This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 17 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1909
Page
5
A long fragment offers household advice from posture while sewing to substitutions for cream in salad dressing. It notes a low chair reduces back strain, uses beaten egg whites in dressing, keeping winter pears with dried leaves, stain removal with kerosene and alcohol, securing shoelaces, and pasteurizing milk for babies with careful cooling and bottle sanitation.
These noodles are nice in soup or as a vegetable substitute for macaroni. Use eggs proportional to family size, mix with flour, roll thin, trim, and slice. Dry briefly before use. for macaroni let dry several hours. In soup they cook 15 to 20 minutes. as a side dish boil in salted water.
Instructions describe Apples a la Empress with quartered apples cooked in a buttered tin with water sugar and sherry, served over rice in milk, and Veal Chops fried with bacon and eggs seasoned with sage. The method stresses deep-browning, sealing juices then slow cooking the chops and placing bacon around the edge of the dish.
A recipe passage describes a bakeable milk based dessert. Two quarts of milk with one pint less is heated and mixed with Indian meal, molasses suet spices then cooled and baked in a large earthen pan for about four hours resulting in a syrupy sirup. Also includes a lighter pudding with crackers milk yolks egg whites sugar and custard bake until browned.
A fragmented recipe fragment lists ingredients and steps for a cherry pie style dessert. It mentions cranberries and raisins with rough amounts and partial instructions, reflecting a failed OCR capture.
The Mount Pleasant Y M C A building erected in 1906 cost 85000 and stands on a main street as a modern civic asset. EB W Martin served as secretary, TE J Starts as acting secretary, P R Perrine as physical director, and D B Finch in charge of manual training. Membership is about 400 in a town of 3800, with Iowa total Y M C A memberships around 10829 across 20 city associations and 30 student groups.
In Dubuque the twelfth district W C T U meeting featured Mrs Ida B Wise state vice president urging reform. She links low wages for working women to moral decline and cites factory greed, department stores, and liquor traffic as factors. She advocates child upbringing, proper environment, temperance as remedies and emphasizes education on life’s truths.
Cedar Rapids firm leaders Dows Smith and Reed secure capital to build another interurban line. Engineer J B Wardle may oversee work with construction hoped to begin in spring. Top route choices include Cedar Rapids Waterloo feeding Cedar Rapids Iowa City or an Iowa City Muscatine extension, with right of way critical to decision. Additional $30,000 power-house equipment could enable either line.
Major Charles Gantz, known as The Wonder, born August 27, 1865 near Fairfield, Iowa, stands 18 inches tall and weighs 20 pounds. He ran a stock business until age 30 before starting an exhibition, now owner and manager when touring, with a high school education and a hearty, sociable nature. He lives with his parents in Fairfield, Indiana, travels most of the year and rests in winter.
The state board of control arranged with Rock Island Railroad to install a switch from Rock Island tracks to Independence State Hospital. Funding covers grading and right of way. railroad supplies ties and rails. Glenwood switch to be arranged. other institutions will receive switches as needed to reduce wagon haulage costs.
The state provides separate pamphlets compiling Iowa laws by subject through the auditor secretary of state and labor commissioner. These updated volumes cover insurance banking corporation revenue road drainage primary election labor laws and reflect recent session amendments. A Parkersburg district court case Butler county v Black Hawk seeks 541.50 reimbursement for medical injuries from November 13 in Waterloo.
Senator Dolliver proposes to gift a complete civil war record set to the Fort Dodge G A R post with transfer to the Sons of Veterans after use. The 174 volumes include official orders and correspondence printed by the government at a cost around 20 million dollars. Dolliver already owns a set and received another from the late Senator Allison.
State Librarian Johnson Brigham reads proof of his new book due at holiday time. The work, The Banker in Literature, is the first on the subject and surveys bankers in history who shaped literary depictions, noting both notable and fictional bank characters.
The Washington school board plans sanitary drinking fountains in all city school buildings. This follows a broader push to improve student health and hygiene in public schools. An unrelated note reports there being one automobile per 182 residents statewide, totaling over 14,000 vehicles.
Thousands of families are urged to eat Quaker Oats daily for thirty days in November to improve health and vigor. The ad promises greater strength by replacing meat and greasy foods, with emphasis on children receiving a full share and oats available in regular and large family packages.
An old advertisement touts a constitutional cure for catarrh by I J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. It claims the remedy cures many incurable cases and offers a $100 reward for any failure, urging readers to send for testimonials. It promotes a 75 cent product and accompanying family laxatives.
A collage of joke anecdotes, ad blurbs, and brief observations from a Kansas City Times page. It includes tales of a delicate childhood, commentary on headlines shaping public opinion, advertising for Allen’s Feet Tease, a quip about in-law dynamics, U.S. Panama Canal relief purchases of Rough on Rats, and assorted one‑liners about manners, shoes, and wine production.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.