Monticello Holds Third Municipal Christmas Tree
The Monticello Improvement Club placed a 160 lighted tree at the post office corner topped by a lit star. A Friday 2:30 PM program for Monticello and nearby children features a band concert, girls glee club, and Santa delivering presents.
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Monticello
Improvement Club
Lestus Kubas
Scotch Grove
H. M. Carpenter Jr
Monticello High School
Santa
St. Nick
Feeding the boy diet advice from National Food Magazine
The growing boy needs every kind of food with emphasis on proteins from non meat sources and ample carbohydrates. Milk eggs cheese beans and peas provide nitrogenous foods while bread and butter and sugar satisfy energy needs. The boy’s instincts guide him to an all round diet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Food Magazine
J. E. Barnard
Hastings Diamond Bribery Tale Leaves Caricature Trace
A 1786 levee gift of a large diamond to George III amid Hastings impeachment rumors sparked caricatures in print shops. Images mocked Hastings pressing the king toward sale, and the king presented as The Greatest Stone Eater. A separate note advises iodine for cuts and injuries.
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Hastings
England
George III
Nizam
Deccan
India
Warren Hastings
London
Manapolis
Beds in Colonial Days and the Rise of the Settee
A Salem 1690 inventory lists beds including one great oaken bed and six camblett bed curtains. The settee linked settle and sofa and blended imported and domestic crafts, copying Renaissance design from Italy to France to England, with Dutch settlers unfamiliar with the piece.
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Salem
Italy
France
England
New England
The Hurdy Gurdy Through European History
The early hurdy gurdy originated in Germany in the ninth century under the name bauren leger and spread across Europe. It featured a violin frame with three to six strings and a wooden wheel driven by a crank, producing music with limited player control and typically used at fetes before being eclipsed by the band organ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Europe
Savoy
Pittsburgh Times
Notice to Vacate Highway in Lovell Township Jones County
County auditor posts notice of vacation of a highway between sections nine and sixteen in Lovell township Iowa and plan to establish a replacement road from the north line of sections sixteen and fifteen running south to the Monticello and Hopkinton road near the cemetery. Landowners KR Cartino Ed Eilers and W P Connery consent to the change and will provide land and waive damages. Objections or claims for damages must be filed by noon March 1 19 WF in the auditor's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovell Township
Jones County
Iowa
Monticello and
Hopkinton
Hopkinton Road
KR. Cartino
Ed Eilers
W.P. Connery
HINES
Administrator's Notice of Estate Claim Filing 1916
The District Court of Jones County Iowa appoints an administrator for the estate of John Stephens deceased. Creditors must file sworn claims with the Clerk within legal time to be allowed or proved. Debtors should pay promptly to avoid costs. Dated Anamosa Iowa December 9 1916.
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District Court
Jones County
State of
Iowa
Bernhard Andreas Ejben Kehrends
Anamosa
Jaws
A. D
Iowua
John Stephens
Early Cold Storage in History and Myth
In Macaulay’s essay on Lord Bacon he cites 1626 trials of stuffing a fowl with snow to delay putrefaction, a cold exposure that killed the subject though the letter praised the method. The piece notes Siberian mammoths preserved in ice and hints Romans valued global dainties, suggesting early knowledge of coin storage.
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Macaulay
Lord Bacon
Siberia
First undersea destroyer sinks enemy ship in 1914
The E-9 of the British navy became the first submarine to sink a hostile warship without sinking itself when it blew up the German cruiser Hela in Helgoland Bight in September 1914.
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Hela
Helgoland Bight
Notice of Probate of Will in Jones County Iowa
The Iowa District Court in Jones County published a notice that A L Fairbanks died leaving a will and codicil. A final probate hearing is set for December 28 1918 at the November term with all interested parties invited to appear and contest admission. Clerk G A Fisher signed the notice on December 13 1916.
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State OF
Lowa
Jones County
A. D
A. L. Fairbanks
G. A. Fisher
Iowa
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First and
North Cedar Streets
H. M. Reaoins
James Remley
Reley & Remley
Anamasa
Maxin Street
Kaaterly Hotel
DR. M. F. Hogan
Dentist Oak
Dr. A. Hefner
Stickford Drug Store
Foster Clothing Co
Hicks & Ricklefs
Merry Christmas
J. W. Doxsee
Chas. A. Douxsee
Doxsee
Doxsee Attorneys AT Law
Lovell Block
Fred Pulgevon
Fidelity
Chamberlain’s
Kettlitz & Kay
Theodore Behrends
CU. B. Paul
Doug
W. L. Brown
A. W. Brown
Robert W. Henderson
Cecil W. Hosford
Robert Henderson
Jones Co
A.M. Fairbanks
Coxsee
O. B. Rundle
G. P. Rockstad
Santa Claus
Skelley
Varitey Store
Oliver
Pritt Cuerbrese
Oliver Typewriter Company
Oliver Typewriter Bldg
Chicago
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