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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1906
Page
4
GEO reports Whittemore Owl Club held a Friday gathering at J. M. Warley’s home with Japanese decor music and attire. The piece notes a Kossuth County Fair forecast for 1906 and previews 1907 improvements, plus local chatter about residents, a Minneapolis trip, and a note about a lost school notebook with a wedding themed verse.
Narrative of Loco Johnson in Idaho defending a wagon wagon and sheep against cowboys after breaking a deadline. Johnson uses a stone breastwork on Star Butte as cowboys close in, rifles fire, sheep fall, and four cowboys die on the hillsides. Johnson completes the fight and marches on with his herd.
The Moberly Democrat previews the National Game as the Ath letics face the Moberly Signals with sharp local bravado. The piece mocks a Chillicothe columnist and predicts a lopsided outcome, noting the Yelpers from Madville stand little chance against the Signals.
Money to loan at 5 percent offered by A. D. Clarkin & Co. Also listed are a five room rental near the Catholic church in Algona by Mrs. Mike Johnson, a shoe store discount at Galbarith's, a poultry buyer seeking fowl at good prices, and a travel ticket service advertising excursion tickets with liberal limits and stopovers managed by G. P. & T. Co. in Minneapolis.
Maud Muller on a summer day flees in a benzine touring car with a companion, pursued by her father on a mule, a warned tale ending with a moral about asking consent. Also notes a Wells storm incident closing with three church steeples struck but not ignited. A humorous exchange and a rental ad for a 160 acre farm near Algona.
Iowa Central offers a low rate excursion to Minneapolis and St Paul on Saturday Sept 29. Special train leaves Algona 11 30 p m arrives Minneapolis 1 00 a m St Paul 2 20 a m Tickets sold round trip at 2 00 with travel on the special train only Reporing valid through October 1 St Paul departure 7 45 p m Minneapolis 8 00 p m See agents for details
Farmers and Merchants Jubilee at Alexander. Town Central will sell round trip excursion tickets at one third fare with September 24 1915. To accommodate returners, train No 63 will be held at Alexander until 6 00 p.m. Further particulars call on local agents.
The fragment lists wheat and oats with grading notes, dairy products including butter and creamery items, and mentions chickens. It appears to be a damaged OCR snippet of a market or commodity list with unclear spellings and incomplete items.
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