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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1903
Page
4
A club is to be formed for persons born on February 29. There are about 52,000 eligible individuals in the United States, representing 1 in 1,460 of the population.
A report notes 67 country bank robberies in recent months and describes banditry as severe while predicting the old stocking and buried milk jar will soon lose their ridiculed status amid fear and hardship.
A proposed trust of philanthropists with a capital of 510,000,000 faces no objection. The arrangement aims at benevolent projects and promises to boost Uncle Sam's postal revenue through anticipated begging letters.
The article notes the rarity of women being arrested for embezzlement in Chicago. It comments that women may steal hearts but seldom steal the employer’s money, portraying the incident with a light social tone and emphasis on rarity.
Henry Phipps met Lord Curzon in India and slipped him ten thousand dollars for any practical purpose. The remark ends with a playful jab about Americans being a practical people.
In Jasper county Missouri a farmer eyed selling his farm after a Carthage promoter drafted a sample ad. Reading it, the farmer exclaimed he’d been seeking such a place all his life and hadn’t realized it until the ad described it.
Some officials in Rhode Island, controlling the Society of the Cincinnati, push a prize for a new tune for America. The piece notes there is no law against spending foolishly yet asserts the public will not abandon the traditional anthem.
American women oppose current rule that wives lose citizenship when they marry foreigners. Senator Hoar, chair of the judiciary committee, has introduced a senate bill to restore citizenship to any woman who wishes to claim the right after an alien marriage.
A playful note contrasts city papers with rural jokes and cites the New York Mail and Express bold headline about The Daughters of the Revolution Euchre at the Waldorf Today. The Waycross Wishbone society editor is teased for not topping that jab.
Baron Avebury a London scientist and banker published The Scenery of England and introduced a new term manywhere referring to rocks occurring anywhere in northern districts. He previously coined palaeolithic and neolithic in 1865 and this latest coinage is expected to gain wide use.
The Empire State Express covered 7.29 miles between Palmyra and Macedon in four minutes at 109.35 mph. Albany to Buffalo, 302 miles, took 295 minutes. In 1893 the train averaged 112.5 mph, and in March 1906 a Plant system line ran five miles Fleming to Jacksonville in 2 minutes 30 seconds at 120 mph. What was gained by all this.
After months of negotiation a committee of Transvaal residents contracted to buy 200000 acres in southwestern Texas. The land between the Wences river and San Antonio will host Boers seeking settlement outside British rule.
Thirty years after British and American explorers traced the Nile upward, modern explorers head to the headwaters to push downstream for commerce. They confirm navigation potential on the White Nile between Victorian Nyanza and Khartoum, while the Blue Nile into central Abyssinia remains largely unknown to commerce, potentially boosting Abyssinia’s status as an independent nation.
A weekly summary notes activity in the Senate and House including the Panama canal treaty discussions, a postal checks bill, and the omnibus statehood rider. It records the Elkins anti rebate bill passage, Likins anti trust bill progress, Indian and pension appropriations, and a $6 million omnibus public building bill with a naval academy hazing prevention bill proposed.
Washington notes report the president's wife has died after long strain from social duties. In other items Senators Lodge Turner and Secretary Root chosen as American members of the Alaska boundary arbitration commission. Roosevelt signs commerce and general staff bills and the attorney general says antitrust legislation satisfies the administration.
Seven days to the 13th saw United States exchanges aggregate 1.904 billion dollars, down 1.2 percent from last year. The period recorded 230 business failures, down from 264 a year earlier, and miners' strike case closed in Philadelphia as a commission hears closing arguments.
Charles D Peacock a Chicago pioneer jeweler died of pneumonia at 65. The report notes other city and national items including a world bowling record by Gunther team of Illinois and Arbor Day proclamation by the Illinois governor.
