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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1909
Page
2
A long letter argues there is a feud between supporters of Cook and Peary over who reached the pole. It cites Peary’s claims and Cook’s modest response, praising Cook’s restraint. The author believes both may have reached the pole and hopes Cook earns due credit.
The article contrasts German imperial attitudes with American radical calls for voting rights. It cites Julia Goldzier of New York urging women to demand suffrage at risk of bloodshed, while Prof. H E B Armstrong of London warns that female competition harms motherhood and race. Chicago's Catherine Waugh McCulloch replies sharply to Armstrong.
The article weighs women’s higher education against traditional roles, citing Professor Armstrong and Mrs Golzier and Mrs McCulloch, then shifts to postal service costs over 30 years. It notes postal revenues rising from 1878 to 1908, a total $2.75 billion paid by people, with a large 37 million rural deficit.
Consul general Ravndal in Beirut notes rising farm wages due to emigration and growing interest in agricultural machinery in Hauran Bekaa and the Grontes Valley. A wealthy Hama oblast landowner proposes 1000 acres for an American operator with two thirds of year one crop and future purchase of gear if results please. Machinery could move from Aleppo to Euphrates and Faloudja via river transport.
C C Schaap sold the eighty acre Ackley farm, east of the city, to Theo Abkes for 185 dollars per acre, after buying it for 50 dollars per acre eleven years ago. Schaap will stay a year, then move to a 160 acre Sioux county farm purchased at 95 dollars per acre. The local real estate boom shows rapid value gains near Ackley.
Webester City Herald reports Germania Iowa buyers McGilligan Munson and Leslie of Germania purchase Stearns Roller Mill. Price listed at 13500 dollars with part payment 480 acres of land near Ledyard. One partner may relocate to assume management of the mill.
Last Friday two Burt sportsmen visited Algona to challenge local sharpers to seven up and were badly chunked. They then faced Algona county seat players in a game of whist and lost pal to 3. Locals bought cards and cigars for the visitors, who have now worn out their playing cards.
The four high grade lines plus low priced items show our assortment matches top city stores and undercuts city prices by ten to twenty percent. Aint Algona students buying before leaving will find better styles and prices than any college town. Our 13 store combination carries 30 many lines, selecting only the best of each line to offer broad aggregates instead of tying to a few houses.
The term closed with a single jury trial, C W Blake v C E Lampright, over a damaged auto after an insurance man drove it. Blake won replevin. Lampright had held the car for pay. Other matters included postponed Lone Rock bank case, guardianships, wills admitted to probate, and several divorces and guardians ad litem appointed.
The Lone Star District article notes Willner and Broderson, near Lethbridge and Taber, cultivating 240 acres of wheat and oats with 260 acres broken on pre-emption. Their spring wheat field is strong, planted after double disking and harrowing in spring 1909, with no irrigation and a projected harvest by August 15, yielding 25 to 80 bushels per acre.
In April 1909 the 120 acre flax field sown on lands broken then stands twenty inches high with an expected ten bushels per acre. A four foot ten inch spring wheat sample measured August 3 with room to grow. flax sample three feet two inches. Weather and range conditions suggest good ranching potential in this dry belt area despite minimal local care. Willner remarks on a pleasant Seattle Fair trip and a favorable Canada exhibit.
The women of the W L A S announce their annual entertainment course opening Oct. 11 with Judge Lindsey. A high grade concert by The College Singing Girls and entertainer Walter Decies follow, featuring eight talented home talents. Monroe Markley and Mrs. Beecher round out the program. Tickets are $1.50 for the course, with a $1 rate for high school pupils. tickets available from the committee.
Algona ladies and neighbors are invited to attend the regular season showing of Suita Coats and Skirts for Fall and Winter of 1909 and 1910. The event takes place Friday September 17, 1909 at the store of John Goeders with money to loan at a specified percent. A. D. Clarke & Co.
A compact notice lists D Clarke and Co offering money to loan at a set rate in Livermore Gazette. The page item humorously cites Nelson Hewitt’s dangerous driving and a near-miss with Mike Erpelding’s horse. Separate ads promote Aberdeen Angus bulls for sale at Cedar Lane farm near Algona and a horse market call by S Shoellenbirger in Algona Iowa with a phone contact.
President Taft reviews the grand parade of over 5000 troops at the U S Military Tournament in Des Moines with excursions offered by Chicago and North Western. Tickets available through ticket agents with return limits to September 27.
Low one way colonial tickets on the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway go on sale daily from September 15 to October 15 1909 to Seattle Tacoma Spokane Portland Victoria Vancouver Butte San Francisco Los Angeles Salt Lake City Ogden and many western points. Stop overs allowed on tickets to Pacific coast stations and on the Chicago Milwaukee Puget Sound Railway line to Montana Idaho and Washington. For costs sleeping car service routes and schedules consult a ticket agent or F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
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