Grocery ad promising low prices in Algona area
A fragmented selling list touts groceries at low prices with numerous items including coffee dried fruit tea sugar and canned goods. The note emphasizes undercutting competitors and lists items such as Gold Dust coffee Rio coffee dried raspberries prunes peaches and butter with assorted prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Combine
AlgonaTour
Minnesota
Lewis
Costa Rica
Rising Sun
Japan
New York
Kossuth County 1899 Assessment Totals Revealed
County Auditor Mart Weaver releases the abstract of assessment for 1899 showing farmland valued near its cash worth. Average per acre is 27.79 with land values by township listed. total taxable property 21,706,317 and personal property 2,916,881 including significant sums from Algona Burt Bancroft Germania and other towns. The stock tally lists thousands of cattle horses mules and sheep with a total stock valuation of 1,452,006.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mart Weaver
Kossuth County
Eagle Township
Grant
Ledyard
Burt
Ivington
Lotts Creek
Kossuth
Algona
Bancroft
Germania
Garfield
LaVerne Incorporated
Swea City
Wesley
Whittemore
Algona Holding
Ledyards Incorporated
Pocahontas Money Ready for Railroad Right of Way
Pocahontas citizens seek a Northwestern Railroad line from Rolfe to Pocahontas and depot grounds, offering to donate the right of way provided the company builds and operates the line before Dec 1, 1899. A Chicago committee reported a favorable view of the plan to company officials, hoping for early construction and a completed link to Sac City and Algona.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rolfe
Pocahontas
Pocahontas Record
G. A. Heal
J. H. Allen
Port C. Barron
Chicago
Northwestern Railroad Company
Northwestern Company
Sac Sity
Algona
North- Western
Northwestern
Whitman
Sac City
Ontala
St. Paul
Pocahontas County
Iowa
SacSun
Shadow of White Wings at Algona Teachers Convention
The Sioux City Tribune highlights Miss Jeanette Carpenter of Le Mars presenting Crumbs from the Northwestern Association at Algona. The paper praises Algona’s hospitality, noting free transport, courteous hosts, and the town’s electric-lighting introduction as a backdrop to the Professional Teachers Association gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algona Teachers
Mias
Jeanette Carpenter
le Mars
Sioux City Tribune
Professional Teachers’ Association
la Mars
Northwestern Association
Algona
The
Tribune
Cize
Time to install a cistern by Spurbeck Lambert Co
Advertising notice touts affordable wood cisterns made of 2 inch pine with tarred exterior that resist frost and keep water soft, claiming long life and quick installation. Also includes testimonial from Mrs Many A Bearp praising Chamberlain Cough Remedy, noting relief after two bottles and perfect health since, via R H Miller druggist in Claremore Ark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spurbeck- Lambert Co
Sturneck-Lamuenr Co
Mas
Many A. Bearp
Claremore
Ark
R. H. Miller
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F. S. Norton
J. R. Laird
Bk Ba Ee
A. Gilmour
Hutchins
W. Wadsworth
Treaurer
Achence
Farmers Milling Co
Chas, Wooster
H.W. Dryer
Jas, Nolan
J.C. Kaln
F. Svacy
A. Simissey
Incorpo
Stacy & Jordan
Algona Roller Mills
J. B. Hofius
Pocahontas Money
Beggs
Vanelle
C. O. Simpson
Langdon & Hudson
M. Z. Grove & Son
Che Algona Milling Co
Stinoiy
Missouri
Tennessee
South Dakota
North Dakota
Vermont
Michigan
Osteopathic Magazine
J. T
Rankin
Towa
A. N
Thompson
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