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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
2
A quirky collection of pithy lines ranges from aviation precursors to weather whimsy and social musings. It notes pilots, hats, bath salts, deer stockpiles, and aging students entering university, all in a playful, magazine-style snapshot of passing fads and curiosities.
A bolt of lightning struck a self playing piano in Louisville recently. Eyewitnesses described the event as extraordinary and possibly heavenly in nature.
Observers remark that filies avoid blue gise and consistently favor white wall surfaces, suggesting an implicit aesthetic bias in their choices.
The Frankfurter Zeitung declares that swords wield power over dollars yet notes that dollars finance arms. The piece contrasts currency and steel as forces shaping global power.
The cooler weather allows the girl with red hair to wear a celluloid comb without constant apprehension.
Report notes a proposed continuous trolley route between Terre Haute Indiana and Showhegan Maine and questions how travelers could enjoy the journey. The item hints at travel prospects without confirming an operational line or schedule.
A German inventor unveils a liquid bullet designed to incapacitate rather than kill, intended for use only in guns believed not to be loaded. The concept aims to render targets unable to act without taking life.
The item predicts a one-cent postage rate praised as a boon yet warned by pessimists who fear it may lead to more bills sent twice as often and prompt higher overall costs.
A New York man who died by his own hand left a note apologizing for missing the room. The message suggests politeness had become a habit with him.
A string of wrecks along the western coast suggests the Pacific Ocean may be less pacific than its name implies, drawing concern over maritime safety and weather conditions.
Some distinguished men seek legal protection against tobacco odors, while a noiseless gum chewing approach is suggested as an additional measure to reduce nuisance.
Local study reports a half teaspoon of ice cream contains about 55 million bacteria. Public health officials caution that bacterial counts vary by product and handling.
A quirky note notes a toad that supposedly eats nearly 800 flies per hour, reflecting a humorous take on a household idea and local curiosity about quirky animal feats.
Editors weigh restrictions as humor panels debate whether the long running mother in law joke should be retired. Comedians and readers note the joke persists in social culture despite calls for sensitivity.
An Italian purchased the title of count for four thousand dollars, a price figure seen as strikingly low amid higher sums paid by wealthy Americans.
A drunk driving case ends with a jail sentence and the standard fine, reflecting the court’s strict stance on intoxicated operation of a vehicle. The verdict follows the defendant’s admission and the legal process that led to the sentencing.
A price of 100000 dollars has been placed on the exiled shah of Persia, amid reports of vast money in Persian rugs and treasures fueling intrigue and pursuit across markets and collectors.
A claim suggesting women’s feet are growing larger is questioned as possibly a plot by shoe manufacturers to boost prices. The remark frames footwear pricing strategies as a market tactic and cites industry motives.
Des Moines will host a designated postal savings office under Postmaster General Hitchcock. It is one of nineteen first class offices chosen, with deposit interest at two percent from the start of the month. Local foreigners and others have been using the money order service, averaging $15,000 to $18,000 yearly, without deposits accruing interest.
Sioux City fruit dealers face spoilage with 100 car loads awaiting buyers. Pears fetch 2.25 a box and peaches 1.15 as one commission man holds 24 cars. Cars may be sent to Chicago and Indianapolis to relieve surplus.
W. F. Bellamy found a rough diamond while walking near Boone. He will not reveal the location of the discovery. A local jeweler tested the stone thoroughly.
The Belle Plaine canning factory now operates day and night shifts with 150 workers. It owns 650 acres of corn and has others growing additional corn for the plant. The pack quality is reported as very good this year.
Local Ottumwa merchants refuse higher fire insurance rates and will self insure. After local agents formed an incorporation, they informed merchants of the advance, prompting the boycott and move to carry their own coverage.
Ottumwa club women secure city council permission to place street names on all thoroughfares in the residence district as part of the city beautification movement.
By the will of A. W. Vander Veer a prominent business man who died here recently ten thousand dollars is given to the Episcopal church of Town to be used at the direction of Bishop Theodore N. Morrison.
The annual Watermelon Day in Webster City is scheduled for September with an expected attendance of about 20 000 visitors. Organizers estimate a need for at least 50 000 watermelons to properly observe the event.
Dubuque’s Commodore W D Hewey of Bellevue owner of the Red Top and world record motorboats says one more parade will end his career.
Mrs Nellie Rush and her baby were in a runaway crash near Cambria. The baby died, while Mrs Rush was uninjured. The collision occurred after a car frightened the team, authorities reported.
Spirit Lake County Attorney Beck toured Okoboji hotels and informed proprietors that all gambling money machines must be abolished.
The Boone County Poultry association announces a major poultry show in Boone from December 11 to 15. Local growers will display birds, compete for prizes, and attract exhibitors and attendees to the event.
The school board has caused the arrest of three high school boys for hazing Clemmer Horan last week. Horan was captured taken to a livery stable where the numeral 15 his class distinction was burned in his hand and cheek.
Reluctant county residents concede the killers of Marshal Butcher from Missouri Valley have likely fled and the chase is winding down. The tense pursuit underlines ongoing concerns in the community.
