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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1900
Page
6
Indications point to great prosperity for the coming year noting health as key to success. The text urges Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for stomach trouble and dyspepsia while offering a free Almanac for 1901. It echoes a local paper’s remark on maternal appreciation of singers.
The Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis Railway issues detailed guidance on lands locations and climate for Tennessee Alabama and Georgia. It includes farm product prices soil varieties elevation rainfall and homeseekers excursion tickets at low rates with maps printed matter and information through agents Briard Hill Chicago J B Killibrew immigration agent and W L Danley Nashville.
For the present winter season the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has improved its through Pullman Vestibuled Sleeping Cars and elegant day coaches from Cincinnati Louisville St. Louis and Chicago to Mobile New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Thom asville Pensacola Jacksonville Tampa Palm Beach and other Florida points. Perfect connections with steamer lines for Cuba Porto Rico Nassau West Indian and Central American ports. Tourist and Home Seekers excursion tickets on sale at low rates. Write C L Stone General Passenger Agent Louisville Ky for particulars.
Weekly Excursion Sleepers depart St Louis on Tuesday at 8 16 p m via Katy Flyer for San Antonio Los Angeles and San Francisco and Kansas City trains run Saturday at 9 05 p m for the same destinations.
A collage of old advertisements and aphorisms. Includes Lane's Family Medicine claims daily bowel movement and liver support, Piso's Cure for Consumption endorsement, Laxative Bromo Quinine for colds, Hale's honey of horehound, Pike's Toothache Drops, and various quips about jokes and dyspepsia.
Democratic members of the ways and means committee urge a 70 million dollar revenue reduction and an income tax revisited by the Supreme Court. They say taxes are unfair and burdens fall on consumption, not production, while not opposing passage of the bill. The Republican caucus backs the bill as drafted with a solid vote.
The resolutions committee of the American Federation of Labor submitted and the convention adopted measures urging support for an initiative referendum, higher education for the blind, an eight hour post office workday, municipal ownership of utilities, schoolbook labeling, aid for Santa Fe telegraphers, and irrigation funding for the arid West. Also noted were an explosion at a mine in Trimble Ohio injuring several, Russian crop estimates, the death of Samuel H. Wright in Minneapolis, and Li Hung Chang aide Yiko arrested in Paris for Boxer connections.
Chicago dispatch reports Santa Fe telegraphers scarce in number but trains largely on time as strike leaders claim high solidarity. In Texas and California the stance varies while Topeka officials say the strike is practically over with shops reopening and crews returning to work.
Reports from Aspen Wyoming describe a gas explosion in the Union Pacific tunnel six miles north of Aspen that killed four workers and injured others. Aspen aid was sent to the scene. Also reported are bank consolidation in Minneapolis, a fatal train fall near Ripon Wisconsin, and the death of Capt Eustace Gibson in Huntington West Virginia.
The Chicago Times-Enterprise reports a devastating train wreck with cars piled atop each other and injured passengers entangled beneath debris. Rescuers struggled to free victims as steam hissed from overturned boilers and rails tore loose, while a man trapped beneath a platform signaled hope and urged teammates forward with a cheer.
Frank J. Cheney attorney for Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A. W. Cerason attests on December 6, 1880. Catarrh Cure marketed as an internal remedy affecting blood and mucous membranes. Sold by druggists with Hall's Family Pills advertised as best.
A terse exchange of domestic dialogue ends with the wife naming the baby and the husband deferring the choice. The line hints at marital strain as Folin accuses the other of drinking. The brief item reflects a witty remark from Smart Set.
A reader touts Grain-O as a nourishing beverage made from pure grains. She says she disliked it at first but after a week would not return to coffee. Claimed benefits include strengthening the body and suitability for children. Package 25 cents.
A brief, humorous quip from the Boston Transcript about a wife fond of pets, noting she is almost always in one.
A advertising blurb touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a remedy for various ailments from headaches to cancer by cleansing the bowels. It markets the product as natural and easy, priced at 10 cents, with warnings to beware of imitations and notes about boxed metal packaging. The text includes a brief newspaper aside about a remark on women train robbers and train holds.
An 1890s Detroit Journal ad touts Kemp's Balsam as an instant cough cure with free sample bottles from druggists. It claims large bottles for 25 and 50 cents and urges immediate use, warning delays are dangerous.
Your Storekeeper can sell you Carter's Ink or get it for you. Carloads are sent annually to every state in the Union. Do you buy Carter's?
In a letter to Dr Wartman Mrs Brewer praises Peruna as a sure cure for grip and female catarrh. She claims it quickly cures colds and grippe related weakness, and notes its superior effectiveness for women from girlhood to menopause, urging readers to read the book.
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