The McKinley Memorial association reports more than 500000 dollars raised for the monument and says 100000 more will be collected before construction starts. In Indianapolis the ghoul case jurors could not agree and were discharged. Katherine Lyons dies in Bloomington at 100. National Computing Scale Co of Cleveland appoints a receiver. capital 275000 dollars. In Morgan county Colorado an estimated 5000 cattle starve on the range. A wireless telegraph system for Lakesire and Ontario borders will be installed next season with stations at Detroit Cleveland and Buffalo.
Reports say agitators in Macedonia seek to involve Bulgaria Servia and Russia in war with Turkey. A Dublin speech by the Earl of Dudley cites hopeful prospects for Ireland.
No debate occurred in the Senate on the statehood bill on the sixteenth while votes on the Indian appropriation and Philippine currency bills passed. Several deaths and events fill the page including disasters and political moves.
Street car conductors in Switserland earn 80 cents daily for 12 hours. Zola’s fortune of 400000 comes entirely from his novels. Three thousand Chinese carpenters strike for higher wages in Hong Kong. Six months see 127340 bubonic plague cases in India with 98579 deaths. The average railway worker gains 60 more this year over 1902. One third of immigrants hail from southern Italy. Two white miners killed and eaten by blacks in Mambure New Guinea. New Hampshire has six living governors. Theodore Hostetter loses 1000000 in New York gambling. James J Hill warns of reverses and cites unions. Divorce reform rises in 1902 across a few states. Illinois and Missouri urged to make ticket fraud a prison offense. Alabama names Houston county in honor of late Gov George Houston. Premier Balfour urges US to teach South American courtesy. California prison abuses report a convict killed and many crippled by straitjackets. Ajax brings back the Massachussetts sailors’ bodies from Puerto Rico.
Senate confirms Non George B Cortelyou to head the new department of commerce and labor. James R Garfield to be commissioner of corporations. William Loeb to succeed Cortelyou as secretary to the president. Taft touring southern islands. Lawton monument unveiled amid ceremonies.
Edward Ixnaplan of Chicago was fatally shot by Edith Martin in a Detroit resort. Martin then shot herself, dying instantly.
Mrs Ira Holliner of Stilvideo Ohio reports severe fallopian tube abscess pain and weakness. She alleges Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound restored her health and urges other women to start using it and seek Mrs Pinkham's advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
A Missouri paper quotes the IXaneas City Star calling the steady subscriber who pays in advance a valued patron. The verse lauds the timely remittance and the household need it supports, praising the cheer and loyalty he brings to the newspaper office.
Rutledge Minnesota February 16 Mr E C Getchell relates a backache ordeal that worsened until he could hardly move He tried Dodd's Kidney Pills and says two boxes cured his lame back and he is now “O K” The local remedy gains popularity for backache and kidney trouble.
A Langdon North Dakota farmer in Winnipeg reports thousands of Americans plan to move to Western Canada in spring. He notes higher wheat prices south of the border and lower land costs here, with government agencies in multiple cities offering information on farming, cattle, grain, and transport options.
In a Detroit Free Press item Mrs Henpecque notes that married men live longer than single men. Henpecque agrees adding that it serves them right in a wry social aside.
Advisory note for new mothers on infant bath care starts at six weeks uses a soft towel in the basin and Ivory Soap to protect tender skin. Quote from Eleanor R Parker explains jealousy in Town Topics.
Old newspaper advertorial for Mother Gray s Sweet Powders for Children by a nurse at the Children s Home New York claiming to break up colds cure feverishness constipation stomach and teething disorders and destroy worms available at druggists 2950 sample free address A S Olmsted LeRoy NY plus a Cleveland Plain Dealer quote about advertising
An ad touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a money back guarantee if not effective. A stray line notes fear of overtime limits leisure hours. The Chicago and North Western is described as the only double track railway between Chicago and the Missouri River. Quotes on faith, creamery prizes, and a Burke maxim close the fragment.
A testimonial promotes Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney related backache and urinary disorders. Builder W H Hamner of 125 N Hinde St Washington DC says the remedy cured his bladder inflammation and urges others to try it. Free trial offer by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY. Price 50 cents per box.
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