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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1899
Page
7
Mrs Patriox of West Winsted Connecticut reports relief from female weakness and womb displacement after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she slept better, could work without fatigue, stopped bloating, and avoided heart pain and nausea.
Miss Gertie Dunem of Franklin Nebraska writes of relief from painful irregular menstruation falling of the womb and back pain after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says she feels like a new person and would not part with the medicine. She has recommended it to friends.
Semi monthly excursions to the southwest offer a chance to visit Texas described as the empire state of the Union with vast resources and products. Texas advantages include mild climate and productive soil per Texas commissioners. For details and pamphlets contact H A Cherrier in Chicago or T B Cockerly in Des Moines.
The Louisville Air Line opens a season long distance sleeping car service to Jacksonville Florida via Southern Railway Queen and Crescent Route and Florida and Central Peninsular railroad passing Louisville Lexington Chattanooga Atlanta Macon offering Florida travel via Asheville North Carolina as a year round resort. Correspondence solicited and information promptly furnished by R A Campbell General Passenger Agent St Louis MO.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway is described as the most direct route from the Canadas and Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the Northwest to Cincinnati. It connects in Cincinnati with three southern trunk lines serving Florida New Orleans Montgomery Jacksonville Tampa and Cuba. The numerous trains allow passengers to depart at convenient hours and connect with any Southern line train.
A brief note from the Atchison Globe reflecting on how wealth breeds rumor. It suggests that being rich brings scrutiny from neighbors who hear everything about you and your family.
A Chicago Daily News ad touts Kemp's Balsam to stop coughing with a free sample bottle and small and large bottle prices. Another promotion claims St Jacob Oil can penetrate and cure sciatic pain, urging immediate action.
The mint director George S. Roberts reports 1897 gold coinage at a record 437 million dollars, with nearly 300 million added net. European banks and treasuries show a 550 million rise since 1892, and North America, Australia, and South America add over 110 million, signaling a gold abundance that influences commodity prices and may sway free silver supporters to rethink their stance.
The article credits Mr. Dingley for stabilizing government finances under the Dingley act after 17 months of operation. It cites yearly receipts from customs and internal revenue totaling 440.9 million, with adjustments for tea tax gains, war-era internal taxes, and a Pacific railroad payment leaving about 365 million in net receipts.
Judge Shiras of the US district court sustains Iowa law taxing foreign insurance firms at 3 percent. Plaintiffs sought injunction to halt tax collection, arguing unconstitutionality, especially toward treaty rights. court sides with Iowa and may allow further measures to shut out the companies.
The auditor of state has been transferred to the administration of the new auditor Frank Merriam. Securities on deposit total 4 047 298 05 with 4 804 413 05 from insurers and 142 885 from building and loan companies. Fees amount to about 240 000. Securities increased by about 3 500 000 in six years. No errors or discrepancies found in the audit.
In dense fog a Rock Island freight collision three miles east of Council Bluffs killed Engineer Taylor and Firemen Caldwell and Stone. John Caldwell died after being struck by a car, with a broken neck, while Fireman Stone lay crushed beside his engine and Engineer Taylor was pinned beneath it.
Mil ton Remley refuses to attach the 50 cent revenue stamp when renewing his bond to serve as Iowa attorney-general. He argues the war revenue tax on bonds is unconstitutional for state officers and plans to test the issue in court.
fF. Erskine a farmer near White Elm was found dead on the road to his home. Suspected murder gave way to a coroner's verdict of death by natural causes. He was an old settler in the county and nearly 70 years old.
The jury at Audubon finds James Cunningham guilty of second degree murder in the death of his illegitimate child felled last March. Accomplice Arthur Palmer is held on 5000 dollars bond awaiting further proceedings.
George Wimphreys a Winnebago Indian chief aged 90 and former army scout was burned to death in his tepee on the river front at Sioux City. It is believed he fell into the blaze and could not escape.
Mrs Waples confronts a door to door salesman who arrives with a satchel. A tense exchange over a cat named Marc breaks the ice as the agent, distracted by the feline, sells four bottles of silver polish and asks to return for a photo. The attempt to freeze her out fails.
A Chicago Chronicle brief notes a Tit-Bits profile of William Waldorf Astor living in London. It cites anecdotes of conversations with the Duchess of Cleveland about a Thames embankment staircase and a Garden at Cliveden, plus remarks on Battle Abbey and Westminster lawn.
The piece asserts Asia Minor will pass to a Christian nation, regardless of German action. It then extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy for digestive disorders including dyspepsia constipation and biliousness. A brief dialogue about scarce mistletoe follows with an implied domestic scene.
The text argues free silver could yield greater profits selling silver for gold as a commercial product than coinage into dollars. It frames the 1896 agitation as a people’s education, noting experience as the best teacher and advising to learn from others' trials, citing Leslie's Weekly.
Col. William J. Bryan told a Washington reporter that the November results show no significance. He cited shifts in Kansas Nebraska Washington Oregon California and other states and said interest in the silver issue remains unchanged.
James I Eckels at the Illinois Bankers Association convention argues money must have a fixed intrinsic value. He says commerce favors gold as the unalterable, recognized money and condemns silver and fiat currencies reliant on legislation.
The Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune notes that without war the Dingrey bill would have funded government. war expenditures reached 194 million by year end, bond sales and 60 million in taxes covered them and left a surplus. Overall the Dingley bill did well and its framers have little to be ashamed of.
Newspaper clippings reflect sharp opposition to the Bryan wing and debates over silver gold standards. Analysts from Iowa to Illinois weigh Bryan Aguinaldo rhetoric, Teller and Stone party loyalties, and Croker’s stance as the 1900 contest looms.
The Iowa State Poultry association in Davenport elected J. R. Sheaffer as president, George W. Stout as first vice president, and A. L. Pedrick as treasurer. Other notices include bank charter in Galt with 12500 capital and president A Richards, cashier J J McGuire. Several local incidents: a fire in Frederika destroyed a block of business houses, and Burke, Iowa saw highway and railway developments.
Ask your grocer today to show you a package of Grain-O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. Grain-O has the rich seal brown of Mocha or Java but is made from pure grains. The most delicate stomachs receive it without distress. 14 the price of coffee 15 cts and 25 cts per package. Sold by all grocers.
An affable milkman predicts rain while pouring milk. A woman dismisses the omen saying it always rains. The milkman drives off puzzled by the gloom.
A remedy suggested for grippe afflictions is Nemo's Balsam. It targets throat and lung diseases and should be kept on hand to act at first symptoms. Delayed treatment may lead to pneumonia. the balsam keeps coughing loose and is sold by all druggists.
A collage of mottoes and quotations from 1890s periodicals and ads. It parodies medicine claims and social quips, mentioning Lane's Family Medicine, St Jacobs Oil, and various humorous lines. It evokes a lively late nineteenth century newspaper humor page without a single sustained narrative.
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