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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1907
Page
5
A collection of brief items notes Hudson Maxim's armor plate breakthrough, government diet claims, Campbell Bannerman reform hints, Maine hare trade and consumption, poet laureate Andre Corthis, Plutarch 23 interpretation, and Lord Walsingham's insect-shot skills plus entomology accolades.
The text compares past and present age distribution within a group. It notes a reversal from a older-skewed profile to a younger one, with about 20 percent under 30 and 10 percent over 50. The 30 to 40 and 40 to 50 ranges fill 40 percent and 30 percent respectively, and class lines show moujik peasants as youngest while reactionaries are oldest.
The World's Work reports that nearly 2,000 stock raisers and drovers and as many fishermen and oyster men are among working women, with 1,300 plus miners and quarrymen. Other figures include 167 masons, 126 plumbers and fitters, 879 watchmen and policemen, 196 blacksmiths, 113 wood-choppers, 154 boat men and sailors, 100 lumbermen, 438 carriage and hack drivers, 26 switch men and yardmen, 31 brakemen, 6 ship carpenters, 21 stevedores, 18 longshoremen, and 84 civil engineers and surveyors.
In the basin between the Rockies and Sierra Nevada the remains of extinct Lahontan floodplain lakes persist as dry terraces. Rivers vanish on the arid edge, winds reclaim the evaporated waters, leaving Great Salt Lake Lake Tahoe and Bear Lake as the surviving bodies.
A note predicts a two-cent rate for letters not only in Australia but across the British empire and foreign countries that will deliver two-cent letters from Australia. The author suggests ocean postage will follow as a universal standard in the near future.
An Austrian artist who met President Roosevelt remarked that the leader embodies the American spirit, noting that Roosevelt is so dynamic he could not be kept still. The caption states the president once "sat" for the artist, highlighting Roosevelt's lively persona.
Capitalists and scientists who studied a Pennsylvania shoemaker’s smokeless fuel say one ton could cost about 25 percent of coal’s price and yield four times the power. George F. Baer is warned to watch out. Boston’s oldest wholesale dry goods merchant, P. Sargent, just marked his 85th birthday and remains active in his office.
Reports describe the Puyehue volcano in Valdivia Chile erupting violently with new craters and ash showers. Widespread tremors shake Luzon Philippines and Charleston South Carolina, with damage to structures, water sources, and communications amid fires and darkness.
The first National Arbitration and Peace congress ended after three days with two banquets at the Hotel Astor and Waldorf Astoria. Andrew Carnegie received the Legion of Honor for peace work and The Hague palace gift, while Carnegie stated results of the congress. Resolutions urged The Hague as a permanent institution, open to all nations, a general arbitration treaty, U S support for armament limitation, and extended immunity at sea.
In Merrimack county superior court Concord New Hampshire defendants file an answer denying the suit for an accounting of Mrs. Mary Baker G Eddy's property was brought in good faith by the so called next friends George W. Glover Mary Baker Glover and George W Baker. They accuse the next friends of being used by evil minded persons unrelated to Eddy or her estate. The answer is a general denial of all complainants claims.
The town of Iloilo on Panay Island was totally destroyed by a Friday morning fire leaving about 20,000 homeless. Authorities scrambled to control the blaze as strong winds hampered aid, with communication severely affected and damage estimates unavailable.
A rumor at the capitol Thursday claimed a $400,000 discrepancy in the University of Wisconsin accounts. President Van Hise denied misappropriation but acknowledged failures to charge certain investments to correct accounts.
Mrs Aggie Myers was delivered to penitentiary officials Friday afternoon to serve a life sentence for the murder of her husband in Kansas City. Sheriff Thoma son of Clay County assisted in the transfer to Jefferson City Missouri.
The Oklahoma constitutional draft was adopted Friday afternoon in Guthrie with 58 delegates voting yes no dissent recorded though 27 of the 85 delegates present did not vote. The convention framed document sets the framework for the proposed state.
George Golden shot and killed his mother-in-law Mrs. Kate Paris in her hotel in Claremore Oklahoma and was later shot by Chief of Police Leech in a running duel. The dispute arose over a board bill.
John P. Dunning a prominent newspaper figure died in a Philadelphia hospital from a brain tumor at age 44. His career spanned many major papers and he was widely known in press circles nationwide.
