13 Feb 1902
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1902
Page
1
The Kaiser's brass band will accompany Prince Henry on his U S visit. This provides a chance to hear how the Star Spangled Banner sounds in German.
Among those wed in Chicago on a recent day were Thomas Nicijni ow ski and Stanislawa Szedorek Frank Wiszowaty and Jozefa Hoinowska and John Wisniewski and Julijanna Wichiewska. Much joyski.
A young man returns to finish a sentence in the Indiana reformatory after escaping over a year ago and serving in the British Army in South Africa. State Representative Righter of New Jersey touts a book claiming New Jersey mosquitoes cure rheumatism. Alfred Moseley organizes a U S commission to study American industry, while the Post Office relaxes wrapper inscriptions on third class mail.
Spain requests special representation by the United States at the May celebrations for the young king's coming of age, and the United States has pledged to send a special commissioner.
An official anti corset crusade is launched in France proposing a law to bar every woman under 30 from wearing corsets. The plan targets nearly all French women, questioning who would wear stays past that age.
A western civil action has appeared in Japan as a native widow sues for breach of promise. She induced her wealthy suitor to sign an agreement that either party would forfeit a sum if the engagement ended. The prospective groom broke the engagement.
West Virginia supreme court recently decided a divorce case where habitual drunkenness was deemed a direct cause. The justice stated no woman should endure life with a drunken brute risking her health and life.
The suggestion calls on Congress to probe railroad wrecks to find methods to prevent or lessen them. The piece argues wrecks are numerous, likely more in proportion than in other nations, and many are preventable. It cites overwork of workers as a factor and urges more ordinary life protections.
The first U S shoe factory was built in Danvers Massachusetts in 1786 and remains standing. Before then all footwear was imported from England and France. Today the U S shoe industry employs more capital and labor than all industries did in 1786, illustrating rapid growth and lasting benefits of domestic production.
The New York Times literary supplement lists gifts and public bequests in the United States for 1901 totaling 107,360,000, with Carnegie giving 51,000,000 to colleges and libraries and libraries receiving 14,000,000. The figure equals one third of England's Boer War cost for that year.
A roundup from Washington and across the country notes the Philippine tariff bill sparking Senate debate on the sixth with Voraker, Tloar, and Fillman. The House focused on the appropriation bill while bills for coupon currency and a national bureau of criminal identification progressed. Eulogies marked the day for the late Representative Burke of Texas.
Sampson protests to the president challenging Schley’s claim of command at Santiago. Taft says tariff concessions could aid pacification in the Philippines. The president will wait on Schley decision until Charleston exposition return. Faft argues for 50 percent tariff cuts before the Senate Philippines committee. A House committee drafts a financial bill to fortify the economy against shocks. The president backs the Cuban campaign heroes report with one exception himself. The industrial commission urges publicity for combines to curb overcapitalization.
The seven day U S exchanges totaled 2 214932231 with a weekly rise from 257122942 and a 3 2 year over year gain. US business failures numbered 247 down from 305 last week and 250 a year earlier. J Pierpont Morgan traveled 90 miles Philadelphia to New York in 84 minutes by special train. The Park Avenue tunnel disaster was blamed on New York Central negligence. Theodore Roosevelt Jr bedridden with pneumonia at Groton MA as his mother left Washington. A stormy trade review cites weather hampering rail traffic but broad business activity. The steamship Philadelphia radioed England 150 miles off land on last westward trip. President visited Groton to see his ill son. Paterson NJ fire destroyed 26 blocks and 500 dwellings, $10 million loss. Brooklyn fire hit Shadbolt wagon works and other property, 14 injuries. Presbyterian creed revision committee says infants dying early are not condemned.
A series of brief items note long lived deaths in Toledo. Fire losses plague multiple towns including Horton Kansas and St. Louis Missouri. Dozens of families displaced by hotel and farm house fires across the Midwest and South.
Officials approve a ban on tobacco use by employees on duty across western lines. A fire at the Orpheon music hall in Chicago injures eight people, one seriously.
