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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1882
Page
4
A dense catalogue of late 19th century shop notices shows Rigby’s oysters daily at preferred prices, Wills Doutrick and Rosa offering fabrics, panties, tea, candy and trimmings. Frank Adams and Gardner Wright advertise flour, tea, groceries, and oils while Tryon and Schodde push boots, caps, firearms, and merchantry. House moving and Minn esota flour supply highlighted with guaranteed durability and value.
Proprietor Jon N. Ginson offers a Monticello brickyard with all tools moulding machinery and buildings ready to run twenty years quality brick. Reports large home trade and outside town supply. business can be bought on reasonable terms. Also notice for G G Schaeffer Co debt collection and closing.
Community notices report sermons at Obi and Kinsella Hall and a Presbyterian event with refreshments. Local ads advertise wheat for sale at Monticello Mill, foxing to Low Jennings, and clothing, millinery, harness goods, and wool blankets. The Clayton County Fair is praised for its agricultural display and stock, with wedding and party notices, a run away carriage incident, and a reprinted Hureka newspaper celebration. The Bradstreet homestead in Monticello is offered for sale on reasonable terms.
The excerpt records a legal separation for S. Y. Bradstreet and wife granted by Judge Hedges, pursuing an easy route to end a troubled marriage. It also notes community sympathy, and a quirky editorial stance on damages for a kiss. The piece reports on Dakota sod-corn, crops in Boulder and Jones counties, and local sickness with multiple child deaths from illness.
Local notices list Hon. Farwell and Hon. John Russell guests of Major Farwell from Saturday to Monday. W. H. Waugh visits his sister in Key Stung Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Stillman travel to Geneseo and Liles returning next week. Various relatives and locals update travel, visits, and health.
The couple wed quietly and left for a bridal tour to Milwaukee and other points. Carey, ambitious and skilled in business, weds Miss Ida Kidd of Monticello. The bride, daughter of William White, is praised for poise and generosity. The article also lists wedding gifts and notes further local nuptials and notices.
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