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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1901
Page
1
An ad claims S. S. S. cleanses the blood to permanently cure catarrh, a claimed dangerous throat illness. Testimonial from L. A. Williams of Spartanburg and a dry goods merchant endorses the remedy after taking eight bottles.
A Manila press visit quotes Emilio Aguinaldo urging all insurgents to surrender and swear allegiance to the United States. He speaks of sincere efforts to secure peace under American auspices for the Philippines. Reports from Manila note numerous surrenders in Panay and Mindanao as forces capitulate to American authorities.
Jacob Rush brings word of a snowslide near Sunrise City in Alaska on April 12 and 20 or more lives lost with houses buried. Other items note Pan American grounds gates opened 1 PM to 11 PM with Midway closed, a Houston livery fire killing five, a Sunrise blaze, and a Greischheim works explosion killing fifty with many injured. A Sioux City report mentions a qu age and violent incident.
A stream of late April reports from Cape Town and London describe Boer activity and British responses. Looting at Alleman's Point near Dordrecht yields several horses. Afrikanderbund statements warn Britain may cede control of South Africa.Boer agents are accused of poisoning horses bound for the Cape. Bermuda islands are taken for Boer prisoners and Kitchener tightens campaigns as Boers derail trains and capture and release a troop of Prince of Wales’ light horse near Kroonstad.
United States Minister Conger arrived on the Nippon Maru and defended missionaries from looting charges. He said soldier brutality stories were exaggerated, noting occasional excesses in war. He believed China could pay a $300,000,000 indemnity with economy. Missionary Ament, tied to looting notoriety, also traveled aboard.
Re interment ceremony performed without ceremony. Lincoln and family members now rest in the crypt of the national monument after repairs begun in 1900. Other items include Willie Tad Eddie and Abraham Lincoln Jr. from Robert Y. Lincoln’s line.
A historical view argues the South's industrial surge since the Civil War has redirected trade networks from the Northeast to southern and western corridors. It notes cotton mills feeding Mississippi and Missouri markets, Georgia wagons reaching Oklahoma and Arkansas, and southern ports like Mobile, Pensacola, Brunswick, Charleston, and Norfolk expanding as key trade and rail centers. The piece highlights New Orleans ties, the Spanish War’s impact on West Indies trade, and the growing Manchester of Newport News and St. Louis as manufacturing and shipping hubs, with New York increasingly sidelined.
The Berlin city scene shows no general dinner hour with uniform business times. Each professional circle sets its own hours, shaping household meals around diverse schedules. Officials, banks, writers, artists, and education sectors all run on different time frames. If you hold a listing in Berlin you must adapt to varying dinner times around seven.
The fragmentary text notes an event on November 28 with an observatory or observation context at an unspecified location. Limited readable details prevent fuller identification or confirmation of participants or outcomes.
A veteran recounts a slow city winter when a staged boxing bout offered ten dollar prizes. A giant challenger faced the heaviest local fighter as chaos erupted. a misthrown punch by the back window knocked the local man out, while the supposed champ was credited with the win.
Women's clubs in California press persistent pleas to preserve Calaveras grove as a national heritage. Emma Shafter Howard engages Washington figures including Senator Hoar to seek congressional support. Massachusetts interest cited, federal help declined, aim to unite grove protection under a shared park patrol with possible Forest Service backing.
Sir Robert Ball told a Royal Institution audience that the sun obeys cooling laws and is shrinking. If measured daily its diameter would drop about nine inches, roughly five feet four inches a week, or a mile every twenty years. He noted the sun’s current diameter of 860,000 miles and argued it could be 40,000 years before shrinking to 858,000.
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