Jingle all the way

New Congressman Bedell visits Algona

150 Years Ago

This is a grand season for taxidermists the country over. One of them in New York was a poor man last summer, but now he has got a snug little fortune by stuffing and wiring half a million birds for the bonnets of Gotham belles.

125 Years Ago

Watchful 

By Peter Talbot, Pastor at Grace Church in Algona

Column from 7/20/23

My, how blind we choose to be

The lyrics “Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies”* from Fleetwood Mac’s 1987 release of “Little Lies” popped to mind last week with President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden.

Letter to the Editor:

Pressure of the holidays

By Elizabeth Adams, ISU Extension and Outreach in Kossuth County

Seasonal Cheer!

I beg your pardon

President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, who was convicted on federal gun and drug charges, has some folks up in arms. In many ways, those emotions are justifiable. When president elect Donald Trump inevitably pardons the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, more folks will be up in arms. In many ways, those emotions will also be justifiable. Meanwhile, these are not the first controversial pardons, and they likely won’t be the last.

Try out for the community play

150 Years Ago

A respectable looking young man on a ferry boat at St. Louis, a few days since, being approached by the captain, for his three cents fare, replied: “I have no money,” jumped overboard, and was drowned.

125 Years Ago

CURRENT POLL

There is a new poll running on the websites regarding people’s thoughts on the pardon of Hunter Biden by his father, President Joe Biden.

Vote at algona.com

PREVIOUS POLL RESULTS

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‘Tis the season

Editorial Library, Metro Creative Graphics, Inc.

Christmas carols can be heard far and wide from Thanksgiving weekend through Christmas Day. Here’s a look at the origins of some of the most popular ones.

When you have eight kids under the age of 9, you make the paper in 1971. They also knew the most popular toys that year. I hope they got everything they wanted.

CHRISTMASTIME AT THE HOME OF Chuck and Sue Behr has the air of excitement without the least bit of effort.

1977 video games

The year was 1977 and, for my brother Steve and me, Christmas toys were forever changed. That was the year Mom introduced us to Pong. Or maybe it was Santa who did. I can’t recall. What I do know, though, is that we spent countless hours playing this most basic of video games on a 9-inch black-and-white TV in our basement, and we truly thought this was high-tech. For the time, it was.

Skip the script

In the 1979 movie “The Jerk,” Navin Johnson, the main character played by Steve Martin works tirelessly and single-mindedly to “become somebody.” Already a multi-millionaire thanks to an invention, he is excited when he has a drink in his hand that mimmicks a celebrity advertisement for the same drink in an advertisement.

“Be somebody.”

Maynard Ferguson coming to Algona

150 Years Ago