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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1906
Page
7
Seafield Indiana resident Mrs Clara Twitterst says a severe cold last fall improved after taking Peruna and allowed her to resume work. She credits the remedy with her recovery and ongoing strength.
The Forum contrasts Johnson and Boswell noting two biographical milestones. Johnson’s Lives of the Poets set a traditional narrative, while Boswell’s life of Samuel Johnson introduced a dramatic, personality driven approach. Boswell lets the author reveal himself, with commentary guiding interpretation.
In 1808 Napoleon planned a portable library of about a thousand tiny volumes. Printed in good type with no margins, bound in morocco with green velvet-lined leather cases, the library would carry 60 volume boxes in two rows. A catalog would aid quick finding with sections on religion epic poetry drama other epic poetry history and 300 novels plus historical memoirs to complete the quota. A closing aphorism notes a woman’s perpetual urge to outdo others.
An Illinois man reports relief after switching from coffee to Postum. He endured lifelong indigestion and stomach irritation from coffee, but after using Postum he stopped losing meals and felt better quickly. He credits Postum with restoring his health and appetite and notes familiarity with the product from Postum Co. of Battle Creek Michigan.
New York reports the largest American fleet—battleships armored cruisers and torpedo craft—will pass in review off Oyster Bay on September 3. Admiral Evans will command with the Maine as his flagship, followed by the Missouri Kentucky Kearsarge Indiana and Iowa.
Des Moines reports Cummins wins renomination at GOP convention on a platform opposing corporate influence and backing tariff revision. Warren Garst named for lieutenant governor. slate includes Hayward, Carroll, Morrow, Byers, McLean, Sherwin, Riggs, Crockett, Cornwall, Hat on, Palmer. Cummins eyes presidential bid. convention shows party unity and aims.
A six month old boy suffered severe eczema covering the body with crusts and ulcers. After failed treatments and abuse, a friend recommended Cuticura products. Ten days to two weeks showed improvement and ten weeks brought complete skin recovery. Statement by I Hohrath of C L Hohrath Company in South Bethlehem dated June 5 1905.
Gov. Davidson will name a commission to investigate the Dietz situation at Cameron dam in Madison. No troops are planned now. future action depends on the commission report. Several posses have failed to serve Dietz in civil actions over two years. Duyo Rogich of Milwaukee was wounded by Dietz and reached Charles Johnson’s homestead, then Winters for care.
Sargent's Pictures Rare. Only three works by John Sargent offered at auction recently. A red shawl portrait sold for 750, a Hen Terry portrait brought 6,000 and later 15,000, and a halflength lady portrait brought 686 in 1902. Illinois Central Railroad to spend nearly 400,000 on new passenger train equipment. Board authorized purchase of twenty five coaches and chair cars ten baggage cars and ten mail cars.
Get the Most Pleasure Out of Your Vacation. Travel to Colorado for pure air and famed sights. Enjoy golf polo boating hunting fishing tennis riding and mountain recreations with low round trip rates to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo via Union Pacific. For rates and literature inquire W. G. Nelmyer G A 120 Jackson Boulevard Chicago Illinois.
A collage of quips from the Atchison Globe musing on vanity hair humor jealousy love and aging. It contrasts a bald man with hair brushes the joke of a peach in a flask and the shiftlessness of pitful cherries while noting childhood songs and funeral memories.
A vintage style ad hints at Lewis' factory Peoria offering a 5e cigar made from extra quality tobacco and suggests charity as a selling point.
A terse meditation contrasts belief and truth with irony and paradox. It critiques prosperity of fools, calls for decisive action against sudden virtue, and questions motive and sanity in human nature.
Dion Boucicault’s lineage traces to a French refugee who fled to Ireland and wed an Irishwoman. He was named Dion in honor of his father’s friend, Dr. Dionysius Lardner, a British writer on physical science.
By Nixon WATERMAN a playful montage of ad banners and quips on social manners. It lampoons self interest with wry lines about Bjones and a hotel clerk. The spoof blends verse snippets and cheap cures to tease readers.
Detroit reports the Michigan Democratic state convention endorsed William J. Bryan for president in 1908. It defeated a resolution urging a national committee probe and possible resignation of Chairman Thomas H. Taggart. Charles H. Kimmertle of Cassopolis won the gubernatorial nomination over Stanley E. B. Parkhill of Owosso after a spirited ballot.
William R Hearst will seek the governorship as an independent nominee. The Independent league met at the Gilsey house and set a September 11 state convention in New York to nominate Hearst and a full state judiciary ticket. The league will operate independently of the regular Democratic party and seek no favors from its leaders.
Attorney General Moody directs further prosecutions of several railroads for violations of the federal safety appliance acts. United States attorneys in districts with violations will file suits and vigorously pursue recovery of the statutory penalty.
Final account of the trustee in the bankruptcy of Frank G. Bigelow, former bank president now in Fort Leavenworth, shows enough funds to pay a final dividend of 11.22 percent on approved claims totaling 3,242,255 dollars.
Judge Babcock of common pleas court sustained Judge Kinkade in full in the ice cases. He exonerated Kinkade of promising leniency as claimed by the ice trust's attorneys and deemed the trust's contentions ridiculous and unworthy of court.
Washington reports the resignations of Second Lieut. Clarence A. Eustaphie of the Twenty third infantry and Lieut. Albert S. Odell of the Eleventh cavalry have been accepted.
Minneapolis captain O C Merriman former bankruptcy referee in the United States court and a well known citizen died at his home in the city. He was 72 years old.
San Francisco President David Stary Jordan of Stanford University will not appoint or dismiss professors. The board of trustees passed a resolution instituting the change.
Rear Admiral Charles J. Train, commander-in-chief of the United States Asiatic Fleet, died at 9:16 Saturday morning from uraemia.
Houston, Tex. W. I. Fletcher was instantly killed, Lee Brooks received fatal burns, and the entire building was gutted after an explosion at the wholesale liquor house of Joppet & Co.
In Scranton Pennsylvania Jere Wilson was killed and Charles Parrish fatally injured after a blast at the North End Coal colliery. They had prepared the charge and began retreating when a secondary blast in an adjacent chamber occurred.
Superior, Wisconsin resident Teles Sabre and his 13-year-old son were killed when an engine struck them after they stepped from a track to avoid a passenger train. The collision occurred Thursday near Saunders.
In the house of commons Foreign Secretary Grey announced there are no longer any restrictions on foreign trade in Manchuria. Two British consuls will shortly be appointed to Manchuria.
San Salvador reports the death of Emilio Alvarez, physician recognized for discovering the Rhinoscleroma bacillus. He gained fame in Paris and here and will receive an official funeral.
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