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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1911
Page
4
A series of satirical musings on aviation, daylight saving, traffic horns, duck shooting from planes, organized cheering, and public manners. The column jokes about Orville Wright, Ragtime, gongs on Broadway, a Pittsburg family living on $1.35 a day, and quirks of fashion and politics. It ends by noting a 42 year estate case and a pedantic Iowa teacher.
Portland in 25 years targets a population of one million, but officials warn growth must come from real increases not census padding. The note stresses census integrity as the city plans its long term development.
An Iowa man sues for divorce alleging his wife forced him to sleep with cows, seeking dissolution of marriage amid an unusual domestic dispute.
The text notes ongoing efforts to reach an altitude record and implies that a slight deviation in altitude would not matter to the attempt, with a focus on the risks involved in case of an accident.
A machine to measure thought is described as a tool for reform. It will not need high speed to gauge the thoughts of a young man who plans to reform by first engaging in a spree.
The article notes that about 20 percent of New York state residents are described as insane, making insanity a common defense used to excuse criminal acts, reflecting public attitudes toward mental illness and crime.
The article notes American mules are preferred in South Africa and suggests native dialects resemble the sound of the language used in training the animals, implying a linguistic connection to the mules' upbringing.
The census bureau notes 3 739 000 telegraph and telephone poles used in 1909 with cedar accounting for 65 percent. This illustrates why timber is growing scarce as demand rises.
Readers caution against blaming individuals for general weather reports as newspapers face scrutiny over forecast accuracy. The remark suggests accountability lies with published forecasts and the broader meteorology system rather than casual weather chatter.
An unnamed man plans to gain notoriety by announcing a plunge over Niagara Falls in a safety lifeboat. He hints he might delay and instead slide over on an icicle if he waits awhile.
A Los Angeles paper considers delivering copies by airplane to subscribers. Officials hope readers will not complain if pilots do not land and instead slip the papers under door mats.
The saying divides people into those who already keep diaries and those who resolve to start one on New Year’s Day. It reflects a humorous view of habits and self-improvement plans with a light social observation.
The suggestion to replace the foreign term chauffeur with jehu faces a hurdle since jehu itself is foreign and risks the same charge of impropriety. The historian notes the chauffeur title may have been adopted hastily to avoid criticism that the driver was simply a sailor of a kind on wheels.
New York reports Hampton's Magazine and writer Cleveland Moffett retracting claims that Standard Oil manufactured impure candy materials and paid fines in a Philadelphia incident. The retractions acknowledge the errors, express regret, and state Hampton's will publish the letters in the March issue.
Kenosha farmer C J Jacobson discovered the dead and frozen body of 24 year old Mary Jahon in a distant cabbage field. She disappeared January 8 after a quarrel with her father over an arranged marriage. Police seek motive while investigating possible links to her factory work and suitors.
H. H. Hamilton of Saint Paul buys 712000 acres in Michigan's upper peninsula for Western Land Securities. The plan spends 5 million dollars on drainage and improvements, creating about 5000 jobs and rapid development with dredging roads and new outlets via Manistique river to Lake Michigan. Communities from Sault Ste Marie to Munising expect a prosperity wave.
Senator Norris Brown charged that Illinois Senator William Lorimer knew his senate seat was won by corrupt practice. He alleged Browne and Shurtleff acted as Lorimer’s agents and that several lawmakers were bought. Brown vowed to block appropriations until a Senate vote on Lorimer, the popular election resolution, tariff board, and pension bill.
President Taft commuted the six month prison term of Fred D. Warren the Socialistic editor by striking out the imprisonment and reducing the fine to 100 dollars The change allows collection by civil process only Warren had been convicted in federal court of a technical misuse of the mails
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended new freight rate hikes on fruits and vegetables from Chicago and Milwaukee to several states until June 1, 1911. Filed by Chicago & Northwestern and Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul railways, the commission will study reasonableness, deeming the increases too radical.