As of January 31 official British Boer War casualties total 105941 including survivors wounded. Other items note at Boca Chica Colombia 94 insurgent prisoners killed 17 guards escaped and various global political moves from China Japan and Germany.
Reports from the United States Senate favor measures to shift the president’s inauguration from March 4 to the last Thursday in April and to raise pensions for Mexican war veterans. The Philippine tariff bill is further studied. In the House, oleomargarine debate closes. A 109 year old Oregon woman, Mrs Nancy Jane Roberts, dies at her Portland area home. Bank troubles arise as City Savings Bank of Detroit suspends amid a $1.592 million shortage tied to VP Frank C Andrews. Andrews is arrested.
A digest of short notes includes Bath inventor Tlerbert Cromwell’s telegraphic typewriter, Countess Stupinigi visiting as Margherita, Dolphin sounding a depth of 4662 fathoms near Porto Rico, and plans for a Chicago purchasing office amid factory consolidation.
A 3 story lodging house at 2700 Olive street The Empire hotel burned in the early morning of February 10 causing eleven deaths ten men and one woman and injuring eight others. Many escapes were frost bitten and the fire spread rapidly amid freezing weather with 35 to 40 people in the building at the time.
London dispatch details a wide British advance on February 4 to trap General De Wet near Liebenbergs Vlei. De Wet broke through at dawn with cattle, then the line held, with Boer casualties around 283 killed wounded or captured and 700 horses lost. British losses totaled ten.
Washington reports Theodore Roosevelt Jr. remains in unchanged condition with no likely outcome yet. The president will stay in Groton Mass until at least week’s end. A Groton message says the boy slept well at 11 o clock and is holding his own, under Dr William B Warren’s care.
In Indianapolis on February 10 a joint conference ratified the old mining scale with no dissent. The old scale will apply for another year. Iowa and Michigan were not invited to next joint conference due to opposition from Illinois and Ohio. A resolution for equality of conditions in the competitive field was adopted. Indianapolis was chosen for next year’s miners convention and joint conference site.
In Muncie Indiana at St Marys a boiler explosion on engine 122 killed Engineer James Casey age 20 and Fireman William Brown instantly and seriously injured Brakeman J T Hutton with debris. Casey died after his wife and sister arrived.
A reader testimonial from Miss Marion Cunnincuam of Emporia Kansas claims Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured years of womb trouble with irregularities and pain. The letter urges women with related symptoms to seek the remedy, noting Mrs Pinkham offers advice and warning against alternatives. The piece includes an offer to publish the testimonial with the author's photo.
Experimental sheep farms in northern Wisconsin supply fine mutton to Chicago markets. Clover and blue grass thrive there, with peas free from worms, making strong fodder. Noted experts cite future value in the region and advise contacting D. W. Casseday of the Soo Line for land opportunities.
Winter resort trips to Hot Springs Old Point Comfort Southern Pines offered via Virginia and Carolina routes. Information and booking through W. E. Conklyn N. W. P. Agt Chesapeake and Ohio Ry 234 Clark St Chicago.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway issues a six sheet calendar 12 by 14 inches each with a ten color watercolor image of a popular actress by Leon Moran. Copyright owned by the railway and limited editions priced at 25 cents per calendar mailed on receipt of price. I A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
Onlookers recall a bride who exclaimed Oh John as the engine pulled away with the couple leaving behind friends. The bride lamented tearing her dress while departing on the train, a playful moment captured in Baltimore News.
Train service departs Chicago daily from Central Station via Wisconsin Central Ry. to St. Paul Minneapolis Ashland Duluth and Northwest with Pullman sleepers dining cars. Ticket agents provide details. Jas Q Pond Genl Pass Agent Milwaukee Dick quote appears from Boston Transcript.
York Pennsylvania November 28 1901 J L Bower 4 North Water Street endorses Piso's Cure for Consumption as a household necessity. The note quotes the Indianapolis News remarking that the jewel of consistency is often paste.
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