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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1911
Page
4
The author argues that there exist colors beyond human vision and waves beyond visible light. He compares color to heat and sound to thunder, noting our senses capture only a tiny portion of nature’s spectrum and we may misread the color world.
A tale from "The Romance of a Great Singer" recounts Czar Nicholas I asking a court doctor for the quickest poison during Crimean reverses. The czar took the vial without tremor, refusing antidote as the doctor watched, then died, while official reports cited a severe chill.
A fragment from Tobacco Leaves contrasts Carlyle the smoker with Tennyson and Dickens, blaming his pipe for pains and quarrels, then a vivid tale of two Scots walking on a bright winter Sabbath, debating whether a fine day is fit for talk.
A Western man jokes about a Chinese cook's singing while working versus moaning in pain. The quip appears in a Washington Star quotation highlighting kitchen noise and misinterpretation.
The article describes sharpening worn file teeth using a sand blast in a chamber. A stream of fine sand and water is forced by steam against the file teeth at a precise angle, slowly grinding and sharpening them. Newly cut files can also be refined by this method and a single string violin is mentioned among Apaches.
A local poster invites residents to a series of free lectures on dairy farming. Speakers cover cattle care milking methods and dairy economics. Interested families are urged to attend with their sons and visit the demonstration barn afterward.
Garrett P. Serviss recounts Yale measurements of Arcturus parallax 0.066 seconds, placing the star about 290 trillion miles away and 2,500 times brighter than the Sun. The piece warns that a planet removed to Arcturus distance would annihilate life and heat would scorch Earth, while noting Wallace’s view on intelligent life.
A woman asks a magistrate for a warrant for her husband after he boxed her ears. The judge agrees to issue it for assault and injuries. She asks to fetch it in four months. the judge suggests a month. She recalls hitting him with a rolling pin after he slapped her, sending him to hospital, with recovery in a month.
A Persian tale shows a king asking an astrologer how long he has to live. The astrologer says ten years, and the king falls into despair. The vizier tests the seer by asking the astrologer the same question and receives twenty years. The vizier orders the astrologer executed, and the king, impressed by the minister, dismisses the oracle.
A critic notes the German legal lexicon's propensity for lengthy compounds. Examples include zu ruckbehaltungsrecht and gesammtgutsverbindlichkeiten, illustrating how complex terms obscure English equivalents like impre scriptibility and shared property liabilities. The remark highlights difficulty translating and understanding dense legal German.
Courtly banter recalls a Louisville vignette with animals and acts. A Little Neighbor girl reports on a dinner visit noting a cat performer, baseball player, pu gilist, cockatoo, and an actor. The exchange ends with a humorous aside about manners and leftovers.
The Major remains 36 inches tall in his stocking feet with his wife an inch shorter. They recall a love at first sight that led to a happy marriage and hope for fifty more anniversaries. A sewing machine repair service is announced at Locher's music store with Mr J B Willard performing weekly.
A sequence of land transfers in Iowa towns includes Ella Mallicoat to Hugh Mallicoat for undivided third of 90 acres near Maquoketa and Wyoming road, and various other deeds:Frank Bailey to Michael J. Bailey for 80 acres in section 13, Marie A. Clark to Harriet James in Turck’s addition to Monticello, Ernest W. Harrison and wife to E. L. Atkinson involving parts of Fishers add to Anamosa, Helen L. Shaw to C. A. Crorey in Anamosa, Harm Rickels to Trinke Maria Arnold in section 12-86-4, Susan E. Bowers to Patrick Hayes in Anamosa, D. F. Stearns to W. J. Bailey in 11-83-4, N. B. Lathrop to Thomas Blabmek in 23-88-2, Thomas J. Kenney to Frank Hoffman in Martelle, and other deeds including Elmira Richardson, C. M. Ballou, Wm. J. Corbit et al, Edmund W. Dunn to R. B. Cruce, and Thomas J. Corbit et al to R. M. Corbit with several tracts and prices mostly $1 or nominal sums.
On February 2 in Wyoming Mrs. Julian Day visited relatives in Ohio. John Noyes of Baldwin was a business visitor this week. Mrs. Emma Ballard of Davenport and her daughter Anna Ballard of Wheatland were over Sunday visitors. Leona Gridley Elwood of Everett Washington visits her parents and many friends. Ellwood and children plan Howard county visits before returning. Mildred Anderson daughter of Mr and Mrs Elias Anderson is seriously ill at Miss Florence Spencer's home after falling ill at school. friends fear for her recovery.
Amber February 1 reports George Lindsay leaving for New York to sail Saturday to Scotland. Philip Hannon came from the Junction. Mike and Frank Bailey visited Center Junction to see a sick sister. Residents traveled to the Jones county hub. John Foley buys baled hay for shipment to Wisconsin for railroad work. A two night hall show is scheduled. Mr and Mrs Jesse Davis of Mon tour visited last week. Henry Otten unloaded a car of corn Saturday. George Schoon and Freda Engel barts attended a wedding near Pom eroy last week.
Advertisement notes Dr Puleston curing ruptures with a fidelity method claiming no pain and no work disruption. It directs readers to contact D. E. Pond at Lovell Bank Building for leases mortgages deeds licenses and insurance including marriage and hunters licenses.
Bids will be received by the Jones County Board of Education in Anamosa IA until 10 a m February 8 1911 for required school textbooks and supplies including readers arithmetic speller geography history grammar language physiology primers algebra economics physics civics agriculture dictionaries copy books and music books Samples must be deposited at the county superintendent’s office The board may reject any or all bids Louis Gardner Kate Maurice Secretary President January 6 1911
Classified items include a girl for general housework inquiry with Dr A M Maurice, hay sale, a 120 acre farm for rent near Prairieburg, creamery meeting notice for Scottish Grove Co operative Creamery Co at 1 pm February 4, two residences for sale in Monticello, and an extensive A U C T I O N listing cattle horses hogs sheep and farm implements with a Prossor and Doolittle auctioneers signing.
160 acre farm for rent located 2 miles northeast of Center Junction. Contact Wm J Corbit Onslow Iowa for rental details and terms.
Concord Michigan resident Thos Ariss testifies he has used Dr King’s New Discovery for eighty years and calls it the best cough and cold cure. The ad claims it treats lagrippe asthma hay fever crop quinsy sore lungs and more. Price 60 cents or one dollar with a trial bottle free guaranteed by O H Saetje.
Paul Mathulka of Buffalo New York says he always keeps at home Dr King’s New Life Pills, calling them a blessing to his family. They cure constipation headache indigestion and dyspepsia and are sold for 25 cents at O H Soetje’s.
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