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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1910
Page
8
Minneapolis readers are urged to publish a testimonial praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Mrs Jonn G Moldan claims the remedy cured her female troubles after years of weakness. The advertisement invites women to seek confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A witty remark on personal identity and social circles as an insurance policy holder pleads not to be judged by the company he keeps. The quoter contrasts reputation with private possession.
At a London Authors' club dinner Mr. Walter Emanuel recalls meeting a dentist with the largest sense of humor. An Englishman endured a long toothache, refused gas, and had a tooth pulled. The dentist held the tooth to the window, laughing, and asked, What's the joke? Wrong tooth.
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt a night school scene questions the meaning of life sentence with an example about marriage. The dialogue contrasts patient endurance and gradual discipline with a proverb by David Starr Jordan about learning to do great things by doing small things well.
A historical report details Japan’s plan to wipe out or pacify Formosa tribes within a year to secure camphor supplies. It describes Formosan savages, head hunting, and a frontier policing scheme around the island, plus ethnographic notes on Atayal Paiwan and other groups and camphor production processes.
A Philadelphia Record correspondent notes daisies, from Sir William Keith and Graeme Park in Montgomery county, have spread from Memorial Day to July 4, crowding grounds and annoying farmers. As daisies vanish, ox-eyes and July daisies emerge, delighting children yet signaling the flower’s colonial roots.
B Chenkin a Chicago real estate broker with money to loan on mortgages applied for a pushcart license at $1 a year. He said he no longer pushes the cart but wants renewal, claiming he has had one for eighteen years. The license was refused and he said he would take the matter to the courts.
R Newton Crane and J A Barratt of the American embassy testified before a royal commission in London that the United States upholds a higher moral standard, with divorce more common here than elsewhere except Japan, due to the institution's acceptance by respectable people. Barratt cited diverse European grounds for divorce and argued no American state lacks some European equivalent.
A Southside woman habitually charges purchases at a neighborhood drug store with her five year old daughter in tow. The child once entered alone, seized the proprietor’s car, and attempted to leave. The druggist called out and the girl replied charge it, then proceeded out with the car. The cashier noted the cat remained with the child since then.
The piece argues heaven is present here and now through faith and faithful living. It stresses. overcoming fear of death through spiritual growth, and living life as pilgrims while awaiting the eternal city. It cites scripture and Browning to urge heart culture and steadfast Christlike virtue.
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