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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1907
Page
4
A fragmented notice from Exim Towan advocates farm sales and land deals. It promises locating buyers, referrals to sellers, and posting descriptions of available property, urging readers to specify needs for assistance.
Iowa No. 1 farm of 160 acres five miles from town with good roads and house. Includes 120 acres deep soil level bottom land and 40 rolling acres, 40 seeded to clover and timothy, corn crop 70 bushels per acre on rolling land. Features 40 acres hog pasture, windmill and deepwell, 6 to 7 room house, new frame barn, orchard. Asking price 65 dollars, rising to 75 before a year. Terms 3000 to 4000 by March 1, 1907, easy balance.
For sale 120 acres seven miles from a town, near coal at two fifty a ton. About 90 acres in cultivation. balance brush pasture. New ground with little stone or sand, small improvements. Stock and grain farm, well watered by spring. Price sixty dollars per acre, two thousand dollars due March 1 1907, rest long time at six percent.
No. 4 260 acres located within three-fourths of a mile of a good railroad market and 3 miles to another rail town. About 40 acres under cultivation and 70 acres bluegrass pasture with balance in fine young timber. The tract is well watered by springs and wells, well fenced, with a 4 room house not first class, granary, hen house, a 40x48 barn, a large orchard, and a stone quarry on 20 acres used as hog pasture. Soil favorable. price $45 per acre. Journal Extra.
A model farm of 250 acres at 70 dollars per acre features 140 acres in cultivation with deep black soil, 100 acres pasture and timber, bluegrass irrigation via springs and wells, a monster barn with stone foundation, cattle and hog facilities, a fine one story house, two wells and wind mill, tanks, and orchard. Location near church and school, 40 miles to school, 4% miles to main line, balance easy terms. price range 3000 to 5000 dollars.
A thorough description of a 210 acre property offered at 67 50 until 1907 then 60 thereafter. Four and a half miles from a town on Rock Island with good roads. Jewel land balances rolling with rich soil no stone or sand, fenced hog and pasture, large orchard and groves, some timber, well watered. Contains a four room house, stables, and good stock and grain farm facilities. Price 500 LG with 400 down and long time on balance. Journal.
A historical farm ad describes 922 acres near a town with 5 acres of grove and timber 200 acres of bottom land fences and a stockyard, good 6 room house granary barn and outbuildings. Terms offer easy exchange options and cheap price for the size, with proximity to schools and roads.
Classified item promising a wife via a farm purchase. It claims 720 acres priced at 37.50 per acre. Appears to be sensational modern courting scheme framed as property listing. No verifiable organization or individuals named beyond the generic Hera's.
Spot in Iowa seven miles from Exira town with good roads, 25 acres cultivated and 600 more subjugatable, timber cover, abundant water, three buildings including a $2400 house, coal bank paying $400 yearly royalty, coal usable for 25 years. A thousand dollars in trade considered. Journ, Exira.
The Sun Shines A offers 120 acres near a town two and a half miles away with a good road and school half a mile distant. It features well fenced fields, hog pasture, running water from springs, a top well, cultivated land, ten acres of timber, buildings, feed lots, and a four room house. The farm includes cross fences, a grove or orchard, tame grass, stables, and outbuildings.
No. 30, 160 acres four miles from Dandy Town with mill and creamery nearby. Rolling but not rough soil, only ten acres under plow, rest brush and blue grass pasture. Whole quarter fenced with woven wire, rich soil, large cattle sheds, barn, hen house, new house with stone cellar. Invest labor for big profit. surrounding land sells for 60 to 70 per acre. Write to Journal office now.
No. 43 120 acres offered at 40 dollars per acre with four room house, coal and hen house, sheds and well fenced pastures. 75 acres under cultivation, balance pasture, well watered, tiles from town four miles from school in a good neighborhood. Terms include small down payment or good note and long time with storm clause. trade accepted. Journal office.
Real estate notice for 60 acres at 65 dollars per acre near a school and church describes a well fenced parcel with 4% mile to a creamery, a five or six room house, good stables, sheds, pasture, orchard, and grave. Call at Journal office.
Listing offers No. 180 120 acres priced at 55 per acre, 224 miles from town, with 40 acres rough pasture, well watered land, deep well wind mill tank, one big barn hog house sheds yards fruits a fine six room house stone walled cellar arched cave and other improvements. Terms include 1000 by March 1 1907 or arrangements to carry without payment with substantial business evidence.
Forty acres well located two and a half miles from town with a gentle rolling terrain. Includes a five to six room house, good barn, outbuildings, fine grove and spring water, and a fine orchard. Price sixty five dollars with easy terms. Journal.
