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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1911
Page
3
The Monticello Express quotes a stream of humorous quips on fashion travel aviation and social quirks. It notes rising egg prices schemes about wearers of skirts and pockets in trousers and jokes about beards cigars and rail fares. It closes with a jab at odorless beer discussions.
An Evansville Indiana husband files for divorce over his wife bathing their dog in the dishpan, a dispute described as unreasonable. The article notes a separate item about a book by the king of Italy selling out quickly, hinting at acclaim for royal authorship.
It took 12 299 hunters to kill 5 551 deer in Maine during the recent open season. If the hunters had used clubs instead of guns they might have brought down a few more.
A Pennsylvania woman discovers a gold nugget inside a chicken's craw. The whimsical find sparks talk that poultry could become valuable as every hen might yield a treasure.
The expert predicts science will extend human lifespans toward a century. He notes that no plan can please all, while critics and pessimists may react with alarm and doom.
A New York woman arrested for bigamy says she married her first husband out of spite and the second on a bet. The story implies the man who enabled the second marriage may have been the butt of the joke.
A passage laments a cycle of accusing creatures from the family fly to the mosquito and now the cat of tuberculosis. The speaker warns that abolishing one pest will invite a new threat such as the rat with bubonic plague, insisting peril appears regardless of action.
A Washington doctor claims silence is the best cure for nervous disorders in women. The piece mocks the physician's view after centuries of debate and questions the notion that suppressing talk would quiet the nervous sex.
The piece notes whistling as a new fad in Washington society among women. It contrasts this trend with activists warning of the perceived harms of smoking and suggests critics will divert their distress into this vocal pastime.
A man in a Philadelphia theater tore apart a large hat blocking his view of the stage. He was arrested, described as a martyr to the sacred cause of humanity.
A Pittsburg man pleaded about the claim of his behavior toward a woman. He argued there was no intention behind his acts and noted that support for moral welfare can be misunderstood, culminating in his jail sentence.
A column praises the horse’s strong year in 1910 while arguing that advancing times expand room for an automobile boom without replacing the animal most useful to humans.
The piece questions claims of evolution in a bear dog hybrid and argues that even if true such an evolution would not clearly benefit humanity. It suggests directing experiments toward producing a male with lamblike traits instead.
The Iowa adjutant general set dates for annual guard inspection and encampments for 1911. Twenty eight new and old officers will be examined in Des Moines on February 18 by Gen James Rush Kincoln and officers from the infantry and medical departments. The schedule lists camp dates for the Fifty third to Fifty six regiments with multiple city venues across the state.
Estherville hosts a short course with premium lists for best single ear corn and several ear counts plus other farm product prizes. A four-county district including Emmet Kossuth Dickinson Palo Alto and Martin competes for corn prizes. The two day event precedes the farmers institute on February 17 and 18 featuring a lecture by D Ward King.
Fort Dodge teachers will plant and seed to introduce agriculture in schools this spring. County superintendent Miss Mary Carey advocates up-to-date farming instruction and has promoted the new study across many schools this winter.
Fort Dodge case to Des Moines line concludes that C. L. Peterson died from a fall of the rear step of a south bound limited passenger car. The jury finds no blame attached to the train crew as the cause of death. The accident occurred after the car departed the city at six o clock in the morning.
L J Walker, a Black man, was shot in the leg during a confrontation and later arrested by John Alverson, chief of police, after being struck in the lower limb and captured.
Nearly 600 hogs at the state insane hospital were vaccinated for cholera. Ten deaths have occurred and a dozen cases are present. The county uses cholera serum for the first time.
Knights of Pythias members vote to construct a three story building 44 by 120 feet to serve as a new lodge home in Mason City.
More than 100 Aberdeen Angus breeders from Iowa gathered for the annual Iowa State Aberdeen Angus Breeders Association convention in Des Moines. Mayor Jas R Hanna addressed the opening session and Silas Igo of Indianola declared the meeting the state’s largest of its kind. Igo cited Iowa’s 32,228,109 acres of fertile land hosting 212,000 farmers and housing major livestock totals including 5,398,000 cattle across hogs, sheep, horses, milch cows, and other bovines.
