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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1896
Page
4
Detailed ledger style report covers compensation and expenses for supervisors stewards inmates and car fares. Includes school fund receipts and disbursements, auditor fees, county office costs, taxes remissions, jail repairs, lot purchases, and district court fee tallies with adjourned session notes.
Receipts and disbursements listed for the April session include payments to nursing and poor relief, graves digging, wood for the poor, livery, coffin and coffin for Co farm, meals for tramps, rent for Mrs. Taylor, and various supplies for the jail and court house. Entries name individuals and firms such as Sarto, Monticello Bank, Parson, Parsons, Mrs. Chapman, and J L Sheean, with amounts ranging from a few cents to several dollars.
Mr G Caillouette a BeaVersville Illinois druggist credits Dr King s New Discovery with saving his life after la grippe left him near death. He details trying many physicians before using three bottles from his store and recovering fully. Free trial offered at J H Bacher Co drug store. Also notes unclaimed Monticello Iowa post office letters listed including Davis Dwight Frenthardt Egger Hasler John Jessup Set Jones A A Kath Miss Viola Matsell S J Price C N L T Alexander P M.
Springfield Ohio May 9 1892 Mrs Jud son Boynton says Dr Hand Teething Lotion relieves gum pain and swelling and is harmless as an external application. The product sold by druggists for 25 cents. Also note a market report that fried shrimps and grasshoppers are sold in Mexican markets cooked whole and eaten.
An advertisement promotes Electric Bitters as a universal headache cure and relief for habitual headaches and constipation by toning the bowels. It touts a permanent cure and urges trials, noting large bottles cost a few cents at J. H. Bucher & Co's drug store, alongside a note about the artesian well at Lillers, France flowing for 749 years.
Drugstore ad offers Dr Hand’s Colic Cure at 25 cents per bottle claiming immediate relief from wind and soothing sleep for distressed babies. Teething Lotion also 25 cents to ease teething pain. Also promotes universal salve for cuts and skin eruptions with guarantee of satisfaction or money back. Sold by J H Bacher & Co.
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