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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1898
Page
6
A humorous New York Sun column recounts Mrs Tin Wedding advising Mrs Bride on deception. A young wife hides a skin tonic in a beer bottle, confesses after her husband detects the ruse, and he quips that women never can keep anything.
An England dealer notes secondhand machines are shipped abroad with India Sierra Leone and Sydney among top markets. They are resold or bartered to rural residents by traveling traders often at double cost. A India village even reports trading an old Rover for a baby elephant.
A Brooklyn gas bill dispute is recounted with an elderly visitor admiring four month old Julian, weighing 25 pounds, while the speaker contemplates paying the bill. The tale ends with the man leaving, praising the child and the moment, and the speaker regretting not asking to reclaim the meter.
A Detroit Free Press cartoon line prompts discussion on watching children. A London Lancet letter argues boys’ higher typhoid risk stems from playing in dirty streets and contaminating hands. A note on wine tasters recommends bread and cheese between samples to ensure unbiased taste.
A long list of payments and disbursements to groceries, repairs, nursing poor, rents, and court-related expenses appears. Names of individuals, firms, and trustees are attached to various charges including wood for the poor, burial digs, election supplies, and officer fees.
A Chicago Times-Herald correspondent reports hotel rooms in Mexico City cost $2 per day regardless of location. An elaborate restaurant dinner with wine costs 75 cents, about 3734 cents in American money.
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