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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1899
Page
8
The writer attacks surgical treatment for cancer and blood diseases as cruel and largely ineffective. The piece argues disease lies in the blood, cannot be cut out, and claims the knife often hastens death in nine of ten cases.
Emma A. Lente in Good Housekeeping invites readers to savor a lush spring, praising abundant daisies fruitage and the year’s gifts. The speaker celebrates spring’s first bloom, the warmth of renewal, and lovers wandering to forests and streams seeking rest and gratitude.
Professor William Ramsey proposes a possible new gas between helium and argon per periodic law. His diffusion experiments with helium show a stable light fraction with density 1.98 and refractivity 0.1245, while trace argon appears at 1.64 percent density. He concludes diffusion tests do not prove a new element, but do not fully deny its existence.
The New York Ledger warns that eye strain causes epilepsy and headaches, with about one sixth of adults benefiting from glasses during work. Symptoms include tired eyes, headaches, upset digestion, back pain, dizziness, and nausea, often misattributed to other causes until properly fitted glasses relieve the issue.
A Boston Herald note describes a tramp hired to paint Warren's hall in Freeport Maine in exchange for food. His decorative work impressed the owner and remains as a testament to the tramp's skill. The item shifts to travel, fashion, and odd facts then mentions a Bowen's Prairie land sale and la grippe remedy ad.
A Chicago Times-Herald excerpt explores belief in presentiments as a couple banters over the omen of rain and the value of intuition versus materialism. A grandmother’s near death during influenza years earlier fuels a tense, introspective memory about foresight and doubt.
A curate returning from his wedding tour faced a sermons mishap when the Advent text Behold the bridegroom cometh was assigned last minute. The half hour before service he read the prepared sermon and delivered it as written. The crowd likely forgot the sermon but not the text. Also notes warn of la grippe and promote One Minute Cough Cure as a preventive and remedy.
The notice promotes a special farm readers package including The Iowa Homestead Special Farmers Institute editions The Poultry Farmer The Farmers Mutual Insurance Journal and the Humane Alliance. The combined value is 4.55 but available to county farmers for 2.20 plus the paper, offering humane education for farm families.
Laurence Hutton recalls Edwin Booth in a Henrik Ibsen burlesque style moment at the theater. Booth stays in character despite a lively backstage atmosphere and a comic yet reverent reaction to a Catholic cardinal line as Julie lures the heroine.
A sappers and miners colonel asks for a volunteer to crawl the trench and ignite the magazine. After silence a frail man speaks up saying he can do it, noting he once lived in a New York flat as justification for his resolve.
Good farm of 227 acres for sale in Clay township Jones county two thirds cleared. Has improvements and timber soil. Would make an excellent stock farm. Price 1200 an acre. 1811 H. M. Troy Cedar Rapids Iowa.
Advertisement notes a 154 acre farm for rent near Langworthy, inviting inquiries to P. H. Suerman of Rolfe Town. Also appears several health ads promoting DeWitt's Witch Hazel salve from D.C. Prader & Co with caution about imitators.
A vintage advert extols electric bitters as a liver and kidney tonic that purifies blood and improves complexion. It also promotes Dewitt's Little Early Risers for constipation and liver issues, and includes a farm land offer in Iowa. It cites DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve for piles and skin healing.
D C Prader & Co announces the Dr King New Discovery for consumption and coughs now available at their store. The remedy claims to cure asthma bronchitis hoarseness and all throat chest and lung affections with a trial bottle free or regular sizes 50 cents and 1.00 guaranteed to cure or money back. Also promotes De Witts Little Early Risers for constipation and liver troubles.
Vintage ad claims a universal salve cures cuts, ulcers, sores, piles, and skin eruptions with 25 cent boxes sold by D. C. Prader & Co. It also touts One Minute Cough Cure for inflamed lungs and coughing, offered by the same company.
A fragment offers a 25 cent bottle of Dr. Sawyers Ukatine for kidney trouble and assorted ailments. The ad invites readers to cut out the coupon, write their name, and present it to a druggist named A Kempf to obtain the bottle.
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