Ruth Hall a West Union principal in a famous damages suit died recently from injuries alleged to have come from an electrical shock while using a Chicago telephone. The Chicago Telephone company faces a four year old suit over the shock with notable figures including Thomas A Edison summoned to testify on the shock’s possible fatal effect.
Burlington in Des Moines county moves to uniform textbooks with a March school election. County officials including Superintendent Parrott and county supervisors will place the issue on the ballot after a petition from one third of the county school directors. Book agents are expected to campaign, but full publicity will inform voters.
Judge Smith McPherson rules Old Colony Trust Co v Fort Dodge Des Moines Southern Railway and American Trust case receivers must offer the Newton to Des Moines Junction line for sale. If not sold in ninety days the court may approve abandonment. Receivers to operate locomotive and cars for four weeks to move freight on the division.
Mason City reports Nicholas Balderoff, a Greek barber, pleaded guilty to selling liquor and cigarettes and was fined $100. He claimed a race related dispute at his shop led to the complaint and guilty plea without trial.
James Brown, 30, of Ottawa Illinois, visiting his brother in Pleasant, accidentally shot himself when he slipped on ice and his gun discharged. The blast struck his back. cause ruled accidental during hunting.
The Town Central Railway Company must pay 1500 dollars in damages for the death of N. Frederickson after a fatal train incident about a year ago.
J. H. Bowman a former banker and stock raiser at Waverly collapsed and died in the Wortner hotel. He owned about 1000 acres of land near the town and bred trotting horses. He was 67 years old.
Chicago postal authorities returned two thousand dollars in deposit notes stolen from Sanford Boyd a wealthy farmer in Chicago. The notes were recovered and restored to the rightful owner.
In Sheboygan Wisconsin a trolley car plunges from the Eighth Street bridge into the river trapping three women who drown. Miss Anna Mather Miss Tannie Van Ouwekerk and Miss Olga Willimite perished as motorman George Thiene and conductor Frank Weber were saved along with two others after Paul O Etzold escaped. Slippery rails and failed brakes blamed for the disaster.
The House passed the census reapportionment measure setting 483 members after March 3 1913. Illinois gains two seats and many states gain one or more, with Democrats and some Republicans backing the expansion.
In Philadelphia at Jack O'Brien's arena on Wednesday, Knockout Brown of New York battered the previously dominant Wolgast, the conquering Ad Wolgast of Battling Nelson fame, for six rounds. Brown controlled the action, landing at will while Wolgast showed little offense outside clinches.
Seattle voters including women for the first time cast ballots in a recall election aimed at removing Mayor Hiram C. Gill. Returns from a third of the city show Gill ousted and Dilling chosen by about 4000 votes amid charges over vice segregation and police graft.
Secretary Knox told the Ways and Means Committee that wood pulp and paper sections of the Canada United States trade pact can be amended without delaying ratification. Fordney and McCall debated Payne’s stance that the pact must stand as a whole, while Knox said final schedule construction rests with the committee.
The assay commission met in Philadelphia to perform its annual task testing United States coins for fineness and weight. Members include the eastern district of Pennsylvania judge, the comptroller of the currency, the New York assay office assayer, and others appointed by the president.
Ten Missouri Kansas & Texas railroad workers were killed and seven injured when an engine under repair exploded in Smithville Texas yards. The blast destroyed $20,000 in railroad property and wrecked two locomotives. The roundhouse was partly demolished and used as a makeshift morgue.
President Taft warned Congress in a White House meeting with Senators Crane and Carter that a vote on the Canada reciprocity pact is required or an extra session would be convened soon after March 1. Vice-President Sherman and Senator Smoot joined the talks as Crane and Carter met with supportive colleagues.
