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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1898
Page
6
Local grocery ad touts low prices on sorghum sardines flour coffee tea potatoes and maple syrup. Claims of best stock groceries in town with produce taken in exchange at market value and emphasize cleaned line of soaps and savings per gallon or per sack.
The Free Methodist church schedules services on Sunday July 24 with Sunday school at 10 o clock morning class meeting at 11 o clock and evening preaching at 8 o clock. A weekly prayer meeting is held Fridays at unspecified p m.
Fragmentary OCR yields scattered figures and codes such as 1.90 1.68 18 180 2.88 186 340 3.20 and 430 200 1a, with unclear context or entities. The readable bits suggest a financial ledger style listing, but lacking sufficient names, dates, or events to form a concrete news item.
You can stay over at the Omaha Exposition and visit our Irrigated Farm and Fruit Lands. Ditches are built and in operation, we offer free water rights and free road tare to land purchasers. 60 acres enough for 500 cattle or 100 sheep. Call for prices and grain samples. Seal Agent Kauuvurr Iowa.
County Attorney urges publication of Section 1562 of the Code of 1397 as amended detailing that road supervisors must serve written notices to landowners to destroy canada thistle within ten days, with county funds paying if not complied, and taxes levied on lands where destruction occurs. Also cites the 27th General Assembly Acts mandating landowners outside towns to cut weeds by August, with enforcement by road supervisors at a three day notice and costs billed to property owners. Includes notice that the county attorney has requested public distribution for awareness.
Notice announces the Last Will and Testament of WW D Clapp deceased will be proved on October 4 1808 at the Jasper County District Court Iowa. Clerk J A Matters and deputy Gro V Pimples listed. Also includes unrelated ads on skin remedies and travel tickets for the Nickel Plate Road excursion from Chicago to Boston with return by Sept 16.
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