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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1920
Page
10
Rock Island Illinois and Quincy readers endorse Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic for women. Mrs B A Smith reports regaining health after two difficult years of marriage. Mrs Julia Curtis says two bottles refreshed her energy and well being.
Mrs O Zerneck and Mrs Regina Russel praise Dr Pierce products for weak health and cough relief. Zerneck urges Favorite Prescription for run down women and prefers it to other medicines. Russel highlights Cough Syrup Tecapene TE for children as safe with prompt relief without opiates.
Iowa State news reports 18 deaths of Isaac C Weeber at 78, 150 farmers awaiting rail cars, sorghum syrup campaign victories, and major highway plans in Story county. It notes Polk and Johnson counties with farm institutes, livestock shipments to Wisconsin, and a record Iowa corn crop of 417 million bushels outpacing Illinois.
Brooklyn inventor Benjamin Franklin Leavitt touts a self contained diving suit able to withstand 7000 pounds per square inch. He describes 361 feet deep dives in 1916 Grand Traverse Bay and 49 fathoms off Graves Light while detailing armor features including copper limbs and a 20000 pound strength helmet cable.
Mr. Leavitt describes salvage efforts for copper from the Pewable wreck in Lake Huron and plans to recover the Merida near Cape Charlies, with $1,800,000 in silver bars and $100,000 in money in the purser’s office. He notes divers’ dangers, a British salvage milestone, and the Lusitania’s possible recoveries with vast gold and valuables, while stressing winter limits and depth currents.
A pamphlet by the Dutch acting consul general argues Holland suffered more from World War I than other neutrals. It details drastic shipping declines from 86,229,000 net tons in 1913 to 3,863,000 in 1918, disrupted trade, high mobilization costs, and rising per capita taxes as finances strain under war.
An official report states the United States and Japan now control most of India's prewar export trade. The US leads in iron, steel, and machinery while Japan dominates electrical parts, copper, paper, glassware, textiles, and beer. British exporters' war-related supply issues are cited as a main factor. A separate brief notes university student John H. Merkle in Oklahoma rapidly regaining sight after neck injury treated with a ten-pound neck weight.
Mrs. Margaret P. Miller and Mrs. Berdie Wheeler clashed over the dogs color after a bite claim. Witnesses varied on the color black brown or white leading Judge Myers to dismiss the case. Wheeler plans another suit while color is to be determined. Philadelphia notes a separate item on manicures and grammar at the Tralles school.
The narrator remarks on a peculiar character who will gift a ten cent cigar for acts of kindness but refuses to pay a nickel streetcar fare, illustrating a quirky moral tale from the era.
Secretary Houston said the last floating indebtedness of the government would be redeemed Monday and the treasury position appeared very bright. He cited $80 million of short term certificates and about $2.085 billion in tax certificates, with no funds needed beyond taxes. He argued reconstruction was under way and cited European aid, domestic road building, and housing permits as signs of improving conditions.
Washington reports the capture of a German prisoner by American soldiers Adam Blanskowski and John Cochanski of Tronwood Michigan. The 18th Infantry’s Company O member was wounded and captured while returning to his unit near Bures Meurthe and Moselle on the night of October 27 28 1917.
Washington reports Representative Ware of Pennsylvania said he will introduce a bill at the next session to amend the Volstead act by permitting beer with 5 percent alcohol content. The move is the first definite effort toward redefining prohibition thresholds.
Bertin February 14 British minister of agriculture asks provincial authorities in frontier and coast districts to revoke any order prohibiting fresh meat imports from the United States in response to a protest.
One thousand six hundred Wellesley College undergraduates are under quarantine in Wellesley Massachusetts. Students may not go home or leave town but continue with classes as usual.
John Barton Payne of Chicago will be President Wilson's new secretary of the interior, succeeding Franklin K. Lane. Payne has chaired the Shipping Board since last August.
Denmark achieved a clear win in the Schleswig plebiscite with Man sch adherents totaling 75,028 votes against 25,087 cast by German supporters. The result from Copenhagen reports a decisive Danish majority in the province.
A wireless report states the American steamship West Aleta is aground off Tershelling Island in the North Sea. The vessel sailed from San Francisco on January 6 bound for Hamburg.
Raoul Peret was elected president of the chamber of deputies in Paris by 872 votes of 425 cast, succeeding Paul Deschanel, who had just been elected president of the republic.
Announcement of a wage increase about 10 percent for Gogehic range miners. The raise will affect roughly 6 000 mining employees in Tronwood Michigan.
Publication presents a fragmentary dialogue about water, river mouths, and a youth described as a queer. Ita Praco asks where a bite of water is while the interlocutor references a river mouth. The Trouble mentions a son who is not adolescent but odd in the head.
A home or druggist prepared mix uses equal parts water and glycerine with Bay Rum and Barbo Compound to darken faded gray hair. Apply twice weekly until the desired shade. it colors hair without staining the scalp, is non sticky and non greasy, and does not rub off.
Diary excerpt from September 8 1819 records the Duke of Wellington known as a poor shot during a visit to Maresfield Park in Sussex. He wounded a retriever peppered a keeper and shot at a washerwoman while joking about being shot by him. The passage contrasts his aim with Napoleon's dog-shooting habit. The note closes with a proverb about pork-packing bids.
An old advertisement offers $100 for an incurable catarrh case. It promotes HLALLS CATARRH MEDICINE sold by druggists for over forty years and claims internal action through the blood on mucous surfaces. The firm J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio provides testimonials and a free test.
Quicksilver or mercury is a scarce semi precious metal with many applications beyond thermometers. It forms an amalgam with gold on copper plates to collect gold, is used in blue mass and other compounds, and is essential to mirror manufacture though poisoning risks exist from mercury compounds.
A cheerful round recounts a passenger asking the conductor if a ride goes to the Green. The conductor replies with a smile that the route serves the Green along with two cemeteries three hospitals and an old ladies home, twenty five trips a day.
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