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Out of the Past

75 years ago - the 1st Algona Band Festival

 

150 Years Ago

“You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear,” says an old proverb.  “No,” replies a Cincinnati sage, “nor can you make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse -- so that makes that square.”

 

125 Years Ago

Families of Faith

Mass readings around the world

Editorial Library, Metro Creative Graphics, Inc.

Throwback: Win gymnastics triangular trophy

From the March 5, 1981 Algona Upper Des Moines newspaper archives.

Letters to the Editor

To the Editor:

Our community has been raising questions of how we can keep the Fenton Library from closing it's doors due to lack of the County Board of Supervisors budgets support?

How can we help?

Out of the Past

Ku Klux Klan meets at Titonka

 

150 Years Ago

Job Printing! --- Come to the Upper Des Moines Job Printing Office for Plain and Fancy Job Printing. --- Cards, Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Circulars, Posters, Etc., Executed in the Best Manner. --- GOOD PRINTING! At Reasonable Prices! ---- Orders Solicited!

 

125 Years Ago

The Daily Umbrella

Listen

“Listen.” It’s a simple word. Six letters. Two syllables. So simple, yet so complicated. As the saying goes, “If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.” Clearly, we are not.

Families of Faith

Encouraging words

By Pastor Chris Burtnett, First Congregational United Church of Christ in Algona

Throwback: AHS Homecoming 1971

From the Oct. 18, 1971, Kossuth County Advance

Ink Spots

Musings on history and misadventures and such

All in it Together

Local Mental Health Therapist, Joleen Frideres, achieves Amazon best-seller status with “Against All Odds”

 

From the Editor:

We’re all in this together and we’re only as strong as our weakest link.

In this fast paced world full of challenges and surprises it’s easy to get lost, confused, stressed, anxious and depressed.

Letter

The Fifth Judicial Court of McPherson County, Spink County, Edmunds County, South Dakota has offered lowan’s a temporary reprieve by refusing to allow private industry to use public domain to claim land for the CO2 pipeline. We need to make this a permanent reprieve by pressuring Kim Reynolds and her hand-picked Iowa Utilities Commission to rescind all permits granted to Summit Carbon Solutions, LLC.

Out of the Past

Buffalo Bill comes to Algona

 

150 Years Ago

San Francisco, Sept. 5, 1874 -- The town of Mokelumne Hill, California, was totally destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. [Mokelumne Hills is the capital and most important city of Calaveras County, California, and is located about sixty miles southeast of Sacramento. It has a population of about 1,600.]

 

125 Years Ago

Families of Faith

Memory work

By Rev. Ben Dose, Senior Pastor- St. John's Lutheran, Burt and Trinity Lutheran, Algona

With September here it brings about the new academic year. With the new academic year brings new classes of Sunday school and catechesis or confirmation classes. Laura Langhoff Arndt writes this about memory work and its importance in the life of the Christian.

Throwback: Books come to life for lucky Lu Verne students

Reading Veterans stir imaginations

 

From the Algona Upper Des Moines 1981 archive.

Our Kossuth County

Solar energy and community priorities – Let’s talk about it

By Luke Seaberg, Kossuth County Extension

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