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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1904
Page
8
Practical diet tips to preserve beauty and health urge avoiding fatigue eating, limit one hearty meal daily, and favor skin friendly foods. Advice covers avoiding hot bread ice water heavy meats in heat, slow eating of ice cream, selective hydration, and choosing spinach lettuce and carrots as complexion boosters.
An enthusiastic feminist solicitor argues life insurance offers women a lucrative, independent career. She notes incomes around 5000 dollars yearly are possible, with commissions earned by personal effort. The field remains largely untapped and promises broad personal growth through interaction with diverse clients.
A Boston Globe craft note explains making a corset cover from two embroidered handkerchiefs. The pattern uses triangles cut from each kerchief, lace insertion, ribbon beading, and specific width lengths for ribbon and beading to form a dainty ready garment. The design details include triangular fronts back straps and waist beading.
A brief humorous quote about Ethel and suitors from a Chicago Daily News item leads to practical home decor guidance. The piece then gives thrift tips on bedroom carpets, recommending uniform patterns to ease replacement by splicing worn sections for a presentable result.
A sewing tip notes that placing white paper behind a needle greatly aids threading for people with fading sight by providing a stark background that highlights the eye of the needle.
The Boston Globe discusses the ideal hand for gloves as a six and a half inch fit, fleshy with tapering fingers, and describes suet gloves that wash like soap and water. It notes fashion trends toward shorter styles and locally produced stitched gloves, with faux deerskin and buckskin models in tan and slate.
A children’s verse by Kate Whiting Patch extols a father's skill in mending and making for his child. The narrator lists tasks like driving nails, mending a dolly carriage, gluing broken books, and crafting wooden spoons for mud pies, praising a papa who can do many small home repairs.
An Orange Judd Farmer note describes a Mother Goose themed party with a goose shaped invitation, red goose sketches on envelopes, and a prize doll. Guests wore Mother Goose costumes, a lunch table featured a stuffed goose, and activities included nursery rhyme parodies, tableaux, and an original Jack and Jill tale. A guessing rhyme game followed with clues like “shoe.”
A Chicago Tribune blurb notes that chrysanthemums command high prices because they are fashionable. The exchange cites fashion as the primary driver of cost, underscoring the link between style trends and plant value.
Archie explains that invitations are to call and settle accounts, while characterizing the exchange as friendly and gracious amid a discussion of invitations and Tit-Bits.
An uptown hardware dealer recalls a small boy who sought work. He sorted brass screws and tacks using a magnet, quickly removing tacks while leaving screws intact. Impressed by his problem solving, the shop plans to raise him next Saturday.
A naturalist studied strange night sounds heard by seamen and found a chorus of tiny clicks from shellfish opening and closing their shells. The noises vary from treble to bass and may serve as a warning when shallow water is disturbed by a passing boat.
A cat on a freight train’s pilot fought an eagle perched on a spruce as the train rounded a curve. The eagle clawed and swooped but the cat pressed assault with teeth and claws. The train continued. the cat tore the eagle’s throat. the bird died in the tender. The cat survived with scars.
A Boston Globe item describes a kid friendly project to build a working telephone from eight by five inch cardboard, parchment or wax paper, and twenty yards of cord. Two hollow tubes are formed by overlapping cardboard and sealing ends with wax paper.
The 116 year old Texas resident SAAC BROCK, living near Waco and now with his son in Valley Mills, credits Peruna for health across 116 years. He recalls witnessing 22 presidents and four wars while praising the remedy as preventing climate related ailments and la grippe. A biographical sketch ran in 1898 papers.
A Washington Post report notes a loud thud and odd sounds behind a listener, yet the event is explained as a licensed automobile with a licensed chauffeur under recently adopted rules, not a supernatural disturbance.
A Somerville Journal item recalls Nebuchadnezzar eating grain and a boy from the house next door asking Mrs Nebuchadnezzar to lend her husband to trim their front lawn. The odd tale captures a humorous domestic moment.
An advertisement and clipped notes tout extraordinary per acre yields claimed for Salzer seeds in 1904 including 157 bushels in Indiana 160 in Ohio 8 in Pennsylvania and 220 in Michigan per acre. It urges sending 10 cents for a Salzer catalog and seed samples and includes assorted quotes and filler advertising copy.
Eugene I Lario of Denver repeats his 1899 claim that Dean's Kidney Pills cured his back ache. He says desk sitting aggravated his pain but the remedy stopped all pain and twinges. Sold by Yester-Milburn Co Buffalo and by druggists at 50 cents a box.
A Maine farmer quips about law as he wins a case by sending two ducks to the magistrate in the opponent’s name. The lawyer is astonished but impressed when the farmer admits the ducks were sent to impact the verdict.
Dialogue excerpt hints at plans to cultivate Lucy's voice with consent from John and the wife as a modest expense for improvement, framed in a stray story context.
Snowy season travel offers via Queen & Crescent Route Southern Railway and connections to the South East and Southwest with return through May 3 2004. Nickelts to Florida via Lookout Mountain and Atlanta and return via Asheville and the Land of the Sky with a variable route. Contact W C Winearson Cincinnati QC for information. Wife and husband quote from Philadelphia Press ends.
The fragment markets Teosinte and Bilion as top fodder plants claiming high yields per acre and distributing a seed catalog from John A. Salter Seed Co in La Crosse Wisconsin. It also includes scattered quotes about rail service, a joke about cubic yards, and literary asides from Hazlitt and others.
An advertisement from The Peruna Medicine Co. of Columbus Ohio invites readers to request a free medical prompt and satisfactory results. It asks for a full statement of the case and promises Dr Hartman will provide valuable advice gratis, addressing Dr Hartman President of the Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
The Philadelphia Press recalls a backstage exchange about a canceled engagement in Lost Angeles and a remark on an ostrich farm near the theater where eggs were spotted. The dialogue hints at independent sentiment and a cautious demeanor in show business.
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