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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1911
Page
3
A jumble of brief items cites science jokes and social trends from infantile paralysis to embalmers and new theater plans. It notes Missouri importing stingless bees and a Velasquez rediscovery near Parma. Public health, fashion, crime, and urban plans mingle in a mood of speculative curiosity.
A fresh expedition departs New Zealand heading toward the South Pole showing the resolve of hardy explorers who endure cold days instead of seeking warmth by a radiator.
London dealers advertise a pipe claimed to have been used by Sir Walter Raleigh and seek buyers. The note raises a side question of whether Raleigh ever learned to roll his own cigarettes, adding a curious historical aside.
Japan declares the Korean emperor will receive a pension, a generous gesture. The note suggests it would have been unfortunate if the emperor had to support himself by opening a laundry in old age.
A remark about the airship route from Boston to Washington humorously notes its use by those without urgent plans to dine at the White House and avoid keeping the president waiting.
In a witty note on fashion, Paris designers proclaim their latest gowns fasten at the front. The change promises less strife for husbands who must cover the costs.
Prince Henry of Prussia flies military aeroplanes and earns respect by proving courage and skill. The article notes birthright has no bearing in this field and praises the prince for doing the work of a man beyond titles.
The census shows western states gain in population but trails the faster growth of eastern states. Illinois adds 817,041 people rising 16.9 percent over ten years while New York gains 1,844,383 residents or 25.4 percent. The overall trend remains robust for the era.
A Washington department bulletin calls the year a bumper year for farm products with total output up 7.6 percent over 1909. The rise surpasses earlier gains and exceeds the average by 9.1 percent.
Advertisers for a new New York building tout a skating rink a model dairy and a hospital among conveniences. The notice makes no claim about the janitor handling a bridge emergency.
A California magistrate ruled that telling a person to go to the infernal regions is not profanity as legally defined though the phrase remains very rude. The decision clarifies how certain expressions are treated under law while acknowledging the offense in everyday speech.
An old dollar bill wandering through New York and Washington is thought to be deemed counterfeit due to its abnormally clean appearance, reflecting suspicion on both money and morality.
Tremors across Turkestan kill or injure about two thousand people and wash away whole towns. Troops rush to Semiryet Chensk and Vyerny as communication collapses. Lake Issy Kul swamps boats while mountains split in the Koongi Ala Tau range. The quake’s reach extends to the northern Chinese frontier.
Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia died at his Washington home after a yearlong illness. Cause given as septisemia, with family at his bedside. Born Perry County Ohio September 26, 1841, he studied in Missouri and served as territorial delegate and congress member.
In a four story Sidney Street siege in London, six anarchists died after a prolonged fight with 1500 police, two battalions of soldiers, and artillery units. The building was set ablaze and roof collapse trapped the attackers. The dead are tied to plots against King George V and a Burglary murder in Houndsditch.
Martin M. Secor former Racine mayor and prominent manufacturer died Thursday from injuries after a fall at his home a week earlier breaking several ribs. He was born in 1841.
The New York Chamber of Commerce decided Thursday to create a commercial court for voluntary settlement of business disputes among merchants.
In U S district court Judge Holland fined the Philadelphia and Reading railway the Lehigh Valley Railroad company and the Bethlehem Steel company forty thousand dollars each for unlawful rebating.
James J. Gallagher, the man who shot Mayor Gaynor in Jersey City, was sentenced Wednesday to twelve years at hard labor in the state prison and then until the cost of prosecution is paid.
Ohio millionaire O C Barber blasts high freight rates as driving living costs and targets railroad capitalization. He urges Congress to regulate freight rates and curb watered stock while blaming financiers Huntington Morgan Hill and Harriman for the system. He cites rising dividends and argues reform would fix broader commerce.
C. S. Osborne takes office as Michigan's twenty ninth governor becoming the first from the Upper Peninsula. A 17 gun salute greeted the oath administered by Chief Justice Russell C. Ostrander amid a ceremonial change from military display to formal frock coats. The biennial legislature session opens Wednesday.
Washington The second fight of the American Tobacco corporations against dissolution by decree of the Supreme Court under the Sherman anti trust law began Thursday as their attorneys presented a fusillade of arguments. The suit to dissolve the tobacco trust was instituted in 1907.