The Cleveland Monument association committee in charge of the Grover Cleveland memorial fund works to subscr ibe the $100,000 goal by March 18, Cleveland's birthday, with efforts centered in Cleveland Memorial Grows Princeton New Jersey area.
Edwardsville report states George Burton of Alton, a wrestler, was found not guilty by a jury after being charged with strangling two men. Burden of proof and verdict marked a rare outcome in a violent case.
A massive dynamite explosion at Communipaw New Jersey near the Central railroad ferry slip killed at least 20 people and injured more than 150. The blast shattered buildings across Manhattan and surrounding boroughs, rocking skyscrapers and sending crowds fleeing into the streets. Two cars of dynamite from Dupont works in Wilmington were being transferred to lighters Katherine W and Whistler when the explosion occurred.
The United Mine Workers of America adopted a substitute condemning the National Civic Federation by 497 to 369. The action reverses the original motion condemning the federation and calls for withdrawal, while the minority report proposing no action was rejected.
Mrs. Meda Ufford fatally wounded Edward Iuxford during a struggle with her husband Charles Ufford in their Kansas City home. Iuxford had recently arrived from Des Moines Indiana. The incident occurred Thursday as the two men fought inside the residence.
James W. Hull vice president of Berkshire Life Insurance died at his Pittsfield home after a long illness. He was sixty nine years old.
An acetylene machine in the basement exploded wrecking the home of George Francis a farmer east of Laporte Indiana Wednesday. Mrs Francis and two daughters suffered serious burns in the blast.
A CP freight derailed westbound near Gleichen Alberta injuring nine people seriously and several others slightly. The incident occurred about 55 miles east of Calgary onWednesday.
The North Dakota dry farming congress opened in Dickinson with hundreds of farmers attending. Exhibits of agricultural products are extensive and prizes are provided by local Dickinson businessmen. The Dickinson experiment station presents a fine display of grain and forage crops.
Judge Grubb on Tuesday sentenced William Adler former president of the defunct State National Bank to six years in the Atlanta federal penitentiary. Adler was convicted of misappropriation of the bank's funds.
In Denver on Tuesday a woman, Katherine M. Cadoke, former state superintendent of public schools, received a vote for United States senator in the Colorado legislature.
One workman died and two were fatally injured when a wall under construction at Beacon and Brimmer streets collapsed on Monday. Several others were seriously hurt in the incident.
Zosiah Baker, founder of Slater and noted southwest cattleman, died at his home in Slater, Missouri on Monday from pneumonia at age sixty two. He helped establish the town and was a prominent local figure.
Senate approves river and harbor bill totaling 36 million dollars. Amendments set 125 thousand dollars for Illinois and Mississippi canal work at East Bureau creek crossing. National waterways commission extended to 1913 to study a Lake Erie to Lake Michigan canal via Maumee River and Fort Wayne. Conference to resolve differences soon.
London A special jury before Lord Chief Justice Alverstone cleared King George of imputations against his character by finding Edward F Mylius guilty of circulating a libel. Mylius was sentenced to one year in prison for distributing in England copies of the Libérateur attributing a morganatic marriage to the prince of Wales. The crown produced Admiral Sir Michael Seymour as a witness who testified that his elder daughter had not met the king before 1898 and that Malta’s notes were inconsistent with the king’s visits and his daughters’ presence there.
Washington reports San Francisco secured a decisive 259 to 43 vote in the house, backing the 1915 Panama exposition plan over New Orleans. The measure moves to the senate, with broad belief the San Francisco bid will prevail.
Clues from Thursday point to Missertha Garlow as the victim of the barrel murder mystery in Hazleton, three years after she vanished from West Hazleton. She allegedly knew secrets of a Black Hand gang active in the area.
A Thursday blaze at the Joseph M. Huber Color works in Brooklyn caused an estimated $159,000 in damage. Fire crews fought the flames but the plant was destroyed.
Fire broke out at Mercy hospital in Altoona Pennsylvania on Wednesday endangering many lives. Firemen carried sick patients to the street as panic spread with several narrow escapes reported.
