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Newspaper
Moulton Tribune
Location
Moulton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1900
Page
7
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The Tribune notes a wintery sky and a big line of novelties for presents at Mace's with Edwards Bros sending out three cars of hogs. A mild winter prophet appears in Southern Iowa. Bazaar offers holiday gifts for December 12, 13, and 14. Fact Guild visits Mrs. N. C. Guinn for a birthday surprise with a playful taffy gathering. Lecture Bureau season tickets now at Berry’s drug store. Subscribers urged to call for seats.
The paper notes hay and straw trade at Wood and Smoke Rice's Agent Godgar at the post office newsstand. A large coal-train spectacle on Monday. Local mischief and jokes. Fay Richardson plans to move closer to Moulton and away from Sedan after purchasing 120 acres for $6000. A new church, opera house, Woodmen hall, and Rock Island arrival promise growth. Virginia Mercer of Salem Ohio to give a reading December 18 at the High School, tickets 15 and 25 cents. Daniel M Cox patents a hay and stock rack for wagons. Young Floyd Horn dies after a farm engine accident near Ottumwa. funeral at Stober Springs cemetery.
Local ads advertise underwear at King's and eyewear at Mace's with promises of value. Shippers report cattle and sheep moving to Chicago, while J Q O Marshall of Ohio is named president of Lake Michigan and Southern railway. Upcoming events include Dec 18 high school, Dec 21 Patricolo club, Mar 21 lectures by John R. Clark and Col T. L. Copeland. Wolbert's Hall to be renovated with new scenery and B. A. Thorp to manage.
Special sale lasting 10 days at King's promises big bargains as Mace y expects a substantial Christmas trade from the large volume of goods arriving for the event.
Moulton business firms promote a brisk Christmas season with special sale remnants of dress goods and fine silverware. The Moulton Business Men's Club seeks a wider field of customers as shoppers are urged to sit for Christmas pictures. A candy purchase at Cafe Davis earns a drawing number for a goat-skin box, while oil cloth and other holiday goods appear at local merchants. A Hot Springs telegram reports improved health for Sell Holbert who visited for his health.
G IL Baglio launches a fresh meat shop in the first room near the Tribune office asking for share of trade. Holiday sales promote low prices on plain gold rings, Wammar Paint at $1.25 per gallon, and absolutely pure linseed oil paint offering minimal wear for low cost.
A fragmentary clipping presents Whitcomb Riley lines about a silent beloved and a dying kiss, followed by a list of Yeomen elected officers from a recent meeting. Then entries note a fare list and local business ads including art studio negatives and a clothing/racket line with prices.
Centerville Journal notes Mr. Bryan is about 40, arguing 60 is still youthful for a president. It mentions party reorganization could erase the Nebraska voice in the process.
The Shimble Bees meet at Mrs Hestir’s next Friday afternoon and the Golden Tinks meet with Mrs G R Tolbert next Saturday evening. Rev Dungan will speak before the Christian District convention at Mystic next Thursday. Baptist revival closes, many accessions reported. Evangelist Benjamin S Hill of California leads Christian church meetings next Sunday. Rev Tr J Marshall of Ironton preaches at Presbyterian church next Sunday and again on December 16. All invited.
J I Swann sells embalming and undertaker services and offers night calls by wire from Davis restaurant Tobias livery or Berry's drug store. Special sale at Shipman's City Meat Market advertises best calivote juicy beefsteak. News mentions marriages of Moulton couple M A Meant and Mrs J M Beerer and William Price to Hattie Dunbright in Mystic. esquire G A Bryan officiated.
An advertisement offers free sample bottles of Boschee's German Syrup to any adult with a cold or throat and lung trouble who visits W. H. Berry. One bottle per person, none to children without parental order. Also notes past wide giveaways and physician endorsements, plus sale details.
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