William Scanlan, an American army pensioner, was hanged on Wednesday in Cork for the murder of his sister in law committed in 1809. He underwent three trials and was convicted on circumstantial evidence.
Houston police jailed six white men brought from Palestine on Wednesday charged with the murder of black residents during the Slocum race riots last July.
Charles S. Drummond a millionaire realty dealer involved in three elopements pleaded guilty to bigamy. He was sentenced to six months in jail and fined $500. Authorities noted his prior marriages and elopements in the case.
Rev Daniel Worcester Faunce died Tuesday on his eighty second birthday. He was father of President W H P Faunce of Brown University.
Grand jury returns 22 indictments in the Los Angeles Times explosion case arising from a dynamite plot linked to the union movement. Most indicted names withheld until arrests. believed to include several San Francisco men. Rewards totaling nearly 100000 were offered as the disaster shocked Los Angeles and sparked public panic.
Governor Eugene N. Foss in his inaugural address urged advanced measures against boss rule and for popular government tools including direct nominations recall and initiative and referendum. He opposed gerrymandering and proposed redrawing districts by engineers using latitude and longitude rather than party advantage.
Minnesota Progressives from across the state met in Minneapolis to create a Progressive Republican League. H. T. Halbert of St. Paul chaired temporarily, and John A. Applegate of Cannon Falls was elected permanent chair. Resolutions praised Senator Moses B. Clapp and backed initiative and referendum, direct primary for U S senators, and extending the primary system to all state offices.
New York District Attorney Whitman said he was told that Clarence K Lexow, counsel for banker Joseph G Robin, worried himself to death over the financial entanglements Robin faced in his undertakings.
Twenty five people killed in Bechuanland as a fierce South African storm hits Johannesburg area. A violent hailstorm cemented fatalities among twenty natives and others in the disaster on Thursday.
A half karat diamond lost last June by Mrs. Ava Lutz of Guttenberg was found Tuesday in the gizzard of a rooster prepared for the table by Mrs. J B W McConnell in Saratoga New York.
Mrs. Emily J. Wilkins widow of Beriah Wilkins former Ohio congressman died Tuesday at age sixty after a year of ill health.
Revolutionists capture Truxillo and Ruatan in Honduras without resistance after Hornet arrives with ammunition and sailors. Manuel Bonilla proclaims himself constitutional president as base operations form on Bonacca and Bay Islands before advancing toward Puerto Cortez.
The Illinois Senate expels D W Holstlaw, who confessed taking a 2500 dollar bribe for his vote amid the Lorimer scandal. A resolution to appoint a committee to probe bribery charges was introduced as the chamber convened. Representative Charles Adkins of Bement was elected House speaker.
New York report that William Ellis Corey resigns after seven years as president of United States Steel. The resignation takes effect at the board’s pleasure, no immediate successor planned, Judge H. Gary indicates he will assume duties of the vacated office.
Two masked bandits stopped Southern Pacific Overland Limited west of Ogden at Reese nine miles away. Porter William Davis was killed and A W Taylor mortally wounded. A passenger suffered a minor injury as the robbers relieved about one hundred passengers of valuables.
In Terre Haute Indiana all but two passenger conductors on the Chicago Terre Haute and Southeastern railroad were dismissed Thursday without notice or stated reason. The workers had served the line for many years.
Fifteen people were killed and about fifty injured Thursday when a passenger train derailed near Natheart in the Cape Colony. Authorities and fire brigades cordoned the scene as rescue operations continued into the evening. Officials noted the accident occurred after a bridge collapse amid heavy rains.
Peru has agreed to submit its boundary dispute with Ecuador to The Hague tribunal at the suggestion of the United States Brazil and Argentina. The move follows diplomatic input from those nations signaling support for a legal settlement.
Bank Commissioner Dolley reported in Topeka that thirty Kansas banks were robbed in the last three months. Safe crackers secured substantial sums, signaling a rising wave of bank crime across the state.
