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The Monticello Express lists a weekly Thursday edition with J W Doxsee as editor and proprietor and an annual subscription price of 1.75 dollars per year.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
4
The Monticello Express lists a weekly Thursday edition with J W Doxsee as editor and proprietor and an annual subscription price of 1.75 dollars per year.
Correspondence from Castle Grove April 8 reports illnesses including pneumonia and ailing residents, a school term to be led by T F Waddick, attendance at a Foresters ball, farm purchases in Linn county, and insurance and tax actions. Also notes mail volume, seed sales, church visits, pork and hog prices, and wagon tire services offered by C H Huntington Jr of Cascade Iowa.
Ex Supervisor Robert Inglis of Hale is ill but hoped to recover. Dr George Inglis of Monticello travels to Hale to visit his father. The Wyoming Telephone Co. wins a franchise at the municipal election and pledges good service. Morse Bros prepare a wagon to sell goods on the road. School resumes after vacation with strong work led by C Gray and teachers. Local events include illness in Stanwood and gardening by Rev E G Waite. G A R and W R C plan a birthday gathering for C B Gridley and C B Hopkins. Presbyterian church and society held an annual meeting with a noon harvest feast and officer elections.
Local items recount visits and travel from Center Junction to Allamakee county and Boone. Residents issue updates on teaching, health, and social events including a Epworth League fundraiser and lodge bull. They also note moves, marriages, and deaths in neighboring Cass community.
Onstow April 8 the Brown family hosts a young Kansas grandson while Mayor Hall leads a new council. The first action is a town well planned for Center of Main Street at Elm Street intersection.
John Ringgeli offers one and a half lots of gladioli and canna bulbs at his residence on South Railroad Street. Gladioli 25 cts per dot and canna bulbs 5 to 15 cts each. Also listing dairy cows and Red-Polled bulls for sale three miles west of Langworthy.
Water rents are due by May 1 1902 and must be paid within 30 days. R Cartano water superintendent notes Oak Woods Cemetery finances showing cash on hand April 1 1901 receipts from lot sales and payments for labor street materials and tiles leaving a balance on hand April 7 1902. Also mentions T A King guarding at Anamosa penitentiary taking a few days in Monticello. praised for steady work with no prior absence since last May.
English history notes seven queens of England never crowned due to finances or politics. Margaret of France, Henry VIII wives, Henrietta Maria, and Caroline of Brunswick are cited for reasons from expense to religious choices and spousal veto. The Washington Post adds a final jab about Bryan.
In St Kilda Hebrides young men weave hair ropes from beloved girls for cliff swinging. Ropes mix hemp, wool, horsehair and human hair, with lengths up to forty to fifty feet. A collector offered 125 pounds for such a cord covered in red hair from generations of family heads, but the offer was rejected.
Old fashioned cough remedy endorsed by several physicians. Recipe uses gum arabic sugar lemon juice and hot water simmered then bottled for teaspoon doses. Also includes humorous short anecdotes about Pat and a misread love note and a Danish commission arriving in London to study British military bands.
A seller advertises a sack of Cream flour for sale at the Model store.
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