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Newspaper
Monticello Herald
Location
Monticello, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1920
Page
8
Public sale to commence at ten o clock in the morning includes the following property as described in the notice. The listing outlines items to be offered at auction and identifies the authority issuing the sale for public disposal.
A sale listing describes 35 cattle items. Jerseys include several bred cows and heifers with milk flow. Shorthorns offer fresh cows, heifers, wearling bull, steer calves, and heavy springers. Red Polls and black cows appear with calved or springer status. ages range from 2 to 16.
About 380 head of hogs listed including six sows bred to registered bloodlines, all due around April 1. The lot comprises 4 Poland China sows bred to boars, 7 sows bred to bear, 75 to 80 pound shoats, plus a Poland China boar and a registered O I C boar.
Auction listing describes multiple items in good to first class condition including McCormick binder seower, corn planter with fertilizer, Case sulky plows, John Deere discs, harrow, wagon, harness, cream separator, household furniture, and 100 pure bred Buff Orpington chickens with geese and a gander.
Terms of sale listed for Timothy May include cash discounts and credit options. Purchases under ten dollars cash, over ten dollars 9 month credit with bankable note bearing 6 percent interest from due date if paid when due. If paid on time 8 percent from date. 2 percent discount for cash when credit is available. No property may be removed until all terms are met. Ladies of Norway Church will serve lunch.
A 1920 auction notice for a public sale details horses cattle implements and farm equipment to be sold Wednesday February 1 starting at 10 a m. The listing names specific animals livestock and gear including mares horses cows colts plows mowers seeders wagons and more with terms of sale and a lunch by the Ladies Aid Pike Creek Church.
A Red Cross letter outlines key provisions of the Sweet Bill affecting War Risk Insurance. It covers longer family allowances, broadened terms of parenthood, higher disability rates up to 100 dollars monthly, retroactive increases, broader draftee coverage, guardianship changes, lump sum insurance payments, extended beneficiary relations, and the assignment of death benefits to executors. Starr Cadwallader, Director of Civilian Relief in Cleveland, signs the letter.
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