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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1904
Page
7
The column lists numerous local notices and ads. Individuals including Mrs. Fred Matthiessen and Miss Campbell of Chicago are mentioned with illnesses and visits. Several sightings of weeklong trips to St. Louis and Chicago, new cloaks and dress goods, hardware, cider vinegar, and light oil promotions appear, alongside family births and a funeral in Anamosa.
Monticello readers see a long string of notices including hardware ads for Cole's Hot Blast and Monarch ranges, undergarment and fur sales, roadster sales, insurance on haystacks, and village updates. The items mention Burrichter's, Davis' Hardware, Dontrick's, and local residents such as Mr. M W Herrick, Mr. John Tapken, Mrs Noonan, and Fagan Tillie Abts.
Henry Repstein and Charles Schneider are held in the county jail awaiting grand jury action for breaking and entering Milers and Boltons. A warrant is out for Godfrey Bader. Schneider and Repstein waived examination and were bound to the grand jury on bonds of 500 each. Bader fled town after the incident. Also noted are local notices on Mr. E Sarles’s stroke recovery and the death of Mrs. Mary Dunlap, plus a long obituary for Mr. George F. Leclere and a private painting ad insert.
Resolutions from Hall of Root Camp 282 Monticello Iowa dated Oct 26 express sympathy to the family of deceased neighbor Clarence Hearn. They order the resolutions placed on camp records sent to the family published in city papers and in the official organ.
Congressman Cousins will address the people of Anamosa and vicinity on current political issues at the Grand Opera house Tuesday at 8 p.m. It is the only Republican rally in the county seat this campaign. He is a well known speaker expected to draw a full house.
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