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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1906
Page
8
A Chicago family camps on Skedger river land and faces escalating charges from the landlord. Skedger invoices for worms, milk, eggs, rabbits, drift wood, and even a deer snake incident, claiming riparian rights and labor. Tension grows as the Chriswallers dispute prices versus value and convenience.
San Francisco records list 85 Japanese hotels, 60 restaurants, 16 intelligence offices, nine shooting galleries, 11 billiard rooms and 75 house-cleaning offices. Many more cobblers, butchers, janitors, porters and domestic servants operate unlicensed.
A discreet advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald invites owners of old love letters to contact a literary enthusiast willing to buy or borrow such correspondence. No names are requested, only the letters themselves.
Snaps in Land. Fine improved 820 acre farm with artesian well near a good town in Hutchinson county 8 D at a bargain. Nice quarter section near Miller Hand county 8 D for sale cheap if taken soon. Excellent bargains in Lyman Stanley Brule and Charles Mix counties S D Good relinquishments for sale. Write to Arduser Land Co Kenne bec Lyman county 8 D 52tt
Promote Colorado travel with low rates on the St Paul Union Pacific line. Through train service and routes are highlighted. Contact F A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, for rates and schedules or request the Colorado-California book by mail for six cents postage.
From Chicago the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway advertises excursion fares to Canadian and New England points with a 30 day limit or 15 day limit option. Tickets on sale via Nickel Plate Road from Chicago with details available through John Y. Calatian at 107 Adams Street. Also promotes an illustrated 32 page booklet on Excelsior Springs medicinal waters hotels and train service available for four cents postage.
Burtis McCarn, grandson of Judge and Mrs D. McCarn, just graduated from Hyde Park High School and won a four year Yale scholarship worth 600 dollars yearly. He was also offered a Chicago University scholarship. In Janes county jail, Josephine Wilson, 38, inmate, appeared before insanity commissioners after a parole bid failed. She was sent from Oskaloosa to serve five years starting November 5, 1904. She showed increasing insanity since July 1 and attempted drowning in a water fountain. Main street paving prompts a likely lawsuit as property owners challenge paying for intersections. Council plans to tax property owners at intersections. they hired an attorney and threaten to contest the tax if not funded from the general fund.
Clifford B. Paul is touted as a strong candidate for representative from Jones county. At a Friday meeting officers were elected and Harvest Home plans set, with August 22 chosen for the annual event. Miles McDonald, owner of the Dickey farm near Hazel Green, is noted as a prosperous farmer. since June 16 he sold 77 hogs to A Hogan of Hopkinton for 1193.21 dollars. The article also rails at Dr Powers for prequarantine vaccination reversals, suggesting experts can be mistaken.
Mr. and Mrs. M. McLaughlin of Monticello hosted Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sherman yesterday. Last Saturday John Humpall burned his right foot at the factory when molten iron spilled onto his shoe. A. A. Myrick traveled to Gilbertsville for his brother Charles’s 80th birthday with C. T. Myrick and Dr. A. KE. Myrick in Chicago. J. P. Anderson, Buffalo Mills owner, installed a fishway at his dam costing 100 dollars, now used by Fish Commissioner Lincoln. illegal stone throwing and fishing near the fishway are noted within 300 feet.
A satirical list of emergency rules for fires and other dangers. Advice ranges from never precedeing a lady down a fire escape to leaping from a window and turning left during a fire. It mocks public safety guidance and ends noting authorities differ on being trampled or burned.
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway publishes a new descriptive book on South Dakota detailing resources and opportunities. The first chapter covers Lyman County and the region west of the Missouri river now served by rail extensions. Copies mailed for two cents postage.
A letter from Mrs. Mary Brown praises Dr. Kings New Life Pills for stomach and liver benefits. Toledo Blade notes Wizard Burbank's stingless bee claim and jokes about a kick less mule. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea is advertised by O H Soetje. Philadelphia Ledger critiques Delaware politicians for calling each other liars amid calls for novelty.
Mrs Jennie Duncason of Haynesville Maine at 70 credits Electric Bitters with curing 20 years of Chronic Dyspepsia restoring strength. The tonic reputedly treats stomach liver blood and general debility and is sold at O H Soetjes drug store for 50c. Chicago News notes Upton Sinclair plans a congressional run.
J. W. Coulter of Leslie S D relates his relief from a long cough and lung troubles after trying Dr King s New Discovery. He calls it a permanent cure and notes bottles are guaranteed at O H Soetje s drug store with trial bottles free.
Nickel Plate Road offers round trip fare of 14 dollars from Chicago with return by August 28. Three daily trains with vestibuled sleeping cars and meals priced from 35 cents to one dollar. Chicago ticket offices listed. additional ad includes a Kansas City farm for sale and a Topeka Capital remark on Ethel Roosevelt.
Nickel Plate Road offers summer tourist fares with two round trip options. One fare plus four dollars yields a thirty day limit, with August 8 and 22 sale dates. A lesser one fare plus two dollars applies to a fifteen day limit. For sleeping car berth reservations contact General Agent John Y. Calahan at 107 Adams St., Chicago.
In Cedar Rapids the Alamo amusement park near the White City in Chicago is open every evening and Wed Sat Sun afternoons. Admission is 10 cents. Vaudeville and musical acts, shaded picnic grounds, and night lighting are highlighted. Also includes health ads for Kodol and Rocky Mountain Tea products.
An Illinois testimonial promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a cure for cuts wounds burns and skin eruptions. Another ad extols Kodol for Dyspepsia claiming it digests food improves digestion and sweetens breath, with local pharmacist C H Soetje selling both products.
Notice of probate for James S. Applegate filed July 24 1906 in Jones County Iowa District Court. Final probate hearing set for September term 1906 with all interested parties invited to appear and show cause. Clerk J H Ramsey signs. J W Doxson attorney for the estate.
Property comprising 1980 acres in Lovell Township offered at 87.50 per acre with 5000 dollars cash payment and balance to be paid over time.
An old advertisement from St. Paul dated June 3 1908 promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as the secret to good health and long life. It credits O H Soetje as the seller and mentions the price of 35 cents.
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