Summer goods sale including dress fabrics and accessories
A perfect cyclone sweep describes a sale of dress goods cloaks dolmans shawls parasols fans white goods hosiery gloves and all classes of summer use items offered for immediate purchase.
17 Jul 1884
Page 1
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1884
Page
1
A perfect cyclone sweep describes a sale of dress goods cloaks dolmans shawls parasols fans white goods hosiery gloves and all classes of summer use items offered for immediate purchase.
In a brief note the writer highlights a grocery department offering items like teas coffees salt fish flour and salt, signaling interest for shoppers. The message closes courteously with Yours Respectfully WHI.
Local notes recount Monticello band debates over pay and meals, Blaine and Logan Club torch plans for campaigns, circus visits, a clothier failure, and town happenings from Anamosa to Prairieburg including theater, church, and post office notices.
A woman reports her daughter improved after using Hood’s Sarsaparilla with reduced distress after meals and elimination of extreme fatigue. She notes a second bottle cured her daughter and asserts no other preparation has such strong vitality and purifying properties.
Two Mormon elders attempting to preach in Montgomery County Indiana were egged by unidentified youths. The incident occurred during a street outreach effort, with no injuries reported and investigators reviewing surveillance footage for leads.
Joseph Carter of Savannah says he bought a fifty cent bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for his mother and it did her more good than any other medicine. The product is sold at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by all druggists.
Abstract of property conveyances shows transfers including Richmond to Bodenhafer parcels in Monticello and Anamosa area, Joseph Shedeck to Catharine Shedeck, Mary Allen to Morris Quaintance, and Crhoknites add to Ol.. various lots and acres noted with prices and neighborhoods such as Monticello Osborne, Castle Grove, Pora’s addition, and Fairview. Names such as Shaw Schoonover & Co, Cronkhites Add, Behrends, Maris, and Lawrence appear among buyers and sellers.
The record notes Senator Bayard with his three sons and nine daughters. It mentions Vanderbilt household expenses allegedly totaling $250000 annually. A Slovin to Moravia is reported as having caused immense crop destruction.
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