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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1901
Page
5
The ad warns of contagious blood poison showing no external signs after cure and urges using S. S. S. as the vegetable antidote. It claims mercury and potash fail, describes transmission from parent to child, and pitches a free home guide from The Swift Specific Co. of Atlanta Georgia.
A fragment from a Loveman poem appears in New Lippincott, describing a parent guiding a child and mentioning Enid Linid and the baby. The speaker notes the child’s sturdiness and weariness from play, with a Sleepytown image accompanying the scene.
The 1860 Cherry Island voyage aboard the brig Albatross explored a volcanic, icebound island 1400 miles north of Sweden. Professor Saunders and I found a near perfectly preserved dead man on a rock wall near a ravine after a 50 foot slide into an ice blocked gorge. The find followed a perilous journey through barren shores, scarce wildlife, and scarce trees as we catalogued birds and examined remains from a polar landscape.
The retreating ice reveals a ship hull frozen in a ravine fed by a sea inlet. A brig lies preserved beneath 50 to 70 feet of ice, its ropes stiff as iron and masts gone, while the crew remains uncounted and all bodies absent from the hulk.
A quotation from Gentleman's Magazine describes the national northern Russian dish fresca, a codfish preserved from last summer. It notes its odor and rotten taste, and claims the poor eat it as a cheaper alternative to fresh meat or fish freezing in hardship. the critique questions its wholesomeness and the harsh living conditions.
The radium radiations resemble N rays without external work input and cause negligible weight loss. M Recequerel’s calculations explain the mystery, showing a weight loss of at most a milligram per thousand million years. Emanations from radium are proposed as material particles of extreme minuteness.
The Chicago Times Herald records a clash where a profess or cites Marcus Aurelius on nature fitting people to bear events, while a man who eloped at 21 with a three week acquaintance retorts that Marcus has another guess coming.
An old servant criticizes her master's portrait telling the artist he could have improved it slightly without spoiling the likeness. The remark highlights practical wit and gentle realism in art.
A Chicago Record note comments that digestion interference is a not uncommon effect of excessive exercise and, for training, one of the most destructive issues. It mentions a dialogue about Jones and being seen while managing the situation.
The American Tourists Association announces two escorted tours of Puerto Rico by rail carriage automobile and boat. Special Pullman care leaves Chicago January 17 and February 14 at 9 30 am connecting with steamships Ponce and San Juan sailing from New York. Tickets cover all expenses including rail steamer sleepings car meals hotel bills transfers and guides.
Unprecedented club bing offer combines The Iowa Homestead The Poultry Farmer and Special Farmers Institute Editions with The [local] paper for a four-in-one year subscription at $2.90. Describes West-wide recognition and practical farming value. Samples available at the office for inspection.
The Nickel Plate Road offers the quickest Chicago Buffalo link with through vestibuled sleeping cars and day coaches. Its Peerless Trio fast trains feature uniformed porters and American Club meals priced 85 cents to 1.00. John Y. Calahan, general agent, Chicago, promotes travel for the summer exposition.
The Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway offers excursion tickets at reduced prices to southern resorts including Jacksonville Mobile New Orleans Savannah El Paso. Return passage valid until June 1 1901. For rates routes and times consult any coupon ticket agent at 23 ae.
The Nickel Plate Road promotes service to the 1901 Pan American Exposition as the popular line for huge visitor numbers. Executive emphasis on uniform courtesy and trusted train staff seeks to attract travelers eastbound. agents, including John Y. Calahan in Chicago, coordinate bookings.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway offers a round trip fare to St Paul for the annual convention of the National Creamery Butter Makers Association. Tickets go on sale February 18 and 19 with return valid through February 25.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway offers Mardi Gras excursion tickets to New Orleans and Mobile for 29.10 round trip. Tickets sold Feb 11 to 17 with return validity through March 7.
Thie Express and Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean can be had in combination for two dollars. This rate applies only to advance paying subscribers and is not available to non subscribers.
Mrs Rosa Richardson of Laurel Springs North Carolina claims Dr Kings New Discovery cured her consumption after seven bottles and says it fights coughs colds and bronchitis. A German firm reports a secret aluminum welding process producing seamless joints resistant to blows and heat.
Burlington Iowa locomotive fireman C W Bellamy credits Electric Bitters with restoring his health after a period of weakness and pain. The testimonial promises renewed vigor for sickly people and notes a 50 cent price with satisfaction guaranteed by druggists. The ad also includes a child’s phonetic dialogue from Brooklyn Life.
World wide fame for this salve claims superior healing for cuts burns boils and sores with guaranteed cure. Available for 25 cents at all drug stores. Mr Drury, an American lawyer, left Boston for Bradford England two years ago to advance yarn spinning machinery improvements.
Dr King s New Life Pills promise relief from indigestion biliousness constipation sick headache and all stomach liver and bowel troubles. Easy pleasant safe and sure. Only 25c at drug stores. Nellie Rosel a 13 year old from New York cured of paralysis by electricity grew four inches in two months after eight years of paralysis.
An aggregation of past newsprint ads touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with refund offers and celebrity endorsements. It promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as all digestive aids and One Minute Cough Cure for throat and lung troubles, while praising DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a safe pile cure.
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