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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1901
Page
6
The article notes teeth as amulets in Samoa with sharks teeth as examples. It discusses opinions that a tooth is insensate until a nerve is exposed, while dentine and enamel are highly sensitive. It recalls a superstition that a child’s first teeth must not be discarded lest a animal obtain the trophy and the next tooth resembles that animal.
Lieut. Mabel Clarice Hunt of Ogden leads Salvation Army efforts in the Pacific Coast Division. She cites Dodd's Kidney Pills as valuable for kidney and liver trouble, cold weather exposure, rheumatism, and blood disorders, claiming faster relief and lasting benefits.
A design for a cottage aimed at moderate budgets outlines a full first floor with parlor dining room kitchen and library, ample porches and sliding doors. It features a rubble stone foundation brick chimneys pine frame weatherboarded exterior and cypress shingle roof. Built for 1800 to 2000 dollars with furnace heating and three coats of paint. A. Payne provides the plan.
The Chicago and Florida Limited launches as a daily solid train by Louisville and Nashville and connecting lines. It runs from Chicago to Thom asville Georgia Jacksonville and St. Augustine Florida with dining car service and fastest through service, leaving Chicago at 11 06 a m and arriving St Augustine at 7 30 p m next day. An extension from St Louis at 2 15 p m through to Florida is included. C L Stone senior passenger agent will handle inquiries.
The Mobile & Ohio offers Special Low Rate Excursions valid until June first allowing invalids and others to stop at first class hotels along the route to Alabama Mississippi Georgia Florida Cuba Central and South America at nominal prices. Tow Rate Homeseeker and One Way Set tler trips offered on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays monthly through agents J T Poe G T M Mobile Alabama GC M Shepard G P A Mobile Alabama M H Bohreer D P A 351 Marquette Building Chicago IL 7 West Fort Street Detroit MI.
The Chicago and Florida Special via Cincinnati is a magnificent traveling palace with exclusive Pullman equipment. A solid through train from Chicago to St Augustine features diners observation cars drawing room sleepers. Ticket offices of the Big Four Monon H and D Penna Lines Queens Crescent Southern Ry Plant System or Florida East Coast Ry offer complete details.
Wisconsin Central Ry advertises routes to St Paul Minneapolis Ashland and Duluth. It notes convenient trains from Chicago Central Station at 12th Street and Park Row on the waterfront. James C. Pond, General Passenger Agent, Milwaukee provides details.
A traveler and a drummer debate train safety and car choice while the drummer jokes about being on the road 18 years. The Bible-cover cardboard and infant food seller says he avoids danger by fate and rail staff, planning to switch to groceries or hardware later.
In a Washington gathering Private John Allen of Mississippi and Senator Shoup of Idaho discuss political fortunes. Allen quips that Idaho is far away and he cannot explain Shoup’s fate, then says Mississippi isn’t sending its best men to the Senate this year.
A man complains of a sharp sting in his left shoulder when bending forward and extending his arms in a semicircular motion. The doctor questions the unusual movement and the patient jokes about finding another way to get his overcoat on.
Clara asks how Mattie wed Ired Somerby Bertha explains Fred’s overcoat matched Mattie’s new gown in a light exchange from the Boston Transcript.
A Chicago Record piece explains how prisms and diffraction gratings reveal light’s composition, noting that shells and insect wings display similar iridescence. It highlights nature as the original inventor, with patent rights belonging to Mother Nature.
Healing mud or moor baths occur in Sweden, France at Landes and St Amandles Iaux, Italy, Hungary, Poland, and famed German Austrian spas. The mud is peat bog turf with stimulating minerals mixed with local waters. It is nonadhesive, washes off easily, with immersion times from thirty minutes to five hours using the same mud throughout the course.
Grain-O is marketed as a new drink from pure grains that mimics Mocha or Java color without coffee effects. It claims to be safe for children and adults with sensitive stomachs and offers packages at 15 and 25 cents through grocers.
An Azte? The fragment notes a visitor who says he is only stopping over between trains and a host growing more cordial. The source text is partial and reads as a brief anecdote from the Atchison Globe.
An old advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine claiming to move the bowels daily for health, acting gently on the liver and kidneys and curing headaches. It lists prices of 25 and 50 cents for the remedy.
In a quip from the Baltimore American, the Party with the Bulg ing Brow notes an inclination to adopt letters as a profession while the Sardonic Person asks about typewriting or sign painting, reflecting a playful exchange on vocational paths.
An ad style passage notes Kemp's Balsam promises instant cough relief with a sample bottle offered by druggists. It mentions price points of 25 and 50 cents and cites a quotation from the Chicago Daily News about a 20th century scientist linking headaches to green thoughts. It also references White's Yucatan Gum and a cynical quip about the average man.
In Rome Sig Briguiti reports X rays show eye visibility does not match X ray visibility. Glass remains opaque to X rays, while aluminum, though glass looks transparent, is penetrated. X rays see a glass splinter in a hand but not wood, many inks vary, and printed matter within a directory is revealed while surrounding pages remain hidden.
A Chicago anecdote features a husband and wife arguing over a pearl necklace. He hoped pearls would ease tears, but the wife counters with the idea that fewer pearls would mean more tears, leveling the joke on quantity over sentiment.
In a light exchange from Chicago, a husband scolds for missing opera glasses while the wife explains she wore none due to forgetting her rings. The brief quip captures a domestic moment at the theater.
A brief quotation from the Chicago Record questions the nature of social struggle. It asserts a dual dynamic of self-embedding and excluding others as core aspects of the struggle.
A brief reflective line from Brooklyn Life notes a father and son exchange on learning from elders. The quotation evokes family dynamics and the theme of youthful confidence versus parental guidance.
The New York Sun notes a surge in fencing activity with more fencers, including women, across the nation. It details imported foils from Germany and France, varied grips and guards, and a wide range of protective gear from masks to plastrons and jackets.
A cur dog in Woppocoma West Virginia reportedly survives copperhead and rattlesnake bites. The dog, described as obstinate and bold, fights snakes by circling, striking at the head, and lifting the snake from the ground. After battles he licks wounds and remains unharmed.
A coroner's inquest heard a witness claim authorities searched the body pockets after a death, prompting questions over resuscitation efforts. The exchange highlighted concerns about the handling of the case and the investigation.
A puzzled wife defends her finances after her husband accuses extravagance. She reveals she did not buy the items but had them charged, in a domestic exchange reported by the Philadelphia Record.
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