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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
6
In a dim parlor Tod confesses to Phillipa a long guarded memory of a girl in blue who captivated him eight years ago. The pair drift from memory to present plans as Phillipa urges truth and Tod realizes the girl survived in spirit and love. They light a lamp and brace for family reaction.
Major Hamilton cites Southern Historical Papers on furlough rules. Dalgetty asks for leave after his grandmother’s death but dies of a leg wound days later, joking that he sought thirty days’ leave with no death in the family.
An eight story tenement scene unfolds as a fire captain climbs eight flights with his crew seeking a blaze. An old woman on the top floor reveals there is no fire and simply could not hear the men shouting below. The tale closes with a humorous quip about the bugler’s ignorance of the fire alarm call.
London Daily review extols French family life praising frank communal dining and happy children. It mentions boys adoring mothers and girls loving fathers with parents taking delight in their offspring. The piece frames French family as a source of national pride.
Dubuque witnessed a saloonless Christmas with a clear police docket next morning and seven prisoners arraigned for intoxication on December 26, 1906. Marion Register and Canadian officials traveled to Anatooia to take depositions in the Minnie Turner murder case.
The article notes J. Lyane C. J. Northrop H. M. Voorhees and Dr. M. Hl. Teeter buying Texas lands via J. A. Voorhees in 1906 BE and reselling for profit. Dr Teeter held land until offered over 10 dollars per acre after buying at 15 and selling at 30. It mentions a January 7 1908 Texas land excursion by Ben I Tanner Land Company of Cedar Rapids Iowa with rail access and town site, inviting inquiries for plots. Also included are short notes on Barred Plymouth Rock cockerels farm rent near Onslow and two anecdotes about Thackeray and Two Ways of Love.
A humorous dialogue shows Mrs Musique and Mr Flisteen debating Brahms and fancy dishes. Mr Flisteen dislikes Brahms and admits indigestion from upscale meals, reflecting light local humor in the Cleveland Leader column.
For sale short horn bull eligible for registry JER stock hogs barred Plymouth Rock Wyandott and brown leghorn roosters also Duroc Jersey boars and gilts located Route 27 Cascade Iowa 2001 G H Egger John. The text includes stray dialogue about tea and a brief newspaper opinion on Taft and a boomlet.
A string of testimonials praises Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs colds throat and lung issues. W Y Henry of Panama MO claims seven years of proof and warns of pneumonia prevention. Ads also tout Hollister’s Rocky Mountain Tea and Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with prices and trial offers.
During a recent Boston stay L T Cooper attracted an estimated sixty five thousand visitors and purchasers, averaging over two thousand per day, with his stomach remedy praised as correcting digestion and overall health. Frank D Brown of Chelsea cites dramatic relief after one bottle, claiming elimination of back pain headaches dizziness and digestive ills. The notice closes advertising Cooper medicines with universal satisfaction claims.
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