Apr 1907 Events Highlight Monticello Life and Death
Twenty years ago April records show high school commencements with student orations, local marriages such as Miss Fannie Allen to John E. Shanke, and deaths including Levi Berlin and Patrick Kehoe. The article notes notable residents’ movements, births, and a severe April blizzard that year.
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The
Express
Fannie Allen
Henry Shipman
Mason City
John E. Shanke
Chicago
Monticello
Fred J. Hyde
McIntire
Boston
Mass
Simpson, McIntire & Co
State University
Libbie George
John and
Mary Pond
Catherine Lovell
Iowa State College
Lyle Hicks
Drake University
Catherine Ambuehl
Lenox College
Eva Brazelton
Gedar Rapids Business College
Margaret Dautremont
Bayless Business College
Lacey Altman
Iowa College
Clara Noyes
J. C. Price
Manchester
Delaware County
Ross Farm
John EB. Foster
Levi Berlin
Mercer County
Pennsylvania
Sarah Eberhart
Jessie Davidson
Andrew Davidson
Lawrence Gaylord
Tampa
Florida
Ames
Herbert Foster
Jackson
Harvey Richardson
John C. Huntoon
Bowen's Prairie
Balster
Marion
J. H. Bacher
Sycamore Street
Jay Fryburger
South Dakota
Fryberger
P. D. Bell
J. J. Hayes
Tama City
Edgar Hubbard
Excelsior Springs
Hubbard
Wayne Township
Mary Eliza Carpenter
M. L. Carpenter
Monticello State Bank
St. Augustine
Harriet Coughlan
Nellie Carpenter
Carpenter
Griffin
East Haddam
Connecticut
Charles G. Moses
Scotch Grove Township
J. A. Voorhees
W. H. Proctor
W. G. Ellers
Wills & Coutrick
J.S. Hall
Bacher & Abel
C. H. Schipman
H. C. Bohlken
A. Kempf
R. Coultherd
W. A. Mirick
M. W. Herrick
Household Hints From The Pantry And Workshop
A white cement is made by sifting whiting into soft dough with white or egg for wall holes and ceiling cracks. A furniture polish blends sweet oil chloroform and alcohol, shaken then rubbed on and warmed to shine. Sprinkle borax on smells under sinks and around plumbing. Grapefruit first course ideas include halved fruits filled with sugar and chili with cherries, or pulp served with cocoanut, with variations using orange pulp and red green grapes.
Howe: Woman’s neglect and charity work condemned
The remark targets a woman who neglects her home yet engages in charity and uplift efforts, asserting she has gone to hell in a larger way. The controversial stance reflects social norms and moral judgments of the period.
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Id. Howe
Among the Churches Reformed Church Services in German
The Reformed Church schedules Sunday school at 9 30 a m with German services at 10 30 a m including the Lord s Supper and a home missions offering. Good Friday 7 30 p m German worship. Sunday confessional 10 15 a m and Sunday school 9 46 a m. Faster services with Holy Communion and Christ the Lord is Risen Again by St Matthew choir. Announcements for communion Friday afternoon or evening. All Sunday services conducted in German.
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H. L. Adix
Johann Rosenmueller
St. Matthew's Choir
Rieland Center Presbyterian Church Easter Services
Henry Marks and Leonard Duckett lead Easter week services at Rieland Center Presbyterian Church with Good Friday and Master Sunday schedules. Easter Sunday features 10 am Sunday school 11 am Communion and 1 pm Morning worship on The Risen Christ. Cantata Love Triumphant to be sung by the choir on Sunday evening.
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Galbraith
Snowmobile Chevrolet Aids Snowbound Travel In Michigan
Charles Surrell of M. Surrell & Son Chevrolet dealers in Newberry Michigan built a novel snowmobile using a Chevrolet motor and chassis. The front skis attach to the axle and steering knuckles while the rear uses tandem wheels with a tractor belt drive for snow traction. The vehicle handles 30 inch snow depths and helps tow stranded cars, with all alterations done at the Surrell service station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Surrell
Surrell
Chevrolet
M. Surrell and Son
Chevrolet Motor
Middle West fading balance in 1928 GOP race
The agricultural states of the middle west lack decisive influence in selecting the Republican presidential candidate for 1928. They do not hold real power, and any chosen middle western man would be favored for appealing to the East rather than from their own region.
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Sioux City
Middle West
Ford
Edsel Ford
Wall Street
Ford Motor Company
Crest of resentments over McNary-Haugen veto debated
The Sioux City Journal contends the wave of resentment after the veto will peak at the next national Republican convention though others disagree. The piece also touches on a bird house design, dairy feeding practices, milk-house construction, and a skeptical note about Noah from Boston Transcript.
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Council Bluffs
Sioux City Journal
Answers to Questions on Page 1
Answers list which names Matthiessen Auto & Supply Company F O Ellison J T Moffitt L Anderson A B Clark and more. The page identifies individuals including Clarence Blanchard Fred Jackson Leo Bartlett Geo Stuhler's Sons Con Joe Reiger Dr C G Thomas and BE C Ricklefs.
