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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1913
Page
3
A collection of quips and wry observations on swindlers poetry swimming power backups electricity football versus baseball and odd news of cats trains and coins. Notable lines reference a talking Berlin cat a burglar with nickels and a cow collision fined aviator and a ministerial minstrel tryout.
The report states China will execute habitual opium smokers and impose fines up to 2000 dollars for others. It notes a smoker as a concept within the code, outlining punitive measures tied to opium use.
A La Crosse hen swallowed a ruby valued at 200 dollars prompting talk that a sharp buyer could mix it with other hens and auction the lot.
A light fashion note notes dresses now feature only two hooks, while jokes link the trend to overworked husbands and the question of how many buttons are added for effect.
Painted eyes are the latest fad in London. Years ago they were common here as a necessity. Eye artists still exist where black eyes have been.
A Chicago school teacher allegedly set fire to a pupil's trousers by exploding matches in his back pocket while administering a spanking. The incident suggests a reckless act with severe potential injury.
Nicholas of Russia carries a $5,000,000 life policy but remains vulnerable to nihilist attacks. The note underscores security concerns surrounding the imperial family amid rising revolutionary violence and assassination fears.
A duo robs a man in a street crime with the man threatening the victim and the woman slipping items from his pockets. Bystanders note the woman may be married. Police urge witnesses to come forward with details.
An eastern professor reports that red headed men seldom marry red headed women and suggests each may understand the other's temper.
A Philadelphia man seeks a divorce citing his wife smokes ten cigars daily. He notes the issue might be clearer if they lived in Pittsburgh.
Paris produces a genius inventor who creates a shoe that appears only half its size and is hailed as a blessing for women. The report emphasizes novelty and social praise for the innovation and its designer.
A remark asserts a young woman can live on $7.20 weekly in Philadelphia. It closes by challenging whether such a wage makes life worth sustaining, highlighting debates on poverty and dignity.
A note invites continuation of unfinished work with an option to resume from the point of interruption. The message emphasizes flexibility and does not compel immediate action.
The Department of Agriculture notes lightning may strike a site more than once yet politics often sees one strong blow as enough. Authorities urge continued caution and preparedness despite past events.
A student of the times predicts hoopskirts will reappear within five years if women can be persuaded they are stylish.
A Boston minister claims a couple can wed for fifteen dollars weekly. The remark is noted amid broader commentary on affordability and social constraints.
A Pennsylvania judge asserts a man who smokes in his wife's parlor is as bad as a skunk. The remark raises questions about decorum and private spaces if the man smokes in his own parlor.
A witty note compares Parisian widows remarrying in eighteen months to Reno’s shorter eighteen minute lapse, suggesting similar quick remarriage customs in different locales with a humorous regional contrast.
Beef specialists from the Iowa Beef Producers association told Des Moines that beef cattle can yield larger profits than grain farming. They urged a coordinated farmer movement to raise stock, feed soil products, and expand silos pastures and alfalfa to conserve soil fertility. They estimated that half of Iowa’s 200,000 farms could produce beef, with a farmer able to raise a car of baby beef annually for about 2000 dollars, needing as few as 25 cows and up to 65 cattle at a time.
Des Moines resident Fred Reese, 37, was hit by a west bound train in the Great Western yards in South Des Moines and hurled onto an opposite track where an east bound train struck him. He suffered a broken leg and head injuries. home is Fort Dodge.
Judge Castle held the railroad not liable after a freight train passing through a farmer’s field shed the top of a box car which struck and killed the farmer’s registered cow, deeming the incident an act of God.
Engineer Fred Kennison of Perry made a record freight run to Council Bluffs in three hours and fifteen minutes, beating most passenger trains by over an hour.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Zearing Creamery company officers were elected. J. W. Deal became president, Adam Ruxton was elected vice president, C. P. Bean secretary, and W. A. Pollock treasurer.
Two hundred visitors at the Rowley post office robbery scene dispersed the trail of the robbers. Waterloo bloodhounds failed to locate a track after several tries and were sent back.
Montezuma reports 53 year old farmer Dan Wymore attempted suicide by drinking carbolic acid while momentarily insane over financial worries. His wife summoned a doctor who pumped his stomach and he is expected to survive the ordeal.
George Poorman reports a $5,743.85 shortage in the books of John Grelck former county clerk who died by suicide two weeks ago. The case opens questions about the missing funds and next steps for the office.
Railroads operating around Marshalltown may not house laborers in bunk cars within city limits after this ruling. The measure targets workers on local improvement projects and aims to control housing conditions during railroad work.
A standpipe of 15 000 gallons capacity erected by the Rock Island here and the automatic coal ing station with 800 ton capacity, erected at a cost of 35 000 dollars, are now completed.
Mason City Mrs Anna Michael and Ollie Pickett were brought from Council Bluffs and arrested on forgery charges. They are in the county jail awaiting a preliminary hearing.