Miss Mary H Bliss of Iowa Falls chairs the Third district of the Iowa Federation of Women’s clubs arranging the annual district meeting in Cedar Falls on October 23 and 24.
Frank Cash discovered a tub of butter while cleaning a cistern on his farm. The butter, left by an old tenant about seven years ago, remained perfectly fresh.
Simon Casady president of Central State Bank was named special administrator of Joseph H. Lewis estate. The appointment comes as Gertrude L. Pollard of New York, an heir, contests the will claiming Lewis was not of sound mind when he left 50 000 to charity and a city park in Des Moines.
Mason City reports the death of Jonathan S. Wheeler aged 92. He was president of City National Bank and the county’s wealthiest man. Wheeler led farming and stock raising ventures owning thousands of acres and was a prominent Baptist Church member.
A twelve ton traction engine attempting to cross a steel Iowa River bridge at Marshalltown fell through the weakened span and pitched into the river bed thirty feet below, the weight breaking the bridge under the machine.
The sweet corn factory at Hampton has started up and is fielding farm teams daily. Corn yields range from three to five tons per acre with a price of six dollars per ton. Fodder remaining in the field is valued at about ten dollars per acre.
Iowa City 21 year old Thomas Cooney was sentenced by Judge Howell to the Anamosa reformatory for ten years indeterminately after cracking the Duluth Lumber company safe in the city.
Fred Hahn, seeking a friend, was seriously wounded by Carl W. Sutliffe a prominent citizen as he attempted to enter the Sutliffe residence in Marion. Hahn claimed no robbery was intended.
Archie Bess died from injuries after his traction engine exploded on Franklin Burbridge's farm, five miles north. He was hurled about 70 feet by the blast as the device failed.
M W Davis curator and late secretary of the State Historical Society of Iowa died of old age. He was Iowa City's oldest merchant, active in the drug business for nearly sixty years.
The Eugene Grimm 120 acre farm near Clear Lake was sold to Mrs. Fred Gentry for 150 dollars per acre. Grimm had bought the property two years ago for 100 dollars and four years prior it brought 75 dollars per acre.
Fred Batchelder custodian of the National Denatured Alcohol plant says Peoria owners order keeping the Marshalltown facility ready for operation.
Sheriff Rock located in Omaha the body of a man found in the Missouri river at Florence. The deceased is identified as the suspect wanted for the murder of Marshal Butcher of Missouri Valley.
Davenport promoters J. Gleason and H. E. Winters were arrested and charged with aiding and abetting an illegal boxing match. Warrants were issued for several others but not yet served.
The Carroll County Old Settlers Association held its seventeenth annual gathering with addresses by former Governor Warren Garst and Speaker Paul Stillman.
John Karametor, a Greek carrier in Sioux City, was fatally injured when struck by a Milwaukee freight train. His broken leg bone was found wedged in a switch frog.
Following Des Moines example the Waterloo city council opened a market house visited by thousands who bought farm produce at very low prices.
Twenty thousand shop employes across the Union Pacific Southern Pacific and related lines threaten a systemwide strike unless a federation of shop craft workers is recognized. A fruitless meeting between Julius Kruttschnitt and J W Kline left both sides hopeful for talks but adamant on core issue. The dispute spans machinists blacksmiths car workers sheet metal workers and pipe fitters across multiple western lines.
President Taft spoke to the Grand Army of the Republic gathering in Rochester for the forty fifth national encampment. He opposed reform nostrums aimed at concentrated wealth and urged peace through steady, nonviolent effort. He contrasted past war service with present national challenges as veterans in blue paid tribute on a long reviewing stand.
Washington reports that Congress adjourned its special session with the president issuing a third tariff veto. He objects to adding revisions of the iron and steel and chemical schedules to the cotton bill, saying no factual basis was presented to assess effects on industry or government revenue. He urges tariff board reports for informed duties.
Columbus reports attorney general Hogan county prosecutor Turner and ex sergeant at arms Rodney Diegle reached a settlement after Diegle’s bribery conviction. Diegle will confess what he knows of corrupt practices in the last assembly. Mercy may lessen his sentence. two weeks given to prepare. Several lobbyists likely to be drawn into court through his confession.
Milwaukee report on the forty second national convention of state insurance commissioners cites a Virginia president Joseph Button condemning health and accident insurers. He notes a 14 to 15 company investigation revealing shocking disclosures and vows to root out the evil without mercy when the committee report is ready.
Tokyo reports an official statement will announce the return of the former Russian hospital ship Angara to Russia. Angara was sunk by her crew at Port Arthur in November 1994 to prevent capture, refloated by Japan, converted to an auxiliary cruiser, and renamed Anegawa for use as a training ship.
Alexander Peterson, accused of holdup in the San Miguel canyon in 1910, was arrested after a courteous arrest procedure. He was brought from Pagosa Springs to Denver to face a federal grand jury indictment returned last November.
Ottawa Ontario mayor Hopewell received a letter from Rome in a mix of Italian and dog Latin promising destruction in the name of the Roman kingdom. The immigrant writer, deported by the dominion government, is believed responsible.
