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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1907
Page
6
A satirical review notes the Kaiser’s ignorance of good cooking and motherly memories, remarks on languages exceeding a thousand, James Bryce declining a title, a wealthy American heiress marrying a baseball player, and Gashavant Pandit working as a laborer in Roscoe, North Dakota amid India’s troubled industrial scene.
Judge Addison, a famed London jurist now retired, mused during a trial about when an egg becomes stale. He recalled a close election contest and stated the test is when the egg is fit for use at a contested election.
The Boston Globe argues reform spirit is strong today not out of pessimism but optimistic resolve. It cites General Nogi’s fall from a horse after Port Arthur and recalls a Civil War veteran losing a leg to a mule kick as ironic fate.
Regulations from the steamboat inspection service restrict sirens and steam whistles in New York Philadelphia and Boston. Fireboats and government vessels only may sound the hair-raising alert. The rules owe much to a persistent advocate, though many others helped.
The Boston police commissioner urged rich car owners to obey speed laws. He warned that while officers are diverted to monitor motorists, general protection of homes and order suffers. Business and professional leaders with cars should not forfeit police protection.
Engineers of the land office spent the last fiscal year surveying 8,590,000 acres at an average cost of four and one half cents per acre. Costs rose from prior years when spending ranged from three and one half to four and one third cents. The shift reflects that readily accessible land has been disposed of and remaining areas are mountainous or inaccessible and costlier to survey.
Ben Sheldon, longtime county clerk of Lander Wyoming, loses reelection by a big majority to an opponent supported by young women who protested his firing of a girl employee who insisted on wearing a peek a boo waist.
Hicks the miner describes his fifteen day entombment in Bakersfield California as having moments of enjoyment. He faced no book agents or insurance solicitors and says he paid nothing for coal or groceries during confinement.
Geological survey officers state that American coal deposits will not exhaust for four or five thousand years. Since 1875 the U S produced over 5,000,000,000 tons, compared with a total pre-1875 output of about 700,000,000 tons.
The New York restaurant offer ends due to the Society for the Prevention of Unnecessary Noises formation. Count Roni now wears red ties and purple waistcoats as part of his public persona.
In his message to the Thirty-second General Assembly the governor urges restraint on railroads while seeking fair profit, proposes a two cent passenger rate, calls for joint-rate authority, and strict demurrage rules. He also backs direct Senate election by direct vote, corporate political spending limits, lobbying reforms, and broader pure-food and livestock-food safeguards.
Captain Collins known as a fisherman is duped by a fish pedlar into buying a large codfish that turns out to be unfit to eat. He whispers to the cod asking about its relatives, the cod responds that they were well when he left them but he has not seen them since.
A Boston Herald report notes uncertainty over the fate of two men missing for two weeks, with authorities unsure whether they remain alive or dead as conditions and searches continue.
Hawker says he will take a two week vacation. Walker questions the timing during the peak period. Hawker reveals his employer replaced him and told him not to return.
Washington report describes a near duel in the House as Gaines of Tennessee and Mahon of Pennsylvania clashed over a dock pay bill. The pair exchanged insults, advanced toward each other, were restrained by several members, then reconciled with apologies and handshakes amid applause.
In Pittsburg at Eliza furnaces of Jones and Laughlin company seven workers died and 12 were badly burned after molten metal explosion. Twenty two may be dead with several others missing as crews search through steel and cinders. Superintendent E L Messler cites a loose steel band as cause. Only one of 35 workers escaped unharmed. Charles Bennett, a yard brakeman, witnessed the scene describing the catastrophe.
A New York circuit court jury found MacAndrews & Forbes and the J B Young Company guilty on two counts for forming an illegal combination and monopolizing the licorice paste industry. Karl Jungbluth and Howard E B Young were acquitted on all conspiracy counts.
Chicago attorneys argued before the Interstate Commerce Commission that Union Pacific and Southern Pacific ownership by E. H. Harriman formed a blocking combination. J. C. Stubbs testified under tight cross examination, with Kellogg stating the government had built a clear case showing no competition between the two systems. Stubbs countered that Harriman control did not hurt competition.
Senator Hopkins argued Reed Smoot should not be treated as a federal officer subject to Senate impeachment. He asserted only state or federal courts could punish a senator, not the Senate.
Elbert W. Gibson, Riverdale Michigan principal, drowned Friday performing a rescue of 14 year old Harry Valance who broke through thin ice while skating. Gibson leaves a widow and six children.
North German Fire Insurance company ordered by local court to pay San Francisco quake losses from last year in a test case.
Congresssman Charles Curtis was nominated by the Kansas Republican caucus to succeed Senator Benson. The caucus action is considered equivalent to election.
An acetylene gas blast at Woodman’s hall in Wilmington Illinois kills two men and injures more than twenty, including several women, at a community card party.
Walter S. Bogle Jr son of the Crescent Coal Co president was found shot to death in a room at his Chicago home. Family members say the death appears accidental and police investigate the scene.
Tokio reports the Japanese government will not bring the training squadron to the Pacific coast due to anti Japanese agitation, and the ships will travel only as far as Honolulu.
Philadelphia report says Albert Lindsay died from fright while two men suffered severe burns after an explosion of molten metal at Baldwin's Locomotive Works finishing plant on Thursday.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned two indictments against Santa Fe Railway, totaling 76 counts, charging the railroad with giving rebates on lime to customers.
New York artist Albert A. Chittenden hanged a note reading life is a rarebit dream to his clothes before taking his own life by inhaling gas in his West Twenty ninth Street apartment.
From Lanham Maryland Chas W Bowman 1st Lieut Adjt 4th M B S M Cav writes of Peruna curative powers for colds in the head and throat claiming a forty eight hour cure and prevention for his family He urges readers to ask their druggist for the Peruna Almanac for 1907 Pub date context reflects early 20th century patent medicine advertising.
The article lampoons a rare breed of woman who hoards visiting cards. She resists spending on cards, recycles them from friends and acquaintances, and uses sly tactics to stretch limited cards far beyond their original supply.
A South Dakota man describes a decade of intense itching and widespread scaly eruptions, resisted by arsenic iodine sulfur and various salves. After trying many remedies, he credits Cuticura Ointment and Soap with curing him and restoring hair at last, spending over fifty dollars in the effort.
Timothy Boldra died in Yarmouth England aged 82 after a life with the local gas company over six decades and earlier lamp service as a youth lighting street lamps with flint and steel.
Cure claims on label promise one day relief from a cold using laxative bromo quinine tablets. The Grove's name appears on each box, with the number 450 referenced.
A brief aphorism noting that prudent decisions often reveal themselves the day following a choice. It emphasizes timing in judgment and the value of foresight after action.
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