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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1912
Page
1
A collection of humorous musings on cigars nuts bugs and fashions from the Monticello Express. Jests about aviators financial matters marriage wealth and pronunciation mix with quips on hunting ducks from planes and the future of balloon racing.
A critic warns that if Agriculture Department policy makes all American bees stingless, victims of rheumatism will face tough luck as pollination and ecological balance falter.
An English literary visitor declares Chicago a pure city and notes he has not been handbagged by any New Yorker, as reports describe his calm reception and impressions of the audience.
A man with a long婚 history admits he cannot recall the names of two of his eleven wives. He might still remember some phrases or statements they said to him.
A sensational claim announces a gun capable of bringing down an airplane from five thousand feet. The article notes no stated reason for expecting this to be a sure thing.
The passage notes a shift toward widow stage imagery and recalls Tony Weller's advice to Samivel in a celebratory context. The text juxtaposes merry winsome red varieties with the notion of stage running. The language suggests a literary discussion or quotation from a Victorian-era source.
A Pennsylvania boy fires at a dog using a rat as bait in a news item that also notes a woman’s controversial views on hairdressing are supported despite criticism.
Amid fears about the war in southeastern Europe, tenants confront ongoing pressure as landlords demand overdue rent despite worries about apocalyptic signs. The article notes public anxiety while housing costs continue to rise.
A hotel keeper outlines an unusual venture to raise a diamond-backed terrapin within the hotel. The piece comments on how fishy stories proliferate and notes the ease of getting such tales published.
The fragment discusses a rumor that a new side whiskers must be worn in front for a purpose. It mulls odd uses such as sweepers when searching for a collar button under a bed, reflecting light humor about domestic items.
An inventor proposes a pneumatic rug that lets auto bugs stretch while tinkering and speculates whether a similar device could be found to cushion aviator falls.
A chorus girl willing to join the stars paid 200 dollars to a so called seer who promised planetary aid and easy admission to the celestial courses.
While a seer proclaims the European war signals apocalyptic end, coal dealers continue steady business across towns, showing normal commerce amid prophetic fuss.
A Kansas City woman pays 50 for a husband in a market described as speculative and illogical, far beyond known demand. The remark highlights the unusual bidding behavior and raises questions about the affair.
A new school for society novices opens in Washington. It is likely using a blue book and a check book as principal texts.
Readers are told that as public attention shifts to a vegetable diet, jewelers move to a carat standard 2.5 percent lighter than the old measure. The note ties dietary optimism to changes in the precious metal market.
The passage notes that if papers provided a pronouncing vocabulary for Balkan proper names and offered general discussion of the war in the East, the reporting would read as more earthbound and precise.
Washington releases a list of Iowa first class postmaster term expirations. It shows Des Moines postmaster Kurtz serves to May 1, 1915, barring removal, with other offices such as Burlington April 6 1914 and Dubuque February 20 1918 listed. The implication is postmasters will generally serve out four year terms under President Wilson.
Bank investors from Shelby County with M. Dowling of Omaha buy Bank of Kirkman from Frank De Klotz and plan Kirkman Savings Bank to begin operations January 1 H O Loutenhizer of Des Moines named cashier for the new institution.
John Nolen of Cambridge Mass a leading landscape architect will arrive this week to oversee Keokuk’s replanting and beautification efforts. Local committees from the industrial association join with the eastern specialist to coordinate the city wide improvement.
Bert Erb of this place on his uncle M L Kneeland’s farm husked and cribbed 842 bushels of corn in six days after milking five cows each morning. The record averages 140 1 2 bushels per day and is hailed as a major regional achievement.
Professor Moses Willard Bartlett longtime faculty member of the State Teachers College in Cedar Falls was buried in Fairview cemetery after services at the First Congregational church conducted by Rev. James B. Snowden. He passed away in Waterloo.
Ed C Hoxie of Corning Iowa, named as one of several heirs to a Hoxie estate, finally received the $5,000 bequest in cash just before Thanksgiving from an aunt he had never met.
Des Moines shows a population of 113 720 in the official canvass by R L Polk Co. The count includes Fort Des Moines and Urbandale amid signs of healthy growth for the city.
Council Bluffs druggist J. A. Clark prominent in the community was arrested November 20 by government authorities during a nationwide crusade. He was bound over on $500 bond to await federal grand jury action.
Waterloo report states Mrs. Dourinda Hartman mother of John C. Hartman editor of the Waterloo Courier died recently at Cedar Falls aged 77. She had lived in Black Hawk county for fifty two years.
Edward Craney, 20, son of Mr and Mrs James Craney, died from injuries after his wagon was struck by a northbound passenger train on the Rock Island at Main Street crossing near Independence.
