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A partial OCR text fragment mentions numbers such as 800 and 15 in relation to an event. The readable content is sparse and lacks clear names dates places or organizations to anchor a fuller summary.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1881
Page
4
A partial OCR text fragment mentions numbers such as 800 and 15 in relation to an event. The readable content is sparse and lacks clear names dates places or organizations to anchor a fuller summary.
Local stores advertise Christmas gifts fashionably with books jewelry sewing machines and candy. Oysters apples celery and fresh groceries appear at Gardner Wrights and Will Deutrick. Daniel Cruces opera show at Thompson’s store, plus Thornes and Bachers promote coats skirts and boots. Warmer items such as kerosene oil printed for ten cents and gun repairs offered by W M Preston.
Long list of shop offerings across Lon's Cummings Thompson Bucher Wills Deutrick Gardner Wright and others. Toys dry goods candy nuts fruits and clothing featured with sales and special items. Local church and school events noted with cantata at Opera House and preacher H A Kerr starting at the Disciple church.
The Monticello store of Wills & Deitrick boasts an extensive selection of fancy dry goods and laces, praised for superior quality and artful display. Readers are urged to visit for fashionable gloves, ribbons, zephyrs, and related items, with courteous service highlighted.
The piece extols the Brady Herald as a bright regional paper with Chicago ties and ample news, and notes wedding invitations for Miss Ida and Herbert Scott in Seward Nebraska. It recounts a humorous Castle Grove misadventure where James Leonard and Pat McVlahe incurred fines after a street incident with Mr. Pippin, ending in a court action and costs.
Miss Haoma Ballack of Racing Wisconsin arrived this morning as guest of Mrs Sartes and daughters and Brad Van Vieit's family for a few days then plans to establish housekeeping. Miss Belle Brown of Chicago stays with Miss Clara Wales noted elocutionist who gave a famed public reading in Monticello a year ago.
Professor Wishblate and Prof Mahblatt aim to open a Monticello visit on Thursday December twenty with intent to establish a Cedar Rapids branch. They seek a suitable building as local institutions overflow. Citizens suggest the old Brown building. the move would aid Cedar Rapids and address widespread deformities and hip diseases.
The New York Tribune is praised as a trusted authority in politics commerce and literature. It is said to carry Horace Greeley's mantle with fearless advocacy for the rights of people and property. The paper is noted for bold editorials high literary content and a strong metropolitan standing and European reputation.
Tas announces a busy new store opposite the post office. The firm, led by Mr. Lewd, will stock the best white flour and foreign laure products, promise absolute purity, and offer home delivery across town with a dedicated wagon and prompt service.
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