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Matthiessen Auto & Supply Company
F. O. Ellison
J. T. Moffitt
L. Anderson
A. B. Clark
Clarence Blanchard
Fred Jackson
Leo Bartlett
Geo. Stuhler
Send Borah to Nicaragua
A collage of editorials mocks William Borah and his possible Nicaragua mission. Davenport Times urges gladness for Borah training Idaho while fighting. others critique platforms blaming parents for youth issues. Bluffs Nonpareil calls him a starter, not a finisher. Sioux City Journal jokes about a large wife and penury of support.
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Davenport
Idaho
Nicaragua
F. SF
Borah
Counel
City Journal
Los Angeles
If Human Beings Had 98 Percent Good Genes Like Cows
The speaker argues that humans lack natural guidance in childrearing comparing to cows with calves. They claim cows allow self-reliance at the right time and critique sentimental, showy displays of possessions as hindering sensible housekeeping and wasting energy.
This Democrat on Farm Bill Veto Fumes at Al Smith Prospect
A Democrat ridicules the farm bill veto claiming it will propel Al Smith to the presidency. The remark underscores partisan chatter and frustration with policy debates.
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Des Moines Register
al Smith
Democratic Problems and Public Life Notes
A collage of quotes and observations on modern women at social tables and a capitol visit with a child observer. It notes advertising as a force for dairies and milk education. The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald comments on the liquor issue dividing the GOP while Democrats remain split.
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Dubuque
For Sale Poultry and Farm Produce Listings Combined
Multiple agricultural notices offer Single Comb White Minorcas hatching eggs priced at 6 per 100 from Wm Plueger, Leghorn hatching eggs from Woodlawn Poultry Farm Prairieburg Iowa at 5 per 100 with discount on 500 lots, Russian green oats seeds at 50 55 cents per unit from BH Dike Contd Faneion, Modern six room house for sale in Iowa with 100 or 120 foot frontage and private details, rodleam ing seed crop price 36 per bushel from Wilcox Sons Monticello Iowa, eggs year round from Wilcox s Brown Leghorns at 4 per 100 eggs and 14 per 100 baby chicks, contact details provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Whith
Woodlawn
Prairieburg
Iowa
BH. J. Dike
Faneion
Rodleaming Seed Corp
Wilcox & Sons
Monticello
Wilcox
Everlay Farm
Admission of will and testament in Jones County Iowa
Notice from the District Court of Jones County Iowa dated March A D 1927 concerns the admission of a will and testament. The document cites judges and clerks including Bine M forth Deputy and attorneys Doxses & Doxaee for the estate.
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of Jones Co
Iowa
Doxses
Doxaee
Yattorneya
City in the Rain and The Silver Flute Ballad
A verse pairing describes a city in the rain shimmering with light and magic and then follows a narrator guided by a silver flute and golden bell to a quiet hill where a lone tree speaks of a hidden silver flute and golden bell that the dull town has never heard. The two poems appear in The New York Sun and New York Times collections.
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Spain
Berton Braley
New York Sun
U's
Barbara Young
N.Y
Ines
Also Mentioned on This Page
Reformed Church
R. P. Kuentzel
St. Matthew's Ev
Presbyterian Church
Leonard Duckett
Methodist Episcopal Church
United States Department of Agriculture
Lawn
Cowtesting Association
Burt Oderkirk
Town State College
Boston ‘Transcript
American Mercury
Noah
Marshalltown
Abe
Ames Abe
Boston Transcript
Washington
J. Ll. Weber & Sons
Cascade, Towa
J. J. Locher
Harry, Soule
Plueger
T.B
McNeill Bros
Hopkinton
Ernest Wahl
Ben C. Roberts
R. C
Jerman Terren
Herman Herren
Garret Bartels
J. LeRoy Farmer Canning Company
A. G. Bohiken
Dodge Bros
Schoon
Hutton
Walker
Wyoming
Perris S. C
S. C. D. Brown
Ryan
F. H. Otten
Scotch Grove
Ger Behnken
Onslow
John Null
Henry Bartels
C. A. Coxsee
Tom Barron
S. C
Charles Rice
Anticello
S. C Judy
Jefferson
Hopkinton Rendering Co
DR. A. M. Maurice
Lowell
Dr. Hoffman
Palmer
Said
Chamberlain
Kash
Karry
Grocery
H. W. Skelley
Prop
PSZ Aeris Ae
McCormick Deering
Rock Island
Great Western
Hayes
Center Street
Kathryn Young
Fred Shover
J. W. Coxsee
J. G. Nichols
Steiner
A. W. Steiner
Lou Ehrisman
John
Delscher
Albert Smith
Ranfman Bree
W. A. Suthers
Teeter
Monticello, Iowa
Monticello Motor Co
Kuppenheimer
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