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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1912
Page
4
Algona press column reproduces Dr Charles W. Eliot remarks urging early marriage as a path to happiness and family life, alongside notes on political preferences and new sleep device claims. Also mentions local candidate Cole and Terwilliger, plus farm equipment and grain details from C. J. Lenander.
A local letter from Bancroft Iowa October 2 reports threshing 250 acres in one square field yielding 26,700 bushels of oats. The writer notes no breaks or sloughs and mentions the Regenerated Select oat variety.
A Nevada Iowa dispatch reports Mr Frank Curtis father of former townsman F M Curtie was injured while driving up Sycamore street a hitching chain arm end caught a wheel causing him to strike his head on the ground He was knocked senseless then cared for at home a doctor was summoned A man named Moore who laked a cow along the road faced arrest under a city ordinance for hitching a chain in the street Curtis suffered a severe scalp wound and bruises to his shoulder and arm
A local straw vote conducted in Armstrong on September 27 recorded 104 ballots. Roosevelt received 33 votes, Wilson 50, Taft 18, Debs received none, and two ballots named undecided. Participants included most business people and clerks, with a few laborers and farmers voting.
Quit farming and sell at public auction on Tuesday Oct 15 1912 starting 10 a m at farm seven miles east of Algona one mile south and four miles east of Sexton two miles north and four miles west of St Benedict. Lots include seven horses nine cattle twenty four hogs chickens hay corn large farm implements and household goods. Terms cash under ten dollars. over ten dollars on approved notes bearing interest. No property to be removed until settled. Gro F Aman proprietor Matern Kunz Auds Nels Johnson Clerk.
Notice swearing to and subscribed by M Finnell as owner publisher and manager of Algona Courtex published weekly in Algona Iowa. Lists Hinchon Finnell J W Hinchon and J Ty Finnell as editors and owners with no mortgagees or security holders holding 1 percent or more. Notary J Murtagh attests on October 1 1912 with commission through July 4 1915.
Classified note from Algona offering a five passenger Stoddard Dayton car in fully equipped perfect mechanical condition at an anap price. ad appears from H. C. Adame in Algona.
Maria Nelson Anderson born in Norway on Sept 7 1842 died at home in Algona on Friday. She married in 1865 and with Anton Albert Oscar Edward and nine children, including Lydia Robinson Jennie Bennett Emily Rohrer Effie Essay Iva Adsit, moved from Norway to the United States and settled in Allamakee then Kossuth and finally Algona. Funeral Tuesday by Rev Smylie of the Presbyterian church, burial beside husband in River View cemetery.
The Emmetsburg Reporter notes a pattern of disappearances in town. W Chapman vanished years ago and remains unfound. Recently Mr Hawk disappeared for a month, taking his car, with no trace of his location. Others who left later were found elsewhere.
Theo Weisbrod bought the Henry Ostwald 80 acre farm three and a half miles southwest of town for 125 dollars per acre, nearly double Ostwald’s purchase price last year. L J Weisbrod bought the Old Jacob Weisbrod 160 acre farm last Thursday at 90 dollars per acre, a well improved property likely worth 125 dollars per acre. Ostwald plans to buy a larger nearby farm if a suitable land tract is found.
Anxiety grips Iowa farmers as hog cholera like disease appears across counties. Hogs die at high rates despite vaccination efforts. Iowa State College advances a preventive treatment and urges vigilant herd monitoring. Owners like George Snow and Frank Wilson inoculate herds with government serum to combat the outbreak.
A promotional notice urges choice between country air and city life while advertising Clyde Fitch's last play The City at the Call Opera House on Wednesday Oct 9. It contrasts country freedom with city ambition and hints at social temptations in urban life.
Two confidence men swindle Severt Quinsland of three thousand dollars in a smooth set up east of town. A hired man and a land seeker played cards for stakes while Quinsland drove them to a bank to back the game. The box contained only papers when opened and the pair vanished with the cash. A stray note promotes a shoemaker in the American Express building.
From the Courier October 7 1887 Judge Call plans a California winter typhoid cases in town Sayers and Shore return Banff J A Kennedy of Union township injures right hand chasing shog thirteen people leave for California for 2,500 bu threshing feat Bailey & Bailey purchase Benedict grocery Cattle company forms wedding of David Mitchell and Nellie Thiele celebrated Quarton and Sessions move into new offices over the Kossuth County Bank and will share a residence.
District Court of Kossuth County Iowa issues notice to unknown heirs and defendants in a partition suit. Plaintiff seeks quieting title to land described as Sec 19 95 78 with boundary references and requests judgment by November term 1912, warning of default and decree if not answered by November 2.
A fragmented listing notes Pure Quill and Halco product lines with multiple 1 pound tins and packages priced around 35 to 40 cents. Mentions Mindora Cebu San Rio and Leader brands with various color labeled or uncolored Japan Tea options priced about 25 to 65 cents.
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