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. The Algona Bee : a story of newspaper beginnings. seat town. Then, to cap all, as the railroads came in the early seventies, thegrasshoppers devastated northwestern Iowa. As late as 1875 Calhounhad only 3,118 people, Dickinson 1,74S, Emmet 1,436, Hancock1,4S2, Kossuth 3,765* Pocahontas 2,249 and Winnebago , a totalafter twenty years of only 16,7S6 for the eight original counties of theBankroft 39-4. I tJ Maj) of Iowa published in Western Portraiture and Emigrants Guide,by Daniel S. Curtiss. Published in New York City by J. H. Colton in this book Mr. Curtiss speaks of on
. The Algona Bee : a story of newspaper beginnings. seat town. Then, to cap all, as the railroads came in the early seventies, thegrasshoppers devastated northwestern Iowa. As late as 1875 Calhounhad only 3,118 people, Dickinson 1,74S, Emmet 1,436, Hancock1,4S2, Kossuth 3,765* Pocahontas 2,249 and Winnebago , a totalafter twenty years of only 16,7S6 for the eight original counties of theBankroft 39-4. I tJ Maj) of Iowa published in Western Portraiture and Emigrants Guide,by Daniel S. Curtiss. Published in New York City by J. H. Colton in this book Mr. Curtiss speaks of one of the great projects then considered,a line of telegraph with stockades of armed and mounted mail carriers. Heconcludes, under these circumstances the great Mississippi Vallev countrybecomes invested with more vast importance than any other equal section.
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