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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1903
Page
6
A poet muses on aging and memory as spring returns. The speaker notes greener fields and flowers each year and a growing sacredness in the bronze hues of time, contrasting youth with the accumulating richness of years.
Norma Hildreth receives a letter from K E Langford, her college classmate now in the West who asks her to marry him for legal and financial reasons. She weighs the plan against her aunts home, debts, and the happiness of relatives, deciding whether to respond in hope of wealth or to preserve independence. Langford recalls a prior broken engagement with Bessie and the strain of pursuing success.
In a tense moment Langford declares his love for Norma, reversing a prior business proposal. He explains his choice is not money or will provisions but genuine affection, asking Norma to marry him and sink the business concerns. Norma reacts with emotional confirmation as Langford draws her close.
An enthusiastic writer extols Japanese infants describing a baby girl as delightful and rare, noting her love of fun toys and tea, a brass pipe, and a round doll. The piece highlights her beauty, self-possession, sparkling eyes, lacquer rouge, and elaborate hair arrangements as competition among girls for grace and harmony in dress.
A traveler recalls a Somaliland episode showing Mohammedan aversion to pigs. After shooting two warthogs, a bribe won a Midgan woman to remove the tusks with a hatchet. She refused to touch the hatchet, using sticks as tongs to load the tusks onto a camel, while locals mocked the act.
A fragmentary verse piece presents opposing readings of marriage with alternating lines. It argues that a man either follows a wife’s guidance or suffers, while praising women as truth and deceitless, then shifting to claim hypocrisy and pride reside in women and that yielding to a wife brings blessedness.
A man recounts in the New York Tribune that he found corncobs used as sidewalks in several grain shipping towns across Iowa. He notes the cobs feel rough at first but become smooth once trampled down, making an unexpectedly practical walking surface.
Rodrick used a slick trick by soaking straw tips in liquor so customers tasted it and believed the glass contained the drink. Van Albert questioned the plan and Rodrick explained the scheme.
A sham inspector testified before the Glasgow Municipal Commission on the Housing of the Poor describing nights when families slept on the floor with a single mattress and children piled above, highlighting severe housing deprivation.
The Nebraska Democratic forces at Columbus reaffirmed the Kansas City platform and nominated Judge John J. Sullivan for reelection to the state Supreme Court. Regents William O. Jones and Dr HB Weber were named for the state university, with both seen as assets to the school’s welfare. Fusion with populists completed, contrasting with Republican choices, while various national issues and figures are debated in tone.
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