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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1906
Page
6
In London the Imperial Cancer Research Fund stores over 100000 mice at its Savoy embankment facility to study cancer. Dr. Bashford leads work showing recovery in experimental cancer and mice protected from tumors, with hopes a serum could halt cancer growth in humans.
A Victorian era essay extols mice as central to cancer study noting that other animals failed to yield cures. It describes laboratories with tens of thousands of mice, cancer induction methods, and observations of recovery in some cases, arguing cancer affects many vertebrates and that cures in mice could translate to humans.
The article describes a unique Tonkin resinous timber valued for coffins among Chinese communities. It notes the wood’s rarity, preservative properties, and current absence of living trees, with legends of a vanished forests catastrophe.
A whimsical poem from the Philadelphia North American envisions a diner craving pie. The speaker imagines a pompadoured waitress offering dessert and ends with a playful insistence on any pie flavor from cheese to plum.
The passage notes buried trees becoming a sizeable fortune for those who discover them, with a coffin carved from this wood valued at around £50 or £60 according to Grand Magazine.
A Washington woman recounts inviting a diplomatic attaché known for politeness to a function. The attaché formally accepted, but on the morning of the event he sent a note saying he cannot attend because he is dead.
London Lady laments the shortage of leisure and cultural activities in rural areas. The piece critiques neglect of public spaces and organized recreation, urging community and authorities to provide accessible options for rural residents.
A Newport, Rhode Island inventor has patented a simple curved sound deflector placed over a piano soundboard. The two end boards rest on side walls with cushioned flanges, enabling easy setup and removal without fasteners while directing full piano volume into the audience.
An inventor presents a nailless horseshoe with removable toe and heel calks. Tightened by flexible steel clamps, it allows natural hoof expansion and easy swapping of calks for icy or dry conditions. Extra calks enable farmers to replace worn parts quickly.
An official notes that in South American forests butterflies and birds clash in color, but certain bright butterflies escape by odor and color mimicry. Some species imitate coloration to deceive birds, a form of protective resemblance. Birds also mimic surroundings, such as egg concealment among stones and a bottle shaped nest blending with moss and tree color.
A French botanist describes Stipa grasses of South America whose barbed seed darts penetrate skin and clothing and cause painful wounds and ulcers. Sheep suffer blindness from seed darts. seeds lodge in hair and feed glands and hinder chewing. Four of about a hundred species reach France but are rare and not dangerous there.
Paris journals report M. Marche, famed inventor, unveils a two-post wireless telephony device. Each post contains a telephone battery and induction coil with insulated wire frame, allowing clear conversation through walls at about 100 feet and promising longer distances without ground conduction. Earlier trials used the earth and sea as conductors, reaching two miles and 180 miles respectively, suggesting submarine applications.
The Canadian government continues expanding the Marconi network for ship and coastal communication. Upon completion of Father Point and Seven Islands stations a continuous system will span from Quebec to Labrador and to Cape Race.
Experiments at the Austenjade lightship involve a bell fixed under the water surface to study how distance and timing of sound signals affect their interference and clarity. Researchers aim to map how similar signals interact in confined underwater conditions.
Grace McCoy a 19 year old Bayard girl is accused of forging her father's name to a $400 check to join Private Koontz of the Eleventh Cavalry in Cuba. She was arrested in New Orleans en route to Havana and later allowed to proceed after her father agreed to cover the funds. Eleven other girls reportedly sought to join lovers in Cuba.
James Solts, inmate at Anamosa State Penitentiary for nearly twenty years, dies at age about eighty. In 1886 his wife Tanna J. Bolts was found murdered on the Bolts farm with skull crushed and body bruised. Solis was indicted, convicted, and sentenced for life after a lengthy trial led by Prosecutor Judge Preston and defense by J W Jamison.
Richard Zimmer and William Phillips pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the Sigfred Larson case. Indicted for first degree murder, the two were allowed to plead to the lesser charge after an October Sunday confrontation at a North Fourth Street saloon. They obtained a sentence-free plea, ending the case with sentencing pending.
President Shanklin of Upper Iowa University announced a gift of 330,000 from Andrew Carnegie to finish the drive to raise 150,000, of which 60,000 has been raised. Shanklin had just returned from a trip east after meeting Carnegie's secretary. The rest of the fund is expected to be secured with no time constraints imposed.
McWilliams who killed his wife and five children near Independence is declared insane by the Jones county insane commission. He has been in the prison insane ward since April 24 and is described as violently unstable at times. Execution was tentatively set with Louis Busse in December, but the insanity ruling may delay the death sentence.
The general board of the John D. Rockefeller foundation approved endowments for higher education totaling 667 500 dollars to Grinnell College Iowa Lawrence University Appleton Wisconsin Drury College Springfield Missouri Richmond College Richmond Virginia and Washington and Lee University Lexington Virginia These grants are conditional and additional raises will push the endowment total to 2 670 000 dollars since the gift was received in October 1906
O'Brien, an experienced Rock Island engineer, was found with fatal head injuries on No. 62 east of West Liberty. The fireman discovered him, a doctor arrived but he died within minutes. Authorities suspect a collision with a projecting freight car or apparatus at Atalissa as the cause.
Grand jury in Lyon county returns at least two indictments against county supervisors for forgery tied to road fund receipts. Officials named include H. Renshaw M. McMullen Matt Priester John Whitney and Conrad Krahling though exact guilty parties are not yet confirmed. The graft allegedly deprived the county of about $8000. Indictments to be reported when the jury reconvenes December 10.
W H McMurray a Buffalo machinist was found unconscious in an alley with a morphine labeled bottle. Police believe an accidental overdose by a dope fiend led to his death hours after reaching the hospital with no struggle.
George Hopkins of Kellerton was found dead near Malvern by a west bound fast mail train crew. Officials at Glenwood were notified on arrival. The manner of death is not known at this time.
Myron Clark, charged with murdering his wife, pleaded guilty after admitting he cut her throat from ear to ear in Sioux City.
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