Fort Dodge Telephone company spends 62000 on upgrades and 12000 on a fireproof building and new switchboard with capacity over 8000 phones.
Mason City report says Fred Shipley a well known local printer has purchased the Klemme Times and will take possession February 1.
The last trace of Old South Hall at the University of Iowa will be removed. Built in 1865 near the old capitol at a cost of 15000 dollars, the hall housed boarding and classrooms for the collegiate and medical and dental departments before a fire on March 19 1901 destroyed it.
W J Reid sentenced for six years at Fresno California for forgery is a former Floyd county Iowa resident. California case not Reid's first court experience as a Rockford Iowa resident he was indicted for arson in a contested case with a hung jury. He later served ten years in Chicago and Massachusetts. Relatives in Rockford remain well to do and respected.
George A. Merrill division superintendent for the Rock Island restrained a holdup man Hari Cone who pointed a revolver at his head and held four other people. Hari Cone’s brother Ray Cone was arrested as an accomplice from a prior holdup.
Sidney Henry Johnson, colored, received a twenty five year term in the penitentiary for the alleged murder of Henry Porter. Johnson was found guilty of murder in the second degree. Ross Gibson, sixteen, indicted for killing his cousin Alexander Keys, pleaded guilty to assault with intent to do great bodily injury and had the sentence suspended during good behavior.
Yale area farmer Yale Mack Lockwood reported two men seen near Milwaukee railroad tracks three miles north of Yale. He found fifteen spikes removed from ties and one rail loosened after they left. A quick police call helped stop a train just about to depart Yale.
Florence Gamble, jailed on a federal mail fraud charge targeting single men nationwide, was released by Judge Smith McPherson on her own recognizance to care for two young children in Boone.
Des Moines reports J W Jarnigan a veteran Iowa newspaper man will move there to become editor of the Iowa Farmer, previously The Register and Farmer. He has thirty five years in paper work and has published papers in Colfax Oskaloosa Montezuma and Cedar Falls.
Davenport police seek Don F. Bennett who arrived last week posing as an aviator and planned a flight from Prairie du Chien Wisconsin to Lincoln Nebraska. Officers report checks Bennett cashed show no funds stamps from his bank.
Mount Pleasant authorities failed to locate the person who left a baby girl on the porch of Karl Weizenkirn's home. Bloodhounds followed the trail for ten blocks before losing it. investigators suspect the escape was made in a buggy. The infant is described as not more than two days old.
Samuel Gompers condemns compulsory arbitration as proposed by New York state bills. He argues workers must retain right to strike and reject manacles on labor. Oscar Straus cites mediation board limits, while A B Garretson criticizes arbitration boards as theoretical.
At Rankin Pennsylvania on January 30 a clash between eighty deputy sheriffs and three hundred striking workers at the U S Steel Rankin plant left one man dead two fatally wounded and ten seriously injured. A baby and several women are among the injured as deputies and strikers fought for over an hour near Hawkins square.
Gen Daniel B Sickles, famed Civil War hero, released on 30 000 bond over a 23 276 shortage in the battlefield monument fund. Sheriff Harburger oversaw the process as Sickles begins a subscription drive to cover the deficit guided by a telegram from Helen Longstreet widow of Confederate general.
Four well known women and 17 strikers were detained by police in lower West Twenty third Street loft district during a needle industry strike. The women Maud Younger Marguerite Remington Charter Sarah Parks and Margaret Hinchey faced disorderly conduct charges but were discharged. Fola La Vollette accompanied picket Gussie Birnbaum amid the disturbance and also left the station with others.
Brigadier General Pershing's dispatch from Jolo details another battle where one American was killed and five wounded. Private Hare of the Philippine constabulary died, and Corporal Joseph Rogers Privates Roy Keller Robert A Tracy Clarence C Underwood Sylvester J Young of the eighth cavalry were wounded. Three Moros were killed as cavalry charged their stronghold. General Pershing also reported Private Seville died of wounds from the January 23 engagement.
Washington lawmakers approve a magnificent memorial structure honoring Abraham Lincoln near the city’s historic monument. The House of Representatives adopted the resolution on Wednesday after Senate passage last December. Senator Cullom of Springfield pushed for the project long cherished by Lincoln’s hometown leader.
Charles R. Heike former secretary of the American Sugar Refining company must serve eight months in prison and pay a $5 000 fine. The Supreme Court upheld the lower court verdict convicting him in New York of fraudulent sugar weighing to dodge duties. Heike argued immunity due to grand jury testimony but the court gave little weight to that claim.
Miss Helen Taft risked her life guiding a saddle horse through Washington streets to save Miss Martha Bowers from a deadly plunge. Bowers, riding with Taft, was thrown when the horse ran amok, crashed into a street car on Sixteenth Street. Bowers sustained a fractured arm and severe head injuries. the horse was shot.
In Cleveland on January 31 Harry Lauder his wife and his entire company escaped instant death when Lauder’s private car the Mayflower was struck by a through train at Lake Shore depot. The collision occurred after the party had stepped from the car to proceed to the theater.
