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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1896
Page
6
Readable listings show Crockery Glassware Cutlery Lamp Goods Clocks Watches Jewelry and Silverware prompted as available items. The fragment suggests a catalog or sale description likely from a department shop or auction page.
Waterloo visits, new stamped goods at Sumter's, wool overshirts at Goldstone Bros, and fresh fall patterns at Shipman's. Mrs. S. J. Hubbard visits from South Dakota. Whittemore family returns to Nebraska. Rev. Miller and Rev. Waite visit Davenport district. 58 teachers to Dubuque meeting, Linn county leads with 123. Baby born last Monday. Knabe piano for sale. fall clothes, yarns, blankets, and sales at multiple stores. Local church notes. election coming. Daily Iowa Capital subscription info.
Local notices from Monticello cover visits by Mr. Dave Goldstone and others, church and temperance activities, high school football plans against Anamosa, new dress goods at Wills and Doatrick, and a broad mix of sales, personal milestones, and public notices. Strong mentions include Hicks & Eilers, Waite families, W.T.U. events, Drybread and Appleby case, and Tur Express ballot details.
Jones county auditor Harvey S Richardson visited Mon ticello on Tuesday. He reports his wife Mrs Richardson remains in Iowa City hospital after a recent surgical operation and is not improving as quickly as hoped.
Various Monticello notices report: a son’s mental condition case before the commissioners, a public rebuke of B F Montgomery, registration pressure, church installation plans, a drowning death of William Kinney of Cascade, price notices for the Practical Tailor System, Monticello Electric Co. gains, a supreme court reversal in In Re Estate of James M. Peet, Great Cloak Day sales, Frank Palmer talk plans, wedding of William R Weir to Jessie Davidson, dress cutting class term changes, infant death of Floyd Brazelton, and a funeral at Oakwoods cemetery with a note on Christian greeting.
The McKinley Flambeau Club members deny mutilating a political cartoon or bulletin board. They defend their stance as loyal supporters of McKinley and plan an indignation meeting to seek a retraction. Adam Reichart of Sand Spring lost the end of a finger operating an engine last week.
Local notes report Nellie Jerrard visiting family in St Paul and thanks for illness care. Plans for a Monticello rally on October 80 with a torchlight parade, speeches by R G Cousins and B T Sallinger, free supper, and strong turnout urged. Also ads for cloaks at Sumter’s and cloak sale at William Dournick’s.
B F Montgomery from Colorado spoke at the opera house last Thursday to a fair crowd. He argued against economy and class prejudice though the audience remained largely unmoved. Montgomery earlier practiced law with Judge Scott at Council Bluffs before moving to Colorado and joining a larger wave of discontent.
A political rally headlines state speakers including Japan and Judge E P Srups with a possible Democrat speaker to be announced next Saturday. Afternoon processions form by township to the fair grounds with hillside or floral hall speaking. Evening torch parades, bands, and fireworks close the day at Monticello venues. A free supper for visitors is planned in the Altman building for 200.
Minnie Murray known as the Woman in White spoke to a full Monticello opera house crowd about social inequality. Judge Caldwell and W G W Geiger joined her appearance while Bob Cousins looms in local political wins, and surgeons Cummings and Mirick report a pelvic abscess operation successful.
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