21 Feb 1907
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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1907
Page
1
The column lists the school election dates on March 11 and March 25, residents visiting friends, moves and new work, illnesses, and business notes. It mentions Alfred Nelson, Martin Mogg, Charles Jenkins, Dr. Oldaxer, and others, plus a Virginia real estate inquiry and a debated capital punishment question at a hall gathering.
A collage of brief items: Edison age 60 on Lincoln’s birthday. a Colorado legislator expelled for bribe taking. King Edward paid a physician. a New York dentist charged Prince Louis of Battenberg. Roosevelts quote on hardness of heart. Mrs. Patrick Ginley’s death at 104. a Wyoming teacher with one pupil. a $10,000 donation to a German Presbyterian school. snakes raised for skins in Australia. paper blankets gaining popularity. poems and quotes. Salton Sea fate. New York water front basements and offices. Cora Arnold to wed Pueblo Indian. Gibraltar’s description. a tender message verse. indie exhibit talk with a Carlisle graduate.
Real estate listings include 132 acres at 25 dollars per acre two miles from Fredericksburg with a new room house and outbuildings remains pasture timber. another 32 acres at 10 dollars per acre with small new house near a public road a mile from a station. terms mostly cash or easy. timber on land is merchantable. Local items note visitors and seed for sale, plus a warning about sling shot misuse and property damage.
Friday evening last the Emilie Male Quartet performed to a large crowd at the Methodist Church annex. The well arranged program drew encores for every number with several pieces earning a second invitation to return, making the event a memorable and enjoyable evening.
A businessman offers 6 percent optional loans with favorable terms and long durations up to ten years. He claims to keep cash on hand and promises fast approval. Also listed is for sale a team of young males described as well broke and two short horn cattle with hatsook noted, Brayton Iowa.
A collage of quips and notices includes jokes about four hundred Bible languages, a Deering Alaska government school for Eskimo children, a London ad seeking a young woman for searching and hanging up, and a Kingston Jamaica earthquake report. It also mentions Pennsylvaina railroad tree planting, cross ties, and Missouri Senate plans to bar horseracing results from publication with fines up to one thousand dollars.
A cat settles before a kitchen range and Dolly, with Gramma nearby, cries out in alarm as the cat begins to boil. The scene captures a domestic moment of surprise and urgency in a small home.
A country scene unfolds as a narrator meets a land buyer who boasts of a $1500 farm, possible coal, and a future railroad corner. The tax assessor arrives to confirm assessments and to encourage a longer stay as household fortunes and land values rise in this period dialogue.
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