A Toledo grand jury charged 93 leading business figures in 245 indictments for conspiracy in restraint of trade. Names include the Toledo Master Plumbers Association the Toledo Brick Supply Company and the National Supply Company. The report highlights the Toledo Lumbermen’s Credit Association as controlling the lumber market and pressuring outside dealers.
Regis H Post was inaugurated Thursday as the new governor of Porto Rico in the Municipal theater. He pledged to follow Beckman Winthrop's policies, push better interior to coast transportation to ease ruinous freight rates for farmers, keep the judiciary fair, and expand educational opportunities. Taft attended with Mrs Winthrop and Mrs Post.
The Illinois supreme court decides that ex-state treasurers and auditors since 1872 must repay $321,000 illegally taken from the treasury. Restitution is required though further suits may follow. Gov. Deneen’s stance is upheld on unlawful appropriation but not for full interest. Interest only from the state demand about a year ago.
Abner Smith, a ten year Cook county circuit judge, was found guilty of conspiring to cheat stockholders and depositors of the Bank of America where he was president for two months. Gustav Sorrow, vice president, also convicted with equal penalties. Jerome V. Pierce convicted and fined $500. F. E. Creelman declared not guilty and discharged.
Mary E. Tomlinson of Concord New Hampshire died after leaping from a Parker House window in Boston on Friday. She was connected to the Christian Science church and sister of Irving C. Tomlinson, a Boston reader and defendant in a Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy accounting suit. She came to Boston Thursday. The death is treated as a possible mental disturbance.
Perry J. Hedrick, Chicago chief sanitary inspector, was arrested for taking a $200 bribe from plumber George Beckway. Beckway sought Hedrick’s official approval to sell a plumbing device to contractors, with $1,000 allegedly solicited and extra payments planned through a third party.
Myles Standish nephew of Dr. H. M. Marvin arrived in Gloversville to see the suspected Marvin boy. He examined the child for half an hour with Chief Smith and concluded the boy was not Horace Marvin Jr.
Alexander H. Allen a traveling gas mantle vendor is held by Gloversville police as the suspected kidnapper of Horace Marvin Jr four year old son of Dr Horace Marvin of Dover Delaware Allen who arrived with a younger woman and a small boy two weeks ago in Gloversville provided a photo of the boy to Dr Marvin who offered to send his nephew Myles Standish of New York to identify the child
The murderer of William H. Stuart the American vice consul at Batum was sentenced by a court martial to hang but his youth led to a commuted sentence of ten years in prison. Two alleged accomplices were acquitted.
Two people died and 12 were injured in a rail collision in Birmingham Alabama as a south bound freight train stalled on the main line at Woodlawn Junction. A passenger train later struck the rear of the freight train despite a flagman reportedly being sent to protect it. A wrecking crew attempting to clear the wreck also struck the Woodlawn Junction site.
A river steamer Archangelsk sank crossing the Neva near Irinovka in a snowstorm. The vessel struck an ice floe, two thirds across the river, with 25 believed drowned as ice floes remain in the Neva late in the season.
Bank at Weston Illinois was damaged by three dynamite charges early Friday morning. About $2000 was secured by the robbers who escaped. West of Peoria, the incident disrupted the Weston Bank. Police investigated the blast and searched for suspects.
Des Moines inmate Jasper Mason, imprisoned for murder since 1876, was released Friday by order of Governor Cummins under legislative permission. He received a conditional pardon enabling freedom while abiding by terms set by authorities.
A Thursday afternoon blaze at the Canada Steam Laundry plant in Montreal killed three workers two men and a woman and injured twelve others one of whom a woman may die. The fire fundamentally disrupted operations and residents reported dense smoke and rapid flames, with rescue efforts continuing as authorities investigated the cause.
The Illinois House on Thursday passed the Young anti cigarette bill making it unlawful to sell cigarettes or cigarette papers in the state. The measure excludes sales by jobbers.
The Minnesota House approved an anti pass bill with an amendment delaying it to December 31, 1908. It is less strict than the Senate version. Conference committees from both chambers will draft a compromise measure.
Harvey B. Hutchinson a former Peoria post office money order clerk convicted of embezzling $10 000 was sentenced by Judge Otis Humphrey in federal court to two years at Leavenworth Kan.
