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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1907
Page
4
The Auduson County Journal from Eira, Iowa notes land prices may rise and offers farm sales on small payments. It invites readers to describe what they want and will refer them to suitable contacts, promising location services and trade care guidance.
Advertisement for an Iowa farm of 160 acres located 5 miles from town with good roads and R F D at the door. Includes 120 acres deep soil second bottom, 40 acres rolling, 40 seeded to clover and timothy, corn on sod producing about 70 bushels per acre, 40 acres well fenced hog pasture, deep well and windmill, house with 6 or 7 rooms, new frame barn, orchard, and attractive terms. Asking price 6000 but may rise to 7500 within a year. terms 3000 to 4000 by March 1, 1907, easy balance.
No. 2 ninety acres in cultivation with few stones and good improvements. 120 acres total near a town, R F D, coal nearby, water from springs and wells. Price 50 dollars per acre, first mortgage about 3000, 2000 due by March 1 1907, balance long time at six percent.
No. 4 property spans 260 acres eight miles from a railroad town and close to roads. It includes 40 acres cultivated, 70 acres bluegrass pasture, timber, a stone quarry, springs and wells, a 4 room house, granary, barn, orchard, and fences. Priced at 45 dollars per acre in hog pasture. Journal Exire.
A large 250 acre Iowa model farm priced at 70 dollars per acre near a town on the main railroad line. Includes 160 acres of cultivated land with bluegrass pastures, springs, wells, wind mill, stock tanks, hog and cattle facilities, a two story stone house with deep cellar, and substantial improvements. 100 acres of timber pasture, orchard and fruit trees, good neighborhood, R F D delivery, near a store, flexible balance terms.
A large 210 acre tract at 57.50 per acre offered with 960 acres total, located one and one-half miles from a town on Rock Toland. Road access good, land mostly level with rolling sections, rich soil, no stones, fenced hog and cattle pasture, big orchard, groves, timber, watered, new four room house, stables, storage for grain. Price low with 500 to 600 down, terms long. Wallnee newspaper Journal notices.
A fragmented ad describes a 220 acre farm with 3 miles from town, good roads, near wood and coal. It lists five acre grove, about 100 acres bottom land, rolling terrain, one mile to a depot, fenced yard, a small grocer house, granary and barn. Easy terms and exchange options include 80 or 120 acres.
An odd classified style notice offers a farm as a match making hook stating price and access details. The terse ad promises a wife seeking buyer, with a quirky claim about news value and limited access terms.
Spot on the market lists a seven mile from town property with coal beneath and timber cover. It includes 25 acres cultivated and 60 more liable to cultivation, a tree set of buildings and a well painted house. A coal bank pays 400 dollars yearly royalty and the rent horizon extends 25 years. Terms easy. Journal, Extra.
The Sun Shines A offers 120 acres near Fond Town at 65 dollars per acre. Property lies one and a half miles from town with a fine road, one half mile to a school, good neighborhood, and includes well fenced fields, running water, springs, a prime well, and substantial farm buildings. Across ten acres of timber, a four room house, stables, and feed lots. A well cultivated farm with timber and grove crops.
No. 30, 180 acres at ga 114 mile from dandy town with mills and creamery on Ri F D. Land Jays rolling but not rough, ten acres under plow, balance cut off Irish and blue grass pasture. Fenced quarter with woven wire and rich soil. Large cattle sheds barn hen house. New four to five room house with stone walled cellar. Invest labor for profit. Surrounding land valued at sixty to seventy per acre. Write to Journal office.
Buy today at forty dollars, sell in two years for sixty five or seventy five. Four percent miles from town, thirty four miles from school, good neighborhood. Seventy five acres cultivated, balance brush pasture, well fenced and cross fenced. Fine crops, farm well watered, new four room house, coal and hen house, crib, stable, sheds, all new. Will take a thousand in trade or long-time financing with small down payment. Storm clause included. Journal office.
A real estate notice advertises 50 225 acres for 6100 near county seat with good roads. Describes bottom land, rolling areas, clover and timothy, well fenced, good soil, road house, barns, sheds, and water. Also lists grain and stock farm options from 2000 to 4000 with long balance. Journal.
Farm listing states 160 acres with good improvements and fair soil, 8 miles from town, well watered and well fenced. Asking price $66 per acre with $1000 Marchirst in 1907 terms, balance payable over two to three years with no payment for an initial period, then $100 annually.
Describes 107 acres offered at 55 dollars per acre with nearly level terrain. Includes small buildings, good condition, an orchard, good water, and a black walnut grove. 80 acres are second bottom. most land is level except for one or two acres in the northwest corner. Small portions flood in low land. Handy to two railroad markets nearby.
Land advancing in value 280 acres for sale at 65 dollars per acre. One mile to school, nearly level, with 40 acres tame grass and 160 acres fenced and cross fenced. Fine grove, good neighborhood, five or six room house, new barn, double cornice. Good old lowan dirt, bargain price, small payment about 1000 dollars. Will take 160 acres in uxehduve.
Auction note describes two 200 acre tracts in Iowa offered at 50 and 40 per acre. One mile to a country town with store and post office, school nearby, rolling terrain with 135 cultivated acres and pasture. Features include two springs, two wells, windmill, fair improvements, mortgages and dates in 1907 1908, and proximity to a railroad town.
Real estate notice offers 60 acres at $65 with a six room house shop and outbuildings. One mile to school church and store, 46 miles to Jaree creamery. Gently rolling, well fenced, good orchard and grove. Call at Journs office.
