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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1911
Page
5
A sales pitch extols the Majestic Range as the best, promising a free set with each purchase during demonstration week. It claims superior materials, airtight construction, low fuel use, large water boiling capacity, and long life, inviting customers to see proof during the event.
In Algona the pay or not issue returns as property owners along Call and Thorington push to have their streets paved. At a recent city council meeting, residents formed petitions urging pavement, with final hearings set for December. If approved, Call Street and a west residence street near Bule will be paved next year, improving access to the courthouse and State Street.
In Algona, Oct 90, Algona High School boys finally played football against rivals from other schools for the first time in years. The team completed four games, earning creditable results, including a defeat of Webster and a hard-fought win over Mason City. experience from elder players aided the effort.
The letter recounts a wax nostalgic moment when G Bowyer found an 1880 Algona Republican in the old Haggard & Peck building while cleaning. It recalls rival papers, saloon politics, nearby towns, and a rural Iowa scene with prairie roads, weekend churchgoing, and travel to Poplar Point 35 miles away.
Mrs Grauthous writes from Poplar Montana describing a move from Marion North Dakota. She notes a 62 hour trip by wagon teams at $16 per day plus 1.50 for board, a well dug to 80 feet, a 22 by 26 house with two stores, oats and flax yields, butter and eggs prices, scarce cattle, horses seen, and a nearby school house store and stage access.
The town reports no outstanding warrants and a paid backlog with Budlong having cleared all due debts. Improvements include cement crossings and $2,000 drainage work over eight years. The drains cover central and northern areas with sewer tile and catch basins improving cellars, while a local survey deemed the system successful. An appeal promotes a farming magazine subscription offering 28 pages and 75 cents yearly with trial rates.
Henry Smith buys the W G Tarma quarter section along the east border of German township for eight dollars per acre, with little improvements requiring new buildings and cultivation. The move is seen as an investment likely to spur annual farm improvements and eventual wealth. Trustees try to collect poll taxes in Bancroft. a young man refuses, pays ten dollars plus costs after legal action. The note cites 1559 law requiring able bodied men to labor or pay the value or face a ten dollar forfeit.
A local ad claims farmers overpay for feed due to lack of knowledge and invites readers to bring quotations for better deals. It promises money saved and prizes for attendees at a regular Monday meeting hosted by Judge Querton's quotation swap and pledge event.
Sophomore Muckey in the College of Liberal Arts joins the Zetagathian Literary Society, oldest on campus founded 1861. The society is famed among students and alumni as Zev, with a recent semi centennial celebration last June drawing 170 alumni including notable judges and editors.
Nearly new Invisible Smith Premier typewriter for sale in running condition. Will sell for far less than half price. 12 taken soon 835 will buy it. Long better on the market today. Call or address J. 3, Shorwood, Burt, Towa.
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