15 Apr 1875
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Newspaper
Toledo Chronicle
Location
Toledo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1875
Page
1
A column of 1875 Tama County notices advertising a four room rental, plus many items from Toledo area merchants. Includes calls for houses to rent, piano for sale, millinery stock, agricultural implements, and seeds. Also announces marriages, church services, money to loan, Grange meetings, and farm equipment promotions.
Notices outline mortgage lending in sums from 100 000 to 500 and up with real estate security at a nominal rate. J R McClaskey advertises at Tama County Abstract Office Toledo Iowa. Kellogg Poweshiek County hosts a large stock sale with participants G H Goodrich and W H Harrison Jr attending. Book store ad promises publishers rates on books and stationery. Des Moines based Towa Loan and Trust Co offers farm loans 300 to 10000 via Yerser and Sterrett Toledo Iowa. U B Sunday School organized with officers including C J Kephart and W H Harrison Jr. N J Welling showcases dry goods and groceries at reduced rates in a moved store room.
Notice announces proposals for building a School House in Sub-District No 6 York Township Tama Co Iowa due by 1 pm on the first Monday in May. Bid to the lowest responsible bidder. Specifications available at the office of the responsible official half a mile west of Redim dated Irving March.
The Star Planter is advertised as superior and warrantied with Tama county agent G. W. Sweat. Local items report additions to Frank Pierce’s room, store improvements by L Mathews, Dr. Wm. H. Bane’s barn project, Alfred Helm’s Nevada visit, and a busy Chelsea Chelsea Indiantown area with shipments, trades, and calls for trades. A Sauk City style spell contest, courthouse match, and social events refresh town life with prizes and lively commentary.
A Chicago citizen recalls an eccentric forest journey with a well informed backwoods companion and extols the Encyclopaedia Britannica now in its ninth edition. The piece urges timber planting to protect soil, promote windbreaks, and boost farm profits, urging readers to request seedling catalogs and plant thousands of trees this spring.
Page shows a chaotic list of land parcels and transfers in Tama County with names like David Flatter, E Hancox, Dana Stones, and J H Jennings, plus scattered broker notes. It references a schedule for the week ending April 13 and mentions a publisher advertisement for A J Bicknell & Co of New York promoting architecture books and an illustrated catalogue.
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