23 Sep 1898
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Newspaper
Algona Courier
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1898
Page
1
A detailed argument for teaching horticulture in country schools through hands-on gardens and window boxes. Emphasizes soil, drainage, transplanting, root care, and vines to spark observation, with legends and moral lessons. Notes vegetable plots may fund school needs and outlines a hot water seed treatment for loose smut in wheat.
A fragmentary OCR reading hints at a past event or status involving a person or place named Whest. Few readable details remain. the text appears damaged and inconclusive about date, actors, or outcome.
A periodical urges thorough drying of seed grain before sowing. It warns damp fall harvests cause heating and weaken germination, cites advantages of artificial drying or kitchen fire drying, and claims fire-dried seeds yield vigorous growth and larger crops.
A Danish inventor proposes a simple meat preservation method for tropic use. The process involves shooting the animal in the head to stun, then cutting the heart to drain blood, followed by injecting a briny solution via syringe to preserve the flesh.
The Maine biennial election saw Governor Powers relected with about a 25000 plurality. Reed Dingley Burleigh and Boutelle win solid majorities. Republican vote down 33 percent, Democrats gain. Lewiston elects four Democratic legislators while Manley wins Augusta seat. Saco shifts to Democrats as Lord camps. First Maine Infantry members concentrate in the area.
A commemorative tablet for Abraham Lincoln’s presidential nomination will be placed in a new ten story Chicago tower at Lake and Market. The site preserves the Wigwam of the 1860s and the Sauganash tavern, first frame house built in Culcage, burned 1851, built 1831 by Mark Beaubien, famed fiddler.
Mrs Flo Jamison Miller, a Monticello native and prominent local figure, is named the new president of the Woman's Relief Corps. The youngest to hold the post, she chaired Illinois departments, helped establish the Wilmington soldiers' home, and is active in local clubs. Her husband, W Scott Miller, is a contractor.
The text notes soldiers are allowed to vote from furlough, the Democratic party supports the Chicago platform, and the silver issue remains prominent. Despite a strongly Republican legislature, Democrats gained members over two years. Gold Democrats and prohibitionists cast light ballots.
Governor Tanner opened the state campaign in Illinois at Golconda Pope county naming the silver question the first and most serious issue to discuss. Soldiers Are Doing Well The sick of the One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Indiana regiment are improving doctors believe there will be no more deaths. Four Dead Two Injured A Wichita Kansas passenger train struck a wagon with fifteen people two dead two more will die and several injured. William D. Bynum resigns as chair of the national gold democracy committee George Foster Peabody of New York succeeds him. Big Silverware Trust Formed A silverware trust formed under New Jersey laws with capital stack of 30 000 000. Yellow Fever Four cases at Ponce Porto Rico two fatal Tannen Wait launching of the battleship Tilin at Newport News shipyard.
A portrait of Chicago’s first hotelkeeper is displayed on the walls of the Chicago Historical Society’s home on Dearborn Avenue, highlighting local history.
The Trade Review cites RG Dun and Co Weekly Review of Trade saying business shows resilience as wartime windups ease. It notes orders returning, prices rising modestly, and a lingering high consuming demand. Failures for the week total 174 in the United States versus 204 last year, and 23 in Canada versus 40.
The Populists at their national convention nominated Wharton Barker of Pennsylvania for president by a lopsided vote and place Ignatius Donnelly of Minnesota in the vice presidential slot. The report notes pacific concerns over Philippine policy and adds scattered military and diplomatic updates from Paris and Florida.
A cashier is absent and declared gone for a rest, but admissions reveal the president fled to avoid arrest. A young mother and father discuss the crying baby as the scene unfolds with tension and irony.
A rustic ramble on virtue and wealth critique, urging honesty in work and fairness to laborers. It argues against greed, champions tradition, warns against crowd conformity, and asserts moral law in intoxicants, education, and social order with colorful dialect and blunt moral maxims.
Seldierly Frankness, Tardy visitor in camp and how did you win your shoulder straps, colonely Handsome officer y exercising wise judgment and condaring in picking out tiny Sather Agoon many people cast their bread upon the waters, expecting to get milk-tonse as a result.
A patriot proclaims unity across regions while an Ordinary Person notes bitterly mixed reactions. The event ends with humor as a picnic exceeds expectations despite anticipated rain and hail. People celebrate yet joke about the weather and equality of results.
A lawyer questions a witness about living with her husband and divorce status, prompting a puzzled reply about not knowing if she is divorced. The exchange underscores confusion in a custody or separation context. The Jewish Year Book estimates about 11 million Jews worldwide with more than half under Russian jurisdiction.
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