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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
2
A collection of quips and observations from The Express Iowa on wealth luck and society. It parodies bankers politics and crime headlines with headlines on Mars, hemp, mules, nose rings, starving tramps, hoarding money, whiskey burial, fake stock cases, and a London bishop’s travel notes.
A playful piece contrasts speedy Lusitania passages with steward tips and notes a driver’s heart on the wrong side. It cites a remote unspoiled beauty found by Dr. Gordon and remarks on strangers’ view of New York cabbies.
A seven year Philadelphia to New York postal route delay prompts discussion of why the card moves so slowly. A separate note forecasts a musical comedy girl marrying an English peeress and comments on British stage intrigue and the possibility of further lively interactions between America and the English peerage.
A few sturdy Kuskwaganiutes from interior Alaska are requested to be secured for ethnological study before the white man's civilization alters them.
Audubon societies warn that bird losses cost the country up to 800 million dollars annually in crop damage. They stress the assertion is unrefuted, underscoring widespread ecological and agricultural impact.
An impatient East Liverpool woman fired a dozen shots at her husband but missed her target and was arrested for discharging firearms within the city limits. The article notes unclear reasons for not charging train robbery high treason or shoplifting.
At a Flushing Long Island dedication for George Fox the speaker a Quaker woman asserted that no Quaker wife promised to obey her husband and that there are no divorced Quakers due to gender equality. The remark suggested omitting the obedience vow in ceremonies.
A fashionably chic London restaurant denied admission to an earl and countess for not wearing regulation evening dress. The same rule bars entry to certain theater sections. The Youth's Companion notes this snobbish stance but says true gentility requires more than dress.
Secretary Taft on his train to Moscow toasts Roosevelt and Nicholas amid a Thanksgiving cake toast. In London American society banquet reflects mixed finances with 300 guests. Vienna hosts a Thanksgiving banquet and dance with university professors praising American science. Berlin hosts 300 Americans dining at the Zoological Gardens. Tiflis holds a gala dinner with John P. Jackson attending as minister to Persia and officials stressing closer U.S.-Russia ties.
Howard Maxwell former president of the Borough Bank of Brooklyn died in Long Island College Hospital after cutting his throat and wrists with a razor and penknife in his Brooklyn home. He had been released on $30,000 bail after being indicted for grand larceny and forgery. Maxwell, 49, faced multiple indictments and had shown deep despondency during confinement. He left a wife, no children, and had previously asserted he spent all he possessed to protect the bank.
Julius Derr a Pennsylvania Railroad employee was fatally shot by an unidentified Italian laborer at the station. Hunters pursuing the assailant shot him dead after he took cover under a railroad bridge and opened fire on his pursuers.
Fire severely damaged the Mullen Brewing plant at Wallace and West Thirty-ninth streets and the Ernst Tosetti Brewing plant at West Forty-first and Butler streets. The combined loss is put at 275000 dollars.
Three men attempted to rob eastbound No. 4 on the Northern Pacific at Fife eight miles west of Fargo. They removed a signal and switch light at Mapleton and confronted the operators. The night operator alerted the day operator, who rode to the scene on a velocipede. One robber fled while the other was captured after the operator drew a revolver.
Rev Dr Beverly Warner preacher at Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church denounces horse racing as corrupting Louisiana morals and calls for firm stance against the issue. Warner, a leading Southern Episcopal figure, has served in Philadelphia and other cities.
The Duma rejected the title autocrat in a 112 to 246 vote and adopted a throne address reply unanimously. Constitutional Democrats led by Prof. Paul Milakoff secured a victory as the session ended amid excitement, cheers, and the national anthem. Extreme right factions withdrew before the final vote.
Beatrice Nebraska jury finds R Meade Shumway guilty of murdering Mrs Sarah Martin near Adams on September 3 and recommends the death penalty. The victim was the wife of Shumway's employer and was left alone with him while her husband attended a primary election. The mutilated body was found on the return of the husband who also reported $200 missing.
The body of Irvin Robison of Bluegrass Iowa a senior at Iowa State College Ames was found beside a railroad track in Davenport after he disappeared while returning from Thanksgiving with his fiancée Katherine Carlin near Davenport He likely jumped from a moving train near the Carlin home leaving his body mutilated and the incident under investigation.
Police in Ufa halted a feared attack on Secretary Taft's train en route to St. Petersburg. About 50 soldiers guarded car corridors and vestibules overnight as the party moved cautiously through European Russia.
In Little Rock Arkansas two inmates James Ware and Albert Bunch died in a fire that gutted a stockade at the state convict farm in Lincoln county. Amid the blaze three other convicts escaped during the confusion.
Two convicts James Ware and Albert Bunch perished in a blaze that destroyed the state convict farm stockade in Lincoln County, Little Rock reports stated.
Hugh Murray grand secretary of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Canada died suddenly of apoplexy at his home in Hamilton Ontario He had served as grand master of Canadian Masons in 1884 and was a leading figure in Canadian Freemasonry throughout his career.
A Thursday fire burned the business portion of Columbus, a village about 20 miles west of Flaxton in North Dakota. Loss is estimated at 50 000 dollars with 18 000 dollars insured. The village population is about 709.
James B. Bradwell former county judge and publisher of the Chicago Legal News died at his daughter’s home in Chicago at 79. He came west with his family in 184… the long life included early travels from Loughborough England to Ithaca New York then to Chicago and Desplaines river region amid frontier dangers. His wife Myra Colby was noted as the first woman lawyer in the United States.
