Life of Miss Rebecca McNutt Ends After Illness
Miss Rebecca McNutt daughter of Mr and Mrs H McNutt died in Minneapolis City Hospital after contracting diphtheria following possible exposure in an ambulance. She was a University of Minnesota student and Algona High School graduate, known for strong scholarship and conscientious work. Her death prompted widespread community mourning and a large funeral at Riverview Cemetery with Rev C A Holmes officiating.
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Rebecca McNutt
5. H. McNutt
City Hospital
Minneapolis
Minnesota University
Riverviewcemeery
McNutt
C. A. Holmes
Algona High School
State University of Minnesota
Race Track Contract Awarded for Fair Grounds
Mason City firms Munch & Johnson secure the Algona based race track contract on the fair ground site south of the city. The Parr Association board accepted the bid for about 2200, lower than the earlier estimate of 3000, with work planned on other buildings and the track, as Architect Bogardus accelerates plans for rapid progress.
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Laws City
Bogardus
NEW DISCOVERED VALUES IN GROVES PLANTED BY EARLY SETTLERS
The town hails new timber uses from O H Caulkins grove east of town in Plum Creek township. Cottonwood lumber, grown on a three acre patch, brings about 28 dollars per thousand to dealers, with potential output around fourteen hundred dollars. Pulp and wood products are being explored, including softwood shipments to Fr Dodge for pulp manufacture. A local water job went awry yesterday. a reward offered.
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O. H. Caulkins
Plum Creek
Caulking
Cleary
Mite Johnson
Fr. Dodge
Atucco
Johnson
Mystery of Boy Goes Missing Near Town Resolved
Relieved to have died, the ten year old Peter Meyers vanished Friday evening. City officials and volunteers searched extensively with no clues found. The theory ties his disappearance to his estranged father seen in town. most believe he perished in the neighborhood Friday night. Deep sympathy is expressed for Mrs. Meyers.
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Peter Meyers
Wim. Meyers
Call Street
Thorington
Dodge
Wadsworth
Little
Ladendorff
North Dakota
Tharington
K. J. Murtagh
Bert Peck
Land Seekers Stranded at Lemon On Blizzard Trip
A party from Algona went to Lemon South Dakota to claim cheap land along the Milwaukee extension but found only government land priced at 2.50 per acre. Blizzard conditions hindered view of the area, and most travelers returned east after a short stay. Lemon, started last fall, hosts about 400 people with eight lumber yards four saloons and three newspapers. Shacks cover much land as settlers flood into the area seeking homestead prospects.
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Algona
Butte County
South Dakota
Milwaukee
Lemon
Adventurers file many homestead entries near Deadwood
Sixty or more homestead filings were made at the local land office during a recent expedition. The Deadwood area showed strong interest while a Mead county party of Cr Jergenson and sons Edward Harvey Jergenson and Ed Hopkins secured valuable homesteads and plan to prove up in fourteen months by paying 50 cents per acre. The Mead county land is praised as excellent with future railroad plans and proximity to a coal mine and a large store. The Algona group, including Grant Benschoter and others, faced tougher odds and plans to depart within weeks, hauling goods by chartered cars with farm implements and stock to the new claims.
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Deadwood
Grant Benschoter
H. C. Long
W. Schichtl
J. W. Hinchon
Geo. Paine
Geo. Tyndale
Leo Miller
Will Buse
Fred Yergier
Tom Stull
Tom Little
Rapht
Raney
J. R. Lille
Sadie
City Council Meeting Sets Cement Purchase and Salaries
The council met at city hall on Saturday night March 28 with Mayor Jos W Wadsworth presiding. All but Nicoulin attended as the purchasing committee was instructed to contract Atlas cement for the season from F S Norton at 1.53 per barrel f o b Algona. An appropriation ordinance was passed under suspension of the rules listing salaries and expenses for Maplewood Coal Co Electric Light Fund Thompson & Burton and other items.
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Jos. W. Wadsworth
Atlas Cement
F. S. Norton
Algona
Inter-State Supply Up No Sus Illinois Electric Co
The ways and means committee was instructed to take up the oldest bonds. The council adjourned until the first Monday in April. Engineering Co references appear among partial items.
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Sii
Sus Imnois Electric Co
Reece
Mn] Engineering Co
Fenton Reporter notes Dewel declines re election bid
It is disappointing to many of W C Dewel’s friends that he plans not to seek re election as clerk of the history court. Irving Hutchins lists Timothy seed for sale with delivery by telephone.
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Fenton
W.C. Dewel
Histyry Court
Irving Hutchins
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John Foster Co
Howard & Foster Co
Russia
C. O. Simpson
Minneaplis City Hospital
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Ross Stebblog
Loos Co
Des Moines
Lowa
Call and Sea
R. H. Miller
AP Dally
Maplewood Coal Oo
Thompson & Burton
J W Bowman
J Blanchard
March
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A J
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Rmith
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W Braser
Switzer
Mary
Slavton
Lambe
Upper
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Tink
Turin
JW Robinson
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San Sab
Taneoabhelig
Andree Peterson
Fs I Peth Jorie
Snson
Sehiehth
Murch
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Aon
Hawkeye Kitchen
Gabinete
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Jewelers
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