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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1907
Page
8
In a dim room Anne Stacey vents loneliness over a secret valentines gesture. Her husband Dick remains distant until he kneels beside her, reclaiming affection as the clock marks the eve of Saint Valentine and a renewed bond blossoms.
A fragment notes Ethylene-Cholly sent a valentine and a note claiming his thoughts are of Ernest, but the writer says he does not think often, mentioning thoughts occur about once a month.
A concise note cites scriptural authority from Joshua chapters 23 and 24. It referencesCopyright 1907 by the author W. B. Edson and presents the work as protected.
The author honors Joshua as a faithful servant of the Lord and urges readers to emulate his God like life. A true servant mirrors the master, is active in God’s work, and leaves an eternal influence that continues to speak beyond death.
The aging leader Joshua rests in a land at peace after conquering Canaan. The tabernacle stands at Shiloh with priests and Levites serving, and the people worship during appointed seasons. Joshua, confident in faith, believes the Lord will call him soon as sleep troubled by thoughts of his final days.
The narrative describes Joshua calling Israel to renew faith at Shechem, recounting their history from Abraham to Moses, Egypt, and the wilderness. He challenges the people to serve the Lord, and they vow to do so, with Joshua setting a covenant and placing a stone as a witness to the oath. The text ends with an abrupt cut referencing a Senator from Massachusetts.
The sparrow hawk almost always catches a flying bird for its meal and can take birds as large as the wood pigeon though it usually targets smaller birds. It is mobbed by small birds when they are numerous, but can strike in bursts amid swarms like finches. A bat was noted as an unusual meal near dusk near the house.
The article notes Kipling’s first tales were rushed “turnovers” produced to fill space in Calcutta newspapers. Many Plain Tales From the Hills were written quickly as reading matter alongside advertisements, built up or trimmed to fit space while he stood by the composing room.
The Seybert institution in Philadelphia will use a 1.6 million dollar fund to aid destitute children. It opens a 1506 Arch Street bureau February 15 and builds a Meadowbrook farm village for 800 children with school and training, alongside a training school for child savers. The venture links with the Children's Aid Society and seeks near family life in a modeled community.
In London a printing house that published the Lord's Prayer in 400 languages was asked by a central Africa missionary to print a grammar of a newly discovered language. The grammar uses the Odonor system and the missionary plans to teach jungle natives to read and write.
Consul James A. Smith reports Italian briar wood used for pipe blocks comes mainly from the Mediterranean coast from Savona to Calabria, with Corse and Sardinia supplying. Root excavation runs October to May, billets cut to pipe shapes, boiled and dried, then shipped. Exports to the United States rose from 11,904 bales worth over $100,000 in 1905 to nearly 16,000 bales worth over $125,000 in the first nine months of 1906.
A Yonkers Statesman snippet captures a light exchange about prunes. The thin boarder praises the fruit while the stable mistress notes its perennial appeal, humorously claiming it is always seasonable.
Wakefield Massachusetts women petition the legislature for a law taxing all bachelors up to age forty and applying chloroform after that age.
Charles Miller once served with Gen Henry Lawton and Gen Frederick Grant in the Fourth Cavalry. Now a laborer in Lawton Oklahoma he was knocked down and robbed of 2.40 dollars on a local street. Miller recalls battles with Sioux at the Big Horn and hopes to spend his later years near Fort Sill.
At a December 4, 1996 Academy of Medicine session M Chauvel read a paper by M Borgey on Arab blindness. The study cites uncleanliness flies glare of sun dust and koheul sulfur antimony as the main causes.
The famous Barber meteor, fallen near Esterville Iowa on June 28 1876 and sought by George Barber for years, was located in a Vienna museum weighing 132 pounds the largest fragment, with total chunks around 632 pounds. The Barbers faced legal battles and financial losses as they defended possession amid court actions and sales to eastern buyers.
A heart shaped bridal coach was completed in Pittston Pa at a cost of 1800. The maroon and black vehicle features 20 hearts including eight heart windows and twin heart dashboards. It uses cream velour upholstery gold trimming and red blue electric lighting with a speaking tube and electric bell for the driver. Construction took seven months and it will be hauled by four cream colored horses.
Henry Miller of Appleton Wisconsin has filed 2140 lawsuits against the Chicago & Northwestern Railway for 21400 dollars claiming ten dollars per locomotive crossing his farm since he urged culvert and crossing construction. The pile of complaints fills about 600 type written pages.
A reflective passage on the inner reserves that sustain character. It speaks of a mother’s blessing, early youth, habits, attachments, and words as anchors to higher living, guiding one away from temptations and toward deeper meaning.
An English physician notes that patient deaths under chloroform are often caused by parents or friends who ignore preoperative instructions and feed the patient milk eggs an orange or chocolate to fortify them for the operation.
Italy's state lottery in Rome collected about 17 million dollars in a year and paid out roughly 9 million in prizes. Much of the money came from the poorest people.
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