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 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1946
Page
7
Holiday guidance from Iowa State College suggests fruit cake and cookies travel well with honey or molasses as sugar substitutes. Instructions cover moistening, baking adjustments, and packing for gift-ship, plus tips for cakes, puddings, and cookies and safe use of candles during celebrations.
Iowa State College extension clothing specialist Lucille Rea notes Christmas gift sewing can be rewarding with well made practical items. She recommends fully finished seams on aprons, bias tape for decoration, and materials like glazed chintz plastic and taffeta. Plastic aprons suit homemakers. care in hemming ties is advised.
Cantaloupes do not tolerate frost and thrive at high temperatures with low humidity to promote netting and solid flesh. Sunlight boosts flavor and sugar. late ripening links to lower temperatures, early ripening to higher ones. A daily 2500 degree accumulation above 50 F is needed, typically from May 20 to June 10.
Holiday safety tips from Naomi Shank of Iowa State College emphasize inspecting Christmas tree lights for function and avoiding extension cords. Install a convenient outlet near the tree, test electric candles and wreaths, store decorations away from extreme temperatures, keep a flashlight nearby, and have sand water and a fire extinguisher ready with exits well lit.
Real estate transfers include Harry L Mellish and Martha V to Raymond and Lillian Batcheller with deed for part of original Oxford Junction lot and block. Kathryn Noonan to Urban S and Jane Anne Green as joint tenants for two lots in West Cascade Hills addition. Remaining details list homeowners Anna Folkerts Husmann and Henry Stadtmueller with spouses, and Hattie Folkerts Stadtmueller with Henry, but text incomplete.
Documents show Henry J. and Margaret Rickless transfer of Lots 5 6 7 block 1 and vacated second street portion in Scotch Grove to themselves. Kitty Sutherland sells Nz lot 4 Turcks addition Monticello to John B. and Wilma McNeilly. Dean Campbell sells to Guy Bonwell with a love deed. Oak street boundaries define a parcel in Monticello irreg war plat. Dean Campbell to Oliver and Leah Smith. W deed. Ethel H Peet and W A Ruehlman executors to Rose Ernst executors deed 1682 50. Undivided one half interest in specific parcels described. Rose Ernst to Glen and Lucinda Oliphant joint tenants. Tonie Brukner to Donald M and Tillie Catherine Mulvihill joint tenants. Lot 8 block 8 original town Oxford Junction Iowa.
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.