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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1912
Page
3
The column riffs on aviation dangers versus football, money and art, and social quirks. It jokes about umbrellas as weapons, pajamas, waistcoats, and a secretary of fashions while noting a Pittsburgh wife unpaid for 88 years and a Geneva doctor discovering a comet. Russia plans 34 million dollars for a navy, hinting at ambitions.
In a startling shift, women reportedly lift skirts when seated to avoid fabric sagging at the knees, reflecting changing attitudes toward modesty and dress norms.
A letter beginning Dear Lambie is listed among exhibits in a breach of promise case valued at $50,000. The document notes Fifty thousandsn't enough as part of the trial materials.
American teachers in Alaska teach native communities to grow fresh vegetables despite extreme cold and limited storage facilities, sharing methods and adaptation.
A comparing note explains that indoor baseball is a straightforward game and should not be mistaken for the famed inside baseball described in popular reading. It emphasizes differences in style and complexity between the two variants.
A Texas woman trimmed her own hat with money she did not give her milliner but might have if she had accepted the service. The hat cost as much as a genuine hat, highlighting the unusual dispute over payment.
Altoona sportsmen who wear bright red caps to avoid scavenging deer and rabbits may overlook the danger of a color blind shooter. The piece warns readers to consider visibility and safety in hunting practices.
A New York man advances a theory that ancient sculptors achieved results by using human flesh in their plasters. Carpers might say that was plastering it on pretty thick.
A Philadelphia fashion designer died by his own hand distressed by his inability to predict spring trends. The incident reflects the era’s fashion-driven pressures on designers and performers.
A newly described torpedo reportedly curves with the wash of a vessel, missing its first target and looping to strike another, adding an unsettling unpredictability to maritime warfare.
A chestnut vendor from a rural province showcases a tactic aimed at early birds, arguing that timely shoppers miss none of the warm sale benefits. The demonstration highlights market timing and product availability strategies.
Ice factories have been introduced in Japan to keep residents cooled as fears of the yellow peril rise. Public authorities plan widespread use of ice production to mitigate heat and civil unrest amid tense regional conditions.
The note says King Georges enjoys practicing on the typewriter, hinting at a future in writing or authorship as he develops skill and amusement in the craft.
Three New York judges rule a tenant may break a lease if the janitor fails to provide enough heat. The decision upends the janitor’s authority and will force a humorist standby to exit the business.
The fragment discusses sea sickness and mass fear of death, noting the first person to die by own action on that account and suggesting others lacked energy to follow. It reads as a claustrophobic, observational aside with no clear names, places, or dates.
The twentieth biennial report of the Anamosa reformatory's warden notes forty four internal trades taught, a contract shop with thirty workers, and 50 to 100 prisoners on the waiting list. It records $11 442.91 paid to the state for prisoner labor plus $3 996.43 in overtime. Salaries for staff from the warden downward have not risen in fifteen years, remaining the lowest among comparable state institutions.
Three hundred seventy six converts were reported from revival meetings in Iowa Falls. The tabernacle is being torn down as evangelists move to new fields. A goodwill offering of 856 dollars was raised, with total meeting expenses about 900 dollars.
Four year old Rollo Vancleave, son of Mr and Mrs W B Vancleave, was killed when a wagon rolled downhill after he released the brake. He was thrown from the wagon and died instantly from a head injury.
The new diagonal highway to Shenandoah was opened last week and earns wide praise. The two mile road from the southwest shortens the trip by eight-tenths of a mile and eliminates seven hills, improving travel.
John Collins, a carpenter at the Keokuk power house, plunged eighty four feet down an elevator shaft. He escaped with an arm and both legs broken as timber supported his fall, preventing instant death.
LeMars resident Donald Brodie aged 20, employed by Green Chemical, was fatally struck when a timber in his hand was caught by a flywheel on a gasoline engine. The accident occurred while he operated the engine, causing lethal abdominal injury.
Congressman elect Maur ice Connolly sails from here to New York to join the congressional delegation on the annual inspection tour of the Panama Canal Zone. He is scheduled to return January 6.
Des Moines judge Smith McPherson fines Enos B. Hunt $50 on each of two indictments for distributing obscene postal cards. Hunt pleads guilty in federal court.
In Dubuque the body of Edward Reilly aged 36 was found in the Illinois Central yards. He had been run over by a train and ground to pieces, authorities reported.
J A McKinney of New York has been secured by a local engineering corporation to assist in locating a large number of factories in Keokuk. The arrangement signals plans to attract substantial industrial development to the city.
