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Newspaper
Upper Des Moines Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1906
Page
15
A Holiday Silk Sale promotes silk dresses patterns as stylish gifts for wives daughters and mothers. The event emphasizes the season’s fashion appeal and positions silk patterns as an appropriate Christmas present.
A vintage notice promotes Suiting Taffetas fabrics priced at 75 cents. It emphasizes versatile uses beyond suits, highlighting checked effects and warp prints in light and medium colors with about fifty styles. Some fabrics retail up to $1.25, offered by a local vendor.
Editor Sherman visits Algona as the Social Club plans a Pleasant dancing party Friday evening. A glass souvenir is offered with every 25¢ purchase at Taylor's Candy Store. County Superintendent Belknapp notes a few teachers lack schools. Various residents travel, entertain, or return from trips. Jacob Riis to lecture at the Call on December 17 as part of the W L A S course. Gotch defeats Beell in New Orleans and prepares for a rematch in Kansas City.
The text argues that the New Domestic machine works accurately while requiring minimal repairs, making it cheaper overall than cheaper machines. It predicts that inferior machines will raise repair costs and notes the better long term service of the New Domestic, suggesting 25 years of reliable use.
The two year old child of Mr and Mrs Albert Anderson east of town in Ryington township died Wednesday morning after a two hour illness from an unknown poison. The parents took the body to Olof near Belmond for interment and thanked friends for sympathy and help.
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