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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1899
Page
7
In Louisiana, Joseph Jefferson and his son Tom walk home from a duck hunt when a servant asks what they do in the show. John doubts Tom’s claim, jokes about knives and fire, and declares Joseph cannot be a circus actor after seeing him on a horse.
A village clergyman recounts a parishioner whitewashing his cottage to prevent infection after learning the last two couples in the house had twins. The man explains the aim is cleanliness to protect ten children.
Short exchanges reveal domestic humor as Mrs Adsley praises her husband and Mrs Darling notes his nightly bed checks. A boarding house quip escalates with a comical insult about food, followed by a quip about catering for pigs in a Chicago Evening News snippet.
In Havana on January 2 the sovereignty of Cuba passed from Spain to the United States at noon. The ceremony featured the exchange of speeches, a flag ceremony on the palace roof, and a 21 gun salute as the Stars and Stripes rose over Cabanas fortress and the palace. Capt. Gen. Castellanos formally ceded command, and Gen. Wade and Gen. Brooke accepted the transfer with remarks promising cooperation and a peaceful transition.
Chicago reports a cross country mail race as the Lake Shore fast mail arrives at 8:23 PM and the Burlington fast mail departs at 9:30 PM. Northwestern and Burlington duel for speed over 488 to 502 miles to Council Bluffs, with Omaha distances noted.
Report from Paris describes a 36 hour downpour that bursts the Bievres sewer near Versailles, flooding the Orleans railway terminus works, washing carts and undermining foundations while triggering fear for the subterranean river Bierre and nearby exhibition buildings. Berlin notes a cabinet order to replace French terms with German in the army. In San Francisco a fatal saloon shootout at 113 O Farrell Street leaves James Gallagher dead.
The Dun and Co review hails 1893 as a year of victory with major gains in exports and net gold imports. It notes New York as financial center, rising balance of trade, record pig iron output, stable prices, and a sharp drop in U S failures from 1897 to 1898.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin was convicted of first degree murder for sending poisoned candy to Mrs. John P. Dunning in Dover. The jury sentenced her to life imprisonment, sparing the gallows. The case involved Botkin buying the box in San Francisco and a note on the handkerchief.
The World reports on a United Empire trade league finding Manitoba could feed Britain. It calculates 87 million acres open for cultivation after lakes and waste, enough for 116000 families at 320 acres each, with 5000 farmers producing 100 acres of wheat yearly at 20 bushels per acre, adding 10000000 bushels. It notes Assiniboia Alberta and Saskatchewan as further wheat lands and compares cost to buying a battleship to settle settlers.
Washington warns that U S soldiers in Hawaii may contract leprosy and bring it home upon return. The note stresses leprosy danger alongside stomach disorders and blood diseases, while claiming Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters cures these ailments and many others like malaria fever and ague. Sold at all drug stores.
An Indianapolis Journal excerpt argues poultry incubation offers rapid returns and promotes buying a quality incubator. It notes a Buckeye Incubator Co product from Springfield Ohio priced as low as five dollars, with terms and a catalog offered on request.
Very low rates via the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railway offer semi monthly excursions to the southwest to Texas the Empire State of the Union. Texas reports its climate soil and production as highly favorable. descriptive pamphlets and excursion dates available from H A Cherrier N P A Chicago and T B Cockerly DPA Des Moines Iowa.
An 19th century ad claims Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowels daily and acts on the liver and kidneys to keep health. It offers cures for sick headache and lists prices at 25 and 50 cents. The piece ends with a quoted fiction line from Town and Country Journal about reading thoughts.
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