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Newspaper

Monticello Express

Location

Monticello, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 03, 1902

Page

3

Victory in Resurrection This Easter Sermon by Dr Talmage

A 1902 Easter sermon argues death is entrance to fuller life. Dr. Tal mage cites Cor 15 54, compares death to a defeated foe, and envisions a resurrection body joined with the soul in a glorified heaven. He recounts historical Easter customs and uses vivid imagery to affirm eternal victory over death.

Louis Klopsch Washington Dr. Talmage France Charles IX Tower of London Edward I Russia Pontius Gaul Rome Achaia Gratous Christendom Paul Sedan Napoleon Manassas Beth Horan Heaven Joshua Diarnal House Continents Christ Great Azalia Calla Lily Culloden Balaklava Blenheim Meagiddo Solferino Marathon Poitiers Charles Martel Salamis Themistocles Melrose Abbey Kenilworth Castle William Tennent Archibald Alexander Will Tennent Carpenter Mason Holy Land Giant’s Causeway Mr. Moffatt Earth

Iowa Woman Claims Bigamy Exposes Nelson Case

Mrs Dorothy Harvey of Des Moines says she is among 13 alleged Nelson wives. Christian C Nelson is jailed in St Joseph Me on bigamy charges. Harvey says he married her last year and promised a wealthy future at a eastern stock farm. She sold her home worth 3000 dollars for half that to aid him and vanished with the money.

Dorothy Harvey Des Moines Christian C. Nelson St. Joseph Nelson Tie

Despondent Grinnell Nurse Fatally Shoots Self

Miss Kate Lawrance of Grinnell and formerly a nurse at Cook County Hospital Chicago shot herself in bed with a rifle. She became ill in Chicago during her hospital stay and ended her life, possibly using her feet to discharge the weapon.

Kate Lawrence Grinnell Cook County Hospital Chicago

Donor Endows Coun cil Bluffs Christian Home With 25000

A former Towan now living in an eastern city leaves 25000 to the Christian home in Council Bluffs. The home founded 25 years ago cares for about 300 children. The donor's identity is not disclosed.

Council Bluffs Christian Home Towan

Boy Killed by Shot Put Incident in Clinton Park

An eight year old boy Tiugh Callahan died after a 12 pound shot struck him in the head during a practice in Clinton Park. The incident involved a high school football captain who misthrew during training. The skull fracture proved fatal within minutes.

Clinton

Burlington Attorney W J Foxe Found Dead in Keokuk Park

W J Foxe once a prominent Burlington attorney was found dead in Rand park band stand Keokuk. An ounce bottle containing prussic acid about one fourth full lay beside the body indicating self inflicted death. Recently he acted as agent for a Burlington piano house but lacked success.

W. J. Foxe Burlington Rand Park Keokuk

Reverend Chilson Leaves Iowa Mission for Africa

Rev. Arthur Chilson, a prominent Friends minister from Iowa, has departed for eastern Africa to establish a Friends church mission in the state of Iowa near Lake Victoria Nyanza.

Arthur Chilson Friends Denomination Towa Midora Africa Friends’ Church Lake Victor Nyanza

Called to Washington Executive Appointments From Iowa Town

Four or five residents of the town received positions in the federal government in Washington. Robert Clayton of Oskaloosa will resign as Sixth district Republican state central committee member to serve in the treasury department. W. S. Richards, former pardon secretary under Governor Shaw and private secretary to Gov. Jackson, will join the auditor's department. W. S. Beldell of Sioux City and Isabelle Wilson, Shaw's former stenographer, are also slated for treasury posts. Additional offers were extended to P. Clarkson of Des Moines and P. F. W Meyers of Venison, but not accepted.

Charles Robinson Engle Point Dubuque M. Stowell Iowa Funeral Directors’ Association Eleanor Moore Boone L. C. Jacobson Lutheran Theological Seminary Red Wing Minn St. John’s Sioux City Gedney Independence C. W. Williams Axtell Elizabeth Stage Eldora Trent Frederick T. Brainerd United States Navy Los Angeles Cal Davenport O. B. Courtright Waterloo Henderson Joseph Harn Bloomfield O. S. Longfell C. C. Rearick Mary Agnew Dupuque John M. Kemble Muscatine Iowa Ambrose Whitehead Asbury Hospital Asbury Cantril William Huxtable Vinton Henry Rockenfield Chelsea Northwestern Marshalltown Drake University Des Moines Betsy Bailey Maquoketa Charles Overstreet Adel Cov. Shaw the Treasury Washington Robert Clayton Oskaloosa Treasury Department Republican State Central Committee W. 8. Richards Coy. Shaw Gov. Jackson Auditor's Department of the Treasury W. S. Beldell Iowa Equal Suffrage Association Isabelle Wilson Gov. Shaw P. Clarkson PF. W. Meyers Venison Dea Moines, I Friends of the Department Pes Moines Hordicultural Society Khiadl Aneh Farmers’ Institute Department of Agriculture Dea Moines House United States Tis Princed Joga Wala Iowa State Poultry Association State Board of Health Wayk Senate Juedichiry Committee Dil Board of Control Medakuls General Assembly Carter Sioux County

Reformatory Bill Defeated by State Legislature

The Emmert reformatory bill to establish a reform school for convicts at Anamosa and to make Port Madison the state prison of Iowa failed in the legislature. Fourteen amendments sought about 30000 dollars to create an institution modeled on the one near Imira New York, but money and prejudice against spending for convict education and reform doomed the measure.

