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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1905
Page
2
The Monticello Express with editor and proprietor W. Coxsee lists year figure 81.76 in the header line. The text presents the newspaper masthead and ownership details rather than a narrative item or event.
A newspaper editorial argues for municipal ownership of railways as public roads improve. It questions compensations for deaths citing a hypothetical $5000 payment for one man and asks what Russia should pay for 200000 Japanese deaths. The piece attributes the idea to a graduation oration.
Resolutions by the Confederate Veterans Association call for replacing biased Civil War accounts in Iowa public schools with a more imperial and patriotic text. They argue for teaching loyalty and union in Southern students and encourage adoption of a textbook that fosters peace toward Northern institutions.
The Philadelphia mayor ordered a sweeping raid arresting over two thousand individuals in one night. Men were fined ten dollars and released, while women faced next term court for harsher charges. The text notes many arrestees were refined city figures and questions the fairness and accuracy of such dragnet policing.
The Thousand Mat hall on Miyajima dates to the 16th century and uses cedar planks and hundreds of tree trunks as piles. It served as a Hideyoshi council chamber during the Korean invasion and now stands as a gaunt show place where soldiers once quartered. Visitors buy rice ladles, inscribe them with name and date, and pose with the vow Dai Nippon Banzai.
A brief pan of anxious remarks from Town and Country features a sister and brother exchange about nerves before a proposal. The humorous lines capture anticipation and social pressure in domestic banter.
The town lists visitors from Chicago to Lisbon and Stanwood, notes rain, band concerts, and a busy prep for a semi centennial celebration with 1500 seat tent. Alumni reception at J. H. Schamel home included class officers and toasts. Events include a church sermon, family gatherings, and a July Fourth in Wyoming with social happenings.
Onslow and Winchek perform in Maquoketa today while visitors arrive from Blairstown and Chicago. Local families relocate homes and a death is reported as the town marks Independence Day with a daytime dance after fireworks ordinances curb the noise.
Cascade July fourth items report Cedar Rapids visitors and residents in convalescence and birth announcements. Local misfortunes include Jule Gavin injured by a snapped wire and James Mundell dragged by a beast, with injuries stitched. A death by drowning of Rasmus Brodessen near Temple Hill is noted along with coroner results and a July third jury verdict.
Castle Grove reports a dreary Fourth with frequent showers and only a few celebrants venturing out to Barracks grove. Local notables and separator pros praised new gear, while holiday festivities included fireworks and distant cannon and a low moon over rain drenched hills. Adam Reichart sells top ice cream in town.
The San Francisco Bulletin questions a self styled master of English letters for reading breadth. It lists Milton Dryden Browne Donne Taylor Fuller South Barrow Swift Johnson Burke Berkeley Dante Defoe Richardson Fielding Smollett Sterne Hume Robertson Gibbon Coleridge Wordsworth Shelley Austen Edgeworth Disraeli and others. It argues a well read man should know these classics and wagers many have read less than half.
A New York Press item recounts a Brooklyn sailors home incident where a Navy man, paid off after enlistment, loses track of his cash. After a late night visit the superintendent gives him extra, leading to a humorous miscount about a supposed $48 discrepancy.
The article argues that modern times show a decay of the old monopoly on intellect. It contends many capable individuals today would have been celebrated if born in the past, and that great achievements depended on the ignorance of earlier eras. It notes this as an age of opportunity.
The article notes elephants in Burma working in India as laborers, with a single elephant moving timber. It states about twenty men are involved in the work. In rest hours the elephants bathe. a keeper rides on the elephant’s back as it swims a lake or river, remaining dry above water.
Gall G. Hunt notes that four hundred guests attended the first inauguration ball on March 4 1809 at Mr Long's hotel Capitol Hill Washington. The piece argues the event reflects monarchic influence and a longstanding habit of celebrating inaugurations with dance.
The article notes modern steel skyscrapers in New York and Chicago draw fascination and debate over strength and durability. Foundations prevent moisture and settlement, steel is corrosion shielded, and every steel member is designed to bear six times expected stress. Tornadoes and mild earthquakes are discussed with cautious optimism.
The stubborn artist Phil May failed to deliver a Christmas color design for an illustrated weekly. After ignoring letters and a Paris departure, a publisher found him at Margate. Six sandwich men marched with placards asking for the cover, triggering May to produce a brilliant design.
The author argues that long residence abroad, especially in southern Italy, can erode patriotism and create cosmopolitan feelings. He contends many so called cosmopolitans feel global allegiance but actually lack sympathy for others, focusing only on themselves.
The article surveys global insect eating practices from the West Indies to Greece and Mexico. It notes stag beetle larvae, cockroaches, locusts, silk worm chrysalis, palm grub, ants, and white ant eggs as common delicacies in various regions including Bourbon Arabs Brazil Siamese India and Burman contexts.
In a child’s playful remark, Little Dot points to workmen on a tall spire and imagines heaven above them. Her mother gently notes heaven’s distance, as the ladder is seen being carried up.
A brief dialogue from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune defines stoicism as congratulating the fiancée of the man you hoped to marry without showing disappointment. The exchange highlights social wit and restraint in emotion.
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