Market price snippets for corn hogs barley and hay
Fragmentary listing shows Corn 4.25 to 4.50 per unit, Butterse and 918 Hogs appear, Barley 3.35, Timothy 1.00. Details unclear but indicates commodity prices and feed items in a late page quote.
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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1892
Page
7
Fragmentary listing shows Corn 4.25 to 4.50 per unit, Butterse and 918 Hogs appear, Barley 3.35, Timothy 1.00. Details unclear but indicates commodity prices and feed items in a late page quote.
Opera house walls rise. Court at Humbolt. Various residents travel, marry, auction, or show art. Announcements cover church services, Harper’s visits, photography sales, and upcoming fairs. Local news includes encampment travels, university classes, and a burglary arrest near Hobart.
Professor J C Gilchrist, praised for his visit, will spend fall and winter on the Sherman township farm and work on didactics and an updated Geography of Iowa. He won’t return to Northwest University due to unpaid salaries, unless a financial boost from the conference occurs. The Laurens Sun urges Republicans to attend the county convention and rally in Algona with Ian A B Cummins as speaker.
Company F arrived home by Milwaukee road Saturday morning. The unit was greeted by a band and escorted up town. They praised the camp near park and river fronts, noting better rations and comfortable tents. The rifle team won regimental and individual trophies, with Captain Edens earning a gold medal. A reception at A. F. Call’s residence welcomed Sioux City visitors and highlighted the encampment’s success.
Secretary Sessions of the county agricultural society says the next week’s county fair will be larger and better than ever with stock as the feature. Four silver cups serve as sweepstakes premiums in the horses cattle sheep and hogs divisions. Many entries already, good blood in Kossuth pastures, driving park July meet canceled boosting fair races. Republican urges wide attendance across Kossuth. Also note on Chamberlain's Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, Wagley and Smead druggists Newton Iowa. sale via Dr Sheetz Drugist.
An advertisement extols Ayer's Barsaparilla as superior medicine to strengthen the system weakened by disease. It claims to neutralize lingering polyoxins after diphtheria and scarlet fever, restoring debited patients to perfect health and vigor.
A turbulent crisis in Venmela ends when Dictator Mendoza resigns under pressure from American and foreign consuls led by Consul Hanna. He appoints Guillermo Tell Villegas Paulido as president and seeks to avert a broader clash with European warships. Foreign consuls secure the release of imprisoned merchants and hold foreign interests in Port La Vigia.
The past week was unusually cool with daily temperatures five to three degrees below normal and sunshine below average. Rainfall was generally copious, heavy in eastern districts causing some crop damage. Corn progresses slowly toward maturity with harvest likely after the 25th if no frost. Soil is excellent and winter wheat plantings have greatly increased. pastures and late potatoes improved.
In Lewiston at noon August 25 1892 Professor R W Olmsted married Miss Jonnie Fahnestock with Rev B Y George officiating. Guests included groom's parents from Milan and other relatives from Illinois and Lewiston. A lavish wedding dinner followed and the couple left for Orange City Iowa where he serves as city school principal. The bride is described as cultured and charming and the groom as an excellent husband.
National encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Washington prompts the CO and NJ railroad to offer low rate excursion tickets from Bently to Washington and return, valid for return until October 10. Tickets and info via agents of the O and N W railways. Also notices on Dr Kline's nerve restorer, a Philadelphia address, and a lost gold watch with reward to return to A W Moffatt.
A town hotel and barn with furniture valued at 3500 dollars is offered for exchange for a 160 acre Algona county farm. The farm includes 80 acres of which 90 are under water cultivation, a good house, barns, and a grove four miles from Algona, worth 30 dollars per acre. Part payment may include a house and lot in Algona. Also advertised are farm loans at 5 to 8 years with high interest, and discounted groceries and fuel at North Western Elevator with delivery via Lund and Ryan’s office.
An array of classified notices includes a 320 acre farm for rent three miles east of Armatron with 120 acres plow land and 70 acres pasture, cash rent $320, plus references to a new plow and local business offers. Also lists flour pricing claims, local bakery goods, delivery, Dr Hale's tonic, and a temperance joke.
Beware of swindlers selling vile medicines under common names. Public notice lists a farm auction in Union township four miles south of Burt and seven miles north of Algona on Friday Sept 19 at 10am with four horses thirty cattle twenty sheep and more. Auctioneers P N Sarnonert and D A Haccarp. Cash and credit terms offered. Total 49.50 reads as catalog reference.
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