Knoxville Orren Bacon, 19, was sentenced by Judge Hays in the district court to fifteen years in the Anamosa reformatory for forging three checks drawn on farmer D. H. Longchan.
Edward Miller aged 19 died instantly in Milwaukee car shops when a lover used a jack to raise a car and it toppled, breaking his neck in the incident.
Mason City Vester and Eli Harris aged 13 and 14 confessed to stealing 134 dollars from the Coyle Coal company safe. Police report they used part of the money for Christmas gifts for their sweethearts and part on car hire.
Arthur Peterson aged 19 was struck and killed at a street corner when he ran in front of a moving automobile. The incident occurred in Council Bluffs.
Burlington railroad officials and government experts fear the Missouri river may undermine the made land above Folsom ten miles south of Council Bluffs. They warn the current could erode the eastern riverbank during spring rise, possibly forcing abandonment of the line after $300,000 spent on riprap. Experts have been on site for ten days planning a defense.
A 50 gallon kerosene tank exploded in the late G G Laughlin home six miles northeast of Oskaloosa. Flames engulfed the house and all contents, watchers by the body struggled to save it. Loss set at 8000 dollars. Some rescuers suffered serious burns.
Burlington report states Smith Dodge, described as a local desperado with multiple penitentiary terms, was sentenced to thirty years for killing Dave Geiger during a drunken row aboard a cabin boat south of the city last summer. Dodge had been on parole from Joliet prison at the time of the crime.
On grounds of unsound mind a jury set aside the Alex Thompson will. Three granddaughters and Elizabeth Lincoln, a daughter, protested the will. Lincoln’s share reduced from one fifth to one seventh of an estate valued at $60,000.
After a year and a half of delays over the Atlantic Northern and Southern railroad both sides agreed on a continuance. The court will hear next week the six months extension sought by former Governor Leslie M. Shaw to raise funds to take over the road.
Rockford report states W. H. Campbell, after four decades of living together, requests annulment of the marriage due to turbulent marital life. The couple are prominent local residents and the news is deeply regretted by the community.
Mrs. Will Iske died instantly when the family auto went over an embankment near Ira. Her husband was seriously injured with five broken ribs but expected to recover. The couple’s three children in the tonneau were unhurt. Mr. Iske, a wealthy farmer, was driving.
A district farmers institute is set for December 26 to 28 at Maxwell with a strong program. More than 250 will be paid in premiums across horse, corn, cereals, and poultry divisions, plus premiums for ladies department fancy work and domestic products.
Charles Strohmeier, a veteran market man, was killed in a runaway when thrown from his cart striking his head. His neck was broken and he died instantly. His brother and partner was killed in the same manner a few years ago.
Ed W. Coyle, a Mason City coal dealer, found his office’s safe looted of 1384 dollars after leaving it unlocked and returning after supper. The thief exploited the unlocked safe to steal the cash.
General order by Adjutant General Guy E Logan accepts the resignation of Captain Loomis O Black of Company I Fifty sixth Regiment Iowa National Guard. Captain Black resides in Boone.
Guy Baker, after a two year battle, is ordered to Fort Madison to serve a murder sentence for Oliver Driver's killing at Lonetree Iowa in July 1910, following the Iowa Supreme Court reducing the term from twenty two to fifteen years.
Mrs Tom Crook wife of a machinist attempted death by own action in her room at 1448 West Locust Street by swallowing four tablets of bichloride of mercury.
State Secretary W M Parsons of Des Moines arrives to finalize plans for the state Y M C A convention to be held in Ottumwa February 21 to 23. About 4000 delegates from across the state expected to attend.
The store of L. H. Battles in Mitchellville was burglarized taking silks valued at 100 dollars, several fur sets, and other articles.
The U S Supreme Court held the 65 percent contracts between railroad coal companies and independent mines violate the Sherman Act. It nullified the contracts and found attempts to bar a competing railroad in the anthracite region through Temple Iron. Minor combinations were dismissed without prejudice to future suits.
Senator Clapp presses Hearst on letters related to John D. Archbold and Standard Oil. Hearst says he is willing to testify fully and that he may have seen only photographic facsimiles, not originals, and that he obtained copies from John Eddy of London.
Taft declines to name a London ambassador replacing Whitelaw Reid and lets the post stay vacant until after March 4. Mrs Reid accepts the gift warship and the body was carried to Portsmouth on a gun carriage before sailing from Dorchester to join the Cunard boat train.
