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Newspaper
Jefferson Era
Location
Jefferson, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1867
Page
4
A damaged OCR page shows scattered retail and hardware items with quantities and prices. The garbled text references stock, hoards, sheeting, nails, lumber, and tools, but few coherent details beyond miscellaneous catalog entries and unit costs.
Wheat futures and cash wheat show dull activity with lower quotes as buyers hold firm. Corn and oats steady with modest declines. flour and dairy items mix, pork and lard unchanged. Coffee, sugar, and tea markets show limited demand. lumber quiet. overall market tone cautious with little movement.
Mr Rippey notes over twenty in his office seeking county locations. Hampton, once in the 2d Town Cavalry, died of cholera in Memphis. Fine weather aids fall farming. Warns about hay fires as fall work begins. Rev Goodenow arrives to lead Congregational Church. Oct 20 marriage near New Jefferson: J W Wire and F E Porren of Jefferson Township. Culley stocks hardware and stoves at low prices. Fresh oysters and treats at bakery. Editorial poem on first page. Buy Saleratus with full weight from D. B. Land & Co. Fall and winter goods at Reece & Clark. Letters from Europe by Col J W Forney bound in book form. Serene serenade by local cornets and Panora Band. Rippey wins 66 in Guthrie County. praised for home interests. Advocate Stowe’s Origin and History of the Books of the Bible. advertise.
Walton & Craufurd advertise new goods. A letter from Cornelius Halderman praises returning to Indiana towns. A Belle Plain Transcript note on advertising rents. Congregational chores at 104 A M next Sunday discuss Is it a fact You and I sinners. A new library with 800 volumes arrives for Sunday School use. County Clerk Howard lists Greene County tax figures with total property value around 1,007,000 and delinquent allocations. George Bailey, veteran drummer boy, may seek Door Keeper in the House. November issue of Eclectic Magazine highlighted. Engraving features portrait of Lakin in January issue.
A letter urges locating the State Normal School at New Jefferson, arguing it would bring 500 to 1,000 students yearly and $150,000 to $300,000 annually. It also promotes building a first class flouring mill and a pork packing house locally, detailing regional transport costs and the need to reduce shipments to Chicago and857 reliance on eastern markets. The piece lobbies for joint stock funding and local enterprise to boost the town’s economy.
In the Friday session the Speaker announced the roll call and Aquorem picc ent. The Elections Committee reported favorably on credentials for Thun nell of Massachusetts Wilkinsn of Minnesota Cowan of Indiana and Head of Tennessee. The House admitted to seats without credentials Brainard of Wisconsin Collier of Maine Yerger of Pennsylvania and Watts of Michigan. Notices of motions for introducing bills were given including a Sitka government bill and a tenure of office bill.
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