28 Aug 1884
Page 1
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 12 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1884
Page
1
The notice lists Merrick and Doxler as editors and proprietors with Thursday publication. It mentions subscription terms per year and extra postage for out of county subscribers.
Correspondence from Pranneburg recalling 98 years since arriving in Iowa via New York and Dubuque. The writer visits Monticello, Cascade, and nearby spots, notes posts, stores, and butter prices, mentions a dime sociable raising funds for church, and comments on presidential fates and a lively baseball season.
Local items note Miss Emma Snyder's trip to Dubuque before returning home to Mt Ayer. Rev Wm Attchison receives a church vacation and visits St Paul with his sister Mrs McKinley. Chicago visitor A Barrett joins Mr and Mrs Reddin. Miss Amanda Babbe visits from Monticello. Skating rink thrives despite church opposition. a candle tournament is to be held Wednesday with a prize for blowing out the most candles. Toray.
Wm Robertson and wife from Glasgow Scotland visit relatives near here. Geo Chase left for Woodbury county to work as a carpenter. Mrs H Crosby also went to that county where husband and sons farm. Lydia Gilbert visits sister near Cushing Iowa. Snyder Horton and wife from Graham County Kansas visit relatives here. Jessie and Tillie Jordan from Minneapolis Minnesota spend a day in town. Hattie Blakely of Oxford Junction spent last week with the Organ family.
Robert Felton limps from a sprained ankle but expects to return to work soon. Mrs. Mary Stewart of Moline Illinois visits sister Mrs. J A Paul. Blanche and Bertha Sekol spent last week in Monmouth. Rev Charlie to preach at M E church next Sunday evening. T H Lightfoot reports a sick baby. ANON.
Local notes report J B Ross ill, M Kelly leaving town for the West, and Manley praised for long friendship. A preaching date is corrected to the 24th. Miss Hucker visited sister Mrs Brown last week. Fryin a DutchMan appears in the text.
Local notes include W Booth to Philadelphia to renew teaching duties at the deaf and dumb institution. Reports on a foot injury to Louis Burch, visits by Mr. McDaniels from Chicago, and social like Mrs. J L Crawford of Maine. A Cleveland and Hendricks club forms with 121 members. Anamosa Journal changes hands to former owner C H Monger. White becomes part of Hureka. A torchlight Blaine and Logan club march. Editorial critique urges Governor Cleveland to decline candidacy and calls for a new ticket to unite the party and protect the republic.
The New York Independent reports Dr. Kinsley Twining’s finding of personal impurity allegations against Grover Cleveland. The Independents of Buffalo vow to oppose him, repudiating past favorable editorials and urging readers to recognize the changed moral stance and potential disgrace of nominating Cleveland.
Edward Shepherd of Harrisburg Illinois recounts eight years with a running leg sore. Doctors warned bone scraping or amputation, but after three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes Bucklin's Arnica Salve his leg healed. Sold by J H Bacher & Co for fifty cents a bottle and one dollar per box.
Excommunications and education notes appear as glimpses from 1880s periodicals, including Rev. John Jasper in Richmond and a St. Louis school girl tackling complex fractions. Other items cover church fund-raising in New York, university hats in Texas, philanthropy by W. W. Corcoran, Bible distribution in the East, and New Haven teacher rules.
A mélange of wry lines and quips appears from three papers. Josh Lillings notes the devil’s offers to the industrious, while Detroit Post compares yarn length to feelings toward kin. Burlington Hawkeye jokes about a passenger sprint for a departing train as a Parrot gup fires a shot.
A Chicago Tribune piece notes the poet’s anvil and hammer line but counters that many men are only bellows. It jokes about a polite woman avoiding mirrors and contrasts American and English romance tastes with humor about an American plumber in English matchmaking.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.