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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1906
Page
7
Miss Lacey V McGivney of Brooklyn writes that months of severe headaches and side and back pains kept her from work. She says Peruna restored her health and she is now active with no headaches. The ad notes many grateful letters but space limits further testimonials.
A specialist who collected stamps of France and its colonies recently sold his collection for 11000. The text notes the wide geographic reach of philately with places such as Ancash Antofagasta Apuri mac Chiapa Diego Suarez Bamra Yea Wadwhan Goliad Jhino Ujong Faridkot Nabba and Obock. It also highlights the Earl of Crawford owning a vast U S stamp collection and claims the1839–40 adhesive stamp origins credit to James Chalmers of Dundee Scotland with public use beginning in May 1840.
A Philadelphia visitor toured Pittsburgh with local friends visiting the Carnegie Art Institute and Homestead furnaces. The guest praised the city’s zest and promised repayment for the hospitality, joking about a Philadelphia visit in return.
A man asleep in his nightshirt wakes on the street and protests to a police officer that he is a somnambulist. The officer responds that religious claims do not excuse wandering the streets at night in nightwear.
Energetic woman outside New York describes managing dairy farm duties, 2 children, garden, fowls, mail exchange business, and writing for several publications. After a personal tragedy and years of digestion problems, she reports using Grape-Nuts and Postum Coffee, improving digestion, sleep, and overall energy, calling herself a new woman.
Kentucky blue grass, a highly valued United States forage, grows tall to 30 inches with narrow leaves. It forms a perennial creeping sod, thrives on lime-rich soils, and suits pasture better than hay meadows though slow to establish. It resists cold, heat, floods, and can endure year-round grazing in mild winters, especially with partial shade.
The maggot pest originates from fly eggs laid near the plant base and can attack multiple crops, especially cabbage and cauliflower. Control focuses on preventing entry with weekly white hellebore or tobacco dust along the rows, plus a fertilizer mix of nitrate of soda, ground rock, and muriate of potash applied after sprouts appear.
The article discusses clover as horse feed noting it dusts when not cut timely and leaves break down quickly if dry. Properly cut early and baled, clover hay provides more substance than timothy, requiring controlled amounts for horses, unlike the bulk tolerance of timothy.
Prof W J Fraser of the University of Illinois warns against abrupt shifts in cow feed to prevent milk odor and digestive upset. Start with small amounts of green feed in spring or on rye or clover and gradually increase while reducing dry feed. Feeding turnips or cabbage can cause odor, best fed after milking to let odors clear before next milking.
A simple pig feeding trough arrangement is described. The Farm and Home notes a sketch illustrating how to keep pigs out of the slop trough during feeding, suggesting cutting several pieces of board to create the setup.
A guide describes a trough with individual compartments for each pig and a removable end plug for easy cleaning. The trough slides under a partition so slop is poured from the opposite side without disturbing the feeder.
The guide urges using well rotted manure for top dressing or green manure ready in a week. It explains turning fresh stable manure into a compact heap, daily turning, and adding water to create fine plant food. A manure spreader is advised to save labor and evenly distribute material.
Good seed is essential to crops and is cheap. Plowing wet ground harms clods and preserves water. The spring poor cow will be less valuable next summer. Maintain soil with clover, cowpeas or manure. Don’t blame neighbors when cattle enter fields. Repair fences. Study grasses and garden plots for boys five square rods. Avoid barn dressing on potatoes as it causes rot. use it for seeding grass after potatoes. George M. Clark notes nitrate of soda for early spring grass vigor.
Duck eggs spoil quickly and should be set within a week. Hans will bring boaters and incubators in the first year, with a small capacity option. Hatchlings should be removed from the hens and treated to prevent lice, then placed in outdoor brooders in a well built five foot double brooding house. A liberal supply of soft food will cause two and three year olds to lay mainly double yolk eggs.
Advice to stop a prolific laying hen from producing eggs by a short diet and rest. Suggests feeding variety, ensuring the bird can run and recover, with a probable cure after a period of inactivity.
In San Francisco Jefferson Square park more than five thousand people endure heavy rain with improvised tents of carpets sheets and bedding. Despite hardship the crowd remains resolute with a widow of a union soldier noting past battles exceeded by current suffering. Sanitary work progresses as toilets are built and waste is burned away. No serious sickness yet.
The Guardian reports Father Gapon former St. Petersburg workers leader was hanged by revolutionists on April 19 after proposing to a friend that he act as a spy. Four conspirators overheard the plan in a villa and seized him during the discussion room.
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers replies to a refusal to submit differences to arbitration. He states a miners’ committee will meet in Wilkes-Barre on April 26 to review the letter from George F. Baer and colleagues and report back after adjournment.
The treaty recognizes China's protectorate over Thibet with Great Britain abstaining from internal Thibetan affairs unless others intervene. China agrees to open markets to Indian trade, build telegraph lines, grant Britain railway concession preferences, and pay 4250000 dollars of Younghusband expedition costs.
M Cardenas, secretary to President Castro, and Gen Manuel Carao of Venezuela arrived in New York on Monday. Venezuelan officials met them. Cardenas declined to discuss the purpose of the visit. Rumors about Castro not resuming presidency and fears among elites about Gomez administration were noted as large.
Fragmentary report describes a marriage in Memphis involving General Like and others, with a March deadline reference. It mentions Franklin Pa resident Harod Carmichaels aged 47 and a companion Frank McClarker injured by dynamite caps explosion. a boy is described as disemboweled.
News from Copenhagen reports two Danish trawlers with 40 men on board foundered in a gale off Iceland. A third boat with a crew of 20 is also believed lost.
A Pleasanthill Louisiana resident recounts severe heart and digestion related distress in 1905. After failing doctors and deadly spells, he credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with complete recovery after several boxes. Pills claim to cure underlying blood related nerve issues without narcotics.
Chicago Chronicle ridicules groups backing euthanasia and death abolition proposals by proposing rival teams to "exterminate" each other in a football style. The piece uses satirical language to critique extremism and public policy aims.
Mrs Lizzie Vincent Thomas from Walden's Ridge Tennessee recounts treating her daughter's stubborn eczema with Cuticura Remedies after a prominent physician. She reports rapid relief, complete recovery in six weeks, and no recurrence, noting the remedies kept at home due to distance from a doctor and high clinic costs.
Col Morrison deputy marshal Lake Charles Louisiana credits Deans Kidney Pills with curing chronic rheumatism after a horse kick weakened his back and kidneys. He notes improved secretions and relief persisted for two years. Sold by Foster Milburn Buffalo NY 50 cents a box.
The piece cites London Truth noting Englishwomen no longer angels and that women have escaped conventional nets, with anarchy festering in many homes. It contrasts scientific scrutiny with limits of explaining random events like a dropped collar-button.
A string of clipped quotes notes May-Mine Showe once avoiding choir singing now eager after gold tooth fillings. The line on a man with musical voice and long hair suggests a dreamy personality, read to women in a department store ad provoking exclamations of delight.
A fragment notes a reformer named Bocker Yeeu promoting simple spelling and phonetic spelling. It mentions Lewis' Single Binder cigar and peoria Minnesota dealer, and comments on political participation as moral.
A fragmented Scripto from the New York Sun and other papers notes playful lines about aging and a joke on bone dry policy. It mentions labeling of cold storage eggs with dates and debates on poverty as crime, reflecting a mix of humorous and social commentary.
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