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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1897
Page
4
The fragment lists Farwell as President and H M Carpenter as Cashier with Richardson as Assistant Cashier and a Vice President P.M. Uk s indicates positions in an unidentified PMU organization.
An advertisement promoting S.S.S. as a blood remedy to cure catarrh by reaching the disease at its source. It cites a testimonial from B. P. McAllister of Harrodsburg KY praising the product after failures with surface sprays and washes. The copy claims S.S.S. also cures rheumatism contagious blood poison eczema cancer and other blood diseases and offers free books.
Senator John H Gear presents a decadel by decade accounting of Iowa state expenditures from 1846 to 1897, detailing costs for state institutions public improvements and other purposes. He argues the figures refute Popocratic allegations of mismanagement and notes surges in building and inmate support costs tied to growth and policy shifts.
The Monticello board met in regular session approving last meeting minutes and issuing salaries for teachers under the Teachers' Fund. Bonds for treasurer H M Carpenter and secretary R P Smith were accepted. Also listed: farm for rent near Lamont Iowa and an 1897 post office letter list. The Cedar Rapids Carnival excursion tickets offered by the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line.
Numerous property exchanges and transfers recorded in Jones and surrounding counties listing grantors and grantees such as O F Felton Peter Young W Long A Miller and John W Smith with parcels in Clay Madison Richland Washington Rome and Cascade plus Monticello Anamosa and Martelle. Also notes on warrants drawn by city clerk J F Percina for September 1897 and a cautionary cough remedy advertisement.
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