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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1900
Page
7
A garbled OCR snippet mentions a community or society event with scattered words about a birthday, members of families, and a large dock or path. The text lacks coherent names, dates, or places to establish a clear event, outcome, or organization.
The legislative session winds toward closure as committees speed work and bills face mass defeats. Highlights include the Insurance bill advancing after prior postponement, a failed resolution exonerating certain companies, and continued battles over normal schools and Puerto Rican tariff issues. The Cherokee hospital demand tops proposed appropriations while reductions hit the Board of Control.
Kossuth County notes a county agricultural society meeting approving dates for the annual fair September 25 26 27 with some program changes. A new committee was named to modify the schedule and department superintendents were appointed including horses cattle dairy grains vegetables fruits machinery prints paintings and flowers among others.
The Always popular college glee and amphion troupe will perform Saturday night at Call Theater. They are praised for high quality performances with enthusiastic audiences and strong press notices from Marshalltown Times Republican Iowa City Republican Cad ar Fall Gazette State Register Davenport Republican Burlington Hawkeye Des Moines Leader. The Wigwam advertises farm machine prices.
Belmond and nearby towns report Count Fontaine a tall smooth swindler who posed as an actor artist life insurance agent and more. He collected funds from churchgoers entertained at the opera house and lectured on life insurance then vanished leaving bills unpaid. He traveled from Algona to Belmond to Fort Dodge and targeted two young women and an office boy for advances. Local regon: he posed as a French representative and used theatrical wit to gain trust before disappearing.
Officials from state universities normal schools and colleges are urged to draft rules prohibiting students from consuming intoxicants during term time and from entering places selling liquor with expulsion as penalty. A Senate-passed act funds inter-institution supplies and bans political assessments. The bill targets labor but lacks full details.
Cal Cooke and D A Haggard attended the Converse Scotch bred Shorthorns sale in Humboldt. Prices ranged from 100 to 226 dollars with Sweet Briar of Oak Hill topping the bids. Frank Jenkinson of Union led a herd of thirteen cows and nine spring calves, while Bleck Wes of Palo Alto bought four of the heifers for 245 dollars. Breeders across Kossuth County report strong demand for young stock, with stockmen snapping up calves before they reach a year old.
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