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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1910
Page
3
A survey of St Valentine celebrations notes costumes from romance figures to modern valentines, with decorations in red and white and mistletoe accents. It covers invitations, mistletoe placements, and party games like heart target shooting and a turkey heart donkey game, plus sweets and lucky ring cake customs.
Esther A. Howland, a Mount Holyoke graduate of 1847, inspired by English valentines, built a Worcester valentine business. She expanded from small orders to a factory producing 100000 dollars worth of goods, introducing embossed and satin messages, and survived an accident before selling to the current Worcester firm. The Mount Holyoke community each February 14 honors her founding of the American valentine.
A New York playwright dinner quip ridicules claims of descent from Charlemagne and other historic figures. A millionaire’s jail escape tale prompts a herald to joke about tracing lineage to George Washington, ending with a mock coat of arms.
The excerpt notes old medicine schemes in Devonshire England advising killing the snake and applying fat to wounds, a superstition still found in parts of the country, while in the United States whisky is reputed as a snake bite antidote. It also describes a new continuous electric arc lamp with consumable carbons fed from two receptacles and heated to form the electrodes.
Reports from Bluefields state Gen. Mena’s revolutionists crushed Vasquez at Las Garitas and Santa Clara with 500 and 600 government casualties. Estrada gathers 1,200 men near Managua to join Chamorro and Mena, aiming to form a 6,000 strong force and close on the capital. The war's end may be near as Granada and Rivas reinforce the provisional government. A Chamorro couriers’ dispatch was executed by government troops.
Four rue bills charging city hall officials with conspiracy in the $45,000 shale rock matter were returned by the county grand jury. Indicted are John Ericson city engineer Michael H McGovern contractor Paul Redieske former deputy commissioner Ralph A Bonnell former assistant city engineer. All but Ericson were previously indicted in a separate $250,000 attempt to defraud the city in the Lawrence avenue sewer project. Second indictments were returned against ten others and seven more from last week in connection with the same sewer deal.
Albany reports Attorney General O Malley preparing to move against Armour, Swifts and associates for contempt of a 1902 New York Supreme Court injunction. The action alleges eight years of price fixing and anti competitive behavior violating the state anti monopoly law, with penalties including fine or imprisonment.
An explosion at the Ernest mine of the Jefferson and Clearfield Coal Company near Indiana Pennsylvania killed eleven workers. Ten of the victims were Hungarian and one American. The blast occurred in a heading containing 12 miners.
James Daniels and his five sons, charged with murder, give themselves up to Kentucky authorities after a prolonged feud. The surrender ends a lengthy standoff and shifts the case to state legal proceedings.
New estimates from Fisk & Robinson Boston offices place liabilities at 12 million dollars instead of 7 million. The bankers' collapse was announced on the stock exchange floor.
Noted Indiana divine Rev. Dr. W. J. Vigus aged 74 field secretary of Winona Lake assembly died here Sunday. He was one of the most noted Methodist ministers in Indiana and his death is reported from Wabash Indiana.
A man who married an athletic woman expects a perfect housekeeper. He imagines a wife who can wait on him and run the home, even without a servant. The piece contrasts his fantasy with the woman’s reality and hints at social pressures and judgments.
The fragment shows a confrontation where she accuses her former fiancé of lies about family status and means, while he claims his debts were true. The terse exchange underscores a failed engagement and disputed finances between the two.
A long testimonials say eczema on hands and body cleared after using Cuticura Ointment and three bottles of Cuticura Resolvent. Mrs M B E Falin of Speers Ferry Virginia reports complete recovery after two weeks for her daughter and notes family success with Cuticura products.
A historical reflection notes Massachusetts first funded a state sanitarium twelve years ago and over ten million dollars has since been appropriated by state bodies for TB prevention. Municipal and county funds match roughly the same, with the federal government investing over a million dollars and spending about half a million annually on maintenance. The share of public funds grows each year, while private societies lead but the push includes cities and counties. The national association bulletin says lasting anti TB success requires broad funding from all levels.
In a quoted exchange, one speaker recalls Butt’s smoking habit causing trouble and notes a wedding gag where he handed the minister a match during the ring moment. The dialogue frames a lighthearted anecdote about a groom’s habit and a playful wedding mishap.
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