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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1898
Page
3
Publication entry shows a weekly or monthly excerpt with editor J W Doxsee and subscription price per year. The fragment mentions a Thursday January date and typography indicates a historic newspaper notice.
Miss Anna Klima goes to Clinton to attend school. J T Cameron returns home from Town City and will teach at Cedar Rapids public school. W S Tasker of Chicago visits. Dr Scott reports a boy baby at Bert Sturtevant home. Geo Evans to relocate to Toledo Iowa. Sokol sells lumber business to Ward Blakely of Wyoming. Ice harvests good this week. Editorial about Monticello girls mirrors countywide views. Mrs Jane Reade, 77, dies at son in law Henry Welch’s home. funeral at M V church with Rev Van Buren and Rev Palmer. Terrie Adams dies at eighty. funeral at South Prairie church with Rev Palmer. Julia Miller sells farm to Selo Eye. Eye plans spring move and keeps a son on the farm.
Castle Grove reports include visitors from Monticello and Marcus Iowa, a debated question on Canada annexation with a 2 to 1 affirmative result, a well attended social raising 18.25, and preaching at Evangelical church. Hoodlum damage noted at school No 2 and various family visits and regional travel are summarized.
Jane Lear Reade born April 20 1820 in Kentucky died January 6 1898 at the home of her daughter Mrs Henry Welch near Onslow Iowa She married Samuel Reade June 22 1837 and moved to Clay township Jones County in 1852 where they lived until his 1888 death Eleven children were born eight survive Funeral services January 8 in the Onslow M E Church led by Rev W E Van Buren with Rev Philip Palmer and burial in South Mineral cemetery beside her husband.
A bold female reformer sneaks into the St Louis workhouse to expose supposed abuse by claiming the kitchen serves dishwater. She confronts two workers with a soup ladle and later flees, leaving no headlines about the alleged mistreatment. The scene pivots to a discussion of nickel and cobalt's intriguing chemical properties and their connection to meteoric iron.
A clipped exchange shows a parson and young man debating success with a quip about starting at the bottom then working up and a counter about a father digging wells to make a fortune. The dialogue reflects humor in Chicago newspaper style.
An officer recounts Afridi tactics at Fort Saraghara and Fort Cavagnari. He notes daylight mining near bastions and night ambushes, describing the dead point flaw and the deadly effectiveness of stealthy, dagger assaults by tribal fighters.
A North Lincolnshire anecdote from Notes and Queries recalls how on the night Jesus was born the stable filled with bracken and yellow bedstraw. Bedstraw supposedly bloomed in winter to honor the Saviour, while bracken remained blossomless, explaining enduring golden sprays in bedstraw.
Edith compliments Mr Tactic for being blunt about faults yet reveals he claims she is faultless. Bertha questions Edith about anger. Edith insists she never gets angry and notes no faults are named by Mr Tactic. The brief dialogue appears in the Boston Transcript.
A collection of brief quotes and reflections on poetry, guilt, learning, and Freemason history. The excerpts touch on poetry’s vitality, marital suspicion, lessons from teachers and pupils, and medieval Freemason builders.
A jewelry salesman recalls a customer who inquired about high end pieces for a June wedding. While the shop was busy, the woman spent an hour examining goods and claimed a son would usher at a wedding, prompting the salesman to fear a $800 loss in potential sales. A husband later demanded a refund for a brooch his wife bought, accusing the sale of improper motives and gender bias, but the store stood by the transaction and returned the piece to the buyer.
A long meditation on life, death, and God’s plan contrasts personal failing with a vision of being a broken yet usable stone in God’s temple. The piece blends verse with a short prose anecdote about a poor pair seeking parental consent for marriage and a local council report.
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