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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1928
Page
6
Gay Delano seeks escape from city life and rests in a seaside cottage. Auntalmiry packs, plans meals, and discusses local groceries while Gay unpacks, explores the upper floors, and contemplates a peaceful, solitary week. The fading afternoon yields to midnight, lighthouse beams, and a cautious, eerie calm.
Gay Delane, orphaned at seventeen, uses insurance funds and grit to study stenography and paint. She supports herself with Burnham and Morey, then pursues ambitious art while planning retirement or travel, balancing love, independence, and the lure of a dramatic island life.
Gay discovers a dead man on the Little Club beach after rescuing a cane and a corpse from the rocky shore. She flags the Captain, describing the haunting scene as villagers react to the mysterious visitor from the sea.
A long draft Iowa road bond measure outlines funding for an expansive primary road system. It details bond amounts not exceeding four percent interest, issuance as serial bonds, and mandatory state taxes to cover interest and principal. It specifies use of funds for road construction and maintenance across counties, with oversight by the executive council and state treasurer.
A fragment linked to Charles I is claimed to have sat in Westminster Hall during his trial and now resides in the Victorian Albert Museum South Kensington. An official notes the piece has notable historical associations and may be authentic, though questions remain.
A fragmentary inscription at Capt Town references Captain Blythe and a maritime mail system. It describes letters to be delivered by pressing ships, with open roadside boxes for posting and collection by local posts, a scheme not previously recorded.
A terse aphorism notes that no injury rivals harm from a malicious tongue, attributed to Sir P and Sidney. The line emphasizes verbal hurt over physical offense and frames speech as a sharp weapon in conflict.
Fragmentary OCR reads contact note for Dr George Albery offering veterinary and dental services in Sturgeon with phone and hospital directions. Most details unclear and require verification.
Frank L. Story, an auctioneer based in Iowa, specializes in farm sales and pedigreed stock. He also handles real estate and merchandise sales. Contact by writing or calling for dates at the listed phone number in Onawa, Iowa.
An advertorial note urges readers to seek expert truss fitting services in Dubuque at Hartwir Drug Cel Perfect Ht. It promotes abdominal supporters elastic hosiery and Dearing apparatus with a promise of guaranteed comfort and reduced rupture progression.
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