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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1904
Page
6
A Philadelphia woman described giving as a consuming passion that grows with time. She notes the satisfaction of helping others surpasses selfish pleasures and that generous donors persist even after losing value, sometimes sending worn finery to aid causes. The impulse can become irresistible.
A Port Isaac gentleman observes a robin guarding its nest from a rat. The rat is knocked senseless by the man, and the robin attacks the rat on the road. Four young birds were in the nest. one died, the other three remained unharmed.
Nickel Plate Road announces holiday excursion rates for December 24 25 26 1904 and January 2 1905 with return by January 4 1905 at fare and a third for round trip between Chicago and Buffalo. Three through express trains daily to St Wayne Findlay Cleveland Erie Buffalo New York Boston and eastern points with Pullman sleepers and dining car service. No excess fare. Chicago depot Van Buren and La Salle streets. City ticket office 11 Adams street and Auditorium Annex. Inquiries to John Y Callahan general agent 111 Adams Street Room 208.
A sale notice for Short Horn bulls aged seven to eighteen months. Registered and of the best strain for beef and milk, described as low down and beefy. Priced reasonably for intending purchasers with utility considered.
Low Christmas holiday excursion rates from Chicago to Buffalo and eastern points. Tickets on sale December 24 25 1904 and January 1 2 1905 with return by January 1 1905. Three through express trains daily, no excess fare. Sleeping and dining cars, meals from 35 cents to 1 dollar. Trains from LaSalle Street Chicago and Adams Street offices. Also real estate notices from Illinois with sales inquiries. Port Arthur note on late fall season.
In a hotel lobby a man asserts he is a real farmer and mocks the poetry of farm life while detailing practical chores and hard realities. He cites costs, pests, harness care, repair tasks, and hog-proofing a pen, insisting he is a realist farmer. Dallas News.
Letters from J L Tucker Center Alabama and Mrs Samuel Gagge North Bush New York praise DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as a superior household remedy for piles cuts and burns and claim cures and reliefs without scarring. Chicago News notes Hall Caine’s novel is not translated into nine languages.
Geo A Thomson of Spencer Iowa reports twenty years of Perepepea and near-hopeless indigestion before using Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. A few bottles relieved him fully and he would not be without it. he praises doctors but credits the remedy as the only relief. Sold by all druggists. St Paul Globe note about Frederick the Great and Washington appears in brief.
The article describes colonial church salaries paid in tobacco rather than money. Maryland paid forty pounds of tobacco per tithe payer yearly, Virginia used fixed weights of tobacco, often meager. Parishes sometimes combined duties, and in 1758 a law lowered tobacco debts to one third value, harming ministers. Patrick Twenry defended the law in a test case.
A dead bull moose in the woods resembles a prehistoric Irish elk with a square muzzle and spreading horns. The animal’s vast form conveys strength and speed, with a fierce gaze that halts the hunter, a reminder of the grand, strange, and nearly vanished era of large cervids. The hunter’s patient pursuit earns moral credit through the measured chase.
A Philadelphia Record report quotes a church sexton lamenting frequent purse thefts in churches. He describes thieves who prey on praying women, waiting for them to bow in prayer before grabbing purses and slipping away.
A street exchange satirizes a weather forecaster as a man claims he used his umbrella to strike the forecaster after predicting rain that failed to materialize. The gag reflects public weather anxiety in a humorous clipping from the Catholic Standard.
A Brooklyn firm mocks authors demanding illustrators read stories first. The comment highlights the tension between writers and illustrators in publishing.
In Somerville Massachusetts a humorous exchange questions timing of winding a watch after dinner. One speaker cites health reasons for post dinner exercise while the other warns that trusting luck for wealth often leads to bad fortune by age forty five.
An advertisement warns that mistakes can be costly and even life threatening, then promotes Dr King’s New Life Pills for dyspepsia dizziness headache and liver or bowel troubles. The pills are described as gentle yet thorough and priced 25 cents at Soetjer’s drug store.
A brief health advert urges mothers to watch children for coughs colds croup and wheezing. It claims the One Minute Cough Cure is the best harmless and pleasant remedy to stop illness early.
A Beall Mississippi man touts Dr King's New Discovery for consumption claiming his wife recovered after trying other remedies. The ad promotes a 50 cent price with guaranteed satisfaction and trial bottles offered in Indianapolis Star. The note also endorses Electric Bitters and pokes fun at a pension official while mentioning jury duty excuses.
An advertisement touts Bricklen's Arnica Salve as a remedy for burns cuts sores eczema and piles with quick soothing effect. It notes the product costs 25 cents at Sostije's drug store in Los Angeles. A brief side item mentions a rumor of a president appointing a man named Black as attorney general from the Dixie region.
No pill equals DeWitts Little Early Risers in pleasant effect. The mild laxative serves children and weak people while strong users call them the best liver pills sold.
The Des Moines Capital marks its seventh Bargain Day offering annual subscription for 1905 at 2.00 dollars by rail, available to old and new subscribers. Existing subscribers must pay January 10 1905 to renew, or gift subscriptions to friends as Christmas presents. The Capital claims full AP leased wire reporting, strong Iowa and world news, two color print, and nationwide reach.
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