23 Nov 1905
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Newspaper
Audubon County Journal
Location
Exira, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1905
Page
1
Local items describe riding horse purchase, residents visiting Atlantic and Des Moines areas, church and school activities, farm sales, and various town notices. Names include John S. Hensley Charley Hawk Henry Bush Misa Belle Dancelot and more. Social calls and business trips thread through Extra Iowa reports with ads and minor announcements.
The Dixie Jubilee Singers, a dusky songsters group, perform southern medleys and melodies in the Extra Lecture Course. They drew $100 worth of box office for season tickets in Colorado, with strong demand to fill the building for what should be a standout number.
Advertisements describe multiple 160 acre farms near towns and railroad lines with good soil and water. One listing offers 160 acres at $0 per acre with trade credit of 1200 to 1500 dollars, near a factory store church and school. Another 160 acre parcel priced at 66 dollars per acre, near county seats, fenced and watered, with a good house and outbuildings. Additional notices offer exchange for residence on income property and a large residence with ten acres and fruit, all to be settled at the Journal office.
Douglas Burns reports husking 230 bushels in 20 hours for Wm. Davis and on the Wilkinson farm Walter Hockenberry 112 Bert McClane 110 and Roy Dryden 105 bushels. The note invites readers to top the mark with any improved performance.
A sequence of transfers lists individuals and households trading parcels and buildings with prices from 250 to 10000 dollars. Names include Hansen, Kristine Hanken, Walter Rothlow, Jeanette Garnett, John Johnson, Liz Barnes, Frank Bradley, JC Newton, Margaret Hamlin, Fred Dennison, Guy, and George Burt. Locations cited include Hamlin, Audubon, Route 1, and various lots and blocks. The item notes at least one sale with a figure of 8400 dollars and another for 10000 dollars, plus a county or city notice of a farm sale event on Route 1 with a date near late November.
Farmers urged to review bargains at Journal office as cash for poultry and land offers appear. Riverside coal burner ad warms homes while M.N.R. notes new members and a lively gathering with oysters and cake. State Deputy Carmichael promotes low cost insurance on the Safety Ship.
The article notes Illinois has the most rural mail routes at nearly three thousand, with other bits about post office profits, ads, and social quips. It touches on farm value, education, and a playful piece from Puck about wealth and honesty, plus a Grace Wetherbee marriage to a Shoshone Indian.
A farm Journal notes that an inch of rainfall yields 112 tons per acre while mixing in humorous quips about apples and miracles. It reports vast coffee imports and pace article sales, a Massachusetts divorce effort, civic duty aphorisms, and a remarkable Kentucky family of 26 children, decades of toil, and a life in Whitley county without a railway.
A composite note blends a farmer’s creed about daily work, land and cattle care, fair treatment of animals, honesty, community involvement, and personal virtue with a promotional ad for a kidney remedy. The piece juxtaposes practical farming ideals with a medical ad touting a remedy and trial offer.
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