President Taft granted a pardon to Guy Livingston a Dunkirk Montana farmer after a Justice Department plea described his hardship with freezing livestock and a pillaged home. Livingston had been convicted on a technical charge of taking whisky on the Blackfoot Indian reservation.
Bowdoin College president William D. Hyde issued appeals to the Bowdoin Alumni association for 240000 dollars in total: 140000 for the medical department and 100000 for a new gymnasium. The move aims to bolster campus facilities and program support.
The Senate finance committee, on a strictly party line vote, approved reporting to the full chamber the measure passed by the House to establish a permanent tariff board.
Nineteen men were injured with five killed when a gasoline barrel exploded in the Long Island Railroad yards at Jamaica. The workers, laborers clearing snow from tracks, were nearby a work car when the blast occurred.
Miss Alice Fleming, superintendent of public schools of Latimer County, was burned to death in a fire that destroyed her home on Tuesday in Wilburton Oklahoma.
The daylight saloon bill passed the senate and goes to Governor Colquitt who has stated he will veto it. It would require saloons to open no earlier than 6 am and close by 7 pm.
Adolph Bruns, a renowned German tenor who was active in the Midwest, died Thursday at the Scott County poor farm. His career featured bold performances and he was a prominent figure in regional musical circles.
The Iowa house approved the daylight saloon bill by 60 to 25 with 12 absent. The measure requires saloons to open from seven in the morning until eight at night in Des Moines.
The Kansas senate on Wednesday passed the resolution to submit the constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote in all elections. The resolution had previously passed the house.
In Trenton New Jersey Governor Wilson threatened to thrash James R Nugent chairman of the state Democratic committee and son in law of former Senator James Smith Jr. Nugent faced the governor in a ten minute private office debate over attempts to block the governor's special bills. Wilson is about five feet six inches. Nugent stands a little over six feet.
Washington house approves a senate bill requiring inspection of locomotive boilers on interstate railroads under Interstate Commerce Commission rules. The measure has backing from railway labor groups and railroad companies.
Attorney Frank OBrien for Mrs. Laura Schenk says both sides agreed to alimony of 100 dollars per month. The bill of particulars in the Schenk divorce suit was filed Wednesday but its contents were not disclosed.
The senate committee on expositions on Wednesday voted to report a resolution favoring San Francisco as the site of the Panama canal fair.
Robert B. Bachman of Nazareth, reputedly a member of the holy rollers sect, was freed Tuesday after being declared insane following the 1908 killing of his niece during a religious meeting at his home.
James J. Britt of North Carolina was nominated by President Taft on Tuesday to serve as third assistant postmaster general in the federal posts.
In Erie Pennsylvania the mausoleum of William L Scott is found shattered and the body of Mrs Anna M McCollum removed. Police say the McCollum body was taken while Scott’s body was not stolen though an attempt is suspected. Officials cite family hindrance and hint at a sensational motive behind the theft.
The Chiperfield committee finds that millions in land along Lake Michigan and waterways were illegally taken by corporations and private interests. Chicago suffers most with 400 acres seized by Illinois Central. The report urges immediate legal action to recover value and possibly revoke the railroad’s charter.
In Carpentersville at the Wilburn house a gas explosion Monday killed Howard Mann and Adam Oberst and injured twenty others, four fatally. The blast stemmed from a leaking main and a stove fire, sending guests fleeing the hotel in panic amid chaotic escapes.
Mrs. Rebecca Spring, mother of dramatist Steele Mackaye and friend of many Victorian literary figures, died at her Los Angeles home within four months of her hundredth birthday.
Washington test standing vote in the house Thursday backed advocates for a membership of 433 under the new census. The result was 158 to 126 in favor.
Mexican soldiers launched a desperate assault on Malata on Wednesday but were repulsed by insurgents. Third Cavalry troops watched the fight from across the American boundary.
Cincinnati editor reports a formal tender of the Princeton University presidency to James Bryce British ambassador to the United States per Wednesday Times Star. Bryce would assume leadership at Princeton if accepted by the board of trustees and university officials.
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