The Mississippi packet Harry Lee reportedly sank near Brendywine Island 25 miles north of Memphis. All passengers and crew reached the bank safely except one colored fireman who did not escape.
Cascade Iowa farmer John Finn spent 100 dollars visiting Chicago sights and was later found by police in the municipal lodging house.
Dick Van Clavern, 24, a farmer from Ottumwa, ate two rat biscuits after Miss Jessie Harlan refused to marry him. Doctors saved his life before authorities arrested him on charges of threatening the girl's father.
Fire destroyed the residence of F. A. Glaney two miles north of Montrose. Loss estimated at about 9000 dollars with only a small amount of insurance.
Sheriff A. M. Russell of New Hampton led Edward Burroughs aged 22 an alleged horse thief from Lyon county to Ossian in Allamakee county where he was captured a few miles south.
Independence A. J. King aged 64 a teamster was killed instantly while loading ice on a wagon. The tongs slipped causing him to fall from the wagon and break his neck.
In Bly Nevada ten men worked at the 1400 foot level of the Giroux Consolidated mine fire compartment shaft when flames trapped five six became dead and four survived after reaching the surface. Daniel Dres union secretary was killed.
In Lisbon the constituent assembly elected Senator Arhiaga as president of the republic by 121 votes.
Mrs Robert Mantell wife of the Shakespearean actor is reported to be ill with a heart condition at her Atlantic Highlands New Jersey home. She is known on stage as Marie Booth Russell.
Tokyo reports an official statement will announce the return to Russia of the former Russian hospital ship Angara which her crew sank at Port Arthur in 1901.
Miss Rene Hubinger daughter of Joseph C. Hubinger a turfman and manufacturer elopes with Alexander Timm a Yale football player. Hubinger heiress to about $1,000,000 and the elopement became public knowledge in New Haven Connecticut.
Mrs James of Amherst Massachusetts widow of Amherst College president donates 100000 dollars to endow Ooshiba college a missionary school in Kioto Japan.
Mrs. Sarah Drew of Columbus drowned while learning to swim with sister Mrs. F E Hemmer in the Muskingum river at Zanesville. Both used water wings. the wings collapsed and both sank. Hemmer was rescued.
Maxwell forty years old was found dead along the Licking river with his head submerged. Coroner Walters ruled it accidental drowning in Zanesville Ohio.
New York attorneys for the American Tobacco Company have formed dissolution plans and a reorganization plan to be presented to the U.S. circuit court in chambers before Judges Noyes Jacombe and Ward, following a Supreme Court decree.
Paris reports a cabinet council will decide on France's final stance to Germany regarding Morocco and compensation in other African regions. The meeting seeks to set a definitive policy and potential concessions.
Ogdensburg, New York. Clyde Bereh of Los Angeles and Miss Ydna Koeher died when their car overturned. Chauffeur for William Robertson, Bereh perished alongside Koeher in the fatal accident.
A crowd of 1,106 people queued for the Cass Lake Minnesota land opening. The area will provide about 500 parcels of 160 acres each. Arthur Roberts of Sterling NL secured second place in line.
Benjamin Foss son of Massachusetts Governor Eugene N Foss married Miss Doreathea Chapman in Grace Episcopal cathedral San Francisco. The ceremony united two prominent families in a high profile Bay Area society event with local officials and guests in attendance.
A Lehigh Valley train crashed on a 400 foot trestle near Manchester New York as two day coaches fell forty feet. Many victims were Grand Army of the Republic veterans returning from Rochester encampment. More than sixty injured with several graves feared.
Des Moines reports Rev. Dr. Homer C. Stuntz first assistant corresponding secretary of the board of foreign missions leaving after a week in the city. He will speak in Missouri and Illinois before returning to New York. Stuntz is a prominent Upper Town conference member and is noted as a possible bishop at the Minneapolis general conference in May 1912.
Des Moines authorities announce the Still College of Osteopathy is permanently closed. A sheriff's sale will include the college property at Fourteenth and Locust streets and the General Hospital at East Twelfth and Des Moines streets on September 18 following a board decision by trustees faculty and Dr S. L. Taylor.
Webster City announces Northwestern Railway will replace eighty pound steel rails with ninety five pound rails on its division. Upon completion, the line plans to run larger engines and heavier trains, enhancing service and capacity.
Webster City reports the death of Irving Bossert thirty from an incident after he bought a tablet at a drug store in Alta. He collapsed shortly thereafter and died at St Joseph's hospital. Bossert was a traveling man.
In Muscatine on August 26 the McKee and Bliven plant that employs non union workers announced it would close for an indefinite period due to threatening orders and rising tensions.
The program for the Nineteenth Iowa Infantry association reunion at Ft Madison is set for September 27 28 and 29 with events announced today.
The Colfax Electric Light Company has been granted a franchise to maintain a cable to transmit electric current from the Colfax plant to Prairie City and will furnish illumination for that city.
The longtime Colfax residents Mr and Mrs M Paschal will mark their fifty seventh wedding anniversary next Sunday August 27 in the city.
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