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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1906
Page
1
The piece surveys Democratic infighting over Cummins, Peet, and Stirton with references to Missouri lynching, county officials, and a proposed tuberculosis hospital. It notes editorials, court decisions on divorces, railroad prejudice, and factional splits in Jones county Democrats ahead of upcoming elections.
A. Matthiessen declares candidacy for sheriff subject to Republican county convention action. He currently serves on the board of supervisors and has spent most of his life in Jones county. He served two terms as Monticello mayor and has strong local political connections.
The April McClures article by Dr. Woods Hutchinson criticizes restricted hygiene diets and defends slow digestion foods and pork noting bacon helped many dyspepsia cases. It contrasts his views with Roosevelt’s push for a national inheritance tax as a check on vast fortunes.
Last Friday evening the high school seniors faced an audience in place of the usual commencement oration. The young speakers, in their middle teens, performed well and many likely felt relief at finishing the ordeal. The piece notes self doubt remains for some, while practice may curb timidity, and praises the plan to require speaking.
Judge Thompson refuses Busse’s habeas corpus petition in a wife murder case. If the governor does not intervene by tomorrow, Busse faces execution by hanging at Anamosa penitentiary, with Sheriff Parrott of Bremer County carrying out the sentence. The supreme court upheld the death verdict by a divided bench.
The Kansas City Journal argues that evidence will show Dowie behaves like a mad man in connection with the insanity charge. The Toledo Blade notes April is like a sandwich and jokes that the weather man should not cut sunshine too thin to stay popular.
In Spirit Lake Iowa on April 14 Gov A B Cummins and rival GOP candidate Geo D Perkins debated from the same platform before a packed 1000-seat Stevens Opera House audience with about 200 standing. Each pressed strong claims of integrity and policy while trading criticisms of railroad influence and past alliances.
Farmers report the old clover in the area died during the past winter. They sow oats over the damaged areas this spring to harvest as hay with timothy, noting good feed value. Some planters expect new clover seeding to come out well this spring.
Advertises Royal Baking Powder as a housewife’s aid for quick economical home baking. Claims fresher tastier results than store-bought goods, with uses for cake, biscuits, puddings, cookies and crullers. Published by Royal Baking Powder Co New York.
At a county supervisors meeting last week a 950 dollar contract for a concrete bridge on the Madison Wyoming township line was awarded to Hansen Bros. The county expects good performance. Earlier, residents observed a King drag on Oxford Junction streets Tuesday built by G W Lathrop at the local blacksmith shop using two planks set on edge to clear dirt.
Orville Webster aged about eighty four recalls four teeth cuts with the last in 1906 February. Dr Bently bought the shot tower property for 450 dollars after it was put up by referee I C Reeve. School board met and reengaged the current teaching corps for another year, adding Miss Alice Perkins as assistant principal and music teacher. A district M E church conference in Hopkinson on May 14 1516 will feature Bishop Vincent with a to be announced program.
The Cedar Rapids Republican reports a petition for saloon licenses to run five years before renewal. The plan adds expense but is intended to promote lawful conduct and better behavior among saloon keepers under the new system.
The author argues for balance and integrity in reporting and criticism. He warns against sensationalism and sweeping generalizations that condemn decent people, insisting honesty and discernment are essential to protect the public conscience and avoid harming society.
A witty column notes that women favor old love letters after clothes, men resist debt from arguing partners, dealing with wife relatives tests niceness, police at home stirs longing, and rising love increases a girl’s danger of becoming an old maid while she sews.
A juror list for the May term at Anamosa courthouse includes Elmer Birk Henry Bachelder Frank Betz Julius Benhke C K Bruntlett Mike Breen Jr C W Coppess C Cushen J M Conway KK Condit Clayton Daywit I A Dennison G W Fields Jr Go Folkers John H Hagen Jr J S Wouser M W Troustman Safe Hempy Wm Henak J J Head Lee Larson Minehart W D Merritt M J Moses J G Noyes Wm Osborne Newton Parrott Alexander Robertson Ed Rigby John Stivers Tra Schwab A O Sones T W Sheridan Asa Smith I D Terwilliger Peter Young and others. They must appear May 28 1906 at 10 o'clock a m at the court house.
A collection of moral aphorisms reflects on restraint duty and character. The notes echo the Topeka Capital line about personal virtue and self control while musing on truth temper and civilization.
Ifa Cow states that if butter were given by cow to mankind then milk would need invention. He calls milk nature's emulsion with butter shaped for digestion and notes cod liver oil is nourishing but must be emulsified for digestion.
Scott's Emulsion combines the best oil with hypo phosphites to aid digestion and do more good than oil alone. It is advertised as the most strengthening nourishing food medicine in the world from Scott & Bowne, chemists in New York. Available at druggists in 60 cents and one dollar.
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