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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1909
Page
3
A miscellany of satirical notes references beet sugar, weather prophets, a famed Abruzzi figure, a German professor, and King Edward. It also mentions a bank clerk from Elyria with a circus ancestry, Miss Ross Becker’s public service roles, a Massachusetts automobile law punctuated oddly, and a critique of child protection policy and theater safety after Chicago and New York incidents.
In Washington Star style the New Jersey woman testifies about mistreatment in court. She boasts of cooking skills making biscuits pies and cakes to please him while he calls it indigestion fodder. The judge suggests cooking corned beef and cabbage sometimes and she agrees.
A Minneapolis woman sues Western Union Telegraph Co for damages claiming a telegram to her brother altered the message about her husband Pat drinking to say Pat is dying. Relatives rushed to attend the wake, leaving the woman to cover expenses. she says Pat would have allowed them to pay their own costs if he could have spoken.
A mother asks a family doctor how to handle her daughter Mary who is candy crazy. The physician suggests placing Mary in a sweet shop as a heroic but curative method to curb her candy appetite, a plan that bewilders and amuses readers as Mary faces losing pleasure from sweets.
In eastern England there is a rush for second hand Bibles old and dirty, now fetching up to sixpence and a half crown. They are used to forge age proof for pension claims. One woman attempted to prove age 76 with a Bible flyleaf but left the title page showing 1895.
American musicians urge the president to limit imports to protect local workers. The dispute centers on whether imported players are artists or contract laborers, signaling ongoing tensions over job protection and potential changes in the music scene.
The colorful entertainer known as Death Valley Scotty, famed for his generosity under pressure, expresses a wish to join the U S Marines, saying he would be a good confidant for the wise in times of trouble.
A Paris journal urges governments to pay one penny per rat killed to curb rat populations. Denmark reportedly led by example with a law offering a halfpenny per head, prompting Copenhagen schoolboys to turn playtime into rat hunting.
In examining mice behavior and related customs, the text notes a surprising shortage of female advocates within this scientific discourse, highlighting gender imbalance in the field.
A series of small tornados and cyclones swept from Tennessee to the Texas panhandle causing deaths in Arkansas Texas Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana. Widespread damage included wrecked homes schools and telegraph lines with hundreds of thousands in property losses. The storms brought hail darkness and vivid lightning and disrupted large cities and rural areas alike.
President Roosevelt criticized the census bill for allowing non-competitive appointments by lawmakers and for private printing of census reports. He called the spoil system evident in a major public work and said the eight hour law should be enforced where private printing occurs. The House adjourned without acting on his message.
Detroit outlines a proposed Michigan banking law issued by Hal H. Smith. The measure, approved by Banking Commissioner H. M. Zimmerman, makes false credit statements and false bank rumors felonies. It raises banking salaries and sets examiner pay, with stockholder assessments when a bank’s stock is impaired.
Grand jury in Muskogee returns seven indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the government over town lot scheduling. Indicted are Gov. Charles N. Haskell and six others. bonds set up to $10,000 with arraignments pending. Haskell,s statements defend innocence and pledge open proceedings.
Manly B. Tripp, who fled after killing James Hood in 1899 at age 15, turned himself in at the Laurens county sheriff's office after years abroad. He had been in the area as a courthouse spectator for days before voluntarily surrendering.
Clarence N. Jones president of Commonwealth Feed Co and brother of Police Commissioner George P. Jones was shot dead in a quarrel at his mill on Second and De Soto streets. Herman A. Kreischmar a discharged official was arrested and charged claiming self defense. Jones died shortly after at the hospital.
Seventeen boys of the Omega Eta Tau fraternity and fourteen girls of the Theta Sigma Phi society were suspended from the high school Thursday for refusing to sign affidavits resigning membership in the secret societies.
Cipriano Castro former president of Venezuela has been released from sanitarium after a month under Dr. Israel care following an operation and is reported cured.
After a long session from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., the California assembly voted 48 to 28 against A. M. Drew's bill barring aliens from owning land. The measure was aimed at the Japanese and did not pass.
Five thousand Chinese corpses bound for China will leave Brooklyn next Wednesday on the steamer Shimosa. The shipment collects remains for burial in the Flowery Kingdom.
Seventeen men die in a Tuesday morning blast at No. 2 Short Creek mines of the Birmingham Coal & Iron Company. Five victims are white and twelve are Negro. Authorities suspect a windy shot caused the explosion. the mine, ten miles west of Ensley, remains mostly undamaged and was on short force at the time.
Speaker Phillip A. Stanton won unanimous consent to postpone further action on the Japanese school segregation bill until next Wednesday. Gov. Gillett raised constitutionality concerns prompting a lengthy debate on possible referral to the judiciary committee or an attorney general opinion. Senator A. C. Minetti introduced the measure in the senate.
President Roosevelt, from the White House, reaffirmed opposition to restricting the secret service. He argued full government efficiency against crime requires secret agents who can operate nationwide and against claims that investigations outside counterfeiters and presidential protection are hampered by recent legislation.
A major blaze in Charlottesville Virginia Friday caused $220000 in damage. The fire began in the Charlottesville Hardware Company on East Main Street and gutted the upper floors of the People's National Bank building. Five north Main Street storefronts were burned before fire crews, aided by Lynchburg and Staunton units, halted the spread.
