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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1898
Page
7
Poem excerpt recounts a couple at life’s midpoint with a hopeful romance. The man asks to rise together up life’s long hill as time passes through sun and frost. It reflects enduring love and the contrast of youth’s promise with aging’s approach.
In a North Highth street saloon a rough hobo and a shaggy Chinaman entertained a crowd with tricks and a dramatic knife illusion. The hustling act included mind reading and a dangerous knife gambit, and the pair departed after taking about $3.
J Firman Coar compares contemporary German literature to the Storm and Stress era, predicting a future productivity led by Wildenbruch Sudermann and Hauptmann, with Ibsen inspiring a new generation. The piece notes these writers’ prominence in drama. Also covered is Chinese paper use at Amoy for wallpaper ceilings and funeral effigies. An Eskimo youth earns marriage status by killing a polar bear unaided, then seeks a wife by surprise.
A survey notes Fiji uses whale teeth as currency with red dyed teeth for higher value and a 20 white to 1 red exchange. An authority cites Indian royalty hoards valued at £250000000 in gold. The passage also mentions Japan’s community verdicts on robberies and lists unclaimed letters from Monticello Iowa dated December 19 1898. It ends with a brief product claim for Akaline kidney cure from A Kempf.
The piece reviews jewelers cleaning and enhancing gems by burning, bleaching, and artificial coloring, plus techniques like stone joining and doublets. It notes deceptive practices in mounting, pigment under settings, and foil backing to conceal flaws and heighten brilliance.
A pioneering physician recalls an elderly mentor who urged patience as the young doctor hurried to tend a gravely ill patient. The elder’s long words delayed the visit until the physician finally conceded the need to “give the man a chance.”
The Nickel Plate Road announces reduced round trip fares for December 23 1898 through January 2 1899 for travel to any point on the line. Fares are one third for the round trip with return by January 3 1899. Address J Y Calahan 111 Adams Street Chicago for details.
The notice promotes a bundle deal for farmers including The Iowa Homestead Special Farmers Institute editions The Poultry Farmer The Farmers Mutual Insurance Journal and the Humane Alliance with a combined price of 2.80 and the newspaper at 1.75. For 2.20 deliver all five plus the paper, highlighting humane education and broader humanity.
The Sunshine Route to California offers Pullman tourist cars to Los Angeles and San Francisco leaving Chicago every Saturday at 2 p.m. via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway to Kansas City and then the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Inquiries to the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway station ticket agent.
A 87 day deluxe Mexico tour departs Chicago Tuesday January 24 aboard a vestibuled train CHILI LITL with open observation car. Tickets cover rail and sleeping car fares meals hotels street cars boats guides and interpreters no extras. Organized under The American Tourist Association Beau Campbell manages Chicago offices. Contact Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway for details.
An old ad column advertises Christmas and New Year rail fares at a third off for a round trip on specified dates in 1898 into 1899 with return by January 8. It notes student rates with credentials via J Y Calahan in Chicago.
Proponents state the proprietors have given away over ten million trial bottles of Dr. Wing's New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds. They claim it cures asthma bronchitis hoarseness and throat chest and lung diseases. callon D C Prader & Co. druggists offer a free trial bottle regular sizes 50 cents and one dollar. guaranteed or refunds.
Advertisements extol One Minute Cough Cure for hacking coughs and chest illnesses. Dr Sawyer's Little Wide Awake Pills promise relief for constipation and dyspepsia. Electric Bitters claimed as a general tonic. Many claims reference D. C. Prader & Co and various global places and brands.
An advertisement touts a salve as the best remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded and is priced at 25 cents per box from D. C. Prader & Co.
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