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 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1896
Page
3
Local items from Onslow Iowa include visitors from Anamosa Lenox college students home for holidays and family moves. Christmas events in the Presbyterian and M E churches, a marriage at Sokol home, and talk on penitentiary discipline. Anamosa orchestra’s visit and a v4th birthday gift share prominence as town life winds to year end.
Center Junction reports New Year greetings and local updates. Etta Shipley and Allie Vanslyke recover from illness and a foot injury respectively. Notables include Mr. Crans and Mr. Finch visiting. County Auditor Richardson on business. Toba Freeze’s child burned. Lyons celebration and nearby visitors. several lawsuits started but settled. Lyons visiting. Wm Lyons, Delmar Junction school principal, present.
Mrs H N Fordham travels to Missouri for health and several weddings occur including Maggie Wiggins and H W Jeffries on Christmas morning. Paper moves from Onslow to Center Junction. local deaths and charitable deeds noted as residents gather for holidays with a list of visiting neighbors.
Amber reports a newborn daughter to Mr and Mrs James Allen. A Northwestern Co crew builds a bridge north of town Sunday. Preaching at Reformed church next Sunday. Sanford moved into a new house said to be among county’s finest. Mrs James Garnie returns home to Highmore SD after two months with her parents. Charles Belknap sold his farm to Peter Peterson and will auction stock January 19. Belknap plans to travel south. Frank McNeeley and Miss Billa Duncan wed at Anamosa at Christmas. well regarded couple. Florence Lahn, three, dies December 27 from bowel tumor. funeral held at M E church by J N Blodgett.
Local items report John McLees on the sick list and Miss Iben convalescent after illness. A party occurred at Andréw Davidson’s, T H Kenyon to lead the cooperative creamery from January 1. Bertha Harken injured her shoulder, Ira Foreman visits from Monticello. Winter weather includes two inch snowfall and subfreezing temperatures. The Castle Grove literary society drew a crowded audience for a Chicago capital debate with Clark and Laude versus Eiler and Cramer. Everyone is invited to attend.
The text compares France with another country stating 187 people per square mile versus 21 per square mile. It also notes very low temperatures cause snow to absorb moisture and Arctic travelers use this property to dry clothes.
Mrs Amanda Hill Gramling died at her Rochester home after a long period of invalidism and paralysis. Born January 8 1822 in Vermont she married four times and left two daughters Miss R E Moore and Miss E A Gramling. The funeral will move to Clinton Iowa for burial beside her late husband Mr B Gramling with her daughter accompanying.
The passage surveys antique spectacle designs from two-part glasses for distance and reading, clerical counts with reading peeks, crescent lenses, and wafer or ground modifications. It also notes clerical glasses allowing reading while looking over them. Various quotes follow including a 1748 breach of discipline about nose blowing at St James palace.
Grace and Alice chat on the street when Alice asks Grace to be a bridesmaid for her fiancé Jim Berton. Grace, surprised by the sudden engagement, agrees but asks to talk privately away from Jim Berton who she finds irritating.
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.