Trinidad Vasquez secret service officer for the Mexican government and chief witness in Magon Villa real and Rivera revolutionist cases was poisoned Friday in Los Angeles. He is believed to recover after collapsing while talking with detective Thomas Furlong who tracked the alleged revolutionists.
A sensational theft disclosed in Mexico City reports Hugo Scherer, a prominent banker, hosted a Sunday dinner when about $40,000 in jewelry and several hundred dollars in cash were stolen from his residence. It marks one of the city’s largest robberies to date.
Judge Templeton of the state district court ruled that the North Dakota statute authorizing seizure of liquor imported into the state for use as a beverage is unconstitutional.
Mrs Georgie Tittle 35 turns on gas and a phonograph at her New York home to the tune In the Wild Woods Where the Blue Bells Grow dying by her own hand.
Panic sweeps Franksville Thompsonville and Corliss as many residents fall ill after eating chicken pie at Corliss bazaar. Mrs John Lonard dies prompting investigations and fear across the towns.
Bloomington men Edward Miller and Edward Davis were indicted after being arrested for holding up the State bank at Clinton Monday. Davis confessed to the crime.
Washington reports a total farm product value of 7.412 billion dollars for 1907 per Secretary Wilson. The 1907 crop is valued higher than any previous year, up ten percent from 1906 and double 1889, with farmers holding unprecedented wealth to spend or invest even amid financial panics.
The Illinois Senate backed the Des Plaines and Illinois rivers as navigable with 41 yeas 2 nays and an emergency clause. Gov. Deneen seeks to curb Economy Light and Power’s dam project at Dresden Heights by enabling removal of river obstructions. The bill moves to the governor for signature.
Lexington dispatch reports B Fulton French found not guilty of complicity in the assassination of James B Marcum. The verdict ends a famed feud trial in the Kentucky mountains. Judge Hargis and ex sheriff Edward Callahan were also acquitted.
W H S Wright of St Paul a leading Mason in the United States died at the Angus hotel in St Paul at age 65. He had resided in St Paul for 25 years and previously served as paymaster for the Western Wisconsin railroad and for 20 years as purchasing agent for the Chicago St Paul Minneapolis & Omaha road.
Mrs. Catherine Snay of North Oxford celebrated her 106th birthday Friday at home. Bedridden and almost blind with paralysis on one side, she has smoked a pipe since age ten.
Florence Nightingale, English philanthropist, has been decorated with the Order of Merit by King Edward. She is the first woman to receive this distinction.
Circuit Judge George H. Williams voids the new anti-pool selling law by requiring proof the bet was on a race actually run. Frank O’Haver is freed from charge pending further proceedings. The decision opens the door to resuming handbook bets on racing in St. Louis.
The 1907 annual report of Col. John M Carson shows total exports of manufactured goods at 1.086 billion, up nearly 20 million for finished manufactures while cotton cloths fall by over 21 million. Transit delays and lack of parcels post abroad hinder growth, prompting talks with rail and steamship managers and calls for foreign parcels post extension.
Berlin reports the capture of Carlsson a Swede linked to a string of remarkable burglaries across Europe. He posed as nobility author millionaire and diplomat living in luxury in Berlin Munich Paris Vienna and other cities while maintaining a refined gentlemanly image. He was arrested at a top Munich hotel while using the disguise of a financially powerful Danish nobleman.
Paris reports 1906 births at 806,847 with 306,487 marriages and 105,573 divorces marking the century's lowest birth rate. The decline continues a decade-long trend, with births about 33,000 below the average, far beneath prewar totals that once averaged around 960,000.
The New York building department records show 51 permits issued for buildings over ten stories tall between January 1 and October 21, 1907, compared with 48 in the same period of 1906. Local developers pursue taller, more ambitious projects as the skyline grows.
Kaiser Wilhelm left ten thousand dollars to be divided as tips among Windsor Castle staff including servants gamekeepers and stable attendants before departing for Highcliffe Castle. The prior 1891 tip was twenty five hundred dollars.
Mile. Gertrude Waker, 26, at Berne University, pauses all examinations with great distinction. She lectures on chemistry and physics.
Lizzie Lohr of Chicago writes that after a year of night sweats and loss of appetite she followed Dr. Hartman's Peruna regimen for four months, recovered completely, and thanks him. She is a widow with six children and notes she used five bottles and would share details with others.
A tale recalls Owen Mudge avoiding work after harsh words and a dentist-like stump-puller memory. The piece then notes Defiance Starch as a chemical free option, promising safe use on fine fabrics and strong stiffening for a perfect finish.
A County Fair scene features a sly vendor selling a zigzag patterned item. He daylight sells it as a skirt pattern to women and as a guaranteed map of Mars to men, while a city man notes the unusual sales.
A man praises experience as the best teacher while a skeptic notes education can come too late to help distinguish mushrooms from toadstools. The exchange highlights the limits of practical learning and timely judgment in risky situations.
Advertises Defiance Starch for stiff collars and cuffs with gloss or domestic finish. Claims 16 oz for 10 cents and notes it is sold by all good grocers.
Japan remains one of the few nations where men outnumber women with a ratio of 980 men for every 1,000 women, a demographic detail noted in the report.
An advertisement extols Bromo Quinine laxative with ER W GLOVE signature and claims global use to cure a cold in one day. It notes Niagara Falls as a power generating asset worth 46 million dollars annually and touts Lewis’ Single Binder cigars from Peoria Illinois. The Bank of England is said to employ 1000 people.
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