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Newspaper
Jackson Herald
Location
Jackson, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1901
Page
2
Jackson MO editorials discuss possible sheriff candidates, Missouri lead and zinc exhibits at Pan-American, and local politics. They critique Cape Progress subscribers, celebrate street improvements, and call for Utah polygamy amendment support. The piece also comments on a proposed Republican paper and contrasts living versus late praise of McKinley.
County correspondence from Kurreville reports the Kurre brothers selling stock at the Cape fair this week and wheat sowing affected by dry conditions. Ozro Miller teaches the Sugar Grove school with good satisfaction. Monroe Kurre travels to the city to buy winter and holiday goods for Kurreros, returning October 17.
The page blends USDA Jackson weather weekly outlook for towns and dates with tax collection notices from Cape Girardeau County. It lists town schedule dates for Oct 1901 to Dec 1901, warnings of seizure for nonpayment, and public appeals about tax books, plus public notices about local goods and services and calendar ads. It includes dental ad, instrument shop, cough medicine praise, and Herald calendar listings.
A sequence of transfers details Jacob Moore and wife to G T Allen for 104.72 acres in survey THO, Caroline Flerenberg to Choa Harenberg for Lot 07 in Cape Girardeau, plus numerous other deeds: Rosetta Noeninger to Joseph Haas and Anton Mann for Lot 50 in Cape Girardeau, John T Marshall to Lewis W Slinkle for 142 acres in Oak Ridge, David A Glenn to George Will Jr for a Cape property, J C Cuppard and wife to Belle Fort for 20 acres in survey 322, Belle Myrt to Minnie J Clip pard for Lots in Cape Girardeau, Henry L Mune to Martin C Krueger for Lot 12, William Bauer to Adolph Nabe for a survey in Cape, Rose and wife to Mrs Augusta Keretier for Lot in Chris Gross’s addition to Gordonville, Augusta Keratier to Mrs Martha E Rowe for Lot in the same addition, J Maple Wilson to Grace Wilson for Lot 40 in Cape Girardeau, plus a note of a 1900 reform school report praising Fol ey’s Honey and Tar for coughs.
John Foeste and Augusta Niemeier along with others are named in an old ad praising One Minute Cough Cure for child illnesses. An accompanying sale notice offers 10 acres known as the Rot farms near Fruitland and Pocahontas, Missouri, with sale of one to three parcels on easy terms through Ed Howard in Jackson.
Sealed proposals by the city of Jackson call for bidding on graveling and paving sections of South High Street from First South to Fourth South. Bids must specify the amount of gravel per block and be delivered by 5 p.m. October 10, 101 at the city clerk's court house office.
Notice to bridge contractors bids due November 4 at 10 a m for steel bridge over Hubble creek north of Jackson bids subject to county court approval right to reject all bids Plans and specifications to A Davourerty Road and Bridge Commissioner Notice to build stone pillars for a bridge over Hubble creek north of Jackson bids due 1 00 p m county court approval right to reject all bids Details to B A Davemenry Road and Bridge Commissioner AlsoContains old ads for Rocky Mountain Tea and Foley's Honey and Tar and wood subscription requests
A long catalog of property offerings from L. M. Bean of Jackson with Buchanan & Reddick of Bloomfield listing hundreds of acres across multiple counties. Properties include timber and bottom land, houses, barns, orchards, springs, and fenced tracts near Whitewater, Allen, Gordonville, Delta, Jackson, Cape Girardeau, and nearby towns. Many parcels give acreage, clearance, improvements, and proximity to stations or towns.
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