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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1896
Page
2
The Monticello Express weekly edition announces pricing and publication details with editor J W Doxsee. Subscription is one dollar seventy five cents per year. The brief notice specifies Thursday release and 1896 date.
A Addison, South Dakota letter from Oct 13, 1896, recounts travel through Monona and Woodbury then Mitchell and Armour areas. The author notes strong McKinley support, intense politics, local businesses, farming yields, and personal notices including deaths, funerals, and political meetings in Center Junction and nearby towns.
Miss Fannie Noyes expected home tonight. Harlo Byerley from Anamosa visits. R. M. Corbit back from Lenox. Des Moines couple visiting daughter Mrs. John Russell Jr. Diphtheria closes Oxford Mills school. John Sokol returns home. Rally at Center Junction praised. mounted club noted. H. C. Willard takes cheese factory from J. C. Fagan. Presh Coburn suffers rib and ankle injuries last week.
Bids will be received for about 80 cards of good second growth split wood sawed as directed and delivered to Scotch Grove township school houses. Contract awarded at Center school house at 2 pm on election day to the lowest responsible bidder. C. M. Hanna, Sec.
Parties requiring orchestral music with harp may apply to W. H. Hoult for engagement with the Monticello Orchestra.
The piece Lavishes imagery of sleep and nature with a motherly tone. It speaks of a child and birds resting under a dimming sky as the garden glows faintly with moonlight and bees dream in blossoms.
A Newfoundland dog named Oscar saves a child from drowning at St Andrews pier after signaling danger with three loud howls and plunging into the water, then returns with the child to safety. The dog later dies by leaping from St Rule's tower, a dramatic sequence recounted by Andrew Lang.
A fragmentary clippings page references Ajax and a trolley car in days past, a Washington Star note about slelectricity and safety, a recipe for a cologne using bergamot lemon orange lavender neroli and alcohol, and quips about US and Canada patent rules, royal household ranks, death and birth in verse, plus a misunderstood American slang exchange illustrated by a Chicago Post snippet.
An old catalog item listing 800 bushels of rye 60 tons of timothy hay and various farm tools and stock, plus a sales note about nursery stock and gold standard pricing. An advertisement promotes Dr King s New Discovery for coughs colds and lung ailments with trial bottles and priced sizes.
Legal advertisement announces juror drawing in Jones County Iowa on a Tuesday in October 18% at 9 a m at the County Auditor's office. 24 Petit Jurors to serve for the December Term beginning December 7 1806 with signatories H S Richardson J B McQueen Miles Cook County Recorder.
By virtue of a special execution from the District Court of Jones County Iowa I will sell the real estate of Walter Glenn on Oct 24 1896 at 10 a.m. at the courthouse steps Anamosa. The property is the NW quarter of the NE quarter of the SW quarter in section 11 township 85 range 2 W. Bids cash to the highest bidder. Dated Anamosa Aug 8 1896 Sheriff P O Babcock and attorney J W Doxise.
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