A classified ad offers No 196 a 40 acre farm three miles from a town on a Milwaukee railway. It features a four room house a new barn a cow shed a fruit area and good water with a $200 mortgage due in two years at six percent. Prospective buyers should call at the Journal office for details.
A detailed listing describes ninety five acres with 45 acres of cultivable land, 20 acres of young timber for posts and wood, and about 10 acres in clover and timothy. The property lies 5% miles from towns, 3-4 miles to a school, fenced with 180 rods of woven wire, well watered, includes a granary and outbuildings, a stone walled cellar, an orchard, and a five room house priced near 500.00.
Describes a 225 acre farm near county seat with good roads bottom land not overflowing, some rolling, fenced and well watered, with clover timothy grass, soil and a large barn complex, priced low. Indicates a fine grain and stock farm with $2000 to $4000 down and long time balance. Journal
Auction notice for 160 acres at 62.50 per acre with 2000 to 4000 dollars upfront on March 1, 1907. Four miles from town, fine market, good roads, near school, in a good neighborhood with a telephone in the house. Farm features include 120 level, 40 rolling, a modern two story seven room dwelling, recently built barn 42 by 54 by 20 posts, deep windmill well, tanks and outbuildings. Good long time, Journal.
A description advertises 8 miles from town 160 acres with good improvements gently rolling well watered and good soil. The price is 66 per acre totaling 10560 dollars with a March 1 1907 sale date. Terms include a balance long time with no payment for two to three years then 100 dollars two years.
Auction or sale notice for 100 acres two miles from county seat with four roads and a near school. Describes rolling soil, orchard, fenced land, nearly new four room house, outbuildings, stone and brush. Terms: 250 down, 500 March 1 1907, balance 2.60 per acre per year at five percent with storm clause allowing deferment if crops destroyed. Journal listing seeks home at easy terms.
A historic sale notice promotes a 120 acre farm near Towa listed at 5100 dollars. It notes location 3 miles from two towns, 7 miles from a junction on Rock Island Railway, 2 miles to a school, with R F D delivery and phone service. The land is mostly cultivable with good pasture, fencing, orchard, and fruit also described. The house is a 134 story? style dwelling with 16 by 28 feet bath 28 by 82 and sheds, plus outbuildings, cistern, deep well and windmill. Easy terms requested.
Listing describes 107 acres at 855 with nearly level terrain and small buildings in good condition. Includes orchard and black walnut grove, 80 acres of second bottom, minor overflow areas, good water, and proximity to coal and two railroad markets. Conveys very accessible land with multiple usable sections and nearby markets.
Land entry offers 280 acres at 65 dollars with good roads one mile to school and flue?al most. Jewel 40 acres tame grass 160 acres fenced and cross fenced flue grove good neighborhood five or six room house barn double corn crib. A fine farm of good old town dirt at 9 bargain price. Small payment around 1000 dollars easy terms on balance. Will take 160 acres in exchange.
Farm sale notice offers two 200 acre Iowa tracts with rolling land near small town. No. 166 lists 200 acres at 50 with 135 cultivated, pasture balance, three springs two wells windmill and fair improvements. Mortgage details and due dates noted. No. 171 describes another 200 acre stock farm at 40 near railroad town with strong improvements.
Hamlin residents engage in shopping trips and visits to nearby towns while local officials note shifts in employment and business. A twelve pound new baby greets the community. a carrier exam, Blue Grass Association matters, and lodge efforts unfold as Hamlin eyes growth and infrastructure improvements.
Thirteen members of the Danish Brotherhood lodge in Hamlin faced weather and other delays in attending meetings. After consultation they began canvassing for twenty new members to obtain lodge permission, receiving ten petitions and expecting additional applicants within the week.
An old ad warns kidney problems are stealthy and dangerous. It urges taking Foley's Kidney Cure at first signs to correct irregularities and prevent Bright's disease and diabetes, attributed to Nick Dofiing.
Morays shared a dinner with Chas and Higgina while corn was shelled for Rob Clark. George Morey is on the sick list. Emma Mohr and daughter Lovi visited with H G Rices. Olena and Elis Morey visited the last week’s end with Ave Johnatona in Audubon. A large missionary meeting at Mrs D L Thomas yielded 82 80 contributions. Miss Jewie McNutt and Mr Grant Kneas wed. Miss Ann Generich of Guthrie County visited Burr Home. Lena Hagne accompanied her home. Mable McNutt won a gold watch for piano contest votes. CO B Townsend and wife and others visited Stanley family and plan to California after Council Bluffs trip.
A witty exchange unfolds about fashionable long black kid gloves and ill fit. A young woman recalls failed purchases and misfits from multiple stores, while a wary clerk and a blushing suitor spar over a possible marriage proposal amid a humorous, ironic critique of vanity and consumer culture.
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