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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1919
Page
7
An advertisement promotes Danderine as a remedy to stop hair loss and dandruff with a few cents for a bottle. A fashion brief discusses longer narrow skirts altering women's gait toward a more deliberate, pelicanlike stride.
An old advertisement touts Cuticura products for baby rashes with Cuticura Soap Ointment and Toleum. It promotes soothing baths and gentle applications, pricing 25 cents each everywhere in a fragrant finish.
An Indianapolis lawyer known for divorce cases notes a man sought grounds for divorce. When asked if he is married, the man confirms, and the lawyer quips that marriage itself provides grounds, highlighting a humorous exchange about marital status and divorce.
Catarrhal Deafness cannot be cured by local applications. Hall's Catarrh Medicine claims to cure via the blood on mucous surfaces. It asserts healing the inflamed Eustachian tube. offers a $100 reward for any uncurable case. Toledo Ohio firm.
A Birmingham Age-Herald remark contrasts poets praising cow bells with an old fashioned citizen noting jazz reveals the cowbell’s lack of melody. The exchange frames evolving taste in music.
An old advertisement touts California Fig Syrup as a safe laxative for children. It claims the product removes poisons from the stomach, liver, and bowels and emphasizes a fruity taste and clear dosing directions on each bottle.
A tense exchange ends with the husband admitting nothing remains to be said after a lengthy harangue by the wife. The scene captures a moment of exhausted communications in a domestic dispute.
A collection of rapid notes covers global industry and natural wonders. Topics include U S flour exports and world milling, bat digestion capacity, postwar motor plows in Austria, garage jack tech, the Alto Parana river system as Paraguay’s potential industry hub, Iguazu and Niagara falls power estimates, 19th century cattle exports to England, Peru’s government control of mineral springs, the Siamese musical scale, Brazilian butterfat standards, Milwaukee bowling alley scoring lamps, and a two part California baggage check patent to prevent misreads.
Maj George Huayen Putnam, a Civil War adjutant of the 176th New York Volunteers, recounts meeting future presidents William McKinley and Rutherford B. Hayes during a Virginia Campaign. He notes his young age, capture at Cedar Mountain, Libby Prison, and later reflections on his brief absence from service.
Physiography notes a river rivalry as the Thames and Severn illustrate how the Severn erodes into the Cotswold hills diverting headwaters from the Thames. A New York Post observation highlights geological carving in river valleys and drainage patterns.
A Scotland tale of a parrot developing rabler has been debunked as the bird merely tried to imitate bagpipes. The amusing misunderstanding was clarified by observers who noted the bird's mimicry instead of any disease or behavior.
Washington reports on a government program under the War Risk Insurance Act to provide compensation and medical care to veterans wounded or ill in World War I. The vast system coordinates hospitals, exams, prosthetics, and benefits, with 107000 cases already served and 6000 cases daily processing across multiple divisions in Arlington.
The narrative describes a ceremonial moment with The Cornl Theresa Nolan before Queen Tian beth, highlighting a personal exchange about origins and a controversial remark. The article then shifts to wartime medical statistics, detailing TB and other injuries among service members, hospitalizations, and amputations, with figures for claims and artificial limbs through 1919.
The average French smoker rejects American cigarettes and tobacco from the American expeditionary force. He prefers the coarser French brand, which is scarce and sold weekly in limited quantities. Many line up for hours hoping to refill, but find the American product too costly and unused due to size and taste.
Alfred Flamval, a French aviator, looped the loop 62 times in a single Madrid military flight. The earlier record reportedly stood a little over 300 loops.
Vital statistics show France in 1918 excluding war losses has 889 575 fewer people than in 1917. Influenza ravages in late 1918 killed about 200 000, with marriages rising by 10 364 and divorces up from 6 572 to 8 121. A separate item reports a Pittsburgh area woman nearly burning a stash of money by burning papers during a kitchen fire.
Bayer aspirin brand appears on genuine cold remedy list. Product labeling confirms aspirin as active ingredient. Consumer guidance emphasizes standard dosage and caution for children.
An old advertisement describes a Bayer aspirin tablet package with directions for colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. It notes a 12 tablet box costs a few cents and promotes Bayer as the genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years.
A fragment from the Louisville Courier-Dormual features a playful exchange where a young woman jokes about a dictionary and a printer’s error yields comic misreadings. The piece showcases malapropisms and light humor in a clipped, newspaper-voice style.
An advertisement touts Triner’s American Bitter Wine and Angelier Bitter Tonic as effective health tonics. It cites a winter death rate and claims the products cleared intestines of bacteria, aiding disease resistance, with a patient letter from Spokane praising sleep and appetite improvements.
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