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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1907
Page
2
Audubon Iowa readers learn about farm loans with five percent interest and optional payments. The notice highlights Leet Boyssa and Beason as lenders and notes active local news including schooling, civic meetings, and assorted community updates from Audubon and surrounding areas.
Mrs J A Nash state club official traveled to Red Oak Monday morning. Mrs Ed Bilberz's mother Mrs Henshaw of Indianola died Sunday after a lengthy illness with Bilberz by her side most of the winter. Rev Hinkhouse Presbyterian pastor at Sioux City formerly Audubon resigned to join Fairfield college work. Vernon Hader, son of Mr and Mrs Chris Heder, broke his arm in a pasture incident Monday. Ed Bilharz returned from Indianola during Mrs Henshaw's illness and death. Mrs Henshaw is well known here. Paying visited her daughter several times.
The Nishnabotna region in Audubon County witnessed its inaugural cattle sale with solid prices. A W D Pratt bull sold for 155 dollars, another 105, Harris and Son 130 for a three year-old, Hardman’s cow fetched 250 bought by A J Andrews of Melbourne Indiana, and other bulls and cows sold between 105 and 200 dollars. Rime and Son of Portsmouth bought a calf for 105 and a cow for 110. The last five head were owned by J C Hardman of the Tron Te.
John Hayes recalls the Lugi case from Kansas City, where a barber named Lugi, once engaged to Mary, faced tragedy as she fled with an American. After her death and the return of her lover, Lugi opened a barber shop near his rival’s workplace. He later killed the clerk during an epileptic episode, was arrested, and fled the city after a coroner ruled the death accidental.
An animal store proprietor leaves instruction to a clerk to handle sales of stuffed animals while he works upstairs. A man and his son enter seeking a live monkey and the startled clerk calls down to summon the customer from upstairs.
A French electrician, D. Ne greano, introduces an electrical test distinguishing mineral waters. By measuring resistances per cubic centimeter at a fixed temperature, he separates springs, with continental samples spanning 27.5 to 1280 ohms. The method promises to identify authentic waters and detect imitations.
A man slices money to a fortune teller to influence a young woman Jillian to marry him instead of a wealthier rival. The teller crafts a confession based on her client’s history and a claimed fate. In the end she cannot ruin the girl’s true love and returns the money, leaving hope for a wedding invite.
In a charming breakfast exchange a bumptious traveler asks if his snoring woke the minister. The minister explains he lives by a coastal lighthouse and is accustomed to the fog horn’s sounds on thick nights, making the disturbance negligible.
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