London reports boxer Porky Flynn defeated Jack Burns on points after a full 20 rounds at the Olympia. Flynn was the aggressor and shaded Burns throughout, earning the decision.
In St Petersburg the confessed poisoner Pantchenko reveals he killed about forty people using cholera bacteria for hire. He claims hypnotic influence from Count De Lassy while his motive included ridding creditors and rivals. The case links to Count De Lassy and Mme Muravieff with possible royal connections suspected in the era.
Juarez residents flee as insurrectos approach within twenty miles. Mexican post office and two banks closed. federal troops dynamite rail tracks to halt rebels. A train with insurgents hit a mine. many casualties reported on both sides with thirty-two federal cavalrymen presumed dead and six rebels killed.
Vice President Sherman cast the deciding vote as the Gallinger substitute for the ocean mail subsidy bill passed 39 to 39 in the Senate. The plan grants a bounty of 4 dollars for first class and 2 dollars per mile for second and third class American ships between U S ports and China, Japan, Australia, and South American ports south of the equator. Payment is limited to outward voyages and yearly subsidies capped at 4 million dollars, not exceeding foreign mail revenue. The bill moves to the House.
Several witnesses saw Thom known as Roxworthy crushed to death when a derrick hoisted a stone weighing over a ton that toppled onto him in front of a new building at Dearborn and Harington streets Thursday.
Detroit. By the will of the late James Joy nearly half a million dollars will pass under control of the Detroit Presbytery and Fort Street church for church purposes and related funds.
The Master Printers Federation in London agreed to a national lockout from February 25 if compositors press a fifty hour week. The dispute centers on working hours and union demands amid mounting industrial tension.
A work train collided with a string of dirt cars at Miraflores in the Panama Canal on Wednesday. Your men were killed and seven others seriously injured in the wreck.
Senator De Wolf introduces a bill giving the Iowa State Dairymen's Association state recognition and a $10,000 appropriation to advance scientific dairying in Iowa. Eligibility requires 600 members and board oversight by seven officers, Ames College dean, and the state dairy commissioner.
In Des Moines on February 4, a voting shift occurred as several Kenyon supporters refused to abandon him. After the request to consolidate support, Funk led with 55 votes, Young 7, Kenyon 64, Garst 11, and Porter 54 to 53 in prior tallies. The senate and house recessed until Tuesday February 7.
The remains of Major Geo H Morrisey who died here will be taken to his former home in Manchester Iowa for interment. Major Morrisey was a veteran doorkeeper of the house and among a few old soldiers left on the rolls.
Fort Dodge Iowa February 4 H L Peterson a Gypsum company fireman fell from a Fort Dodge Des Moines Southern car on a high trestle near the Des Moines river four miles south of town and was instantly killed.
Ice loosened in the river at Keokuk Nebraska February 4 carrying the powerhouse cofferdam cribs sixty feet downstream. Foreman Frederick Merchant was on a crib and escaped serious injury with a narrow survival.
Nearly 500 hogs at the state insane hospital in Independence Jamaica were vaccinated for cholera. Ten hogs have died and a dozen cases are reported at present. The cholera serum was used for the first time in this county.
Milan Hibbs was fatally hurt when homemade blasting powder exploded in a Mitchellville kitchen on Feb 4. A nephew nearby lost both eyes and two children were seriously injured as the blast wrecked the home.
East Pleasant Plain suffered a destructive blaze gutting the Jones and Scott brick structure and its stock. Estimated loss runs to twenty five thousand dollars. Fairfield reports the fire on February 4.
In Kansas City on February 4 a woman, Meda Ufford, shot and fatally wounded Edward Huxford during a struggle with her husband Charles Ufford. Huxford had recently arrived in the city from Des Moines, Iowa, and was involved in a desperate combat with Charles Ufford when Meda Ufford intervened.
Washington February 4 Senate approves a river-related appropriations bill totaling about 36 million dollars after three hours of debate.
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