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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1907
Page
8
The piece recalls dangers before modern times with tales of poisonous berries, ladder falls, scaldings, and fatal gas explosions. It notes powder hazards in colonial Hartford, a schoolhouse blast killing children, an Andover fire killing three elderly inmates, and warns against postbed smoking.
A collection of aphorisms on virtue envy surprise and aging notes. It contrasts waiting with action and the futility of wealth and poverty while warning of deceit and misperception in human relations. The tone mirrors late 19th century newspaper editorial snippets.
The article argues that the Moon’s surface has remained unchanged for eons due to lack of air water and internal activity. It asserts no outside or inside forces exist to alter its configuration and that even over hundreds of millions of years its face cannot disintegrate or alter.
A guest cites Tennyson’s passion over mispronunciation and proclaims zeal on language. The scene recalls Byron in Don Juan, who quips about sending him to college to learn more.
A four inch black disk marked with a white cross rotated at 50 to 60 times per second to observe lightning flashes at night. The cross appeared once or several times per flash, indicating highly variable discharge durations. Some flashes lasted about a thousandth of a second, while others were shorter or as brief as thirty five thousandths of a second.
The New York Press notes that ambulances have priority over mail wagons and fire engines in city traffic. A city ordinance is cited declaring life and property first, with mail wagons yielding to emergency vehicles when bells ring.
An English magistrate questioned a Chinese witness about his afterlife destination and disqualified him after he answered Peking. In another case a little girl said I don’t know to the same question, prompting the judge to order the witness sworn noting his own uncertainty.
Forty Cornell College students at Mount Vernon perform a merry Christmas concert for the Detained. Deputy Warden Smith joins the yard gathering after the show as praise pours in for director George L. Pierce and his trained ensemble. The Davenport dispatch notes a planned Manchester Davenport interurban line tapping six trunk lines and linking to Monticello Amber Muscatine Wilton and Davenport.
Monticello December 20 1906 the board of education met in regular session with members Coxsee Hall Gee Inglis Hefner The minutes were read and approved Several bills were allowed including salaries for Tracnens Kong J E Foster and others plus freight coal and supplies The meeting adjourned with J N Peterson secretary Chicago News notes prosperity in shopping districts
The passage praises plain women for healthful traits over artistic modeling. It claims strong nerves and bright eyes signify health and advertises a drug product promising beauty. It also references the Smoot case as an ongoing political matter.
Port Byron resident Amos F King reports an 80 year leg sore healed by Bucklin's Arnica Salve now aged 85. Ad claims guaranteed cures for sores by O V Soetje druggist. Also references Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and varied newspaper quotes about health and industry men.
The ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills described as painless purifiers curing headache and biliousness and keeping bowels right. Sold for 25 cents at O H Soetje’s Drug Store in Omaha. The paper notes Anna Gould is liable for only 81000 of Boni’s debts, implying he bore most of the charge.
Mrs Julia Ryder Paine of Truro Massachusetts praises the New Discovery as a quick remedy for coughs colds and sore throats claiming it cures weak lungs after other remedies fail. Sold by O H Soetje Druggist with 50c and 1.00 prices and a trial bottle free.
A probate notice from Jones County Iowa date December 28 1906 informs all interested parties that the will of John Matthews deceased has been filed and will be presented for probate at the March term 1907 of the District Court of Jones County. Dated December 28 1906 J H Ramsey Clerk Dist Court.
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