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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1890
Page
3
A note urges that all communications include the author's name and emphasizes careful transcription, naming editors Ain Hatiner and other agents as examples, while warning about deciphering garbled handwriting and data. The piece highlights challenges in preserving authorial attribution and legibility in the newspaper workflow.
Tris estimates Canada’s population at 5,000,000 with 4,500,000 Canadians having emigrated since 1854. Notes on phonograph voice reproduction excite halls. Scategony tallies bills in Congress totaling over 1.6 billion dollars. Nebraska Supreme Court rules for Pullasan Car Co liability for agents’ acts. Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds a will granting property to an unmarried woman yields only a life interest.
Twe Canadian papers discuss the school flag notion and its earnestness while fo roeity is less central. They foresee turning the matter into a political question to be settled by law.
The extreme cold drives starving wolves into villages around Tucharest. In Bessarabia a mail cart is attacked and the postman, with his horses, is devoured. A Cherokee outlet plans a settlement with 30 000 quarter sections of prime farming land, drawing opportunistic crowds near its borders, echoing Oklahoma’s rush.
A long running Bohemian oats fraud has been exposed repeatedly in Central New York. The scheme has been widely advertised and linked to similar freight-bill ruses, underscoring a persistent pattern of swindling against local farmers.
City councils grant control of all streets to a syndicate of street railway companies. They may use the streets as they wish and set their own arrangements and regulations. The franchise value is estimated between 40 million and 60 million dollars.
Cortims of the Constitution of the United States have been distributed by the thousands throughout the Brazilian Minpite. The Provis ional Goverment aims to teach the people about republican government and prepare them for an eventual parliamentary system.
A Washington correspondent notes Luera records show 1600 gas cases on The Sapeoine Court docket. The tally covers four hundred cases yearly, with ibs clerk listing 650. The docket is expected to reach 2000 or more if relief is not granted, signaling mounting workload and delays.
Illinois Senator Southworth was granted a railway pass with a promise not to injure passengers on use. He accepted the condition in writing but was injured in an accident while using the pass. He sued for damages, and the jury awarded $3,000.
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a mix of ancient money and items found in Europe and Asia with references to early civilizations and a mysterious Shodan name. The text is garbled but hints at obscure discoveries dating before modern times and possible cross continental connections.
Fragmentary text discusses European governments and the Labour Congress, mentioning Well at Gierding and ambassadorships to London and Washington. References to bias in the worker classes and aims to influence Congress, with unclear actions by an inferred figure.
The proposed copyright bill outlines that foreign works may be copyrighted in this country if the work is deposited with the Librarian of Congress before publication. It requires two copies of the work to be deposited. The bill excludes copyright for Springinhair unless the book is printed from type set in this country.
Readable fragments discuss amional invested in Noruign codifirivs and a list of unreliable figures. It mentions TOYO CRETE and BRIdS etc, with vague reference to a past year and a large sum around 0,000,000. The text appears as garbled notes about control by an expedition and implied dates and places, but concrete names and actions are unclear.
Senate and House report bills of importance introduced yesterday in Des Moines and Des Morxesa. Measures include a contingent health fund, tax reforms, school and safety provisions, and a push for rail brakes and couplers. Debates cover prohibition, mortgages taxation, uniform textbooks, and a soldiers monument debate.
The House debated appropriations for Industrial schools and a uniform text book system, and motions to fund a military band and county surveyor duties. A bill to legalize Des Moines Conference of the Evangelical Association of Iowa and amendments to notaries and independent school districts were discussed. The school book question and a resolution for State uniformity were deferred. Russell and Smith of Mitchell were named to a committee to investigate trusts.
In London March 4 Mr John Teng asked if Scotland’s farmers could receive equal import facilities for cattle from the United States and Canada and if cattle conditions justified port slaughter rules. Henry Chaplin said the US has not met 1878 act terms, so current restrictions stay. he cited pleuro-pneumonia cases, including a 1889 steer shipment and a February Deptford bull from New York, with ongoing communications with Washington.
The steamship Molbein arrived from Rio Janeiro with coffee and wood on February 13. Captain Joshua Davis said Brazil’s military rule is worse than Dom Pedro’s reign, cloaked as a republic. He warned elections in September may trigger trouble as supporters push for the current regime. Brazilian press praises the government under bayonet threat and avoids criticizing it.
Linmoense Electrical Works to Be Started at Meeker Island Minnesota March 4. Rumor places Villard at the head of a New York company forming a mammoth electrical factory. It would produce street car motors printing press motors sewing machine elevators and other electrical appliances supporting Minnesota settlement and rail expansion. Vast iron ore beds in St Louis Lake Cass and Traska counties would feed the plant.
Ten persons were seriously injured when a four-horse sleigh broke a vein and bolts away, throwing eighteen riders onto the sidewalk. Eugene de Marbell suffered internal injuries feared fatal. Minnie Pittman unconscious with head wounds. George Pittman hobbled by a hip fracture. Mrs George Pittman and Mrs A B Brainerd badly cut. several others injured but not seriously.
On Friday Representative Walsh confronted Attorney General Gooodwin over a private letter claiming a conspiracy to nominate General Allen for Governor and to push a lottery bill. Walsh entered Gooodwin’s office, questioned him, and, after receiving no answer, grabbed and twisted Gooodwin’s nose as he left.
Missouri state treasurer Noland handed in a written resignation to Governor Francia Friday afternoon as he attended a meeting with committees. The governor has not decided whether to accept the resignation. A question arises if a suspended superintendent can resign pending an investigation. Noland declined to discuss the court. Reports from Wisbundswen claim the deficit stands at 715, though details remain unclear.
A patchwork of brief items mentions an English railway charity fund rewarding bravery by employees, growth of girls schools in Yokohama and Tokio, American visitors to Burns birthplace, pilgrim totals, navy sick rates in 1889, a tax note on real estate in Para, Italy considering police uniforms, and various patent medicine and humor fragments from newspapers including Carter’s Liver Pills and Hale’s Honey of Horehound.
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