Harvey Bishop of Tiffin was cut to pieces by a Rock Island passenger train passing through Tiffin at high speed on Monday.
In Keokuk a quarrel over a bottle of whisky led to Enoch Hawkins stabbing his fellow worker Frank Lewis, who died almost instantly. Hawkins surrendered at the police station and did not realize the fatal result until later.
Mitchellville reports a barn on Charles Patterson’s farm one mile west of town was completely destroyed by a noon Sunday fire with the residence nearby untouched.
Des Moines reports indicate Republicans would hold a joint ballot majority of forty votes in winter if election contests fail. The lower house would tally twenty four to produce the party edge, while the senate stands at sixteen for Republicans. Guy Gillette leads in the forty sixth district by one vote with George F Coburn contesting the result.
Lorimer residents report a panther-like animal in the nearby woods after years of sporadic sightings. Locals recount eerie screams described as a woman's cry, with the creature resurfacing this fall after a brief absence.
The Reliance Brick on Tile company plans to install a crusher to size damaged brick or tile from the burning. The crushed product will sell for 50 cents per yard at the plant and serve cement work or road ballast as an efficient substitute.
The Harlan Creamery company buys the Merrill block on Market street and will install modern machinery for a major western Iowa plant to make butter ice cream bottled drinks and manufactured ice. Directors include Dr. PF E Brazie Martin Ankerstyne and R D Ramsey of Portsmouth.
The Rock Island improvements at the freight yards and depot site are halted by an injunction from Independent Lumber Company. The lumber firm says railroad grading will block access to their yards and debar ingress.
Albert Kosta of Chelsea born in Bohemia who spent three years in the Union army and voted at every election since the Civil War had his ballot challenged for lacking citizenship. He was never naturalized.
Vandals robbed St. Marys Catholic Church in Fairfield taking about 200 dollars worth of gold altar equipment. Loss discovered when church opened for Sunday service.
In Nevada a tax sale was held at County Treasurer Fowler’s office, lasting twenty minutes. It was the county’s smallest delinquent tax sale, with less than $900 involved.
A bucket of dynamite being thawed over a fire exploded in Keokuk, instantly killing two Greek men and fatally injuring a third. The victims were preparing to depart the following Sunday for the Balkan front.
A $12,000 damage suit against the American Brick and Tile company is on trial in Mason City district court. The case stems from the death of Newt Newt son who was killed while loading cars at the plant. suit brought by the administrator of the deceased’s estate.
The state of Iowa will buy three acres of land north of the Iowa Soldiers' Home across the river to preserve the state's ice field at the home.
Clinton-Pat Glancy was arrested here and taken to Yankton South Dakota where he pleaded guilty and received a five year sentence to the South Dakota penitentiary.
Otto Hanson is recovering in the hospital after being struck in the thigh and feet by bird shot from a gun used by a party of boys on a hunting expedition.
Des Moines area reports the Polk county effort to organize a county crop improvement association with a crop expert leading, under the Iowa Agricultural Association, G. E. Stayner serving as secretary.
Prof. Paul S. Pierce of the department of political economy and sociology has been chosen as the official representative from the State University of Iowa to the third conference on the teaching of economics in Chicago.
During a veterans celebration in Mason City Theodore Papas was shot through the hips by Chris Largares. Papas is hospitalized with injuries.
Washington December 6 Judge Robert W Archbald faces Senate impeachment amid harsh assertions that he prostituted his high office for personal profit His counsel argues the charges lack clarity while Rep Clayton asserts Archbald used his position to gain favors in coal and railroad dealings The trial focuses on coal dumps contracts and Archbald’s possible knowledge of them The Senate votes 55 to 6 to include the Williams Boland contract into the record noting EB Williams as the sole witness friendly to Archbald
Fort Worth jury finds John Beall Sneed not guilty of murdering A. G. Boyce Sr after he killed Captain Boyce in Fort Worth on January 13. Sneed claimed self defense and alleged a conspiracy by the Boyces to steal his wife. Al Boyce Jr. had been killed by Sneed in Amarillo on September 14.
Eleven people were killed and three seriously injured in a rear end collision on the Pennsylvania lines near Zanesville Ohio ten miles east. Passengers were thrown from seats and trapped as steam from the engine contributed to the fatalities.
President Taft reappointed Walter F. Frear as governor of Hawaii and named Ernest A. Mott-Smith as secretary of Hawaii in a December 5, 1911, announcement from Washington.
Mrs. Robert Goelet of New York died at her Paris home on Wednesday. Born Harriette Warren, she married Robert Goelet in 1879 and left two children.
Robert Knight the cotton king died intestate in Providence Rhode Island on December 6 leaving an estimated fortune of 24 million dollars to be divided equally among his four children.
