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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1902
Page
8
Dr M N Scarborough of Hebron Ohio credits Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds with restoring his voice after two years of illness and a severe cough. He reports rapid relief after trying the remedy, offered at 50c and 1.00 with free trial bottles. The ad notes the grave marker for Solomon P Chase in Cincinnati.
A fragment notes Electric Bitters curing malaria and preventing typhoid with a testimonial from John Charleston of Byesville Ohio. It also claims Pope Leo is likely legatee in more wills than any living person with 700 wills naming him and $600000 in legacies last year.
The ad proclaims De Witt’s Little Early Risers cure biliousness and constipation with testimonials from M. B. Smith of Butternut Michigan praising the pills as most satisfactory and non nauseating. It also notes Leopoldo Batres, archaeologist, exhuming a Zapotec city in Oaxaca Mexico.
Center Junction updates report J J Davis visiting an Andover brother and Mrs C E Mills improving. Dreibelbis family moves to a Canton area farm. James Carson and Julia Quigley wed in Monticello on April 15, Carson noted as well known locally. Over twenty residents joined a Clinton excursion for K L G P Lodge funds, with lively entertainment and return by early Saturday.
Carrie Hanna moves to Anamosa Iowa while Nettie Page visits Princeton Illinois. George Benton buys J J Helmer's stake in Cass creamery. Tom Day dies of paralysis. five children survive. John Smith dies of scarlet fever as other children recover. David Smith suffers a quinsy attack.
Onstow reports Smith Miller moving to Center Junction. Underwood and Forsythe drill the town well. Mutual Telephone reaches town with poles. Presbyterian ladies host supper in opera house Saturday. Des Moines’ Russell Dockstader visiting. Anna Klima improving and attending church. Hon. John Russell ill but improving. M. M. Franks paints Silsbee house and tears down old barns. Null adds milk sterilizing apparatus to creamery. Seventeen year locusts predicted for spring. N B Noyes buys old drug store building for store and post office. Mrs Bertha McMullen and daughters visiting from Chicago, plan Buffalo trip and future home. Mr McMullen in life insurance. Mr H Orr and Mrs John Dennison return from Chicago after surgical operation. Mrs Orr recovering well.
Dr Calkins drives a new pair of prancing steeds through our streets. Mrs T R Marshall receives a pension of eight dollars monthly. Wyoming Telephone Co contracts with Jones County for exchanges. Several residents visit, mourners attend a funeral in Storm Lake, and memorial talks planned for May 30. Other items include a firm dissolution, visits from Center Junction, and various illnesses and injuries among residents.
The Jones County Teachers Association announces its next meeting to be held at Center Junction on Saturday May 3 1902. The program planned for February will be used with teachers urged to prepare lively presented topics and to come with notes to participate actively. The notice lists morning and afternoon discussion topics and speakers with emphasis on engaging, practical presentations.
Local notices include excursion tickets for I O O F Cedar Rapids celebration on April 25 from Monticello with 1:30 p.m. parades and $1.25 round trip. Also listed are a rubber tire machine ad, opera house bids, house and land sales, water rents due, cattle for sale, sidewalk repairs, and a federation travel promo to Los Angeles with detailed rail options.
A four year ulcer on J. B. Orner of Franklin Grove Illinois yielded to Bucklen's Amica Salve. The ad touts it for boils burns bruises cuts corns scalds eruptions and piles and notes it available at O H Soetje's drug store. Also mentions Josiah Lynn, once wealthy and a Jay Gould associate, being moved to the poor house from Washington New Jersey amid ongoing trouble in the mule camp.
A newspaper inquiry asks readers if anyone used Green's August Flower for indigestion and stomach liver issues and reports on outcomes. The ad promises a free book and urges trying one bottle, signed G G Green Woodbury NJ, followed by a Galveston News remark on New York Sabbath dry versus wet politics.
Long testimonial from Smith D. Hinman president of Mercantile Fire Ins Co Chicago praising Bailey's Laxative Tablets as best for constipation. Ad notes 20 tablets per 10 count pack and 25 count packages GO, chocolate coated, with patient at night relief. Lakeside Med Co Chicago produces. Bacher Abel sells. Missouri response to Roosevelt quote noted.
Cures for coughs and colds sell as safe quick fixes with claims of instant relief. Testimonials from C C Dawson and Edward Mehler endorse One Minute Cough Cure and Kodol Dyspepsia Cure, with druggist O H Soetje as retailer. A Washington Post note hints at an Uncle Tom's Cabin story tied to slave trade in the Sulus.
An advertisement extols De Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve as a universal remedy for sores burns bruises and skin diseases with claims of quick healing and relief for piles. A testimonial from A S Fuller English Indiana credits a gunshot wound with curing after trying the product. The ad notes sale by O H Soetje and warns against counterfeits. A side remark from the Boston Herald discusses oleomargarine and potential legislative action.
Millions applaud the remedy as a miracle cure for stomach liver and bowel troubles including dyspepsia loss of appetite jaundice fever and malaria. At least 250 items are claimed to be sold at O H Soetje's drug store.
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