Fred Shuman is jailed on charges of assaulting James Sullivan a construction foreman in the Milwaukee yards. Sullivan suffered a fractured skull and remains hospitalized as Shuman is held to the grand jury in bonds of eight hundred dollars.
Des Moines Robert Henderson and J M Jamieson were re elected to their posts as state printer and state binder by a joint legislative meeting. Their new terms run from January 1 1915.
Gowrie Marshal McFarland who was shot November 9 while attempting to arrest three men identified Thomas Robinson as the man on trial for assault with intent to commit murder.
Anna B. Michael and Olie B. Pickett, both 23, from Council Bluffs, were arrested in Mason City on forgery charges. They cashed checks for 12 50 at Sterling Drygoods and Ransome Smoke parlors, signed William T. Harris.
Mason City will shift milk inspection to the Civic League, a 160 member volunteer organization. The move expands local oversight with organized volunteer effort led by women.
Dover Delaware January 31 Willard Saulsbury Democratic national committee man from Delaware was elected United States senator ending a three weeks deadlock in the legislature Monday.
Mrs. Mary Ritter a 75 year old woman was burned at her Mascoutah Illinois home while attempting to use the telephone to raise the fire alarm Wednesday.
In Billings Montana on January 29 the bodies of two privates from Fort Yellowstone were recovered 25 miles away in the Yellowstone National Park. The soldiers died from exposure after being stationed at the fort.
Baltimore on January 29 reports Arthur Bondy a New York traveling salesman and an unnamed woman were found dead from gas in a downtown hotel room. The deaths are being investigated as a possible homicide or accidental gas exposure.
A wireless from Zamboanga confirms Capt. Patrick McNally of the Philippine scouts was killed, raising the toll to ten soldiers slain. Fourteen scouts were wounded. McNally and seven enlisted men plus lieutenants among the dead.
In Badajos on January 31 a two day storm drove the Tagus to overflow its banks in several places. Many people were drowned as the flood swept through the area.
Ottumwa Iowa January report states George Zugschwerdt a Milwaukee engineer fell from the cab while crossing a bridge near Ottumwa and was killed instantly.
Los Angeles reports the death of Congressman Sylvester Clark Smith of the Highth district California. Cause given as heart failure. The death occurred late Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles.
Amos W. Grant receiving teller at Pioneer State Bank and son of a bank director confessed Sunday to stealing 1910 dollars from the bank on a cash value basis in Denver Colorado.
London January 31 Christie’s sale of embroideries brocades and velvets brought in $18,125. Bacri purchased an Italian green velvet cape with foliage design and seven teenth century workmanship for $762.
Washington January 30 The house passed the river and harbor appropriation bill after days of debate carrying forty million dollars without an important amendment.
Carl Riedelbach of Salt Lake City received a 20 year penitentiary term for the infernal machine terrorizing the Central Police station on November 1. The judge imposed the sentence Tuesday in Los Angeles.
An explosion of two casting furnaces at the Upson Nut company plant in Cleveland on Tuesday destroyed one building and seriously injured 20 men, with some feared dead. Authorities investigate cause and severity.
United States Steel reports net earnings of 35,185,000 for the last quarter of 1912. Net income stands at 25,764,926 with a surplus of 7,410,979. The report was released from New York on Tuesday January 30.
Fourteen women led by Mrs. Drummond were sentenced to jail for 14 days at Bow Street for attempts to force a deputation to Lloyd George. They refused fines and vowed hunger strikes, declaring war to the knife. Police described a busy arraignment as activists arrived with bags and blankets.
Articles of incorporation for the International Harvest er Corporation with $70 million authorized capital were filed in Trenton on January 29. The board includes Harold F McCormick William J Lauderback and others from Chicago Plainfield New Jersey New York and Chicago. The International Harvester company signs a letter permitting use of a similar title and plans to change its name to International Harvester company of New Jersey.
New York, Jan 30 names several United States senators including William Hughes of New Jersey and William H. Thompson of Kansas. Other seats listed include Arkansas W M Kavanaugh South Carolina B F Tillman Wyoming Francis E Warren New Mexico A B Fall Texas Morris Sheppard both Democrats and Republicans referenced.
Mrs Bertha Brehein thirty three dies in Racine Wisconsin after taking consecutive doses of headache powders containing coal tar. This accidental poisoning occurred on a Wednesday.
Morris HM Beall, an Omaha native and lawyer, plunged 18 stories from his office window in the Columbia Building New York on Wednesday. He died at once on removal. Beall was well known in legal circles.
Otis Davidson brother of Lair Davidson was found guilty of murder in the first degree for killing Miss Ella Barham, eighteen, at Pleasant Ridge last November.
French philosopher Henri Bergson sailed from Liverpool aboard the Carmania for New York on Sunday to deliver lectures at Columbia Harvard and Princeton universities.
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