Hara Wilson eighty two a Wanatah pioneer was instantly killed when struck by a Pennsylvania passenger train on a crossing in Wanatah Indiana. The accident occurred Monday in the town's business district.
Noel, president of San Domingo, was chosen by the Dominican congress as provisional president for a two year term on December 4. He immediately succeeded President Victorio, who resigned.
A detailed breakdown shows Union Pacific and Southern Pacific capitalization, stock types, and totals. It covers direct holdings, through Oregon Short Line, bonds, and the extensive mileages and leased lines forming the merged system. It lists major holdings by Chicago and Alton, Illinois Central, Baltimore and Ohio, New York Central, and others.
Justice Day announces that Union Pacific by buying Southern Pacific stock formed a combination restraining interstate commerce. The ruling calls for future acts like the stock acquisition to be forbidden and a decree to dissolve the existing combine.
Constantinople dispatch reports the armistice signed Tuesday by Turkey Bulgaria Serbia and Montenegro Greece did not sign and may continue war. Negotiations occurred near the Tchatalja lines with fresh allied proposals and a delayed reply. In Berlin the triple alliance of Germany Austria and Italy renews for three years amid European tensions.
Tokyo reports Premier Saionji and cabinet members resign after crisis over finding a successor to Lieutenant General Uyehara as war minister. The move follows ongoing political instability and the search for a new defense leader.
President elect Woodrow Wilson remains in Bermuda for holidays as cable communications to America were cut off on Wednesday. The report comes via Kingston Jamaica.
Early returns from municipal elections in Los Angeles indicate the city charter proposal to establish a commission form of government was defeated by about two to one.
Guy Stuart of Greenfield Indiana was acquitted of murdering his father A A Stuart Fortville physician after a short jury deliberation. The court found the killing justified as self defense in Greenfield Indiana on Tuesday.
Both houses convene in Washington for the last session of the current term. Plans include passing the legislative and District of Columbia budgets before Christmas while remaining major issues like tariff trusts and currency await the new Congress. Budgetary needs run about 12.5 million dollars daily to finance 1913 operations. Impeachment actions against Judge Archbald loom in the judiciary arena.
Harvey Shanover, arraigned in Barbourton for the murder of his wife, pleaded not guilty and waived examination. He was held to the grand jury without bail and fled back to Akron jail as an angry crowd menaced lynching.
William Col. Her of Los Angeles California and an unidentified companion died after a jail fire they started to escape. They were burned to death Wednesday in Crowley Louisiana.
New York reports Elizabeth N. Roosevelt widow of James A. Roosevelt uncle of Theodore Roosevelt filed an appraisal showing an estate worth 1 843 955 dollars. The filing occurred Wednesday.
Heavyweight boxer Jim Flynn announced his marriage to actress Miss Fannie Ved in Los Angeles. The unexpected wedding, disclosed to friends on Sunday, follows Flynn’s public profile and ties the fighter to film circles.
An Austrian man was killed in Pittsburg Kansas when a highwayman fired on him after he failed to halt at a roadblock. The attacker escaped and the victim was identified only by nationality as the event stunned local residents.
The three masted schooner Rouse Simmons known as the Christmas ship is reported lost with fifteen men and one woman aboard after departing Thompson's pier in Michigan on November 14. Life-saving crews from Kewaunee and Two Rivers searched the lake but found no sign of the vessel or crew.
The Wilson presidential campaign spent 1 159 445 dollars for the effort with a 24 958 dollar balance on hand and total receipts of 1 184 404 from 89 854 contributors. Major gifts came from Charles R Crane 40 000 Cleveland H Dodge 35 000 and Herman Ridder 25 000 plus Samuel Untermyer 10 000.
Jack Johnson the prize fighter wed Lucile Cameron in Chicago on Tuesday. Cameron had previously escaped custody of her mother. The ceremony coincided with wartime news from other cities.
After nearly a week in New Orleans, battleships Minnesota Kansas Michigan and South Carolina under Rear Admiral Fletcher weighed anchor and departed Wednesday.
Illinois veteran congressman "Uncle Joe" Cannon filed his final campaign expense statement with the House clerk. The record shows total expenses amounting to 3012.02 dollars.
An earthquake of considerable intensity was felt in Guadalajara on Tuesday. No fatalities reported, but walls of some poorly constructed houses collapsed.
In New Orleans the commission form of municipal government was adopted. Martin Behrman, mayor for eight years, was sworn in for another four year term on Monday as the new system took effect.
Sloan Simpson was removed as Dallas Texas postmaster on Monday for alleged pernicious political activity and George P. Rockhold was appointed in his place.
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