The continental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution re elected Mrs Donald McLean of New York as president general for two years. She received 511 votes to Eleanor Washington Howard of Alexandria Virginia who had 152. Delegates welcomed the result with enthusiasm.
The body of Peter J. Kennedy, a noted theatrical manager who vanished in December, was discovered Sunday night in the water off South Brooklyn. His hat and overcoat were found on a ferryboat, and a letter from Kennedy stated he planned to drown himself.
Providence Rhode Island lawmakers plan to adjourn April 23 amid a deadlock with fifty eight ballots cast without a winner. The session appears unlikely to produce a United States senator.
Thomas Longboat, an Indian runner from Toronto, Canada, set a new record in the Boston Athletic Association's 25 mile marathon from Ashland to Boston, defeating a field of 114 competitors.
John Gunderson, accused of robbing a clerk at Northern Express offices in Union Station Tuesday night, has confessed and returned the $25,000 he stole.
Regigy H. Post was inaugurated governor of Porto Rico on Thursday succeeding Beckman Winthrop who retired to become assistant secretary of the treasury in Washington.
William B. Elliott of Peoria Indiana pleaded guilty to soliciting campaign subscriptions from a U S civil service employee while on duty. He was fined 50 dollars, the minimum penalty.
George Schumacher, a painter, was shot on a Janesville street on Thursday by Florence Dugan who says she is his wife. He was walking with Meta Smith and is not expected to live.
Milwaukee plasterers struck in the city Thursday morning with no notice to contractors. The stoppage halted finishing work on numerous buildings across Milwaukee.
During the Hebrew Orphan Asylum annual board meeting in Baltimore Moses J. Oppenheimer suddenly collapsed and died from heart disease after reading the first page of his report.
The vice governor of the prison was shot dead in Rostov on Sunday. The assailant, Bassin, was arrested shortly after the attack.
John Orson Johnston president and general manager of the Columbus Gas and Fuel company collapsed and died at the telephone in his Columbus residence shortly after finishing a conversation with his family physician.
Denver reports a sharp temperature drop after Saturday night snowstorm with 14 degrees above zero. The weather bureau notes a freeze harming fruit and crops across eastern Colorado.
Letter from O B Olson of Baldwin Wisconsin describes four and a half years in Saltcoats Saskatchewan reporting 39 bushels per acre wheat in 1904 and 25 bushels in 1906 plus 45 bushels of oats. He urges others to move if they are willing to work and not grumble. Readers asked to contact a Canadian Government Agent for literature and details.
War correspondent Frederic Villiers records Bret Harte describing his editing struggle after learning of a death. Harte details tearing up multiple editorials before composing the piece readers cherish, while recalling the impact of the loss in the States.
Fritz Hirschlaff of New York reports eight years of rough skin and sores between toes and underarms ended in seven days using Cuticura Remedies. After spending three hundred dollars on various doctors and treatments, he resumed work and attested to complete cure.
The Queen of Portugal treasures the British Humane Society medal awarded after she saved a drowning man in Lisbon harbor. The Queen, sister of the Duchessa d'Aosta, was born at York House Twickenham. Queen Amelia, noted as one of the first female doctors, jokes that her toughest patient is King Carlos.
Readers can obtain a Dr Coffee book for free detailing a home cure method for Berncae and conditions like deafness head noises sore eyes and failing light. Write to Dr W C Coffee 360 Century Bldg Des Moines Ind for the book.
Executive board refers the Wesley Brotherhood to its general convention to be held in October 1907. Resolutions from the Brotherhood of St. Paul seek a committee to confer with St. Paul Brotherhood on unifying Methodist brotherhoods.
This natural laxative purifies the blood cleanses the system and establishes normal action of liver kidneys and bowels relieving headache lassitude and general ill health for many days.
A London College of Music examination notes a British candidate jokingly defining a musical interval as a short pause for refreshments, startling professors and spectators.
A reflective line from Hopkins celebrates true pleasure as clear thoughts, calm affections, and steady mind aligned with God and self. The verse emphasizes inner balance and spiritual steadfastness.
Australia plans the repatriation of 1000 discouraged Australians currently in South Africa as part of a postwar effort to bring citizens back home.
A mother urges a young boy to hurry back after sending him on an errand, reflecting on whether such a routine request is truly effective in guiding a child.
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