William J. Bryan spoke to a large crowd from the grandstand at a Tampa race track on Thursday, saying the Democrats of the south are increasingly united and the party is growing.
Thomas L. Lewis of Bridgeport Connecticut was reelected president of the United Mine Workers of America by more than 16,000 votes over John H. Walker of Ohio. The tellers reported no vice president or secretary-treasurer candidate won a majority, sending the delegates to decide those contests at the convention. Ballots were later distributed.
Representative Fulhiam introduced a bill as a substitute to the tax on babies plan. It would pay the mother of every newborn one dollar, to be issued by the county treasurer upon a certificate signed by the mother and the attending physician.
In Washington the forest service faced its annual criticism from Mr. Smith California Mr. Cook Colorado and Mr. Mondell Wyoming who accused its administration of extravagance and extortion of miners farmers and beehive owners. Mr Cook blamed Chief Forester Pinchot for scheming to win Secretary Wilson's cabinet seat.
The Birmingham Coal and Iron Company was placed in receivership Friday afternoon. The firm owns properties in this district valued at over 6 million dollars.
One man was killed and three others injured in a riot by garment workers who attacked the tailoring shop of Jacob Greenfield on East Second Street Friday.
The naval transport Buffalo arrived in San Francisco from Honolulu on Thursday. The vessel, painted lead color, followed a recent general order of the department issued while at the island port.
The National Canners association denied at their second annual convention adjourned on Thursday that any of their members used chemicals in the goods they put up.
Relief organizations have raised 3 641 000 for Italy quake victims. Contributions from the American National Red Cross the Italian government committee and the Italian Red Cross led to the total.
Carrie Nation was fined $7.50 after she thrust an umbrella through a car window in the underground railway where a cigarette advertisement was pasted.
In Dayton Ohio late Friday afternoon a young woman s body was found dragged from a cistern behind a vacant house. Her brother visiting her identified her as Lizzie Fulhart 18 of Vandalia Ohio.
Samuel Bernick a Russian candy vendor stationed near the echont for over a year has been found to be a leper. He dispenses candy to children and passers by on the street.
Sparks from a donkey engine set fire to the Chalmette plant wharf in New Orleans. The American Sugar Refinery lost about $200,000 in the blaze, which damaged the facility worth $3,000,000.
Staunton Illinois Julius Greenwalt a coal miner narrowly escaped mob rough handling after placing a four-year-old child on a red hot stove Wednesday night. Police spirited Greenwalt and the child to safety.
Blow e California Racing reports that the Walker Otis measure to ban wagering on race tracks in California passed the Senate on Thursday by a 32 to vote.
Pittsburg grocer Pat Raffalo de Biasi was arrested on a complaint by 17 year old Antonia Gentile who said he tried to sell a girl for 200 dollars. De Biasi is married.
Winnipeg Man Cowley Alberta will be relocated bodily to a new site two miles south of its present location next week as the Canadian Pacific railroad implements its regrade plan.
In Spartansburg South Carolina two Seaboard Air Line freight trains collided near Greenwood on Wednesday. Three men were killed and several were injured in the wreck.
President-elect William H. Taft and party return to Colon for departure to New Orleans aboard the North Carolina and Montana. He declines to detail trip results but praises canal work, esprit de corps, and laborer determination, while noting engineers will present a report in New Orleans. Taft urged unity among canal factions during ten day inspection.
New York dispatch notes the national tariff commission meeting in Indianapolis on February 16 to form a permanent bi partisan tariff body. Over 2,000 delegates are expected from manufacturing interests Congress members and finance. Speakers include Oscar S Straus Beveridge Cummins Marshall Cochran Towne and Stahl.
William Jennings Bryan denied reports of a severe automobile accident near Tarpon Springs. He said he was in Lakeland on Saturday, spoke in DeLand that night, and traveled to Jacksonville, arriving in perfect health.
Miss Winifred Noone of Shady Side New Jersey armed with a six shooter holds up the Erie railroad station with her niece May Morgan. The women defend their home day and night repelling railroad workers who try to lay rails.
Circuit Judge Williams ruled on Saturday that a child's life begins at birth and not before, a decision placed on the record. The ruling centers on legal definitions affecting birth status and rights.
Milwaukee Mayor David S. Rose issued a formal letter accepting a challenge to debate the prohibition question with Rev. Samuel Dickey, president of Albion College in Albion Michigan. Rose will argue the negative.
The United Mine Workers of America adjourned Saturday after selecting Indianapolis Indiana as the site for next year’s convention.
A Sunday blaze leveled the H. J. Gardner axle and machine works in Carlisle with an estimated $75,000 loss. A prior attempt targeted the nearby Carlisle Manufacturing Company plant.
Robert Johnson his wife and three children in Danville Iowa were poisoned by water from a well containing a dead cat. Two children were reported near death and medical efforts continued.
In Louisville Kentucky Mrs Sam LER reports relief from irregularities dizziness and nervous female troubles after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. In Adrian Georgia Lena V Henry credits it with curing her without surgery. Thirty years of testimonial support the remedy for feminine maladies.
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