and the artist's name, engraved on a wager. The piece, unreadable to the naked eye but clear with glasses, is destined for a New York museum.
Richard Diener of Colma California unveils a six inch diameter geranium hailed as a floral culture milestone. He has bred carnations four to five inches across by crossing with Prosperity pink, produced fifty seven dahlia varieties, and aims to create a blue dahlia.
A Scotsman correspondent recounts a remarkable finding a needle with thread inside a cooking egg. The needle measures about an inch and a half, the thread six inches, and the needle appears black from sulfur in the yolk. A servant girl broke the egg and felt a catch on beating it.
A remarkable natural saucepan known as the Fish Hot Pot Spring lies in Yellowstone Lake on a tiny island. The angler stands on the island, which is the cone top of a submerged geyser. Fish caught in the lake are cooked immediately in this hot spring.
A distorted passage describes distant ruins in Asia Minor near a river, mentioning two broken columns standing among vegetation. It hints at a mythic or historical city and a figure tied to an expedition, but most details are unclear in the damaged text.
Oregon experiment station studies show Leghorn hens used 584 pounds wheat 296 pounds corn 203 pounds oats 112 pounds bran and shorts 235 pounds skim milk per year. Total feed cost averaged 66 cents per fowl. if wheat cost 90 cents bushel and bran 1 cent per pound, cost rose to 80 cents per fowl. Eggs valued at local prices helped margins. Larger breeds cost more to feed but return more when sold.
Farmers advised to save pumpkins for duck feed during winter. Ducks and geese readily eat pumpkins and gain value as feed, but improper housing can ruin profits. Keep quarters dry, well ventilated, and sheltered to prevent delays in starting next spring.
A fragment notes hens busily scratching litter and trying to portion food within their pen. It reflects on routine poultry behavior and feeding practices observed in a farm setting.
A poetic reminiscence on mythic music and a unique instrument the Jewsharp. The speaker recalls Pan pipes and Apollo, describing how a childlike faith in melody awakens awe and memory, with a refrain of Flummer-summer-flum and the haunting charm of the instrument.
A hat priced at $11.9 during a Millinery Opening was mistaken when a saleswoman revealed the tag had been turned upside down and the price was actually $66,211. The humorous incident drew chuckles from shoppers as the error was explained.
A fragment describes comments on a belle’s beauty during a ball. Two speakers remark on her eyes and a squint, noting she followed beauty hints and became attractive, yet the strain reportedly affected her eyes.
A chaotic scene unfolds as a misread card prompts the butler to fetch a barber and a buying agent from a hairpillow manufacturer. The pair plans to bid on the estate’s surplus hair for the coming year, amid the odd, comic exchange.
Partial OCR passage presents a disjointed dialogue about youth and fate. It includes garbled phrases like as goon as I saw you and we for each other, with stray mentions of Siatatred and Suet, making the overall meaning unclear and incomplete.
Fragmentary dialogue references Mina Perkina and an old flame. The text hints at a note or critique about life and insurance, with garbled phrasing and stray quoted words. No clear event, names beyond Mina Perkina, or concrete actions are established.
A highly garbled OCR fragment references phrases like the germ, the north, the first ignvant, and a remark you have. It lacks coherent context, names, dates, or places, rendering a clear summary and attribution impossible from the readable text.
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