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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1904
Page
8
Local notices list events and ads from Maquoketa area including Brinton moving pictures January 14 15 and 16 and sales at Hilers Bolton E H Johnson Co and W F Rohn. Also notes births visits and travel of residents with brief community items and farm sale details.
Local items note Rudolph Nordman visiting Arlington and Jay the Grocer selling bulk coffees and fabrics. Court actions include Naomi Holacreva's district court motions and Naomi Holacreva case notes appealing to the supreme court. Monticello Bank stockholders reelect board and approve six percent semi annual dividend. A jail sentence follows for Will McDougal after a duck theft tale tied to a humorous exchange.
Mrs. W F Groesbeck visits family in Monticello while Dr Mirick and Mr Cobb attend local events. The canning factory plan gains funds as the Business Men's club spearheads stock subscriptions. Rev Warner receives welcome at Eldora Congregational Church. Joseph Rieger and Sarah Young wed with church guests in attendance. A Marion Register note discusses Farley branch rail service and passenger shifts. Lowell State Bank posts a seven percent dividend and new surplus. Brinton Entertainment to bring new acts to the opera house. Monticello Lodge No 117 I O O F installs officers and hosts a social with oysters.
Mr. B C Mackrill mails a subscription note from Platte South Dakota praising the area as rich soil a corn belt region with high yields including 40 bushels of corn per acre 22 bushels of wheat and 40 bushels of barley per acre He notes a flour mill local expansion cattle feed and anticipated migration from Jones county plus inviting visitors.
I offer my brick house and four lots at the corner of Chestnut and Fourth streets for sale on easy terms. The house has eleven rooms and is heated by furnace. Everything is in good repair. 14th W. A. Overing.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railway offers round trip excursion tickets to Cedar Rapids on January 14 15 and 16 with return by January 18 at one fare and a third. Agent A I Jackson announces the Poultry Fanciers Association event.
Round trip Monticello to Portland intercity rail excursion offered at 25 85 dollars with travel on January 7 and 9 and return validity through January 31. For details, contact the depot.
The undersigned offers twenty sows in pig for sale at the Tucker farm four and a half miles southwest of Monticello by Wm Tuetken.
Record shows no Iba milk received or cream processed. Butter made 16 508 pounds. Average milk test 4 20 and cream test 27.75. Average price per unit listed as 826 with R N Brown as secretary.
The passage muses on loose ends in fiction. It cites Pip and Miss Havisham, Crawford’s Taquisary, Piper and the oneeyed servant, and other motifs. It suggests Dickens and others left threads unexplained, inviting deeper study of dropped threads.
The narrator, with scouts and Indigenous guides, describes a remarkable rifle bullet path. The ball enters the left elbow, splinters the decoration, travels through the brisket, fractures the right humerus, bends at right angles through ribs, breaks the left femur, exits the leg and dislocates the left hock joint, hanging by a string of hide.
The article notes Ostrea virginica as the sole eastern oyster species, with western coast oysters limited and less valuable. It explains differences arise from food supply and growth conditions, and states oysters are rich in phosphates but lack fat and muscle-building material, making them inferior to cod, haddock, and mackerel as main foods.
The fish editor of the Courrier doe Tientsin rouses readers with a tale of a 36 foot giant caught near Tangku Peitang. Report claims the carcass was sold in villages and that 300 people died after eating it with many more ill. The Shanghai Times questions the credibility of the sea serpent tale.
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