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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
2
OrPIcIAn COUNTY PAPER prints ad rates and notices with a hazy local focus. Editorials praise Senator Gummins and farmer support while Algona gossip and Whittemore pie auction items appear in the same issue.
Fragmentary notices recount a man returning a dollar four years ago and mailing it elsewhere, arguing it will no longer fund roads or schools or benefit neighbors. The ad notes livestock sales in Titonka and Titonka area visits by Mrs Nels Nelson and daughter to Ringsted.
Banner piece of corn grown by Peter Krieth yields 95 bushels per acre from 40 acres with two pound ears. Burt Monitor invites challengers to beat the feat. Platts purg routes to be cut November 1 per Postmaster Thompson citing poor road conditions. The Stesw artsville Record notes roads must improve or service ends. The Monitor quips about Jer and Taft while Chicago relief and Waterloo factory layoffs draw comment.
A column mocks a local so called wise guy who claims superior knowledge of merchants preachers and editors. It contrasts his self view with his brief usefulness and ends with a humorous note about gratitude for not sharing his traits.
A narrator compares persistent railroad warning signs to recurring advertisements that remain memorable. Repetition makes a rule stick, as a farmer learns after initial confusion with a dollar bill marked by his own initials.
Publisher offers a year long deal sending Chicago Record Herald and Topic daily for one year at $3. Fall and winter reading needs highlighted. Readers encouraged to mail payment and address details.
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