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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1896
Page
8
Des Moines reports Rep McArthur's bill to create a five member memorial historical and art building commission to locate a Des Moines site for a state historical structure and hold the Iowa semi centennial in Burlington after Sept 1 1896. It notes insurance revenue gains and calls for a separate department.
The Iowa treasurer reports that real and personal property per capita fell from 279.17 in 1885 to 271.60 in 1895, while expenses rose sharply. Total appropriations climbed from 1,932,814.28 to 2,541,318.19, despite a shrinking tax base. Officials named include state printers, wardens, college trustees, and Gov. Drake's new staff with 31 aides-de-camp.
An elderly troublemaker in the Twenty third ward earns the label of pelican after a neighbor gifts her a moth eaten stuffed bird with a placard Youre another The exchange ends with her threatening legal action in the morning reflecting local scolding and fear of newspapers and courts in the Buffalo Express report.
A reader notes the first frost changing leaves with a shower of dark snowflakes and discusses autumn color, chestnuts, and acorns. A cock sparrow misreads the season while his wife stays sensible as nature shifts toward winter. The piece also includes a San Francisco Argonaut aside on sermon plagiarism and a 1895 corn crop yield estimate.
A Chicago Post verse portrays a couple exchanging terms of affection. She questions why love has not been spoken aloud and he tests devotion by noting he has paid all bills, asserting she is dear to him. The dialogue unfolds with a gentle, moral tone.
In Pittsburgh the United States Circuit Court sustained Richardson and De Long Brothers patent for a humped hook and eye and enjoined Golden Spring Hook and Eye Company from selling similar devices. The ruling found no voiding of infringement despite reversed hook positions and directs decree for plaintiffs after a two year case. Represented by Strawbridge Taylor Bradbury Bedell Johnson Fish. defendants by Allan Webster and William Pierce.
The Salters built a seed business in La Crosse Wisconsin into a national leader in seed growing and selling grounded in quality and liberalExtras. Salzer Seed Co. keeps large stock and mails catalogs from La Crosse with over $60,000 in postage yearly and a 800 acre farm in South Dakota drawing visitors.
An illustration shows the Wooden Hen toy with a live hen’s size yet double capacity, weighing a fraction and described as both entertaining and educational. Readers may request a copy of Geo H Stahl’s booklet describing the Wooden Hen and his Model Excelsior Incubator catalogue free by mail.
Burlington Route runs personally conducted excursions to California leaving Chicago every Wednesday. Through cars to California destination with carpets bedding and toilet rooms. Special agent in charge. Route via Denver and Salt Lake. Write for pamphlet to T A Grundy Chicago. Sample dialogue from Boston Courier.
Iowa Senate debates a constitutional amendment for woman suffrage with a majority report urging passage and a minority dissent. The session also reviews age of consent bills, banking reform targeting express companies, and various state statutes updates.
A vintage guide offers face care remedies using borax solutions rose water and benzoin tincture. It covers freckle and wrinkle removal with borax rosewater blends and a bath powder of starch and root, detailing daily use for skin whitening refinement and softness.
An advertisement from Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin extols Salzer's Wisconsin grown seeds as the earliest vegetables in the world claiming peas radishes lettuce cabbage and more are 20 days ahead. It offers a sample package of Early Bird Radish and a catalogue with 10 cents postage.
An old advertisement asserts deafness from catarrh can be cured only by constitutional remedies. It claims nine in ten cases are caused by catarrh and offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Seld for circulars, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Family Pills promotion noted along with stray chatter from Texas Siftings.
In Yankton County South Dakota at least a thousand farmers have risen from poverty to prosperity. They started with sod houses and little livestock and now own fine homes barns horses cattle hogs sheep and fruit orchards with cash in hand. County farmers thrive not just from climate but from fertile soil and favorable conditions, and a pamphlet on settlement in South Dakota is available from W B Powell Chicago for interested migrants.
On February 11 and March 10 tickets from northern cities to all points on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Florida and part of Kentucky are offered at a single round trip fare. Tickets are valid for thirty days return with a $2 payment at destination and allow stopovers on the southbound trip. Inquiries go to C P Atmore Louisville or J K Ridgely Chicago.
The Monon Route announces spring sale on March 8 offering reduced Chicago to Southern destinations with listed fares such as Abbeville 15.80, Decatur 10.05, Chatta nooga 10.75, Jacksonville 18.10, New Orleans 17.05, Tampa 21.00, Mobile 16.05, and all other points at proportional rates. Contact L E Bossions or City Ticket Office, Chicago.
Transport notices announce land seekers excursions on February 11 and March 10 1896 from northern and northwest points over the Big Four Route to the South with tickets at one fare plus two dollars. Tickets valid thirty days return. Descriptive pamphlet and cards offered by J C Tucwma AG Big Four Route at 234 Clark Street Chicago. Also Florida Limited on Queen and Crescent Route departs Cincinnati at 8 am reaching Jacksonville next day.
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claiming its benefits for kidneys preventing Bright's disease diabetes dropsy gravel and other ailments. It also asserts relief from malaria dyspepsia bilious and rheumatic complaints. The text includes unrelated dialogue about a man named Honpeck and his wife.
James A. Horne appears in a long engagement in February at MoeVicker s Theater Chicano and will again stage the comedy drama Shore Acres. Harnatn land excursions South March 10 via Queen & Crescent Route cost 8.00 to 5.00 per acte written by W C Kinnar son G P A Cincinnati for information.
A Chicago Schiller Theater notice promotes Hanlon's Fantasma on February 16 with glowing quotes. Also advertised are remedies Browning’s Bronchial Traches and Piso’s Cure for Rheumatism, plus a travel tease for Queen & Crescent Route sleeping car lines to Morddu.
Knowledge Brings comfort and improvement and tends to poronal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy life more, with less expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Puy of Tigs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial properties of perfect lax ative, effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevera and permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it nets on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without weake ning them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug gists in 60c and $1 bottles, but it is man ufactured by the California Pig Syrup Co. only, whose name is printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Viga and being well informed, you will no accept any substitute if offered.
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