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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1896
Page
7
A miscellany of visitors, sales and ads featuring Mr Spencer Guiles Miss Flo Babcock Mrs H E Harms and others. Local merchants promote low prices on laundry soap butter carpets prints and hats while new delivery wagons and patterns arrive. Also brief social updates about visits sickness travel and upcoming muslin sale at Wils & Deutrick with Epworth League supper plans.
Monticello items record a Lenox student and parents visiting, births of twins, and a busy week of social events. Sturdy roads allow bicycle riding, and town officials plan the annual trustees meeting in April. Local commerce promotes shoes, fabrics, and wedding notices while teachers and clubs engage in instruction and entertainment.
Cascade resident Mrs. Kingsley visits Davenport kin and returns home. Obituaries note Mrs. Andrew A mbuhl and Miss Roxana Morse Lake death, Oxford Junction wreck, and local court witnesses in Maggie Yonker case. Monticello hires marshal and city officials, auctions on Maple street succeed, and local ads for Will & Doutrick goods and Overing Stockwell music catalog.
Local reports recount illness and travels as Mr. Fred Koopig grows very sick and Mrs. Hy Franks travel to Chicago. Dances, weddings, and engagements involve Mr. Leon D. Niles, Miss Nellie Young, Mr. J. W. LaShelle, and Mr. John Matthiessen with Miss Jessie Starks. A criminal case yields $351 verdict against John Jacobs on trotting horse services. X ray photography claims faults in head imaging. Mr. D. I. Goldstone travels to Chicago for a brother’s wedding. auctions set for March 26 at Mul Lady Farm. public meeting on Armenians planned. several tavern gambling concerns facing action. funeral arrangements for Isaac Austin noted with remains to Anamosa and home burial.
The Coughlan couple returns from Iowa City after attending the funeral of Henry I. Coughlan, principal of the Iowa City grammar school and a noted rising educator. His memory is honored as a graduate of the state university and a former visitor to the Monticello area.
A Chicago man named Abel announces he will be at Monticello on Saturday March 28 to buy good shipping horses aged four to ten and weighing 1000 to 1800 pounds. He offers to pay the highest market price and asks sellers to bring their horses to sell.
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