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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1890
Page
6
Fragmentary verse explores tenderness toward a beloved as parting nears. It reflects on silencing harsh words, cherishing memory, and bearing a bittersweet cup of grief. The poem contemplates death, mournful longing, and the ache of farewells amid nature imagery and fading echoes.
A professor extols a low cost home water purifier using alum and a simple bottle filter. It describes filtering with an oil bottle, cotton, and alum to coagulate impurities, plus instructions to prepare and use the filter, monitor cleanliness, and chill purified water for safe drinking.
A rowdy reading room session by aging miners in Markham and Gunison country men, trading boasts about quarrying and blasting, claiming stones weighing twenty pounds could be hurled miles. The dialogue mixes bravado with bravado and danger, ending as the group disperses in thought.
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from late 19th century periodicals. Dialogues touch on titles and deeds, smokeless cigars, poetry readers, barber gibes, a dead man spared from chatter, and shopfloor wit. Names and publications anchor the slice of newspaper humor.
In Scribner's Magazine W H Mallock describes Hoch Osterwitz Castle as a vivid, storybook ruin perched on a rocky pine covered ledge. He notes battlements revolving towers drawbridges and spiral ascent, with intact but unused interiors including a knight effigy, portraits centuries old, and copper water tanks in the courtyard.
A fragment from Baroh Lyking Russell in St Louis Magazine reflects on midnight battles and the brave dead. It speaks to weary soldiers awakening to the coming fray and honors the patriot who dies for home and country.
A veteran narrates a Civil War memory of a front battery order, battlefield chaos, and a brutal field hospital scene. He describes mud, blood, and the surgeon’s knife, then survives a near-death ether ordeal. The piece also notes relics at Mount MacGregor tied to General Grant’s death.
In a Civil War era tale a one legged husband awaits a hospital letter from his wife before a planned leg amputation. He learns his wife’s sister reports her leg was lost in an accident and she urges him to accept his fate while promising news will make them happy. The humor centers on shared misfortune and resilient spirits.
A Georgia Colonel tested General Jackson on whether he could keep a secret during the valley campaign. Jackson exposed the risk of revealing plans, then used the moment to teach restraint and unity, saying if a fight came, the Colonel’s regiment would have a chance. Stewart's Battery led Union losses with 158 casualties in 33 battles, 57 percent of those who fought.
Random notes reveal Kansas law authorizes a $50 burial grant for destitute soldiers or sailors. Navy department dispatches announce the top boat Alarm in New York. A Senaton Manperson bill seeks pensions for regular army veterans of the recent war.
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