In Elgin Illinois the board of trade, in a stormy session, abolished its quotation committee before the government has served notice of suit for dissolution on its officers. The move followed a split from the dissenting faction at the annual meeting.
Indianapolis dispatch reports Olaf A. Tveitmoe, San Francisco labor leader, named as the man who directed the Los Angeles Times blast by Special District Attorney James W. Noel in the dynamite conspiracy trial before Judge Anderson. Noel described a six hour argument linking leaders to the crime and urged jury responsibility. He also pressed after 39 defendants including Herbert S. Hockin while noting admitted conversations but denied threats. A verdict could come by end of next week.
Four heavily armed men robbed the State bank at Kyle Texas on December 17 and escaped with about 3000 dollars after binding the night watchman Ralph Guinne. They drilled the safe using nitroglycerine and fled before alarm could be raised.
Seven persons were killed and seven injured when a Lake Shore coal train crashed into a street car at the Center Street crossing in Ashtabula Ohio on December 17.
Berlin reports Baron Von Zuy len Vannyvelt was killed in an automobile accident near Antwerp on Wednesday. Also injured were Baron Goffinet Mlle Debassompierre and a Miss Woods.
Dortmund Germany December 20 thirty one coal miners were killed by an explosion of black damp at the Achen bach mine. Six bodies have been recovered and twenty five miners are still missing.
Secret service agents reported that $6,000 in bills consigned from the New York subtreasury to a Marietta bank were stolen. The incident was disclosed after agents arrived in Dennison Ohio on Wednesday December 20.
President Taft announced Goethals will accept the governor position of the Panama canal zone after assurances from Wednesday.
Fifty persons were killed in severe fighting among clans in Amoy on Tuesday. Government troops were called out but order was only partially restored.
In Laporte Indiana on December 19 authorities report Mrs Belle Gunness did not perish in the blaze that gutted her murder farm. Charles Meyers alias Reed a paroled convict says Ray Lamphere who sparked the fire claimed Gunness rode away in a red car toward Chicago with a box of victims blood money.
Announcement from George J. Gould confirms the engagement of Helen Miller Gould to Finley D. Shepard a St. Louis railway man. The notice places the event in New York with the date December 17.
William J. Flynn of New York was appointed chief of the United States Secret Service on Tuesday by Treasury Secretary MacVeagh, succeeding John E. Wilkie.
Herkimer grand jury indicted several Little Falls strike leaders arrested after the October 30 riot in which two police officers were shot.
A flock of 1250 turkeys was driven into Sedalia from the county’s northeast, sold by Josh Golden at 1644 cents per pound. The birds were driven 36 miles to reach the market on Monday in Sedalia Missouri.
Cuban sanitary officers decide to continue the quarantine against Porto Rico due to a report that bubonic plague has reappeared, prompting ongoing health measures in Havana on December 18.
William Colbert aged fifty and blind died at his Wabash Indiana home after ten days of refusing food and drink. The death occurred on Tuesday as authorities investigated the unusual case of self starvation.
The steamship Impoco and the barge Hainaut of Standard Oil were thought lost with 36 aboard in the Gulf of Mexico but arrived in Galveston Texas on Monday confirming their safety.
Washington reports show the Navy is 6 000 men short of its authorized strength though recruiting has improved recently. Enlistments fell off in an unprecedented degree during the last few months.
J Pierpont Morgan testified before the Pujo investigating committee in Washington as questions outlined the Morgan firm and its partners. Charts presented show 180 firm members and directors across 145 corporations with combined resources and capitalization in the tens of billions, controlled through eighteen financial institutions led by J P Morgan & Co and other major banks.
Bert Jackson, eighty five, an inmate of the county infirmary in Wabash Indiana, died Wednesday from fright after learning of the sudden deaths of two fellow inmates. He reportedly feared a corpse.
Mrs. George Moore aged 61 and her mother Mrs. Mary J. Wilson aged 82 were found dead in their Columbia residence on Wednesday with heads crushed by an axe. Authorities investigated the double homicide.
An explosion in the boiler room of the New York Central roundhouse at Summer ville Rochester New York destroyed the stone structure. Fifteen locomotives were damaged.
Two tremors were felt at Marysville Bald Butte Bald Mountain and Jay Gould mining camps about twenty five miles from Helena on Tuesday. The tremor was also felt in Helena.
Tokyo dated December 19 reports the emperor ordered Prince Taro Katsura to form a cabinet replacing the Saionji ministry which resigned December 4. The move follows the cabinet collapse and signals a shift in Japan's political leadership.
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