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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1915
Page
7
The piece warns against peculation and excess spending by trusted workers in Dubuque and Cedar Rapids, noting bank staffers who stole to fund lavish living. It contrasts vanity with prudence, cites punitive outcomes, and urges thrift while reporting a Midwest farming downturn from a cold season and soft corn.
At Mason City a Black man is charged with burning the films of The Birth of a Nation. The piece is condemned as a libel on both the Negro race and the North. It questions how one can witness praise for the Klu Klux Klan and still support Union heritage.
The physical director reports female students are eight pounds under average weight. The piece notes brains do not depend on fat or curves and asserts the State University girls are all right, based on observed evidence.
A local report mentions a Cum mins club in Oregon with mixed opinions. The piece contrasts pride in one type of club with discomfort from another, urging more precise detail on the Oregon instance.
The Republican Party will begin its presidential contest with a national convention in Chicago a week before the Democrats renominate President Wilson. The move signals confidence in early momentum and sets the stage for a contested campaign season.
The piece lambastes writers for brazenly linking the coming holiday to imas and likens it to the broader harm of overused jargon such as autoed. It criticizes clarity loss and sloppy phrasing in contemporary prose.
Secall Council No. 1821 was organized in Monticello with initiation and installation of officers. A banquet for about four hundred attendees followed, honoring Sacred Heart church women’s societies as Cascade officers led the lodge work and Rev. George Hauck delivered the sermon.
A Brookfield Missouri Gazette poem urges readers to seek out the hungry and needy during Christmas. It contrasts festive displays with lives of poverty and calls for acts of kindness to aid those in darkness and want.
Judge Hilison heard the Ciricks versus Toune case in Anamosa last week over a Lincoln highway collision involving two Cadillacs. Ernest Tonne’s car was driven by his two minor sons, with Ciricks seeking 2100 damages. The court overruled the demurrer, allowing the father to be held responsible while excluding the non driving son as a party.
The commission granted authority last Saturday allowing railroads to raise interstate passenger rates in the Midwest to 24.10 cents per mile from 2 cents. Affected trips include Monticello to Chicago and Des Moines to Denver with gains to 86 cents and 18.81 dollars respectively. The Iowa intra state 2 cent rate remains unchanged.
In the current Republican primary, Cummins supporters, including past skeptics, labor to explain and defend the senator’s stance on the protective tariff issue, a core tenet of Republicanism the campaign must defend.
Report notes that prevailing peace terms are viewed as the asking price, reflecting a view that any terms offered now are negotiable and set as a minimum expectation. No specific parties or dates are identified in the readable text.
The phrase suggests a paradoxical virtue in restraint avoiding open enmity. It reflects a maxim on personal conduct and suggests preferring neutral or peaceful relations over conflict.
Traer residents celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary. A Reinhardsville Catholic church building was destroyed by fire causing about $5000 in losses. Delaware County mourns Mrs. Malven of Manchester with earlier roots in Burlington. Rev. Clyde Harris ordained as Congregational pastor at Strawberry Point. Delaware County State Bank appoints Charles Seeds as president succeeding W. A. Cawley. Obituaries note Mangler convicted for Maquoketa river levee dynamiting. Henry Brickman cooperates with police. Infanticide charges follow a baby remains discovery near a Colesburg garden. Worthington hardware burglary nets $35 and pocket knives. Local roads praised for smoothness after freeze up. Ex-mayor Charles Wolfe guilty of assault with intent to murder editor Frank Kresger. Mt. Vernon recital features critique of modern books. Springville banker OC ER Crane to move to Central City. Burroughs named cashier. Clinton missing man Michael McNeally found shot. suspects Bailey and Buck Thompson held. David Lenox body found in Cambridge well. authorities deem murder. P. & Hall Cedar Rapids dies. longtime railroad builder and bank organizer. Former Dubuque bank employees jailed in Leavenworth for fraud. leniency requested by defense.
John A. McLaughlin and M. Oe Herrick are named in connection with the Monticello State Bank case. The item references Richardson in relation to the bank matter, noting local involvement and transactions. Further details are unclear in the fragment.
The column extols Eclipse coal, storm sash, shingles, nails, and tar felt as essential for a warm home. It humorously notes household scenes, weather prep, and upcoming building books while urging readers to buy Eclipse materials before spring.
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