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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1899
Page
6
In a bustling New Year scene a woman in Ohio reflects on moving chaos and rediscovered love letters. A trio of unseen suitors and a hopeful husband reveal promises of happiness and fault lines in a life reassembled after a move.
Describes how New Year's visits in old New York featured formal calls, social competition, and lavish hospitality. Includes reminiscence of John Jacob Astor and the decline of New Year’s receptions as crowds grew and manners frayed, with a closing domestic scene of reconciliation and restraint.
A very modern flat building to cost 5000 dollars features gray brick and gray stone trim. The two-story residence has six rooms on the first floor and seven on the second, with elaborate art glass details, oak beams, tile baths, and a basement coal and store area.
A playful note observes youths promising New Year resolutions but planning to keep only half. The voice shifts to humorous critique of a character named Crismus and his companions.
Wise System. Saloonist tells a new bartender never to sell more liquor after a man has had enough. The bartender asks how to know, and the saloonist replies that it is when his money runs out. Baltimore American records the joke.
In a playful exchange Willy Green asks for an extinct species. The response jokes that a turkey killed for the New Year dinner, reflecting lighthearted classroom banter in the Puck excerpt.
A diner recounts sitting beside Hewitt and Grewitt at a restaurant yesterday. The table shared laughs at stories while Hewitt picked up the tab, covering the entire meal.
Dr Cunningham of Columbia University reports experiments at the Vanderbilt clinic on animals showing possible revival after apparent death from electric shock. He claims ordinary currents do not cause instant death and that suspended vital functions could be restored using infusion of defibrinated blood.
A Tokio firm introduces paper shingles as an affordable substitute for wood. The tarred pasteboard slabs are easier to handle and cost about half as much as traditional wooden shingles.
In Bavaria families bring a walnut branch to the church ward-fire on Easter Sunday after-which the partially burned branch is taken home and laid on the hearth during storms to protect against lightning.
Four submarines are under construction for France with two already secretly tested. Reports claim the trials surpassed hopes and may force the navy to halt heavy battleship building in favor of rapid submarine production. The Gustave Zede class is highlighted with notable improvements.
A noted scientist argues that chemically pure water is poisonous to the human stomach. He contends that distillation strips salts the body normally absorbs, creating a protoplasmic poison and challenging established views on distilled water.
In a Columbus Ohio State Journal item a teacher tests memory with Milton the blind poet. Bobby Smart recalls the detail that Milton was a poet and the lesson on memory follows.
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