Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-06-26
FORTY YEARS AGO.
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Conductor j. j. Budd Has in His
4 Possession a Very Old Courier,
WAS PUBLISHED By ]. ". NORRIS.

Contains Advertisements or Many Old
/ Time Merchants and Professional
Men as Well ms That orn
Grave digger.
Conductor j. j. Budd, OF the Bur-
slington system, has in his possession
a Weekly Courier that has attained
the respectable age of forty years ana
bears date of June 81, 1860. 1t is a
four page publication of seven columns
each and was owned and edited by
y. w. Norris who states that the office
is in the third story of the Pumloy
block. So far as red hot news is con
cerned the Courier at that time is net
to be mentioned with the Courier OF
today. On the local page there is ac-
|tually but one item of news and that
relates to the death by drowning OF
young man named Reeves at tn,
mouth Of Sugar Creek, jus. below the
city. The first page of the paper has
contributed article on temperance
one column ins length and alongside it
are hints on etiquette together with
q religious article concerning Moham-
mechanism and Catholicism and still
Eanother concerning a shower of met
eors in Ohio. The editorial page at
tacks a paper called the Union in an
article headed BENJAMIN Against
Douglas" in which the bred Scott
decision, the Missouri compromise and
the Kansas and Nebraska bill are FREE
lquently mentioned in a manner that
would indicate that it was red hot
stuff. The national democratic CON
Ivention at Baltimore and the congress
sional convention at Oskaioosa are
given much space, which shows that
politics absorbed the attention of the
| people to a great extent, and which
is accounted for by the fact that the
slavery question was approaching that
point where it would separate friends
and divide families. The poper contains
laS good line of advertising.
Il Houses in Burlington and Chicago
are represented and one OF the princi-
pal commodities seems to have been
Yankee notions. j. Loomis & Co., To-
cal merchants, announce that for the
past four weeks we have been receiving
our spring and summer stock of staple
and fancy dry goods, groceries, boots,
shoes, hats. caps, bonnets, hosiery and
Yankee notions, which VIC will sell a..
wholesale or retail at the lowest possi-
bic price" The saint Louis Cheap
Millinery Store, on Fourth Street, in
The Bigham Building" has an ADVERTISE
ment in which ssMrs. artin, formerly
of st. Louis. would inform the ladies'
of Ottumwa and surrounding country
that she has brought Gin an entire
new stock of spring bonnets, all of the
latest styles worn in the east, which
she will sell at prices to suit the times.
Ladies are invited to call and examine
her assortment and not listen to the
fools statement of interested parties.
Fashionable dress making. Bonnets
bleached to look as good ae new, and
trimmed for GO cents"
Hedrick & Gillespie advertise gro
ceries, dry goods, boots and shoes as
low as they can be bought in Burling-
ton or Keolluk. They also state that
they will pay the highest price for
deerskins, bees, wax and rags.
Lawrence e Chambers announce the
second arrival of new goods and quote
10 bar hoop skirts, worth ST at Is
cents, ais another lot of brilliant
ines at ~ cents per yard
The last page of the paper has seven
solid columns of advertisements and
William Malone seizes the occasion to
announce that he is grave digger and
has a hearse and team. Milburn & Co.
call the attention of the farmers to the
fact that they will grind wheat for
the one-eighth or at fixed price of
12iA cents per bushel, which is "a low
er toll than any other mill in Wapello
county, the usual toll being one-sixth.
| Shades of Caeser! Here is plough
maker that wants to shoe all the oxen
| in Wapello county. Aaron Myers mo-
destly announces that 'the subscribe
Ter (n1eaning himself) respectfully in
forms his friends and the public gen
erally that he manufactures all kinds
of plows and is prepared to supply the
farmers of Wapello county with an ar
ticle unsurpassed in material and
workmanship. Blacksmithing, horse
shoeing, OK shoeingN and jobbing of all
kinds. Remember the place, the lower
steam mill. Aaron Myers"
P. W.Somers states that he is a man
lufacturer of and a wholesale and retail
dealer in hats, caps and furs, and will
sell hats and caps by the case or dozen
lat New York prices. He also states
that he irons hats and dresses them
over and that his work is warranted
to please.
The professional cards of Dixon &
Stiles, j. w. Norris, Williams & Hamil-
ton and A. w. CASTOR appear in which
they offer their services to litigants
while DR.. w. T.. Orr tenders his pro.
fessional services to the citizens of OF
|tumwa and vicinity for medical care
He adyertises a colleague by stating
that his CDR. Orr's) office and residence
lis on Second street, nearly opposite DR.
4 Woods"
4 Ottumwa seems to have had two no
( tells. '.The Ottumwa House, late Buck
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