Very cheap farm offering 22 acres at 55 dollars per acre with 24 miles from town, 4 acres rough pasture, a well watered estate with wind mill tank a large new barn hog house sheds yards and fruit trees. Features a five to six room stone walled cellar and arch cave. Terms require 1000 dollars by March 1 1907 or possible arrangement to carry without payment on serious business evidence.
A pretty forty acre tract located about 2 1/2 miles from town offers a gentle rolling terrain, a fine grove, good spring water, an orchard, a five or six room house, a good barn and outbuildings. Price $65 with easy terms. Journal.
Forty acres near a town on the Milwaukee line with telephone in house R F D at door includes a four room house new barn for four horses cow shed corn ers buggy shed well water good fencing two acres hog pasture fruit raspberries strawberries mortgage $200 two years at six percent call at Journal office.
Ninety five acres offered at sixty dollars per acre with five percent title distance to two towns. Land lies level except six acres in pasture and hog lot. About fifty acres cultivated, twenty acres young timber, ten acres in clover and timothy. Well fenced, 180 rows of woven wire, good water, barn, outbuildings, fair granary, grove protected, stone walled cellar, six room house priced at five hundred dollars.
A detailed property notice describes 160 acres offered at 62.50 per acre with $2000 to $4000 price range, set for March 1, 1907. Located 4 miles from town, it boasts a fine market, good roads, proximity to school, and a brick modern two story dwelling of seven rooms, an almost new barn, deep well with windmill, tanks and ample outbuildings in a good neighborhood with long-standing value.
Announcement offers 100 acres for 52.50 per acre with rolling good soil near the county seat. Includes nine orchard, fair four room house, small stable, outbuildings, fenced and well watered, some stone and brush, not reused. $250 down $500 March 1 1907, price 2.50 per acre yearly at 5 percent, storm clause allows extension if crops destroyed. Journal.
Model Home No 210 offers 120 acres on main Rock Island line 7 miles from a town, one mile from school, with a 14 story house 16x28, barn 28x22, shed, wool house, cistern, deep well and wind mill. Good soil, fenced pastures, some orchard, heavy cultivation possible, 100 acres tillable, value stated at 60.00 per acre, asking price 51 003 miles from two towns.
Hamlin residents report visits near Elk Horn Gray and Audubon with multiple relatives and friends. Farm purchases include Chris Djernes acquiring the Jorgenson farm and Hans Jansson planning a large residence. Danish Brotherhood seeks two petitioners for a new lodge. Local sickness includes influenza and croup. ice, lumber, and coal shipments, and bazaar planning for February.
Public sale on the Wm Thielen farm known as the old Hoefer farm four miles south and east of Extra includes horses cattle hogs farm implements and seed corn. Auctioneers D R Jones J Jacobson and A W Harvey note cash terms six percent discount and noon lunch.
An advertisement-style note claims most appendicitis victims are constipated. It promotes Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup as a cure for chronic constipation, stating it stimulates the liver and bowels, restores natural bowel action, and is mild and pleasant. It warns to refuse substitutes and is signed Nick Doffing.
Senator Pettis of Alabama fainted from vertigo while handling a law case in his office. He quickly recovered and joked about needing only one doctor. The doctor confirmed there is only one physician present, prompting the senator to say he could not survive a consultation with more doctors.
A practical dusting case described as green and white cretonne in a vase form. It features a bottom of 2½ inches square, sides nine inches high, and stitched seams with white bias and eyelets. Strings of ribbon run through eyelets to hold a cheese cloth duster bordered with green feather stitching.
Children form a large share of bread consumption in the United Kingdom with four forty-odd million sacks used yearly. In rich households bread is scarce. in middle and working class homes it is a staple, and children under sixteen likely use about three-fifths of total flour sold, making them millers' best customers.
Gov-Elect Comer of Alabama visited the U S House of Representatives in Washington. The reception caused noise that disturbed Speaker Cannon. Upon learning the guest’s identity, Cannon reminded the clerk that governors-elect should not be admitted during sessions. He quipped that Alabama boys may not know or believe in his rules.
A closet becomes more convenient and roomy with one or two poles for hangers, saving space and preventing creases. Women should use clothes hangers for waists, skirts, and wraps, padding hangers with sachet powder and covering with inexpensive fabric.
In a conversational exchange a person reveals five thousand dollars in ready money was used to buy an automobile after a stock transaction with Old Smoothe. The other party recalls a prior pledge not to fund an auto, highlighting a financial about face.
Emperor William names Bruno Paul, caricaturist of Simplicissimus, as director of Berlin Industrial Art school. Appointment seen as triumph for secessionist art and a potential end to many old fashioned ideas in German art circles.
A comic aside translated for Transat lantic Tales from Filegende Blatter shows a guest demanding order while the waiter confidentially explains the fish would not keep longer. The sketch highlights timing mixups between a diner and service staff.
Gyer calls a financial pessimist someone afraid to look pleasant for fear friends will want to make a touch. Myer questions the term in a witty exchange from the Chicago Daily Nowa.
A humorous exchange shows a prudent relative asking about savings. Mrs. Yorkins replies her husband saves about 60, noting he mentioned general horses yesterday that he runs best on a muddy track. The dialogue blends money talk with a racing quip.
Theatrical star notes applause feels less spontaneous as management explains recent hires of new and inexperienced ushers. The exchange reveals tension between performer and staff during a show.
A Houston Post item notes a writer’s rule about finishing a story and avoiding last edits before submission, reflecting the newsroom workflow and editorial process. The quote emphasizes independence and timing in preparing copy for publication.
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