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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1916
Page
5
The Paige Fairfield Six-46 is highlighted as a famous model facing a price increase soon. This pre sale window suggests buyers should act quickly to secure current pricing before the change. The note emphasizes the model’s notoriety and imminent cost rise to create urgency.
Henry Hanchen of Emmetsburg township died at his home Saturday morning from injuries after falling onto a manure spreader cylinder in the barnyard two days earlier. The mishap, in darkness, caused a severe facial wound and abdominal injuries, with cerebral hemorrhage cited as the cause of death. Doctors Houston and Baldwin attended but could not save him.
Rochester police report a choking robbery attempt using a two foot steel wire with wooden handles at each end. F. H. Meyers of Walters, Minn., resisted the strangling and escaped, though his neck was badly bruised. two unidentified men enticed him near the Colonial hotel on West Fifth street, leaving only the weapon behind.
For sale due to poor health announces the Rawleigh medicine business opportunity. A buyer is sought near Algona by eight o'clock. The notice mentions a tobacco product and a sporting man’s game cigar as part of the context.
Items from the Oct 28 1391 issue report Geo Call’s trip to Llano Texas for a possible boom, a bishop preaching, social visits, a horse death, political shifts, church plans, marriages, cattle purchases, a boy band in a political parade, local incipient incorporations, health notes, farm sales, fast horse records, and a poem fragment with maritime and personal verses.
In Swea City County Treasurer Meeney, the Democratic nominee for the current office, conducted a campaign swing described by the writer as overshadowed by a recent absence from town. The piece notes Meeney’s efforts and a missed interview opportunity, with details limited by fragmented OCR text.
Capt Jenson aged 84, formerly active in Swea township settlement as a colonization agent, visited Swea City with his wife Mrs R E Jenson and their daughter Mrs Albert Tuttle and her husband from Des Moines. He first arrived in 1870, stayed summers and winters, settled in Swea in 1878, and left about 20 years ago. He now resides in Los Angeles with a sow. another daughter also lives there.
Pending before Kossuth County Board of Supervisors is a drainage petition for Drainage District No. 144. Landowners including Michael Heiderscheid Jr and Mertz heirs are notified that an engineer has favorably recommended establishing the district to drain surface water. The hearing is set for November 16, 1916 at the Court House in Algona, Iowa.
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