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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1902
Page
4
The Monticello Express lists a per year subscription price of $1.75 in a concise pricing note.
Local items from Castle Grove and Cass report moves, visits, and church events. Mrs Maggie Donovan dies in Minnesota with funeral in Argand. Miss Blanche Noble returns home from Coe College. telephone service expands to thirty two phones in the township. Rev Keeler accepts Cass church pastorate and begins at the parsonage.
Center Junction readers hear of ill infant at Heaton home and holiday wishes. Local visits include Mrs. Andrews at Center Point and Miss Christiansen at Delmar Junction. Students and social events listed with music study in Dubuque and Hopkinton contests. A piece on Shakespeare sonnets and various mile measures closes the page.
A Chicago Chronicle piece recounts a woman leader who recalls an old French teacher comforting her as a dull homely girl. The teacher gives a coarse lump planted to bloom into a golden lily, showing beauty and value can emerge from humility and doubt.
The text lists various signs needing professional eye care including flashes of light, eye fatigue, squinting, double vision, dizziness, colored halos, blurred vision, eye watering, redness, and letters running together. It advises seeking an oculist or reputable specialist promptly.
The piece traces sanitary practices from ancient Greece and Rome to the middle ages, noting public baths and sewers in Athens and Rome, then a sanitation decline during medieval cities. It describes crowded streets, buried dead in churches, polluted wells, and the bubonic plague decimating Europe in the 14th century.
A Georgia man sought a heavenly visitation in an old field at dusk and prayed for angels to come. He fled when he heard wingbeats, racing home to hide under the cover as his wife cried the angels had arrived. He told them through the keyhole he could not fly and was too heavy to tote.
Do not dwell on sickness or past operations. Focus on others and world events, heroes, battles, and happy homes. Be a light bearer and strengthen those around you with uncomplaining spirit. The Globe-Democrat quips General Miles could be assigned to drum up an exhibit for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
Advertises Dr. Miles new treatment for heart nerves stomach and dropsy claiming cures after extensive study. Offers free $2.50 worth trial and cites testimonials from C M Buck Col N G Parker and others. Details office in Elkhart Indiana and request mentions of this paper.
Advertises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a quick cure for colds and influenza and claims pneumonia chronic bronchitis and consumption arise from neglected colds. Promotes sale by Bacher & Abel.
A dampened piece of flannel bound on the affected area is said to be better than a plaster for lame backs and pains in the side or chest Pain Balm is claimed to have no superior liniment for deep seated muscular and rheumatic pains Available from Bacher and Abel.
Advertises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe for all ages and quick acting. Claims no opium or harmful substances and notes use for babies, adults, and croup with mothers as supporters. Sold by Bacher & Abel.
Be quick when a child shows croup symptoms. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy given at hoarseness or onset of croupy cough will prevent the attack. It never fails, and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by Bacher Abel.
A New York Tribune passage notes changing views on feet from ancient admiration to modern constraints. It compares public foot washing and adornment in the east and biblical eras to the later rise of shoes and high heels, which disfigured feet, and concludes that recent generations treat feet more kindly though modesty still governs footwear choices.
A man asks if she can cook and hints at marriage. She refuses, moving away, saying she neither cooks nor is involved in cooking, and directs him to the intelligence office. He leaves, wiser and angrier.
The Weekly Chicago Inter Ocean price increases. The Express combined with Inter Ocean no longer $2.00 but $2.25. New combos include The Express with State Register at $2.10 and The Express with Iowa Capital at $1.95.
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