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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1907
Page
5
A humorous reminiscence contrasts old time boyhood and pioneer life with modern trends. It laments changes in dress, work, family roles, schooling, music, marriage costs, and comforts, arguing earlier generations faced harsher conditions but found happiness with fewer luxuries.
Miss Elsie Reihsamen, a Titonka Iowa schoolteacher, traveled 900 miles to Williston North Dakota. She rode to the land, measured with a belt sixty revolutions, and located the section corners herself before filing on a quarter adjoining her brother. Her feat earns praise as bold and pioneering.
Idlewild Herd Duroc Jerseys boars for sale sired by Improver Chief and Right Model from John Wellendorf in Algona Iowa. Butter scotch from Taylor's. For Rent ad notes Jon Cassowny 160 acre farm well improved near Algona Hobart with buildings and fences. TAKEN Up calf to claim by James Reding Ottosen Iowa.
A bulletin from the Crookston Minnesota Gun Club advises Iowa hunters on proper conduct. It urges respect for property, avoiding standing grain, reshocking knocked grain, halting careless shots near animals, avoiding posted or stock areas, not driving into barns, no shooting near farm buildings, never pointing a loaded gun at people, and to hunt with judgment and courtesy.
Britt Lribune reports a Winnebago Indian known as Doctor Joe, once mentored by Uncle Jim Dickerson fifty years ago, visiting town and dining with him. Now living on the Winnebago reservation with a farm near La Crosse, he travels to trap fish seasons and plans to return to ancestral Wolf River lands. He markets a root herb medicine and notes whiskey’s impact on reservation communities while selling horses from Lawler.
The Algona Milling and Grain Co is advertising strong market pricing for grain with corn wanted. SASPERSON G McMURRAY, Props.
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