Des Moines Jan 7 the joint meeting of the Iowa Associated Dailies Iowa Weekly Newspapers Publishers executive committee of the Iowa League of Commercial Clubs and the Des Moines Ad men club announced for January 19 20 at the Chamberlain hotel. Programs include talks on cash in advance circus advertising new legislation and a state publicity bureau and extension work.
A mortgage of 1,400,000 is filed with the county recorder by Omaha and Western Iowa Traction company to International Trust company at 6 percent for twenty years. The project aims to build an interurban line between Omaha and Sioux City via Council Bluffs. Route through Harrison county is not fixed but Logan Beebe townships were listed in proposed plans as likely towns along the line. Engineer W F Cherry of Princeton, Jr. supported the route, suggesting Council Bluffs Beebetown Logan Magnolia as plausible stops.
Tabor college students conducted a whirlwind drive to raise 75 000 dollars to save the institution. Citizens subscribed over 75 000 and Andrew Carnegie pledged 25 000 if the students matched the target.
Mrs Sophia Moeller a Mercy hospital patient died after jumping from a fourth floor window during her appendicitis recovery Relatives traveled to her former home with the remains in a church procession
One week after her husband died, Mrs. Augusta Kloehn aged 64 passed away in Cedar township. The couple had been ill with pneumonia and moved to this county in 1863, marking a long residence in the area.
Charles Burkhart of Grundy Center was bitten by a mad dog belonging to him. A physician was summoned and it was decided to take Burkhart to Chicago for Pasteur Institute treatment at once.
John Fisk a 66 year old Albany resident died when ice broke around an air hole on the Mississippi river. He is survived by a wife and son living in Chicago.
Preparations for the Calhoun County Farmers Institute are underway in Rockwell City. The meeting will be held January 17 18 and 19 with prominent speakers from Iowa and neighboring states addressing important questions.
Expensive litigation surrounds the unfinished Y M C A structure in Charles City as parties clash over the costly project and its stalled completion.
Dr J W Kime state tuberculosis lecturer announces a special car with exhibits on TB causes and effects. The mobile display will travel across the state with accompanying lecturers. Negotiations aim to use an Illinois Central car. Plans include forming anti tuberculosis societies in every county with meetings in county seats and smaller towns led by local physicians.
Dr Henry Albert state bacteriologist urges restraint with dogs suspected of hydrophobia advise tying and watching animals that bite others or people if the dog dies within ten days it confirms hydrophobia and killing it early prevents diagnosis Hydrophobia rising in Iowa but controllable with proper measures
Near Colo Col o John Mayne claims a new husking record by cribs and husking 2 933 bushels of corn. He averaged about 12214 bushels per day across the full period, handling two to four loads daily.
In Marshalltown the soldiers' home consumed seventy five turkeys costing $246.74 for about 1,000 members. The note compares state spending on turkey at the home to other institutions and suggests a large total bill if mirrored elsewhere.
In January Prof. A. V. Storms of the extension department will meet county superintendents and fifteen teachers in each county by appointment to arrange teaching agriculture in the schools.
Mason City notes Charles W. Parker a conductor on the M and St L line between Watertown and Minneapolis was badly injured in a wreck with his left arm and leg broken.
Carl Marshall will lose the sight of both eyes after a flash light photo machine exploded while he looked into the composition. The accident occurred in Storm Lake and left Marshall severely injured.
Senator A B Cummins declares agriculture a science and farming a profession during the opening session of the Ames short course.
A large crowd attended the special dairy meetings in Oelwein. Experts H. G. Van Pelt and E. S. Astel spoke, and several dairy cows were taken on the special dairy train.
Burlington notice reports the marriage of Miss Esther Fleming daughter of Vice President John J Fleming of the Burlington Savings Bank to Lieutenant Polk of the Eighth Cavalry in a ceremony at St Paul church.
Infant Lester Peterman in Iowa City contracted infantile paralysis and was taken to a hospital. Surgeons express hope for recovery despite the serious condition.
One of the era’s great social events marked the golden wedding anniversary of Senator and Mrs. R. W. Thrill. The reception at the Masonic temple drew about five hundred attendees.
Jefferson Deputy Game Warden Blackburn reports many fish ranging from six to twenty inches frozen in the ice along a long stretch of the Raccoon River in Iowa.
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