Emmert Reformatory Anamosa Port Madison Towa Imira N. Y

College seeks $80,000 gift match for new buildings

Des Moines college reports a $40,000 gift offer from Joseph V Twineliman of Glenwood with a $40,000 college and friends pledge required by January 1, 2004 to fund a gymnasium heating and power plant and a main administration building. The Jinnehman gift allocates 25 000 for the gym 10 000 for the plant and 15 000 for equipment. The facef ully will urge statewide support to raise the final 15 000. A Cedar Falls Women’s Relief Corps fund will construct a Greenwood cemetery monument for soldiers with a plot set aside for old soldiers unable to own plots.

Des Moines College Joseph V. Twineliman Glenwood Adams Jinnehman Women’s Relief Corps of Cedar Falls Greenwood Cemetery

Five Generations Family Draws Attention Across State

Betsy Lisk, born April 24 1815 in Otsego County New York, is mother of a five generation family that has attracted considerable attention. She married A T Bevier on September 15 1837 and their union produced the second generation of the lineage.

Tn Schaller Betsy Lisk Otsego County N.Y A. T. Bevier

Grain Dealers Association Holds Annual Meeting

The Grain Dealers' Association of Southwestern Iowa and Northern Missouri met in Conneil Bats and elected officers: President D Thunter Hamburg vice president J T Spangler Walnut secretary and treasurer G A Stebbins Red Oak.

Grain Dealers’ Association of Southwestern Iowa Northern Missouri Conneil Bats D. Thunter Hamburg J. T. Spangler Walnut G. A. Stebbins Red Oak

New Straw Stacker Patented by George Warley Goldfield

George Warley of Goldfield secures a patent for a straw stacker claimed superior to market rivals as it avoids breaking straw into pieces and uses no more power than the old stacker. The Treasury report on leprosy cites 278 U S cases with 176 males and 102 females, 145 American born and 120 foreign born.

George Warley Goldfield Secretary of the Treasury Commission of Medical Officers of the Marine Hospital Service United States

Iowa Senate Tackles Real Estate Transfers and School Reports

Iowa senate daily actions include bills legalizing transfers of real estate via power of attorney, limiting railroad right of way width, and requiring proof of loss for personal property claims. Other measures authorize independent school districts consolidation, diplomas for pedagogy graduates, and funding for monuments.

Des Moines Senate State Board of Educational Examiners Board of Examiners Pex Molnes Tawa Supreme Court Supreme Court Des Maines Cunming Great Northern Dex Moines Lookout Mountain Missionary Ride Shion Commission Shiloh Cummins Dea Moines Mareh Th WF M. Mossberry Nother Railroad US Board of Control

The Lower Orders and Natural History Observations

The text cites a man exhaling 18 900 cubic inches of carbonic acid gas daily and cites Miller and Rehn counting 1 450 North American land mammal species. It notes Bradley proving sparrows eat many seeds and destroy insects, and describes a lethal dog chamber using carbonic acid gas that kills in 40 seconds, versus minutes with old gas methods.

North America West Indies Miller and Rehn Bradley

Religious excitement over predicted second coming of Christ at Tamont

The Church of the Latter Day Saints centered in Lamani awaits Christ with Joseph Smith Jr predicting his coming. Locals in Tamont fervently scan faces for signs while the younger Smith, heir to the founder, leads followers who guard the timing and manner of the appearance. Mor miles and cottaze institutions support adherents amid a scattered populace of converts near the site.

Church of the Latter Day Saints Lamani Church Joseph Smith, Jr Christ Isis Tamont Gamoui Brighnor Young Mor Miles Joseph Smith Nauvoo

Sioux City Man Seeks Refund on Nebraska Farm Purchase

Krejel of Sioux City bought a Nebraska farm from Anne Graves for 515 dollars after misrepresentations about a well watered, cultivated 50 acre tract in Dinno county. The doctor later found dry land with no irrigation and seeks 545 dollars in a district court judgment.

Krejel Sioux City Nebraska Steht Mniseen Diino Couny Neb District Court

Blind Girl Honored in West Knowledge Dept Honors

Miss Linnie Ingnewood, hidden Keller of the west, earned first honors in the knowledge department at an institution in Gary. The state legislature funded $1,000 for her education two years ago. She is 21 and previously attended a blind school and a normal school before years in South Dakota.

Des Moines Linnie Ingnewood Keller West Gary Mish Uupnewood Herowa School For the State Normal School South Dakota

Drainage Contract Awarded In Calhoun County

A drainage project in Calhoun County awards to Interstate Drainage & Investment of Britt. A 52 mile ditch will be built in Win Bakes and Take Treelke townships at about $10 000. Construction from late April aims to finish by year end using machinery. The ditch will be ten feet wide and drain thousands of acres currently too wet for farming.

Calhoun County Win Bakes

Doctor Jackson Fights Tuberculosis in California Plan

Dr. James A. Jackson of Sioux City returns from Philadelphia with tuberculosis contracted while treating consumptive patients at Jefferson Medical College. After examination by Philadelphia physicians his best hope is relocation to southern California, and he is now bound for Los Angeles.

James A. Jackson A. M. Jackson Sioux City Philadelphia Jefferson Medical College California Los Angeles

Farmer patents draft equalizer for tongued vehicles

W. Jovers of Tracy has patented a draft equalizer for tongued vehicles and sold county rights at a good figure. About 25 vehicle factories have written letters wanting to adopt the invention. The idea came from a vehicle house salesman. It is claimed to be the only draft equalizer for tongued vehicles.

Jovers Tracy

Judge Robinson Taxes Stand Still at Sioux City Courthouse

Former Iowa supreme court justice and state board of control member Judge Gifford S. Robinson surprised tax officials by walking into the Sioux City courthouse and insisting on paying taxes on about $10,000 of personal property that had escaped assessment.

Gifford S. Robinson Iowa Supreme Court State Board of Control Sioux City

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