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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1911
Page
6
Alaster, a sheltered girl with a dead mother and two aunts, gazes toward the hill of hope for a fairy tale future. Her longing for freedom clashes with a rigid upbringing as the story hints at a potential romance with Mallows and the promise of change.
Alaster aids a railway venture by running to summon idle workers while Mallows and financier Levering vie for her favor. She charms the high shareholder as the Drewett aunts guard the land and the road’s path. In time the father returns with a fortune, sealing a future for Alaster’s child.
An employment agent describes nursemaid superstitions affecting job prospects. He cites a case where Wilhelmina crushed a glass to spare a dying child and secured work briefly. He tests applicants with questions on baby omens to gauge superstition and suitability for households.
Chicago Race Betterment league debaters assert women are capable of handling money and even superior in business. Mrs. Jones argues laws and ballots empower women. examples include Hettie Green Helen Gould Mollie Netcher. Rev Mrs Mulleneaux cites men’ s failures with heiresses while Jean Butler Wallace notes women can build fortunes from small starts.
A leading New York charity deploys nurses to east side districts to educate mothers against tight swaddling of infants. The practice, kept on for months, is believed to prevent bow legs but investigations show it causes limb malformation.
Kansas City families may substitute nonpoisonous pine and yellow bull snakes for cats to control rats and mice. J B Edwards of Edwards animal show ordered 800 bull snakes from a Texas firm and will distribute them free to applicants who report results. The yellow bull, up to nine feet long, is claimed harmless and disposed toward most things but rodents.
A gray rat ran through West Madison Street early morning near West Dearborn and South Clark, provoking screams and a baton-wielding chase by pedestrians including a colored porter. The rat vanished into a hiding hole beneath a torn paper and escaped.
London doctors increasingly tout flute playing as a remedy for weak lungs. A lung specialist says outdoor flute practice in parks can exercise lung cells and aid breathing, though he cautions against indoor use and suggests back garden play to avoid neighbor objections.
Infatuation started at a dance at Miss Marguerite Fitch’s home on West Eighty-second Street. Joseph Haag of a Rochester butter firm sought and won an introduction to Josephine Julian of West Fifty-eighth Street. He learned of her skill in replacing missing buttons, influencing his marriage plans. They announced engagement three months earlier and planned a fall wedding but married early during a four month firm trip.
Samuel Want at twenty-two joins the University of Maryland law faculty as a merit winner after coming to Baltimore as a penniless immigrant ten years earlier. He edits legal publications, teaches commercial law at Eastern High School, and earned near top marks in the 1908 class. He began life in Newcastle England and ran a Baltimore store as a youth before pursuing law.
A seamstress laments the shift from female customers to male tailors in dressmaking, noting men now fashion bonnets and garments. She predicts diversifying to trousers and shirts, planning a sign declaring “Wear Matilda Made Pantal.”
William Waldorf Astor transfers half of the Waldorf Astoria hotel to his eldest son Waldorf Astor for one dollar. The deed places the property in trust for the son, part of the Astor holdings valued around 300 million dollars in New York. Inheritance taxes of five percent may apply if assets remain untaxed at death.
One of the last famous American clippers, the Alexander Gibson built in 1877, arrived in port from a 293 day voyage on the Pacific coast. The vessel will be converted into a coal barge, marking its final sail.
Two patients at Blackwell’s Island hospital were discharged after years of isolation, signaling a cure. One American man left eight months ago, and a woman was sent West Indies bound after treatment and remarriage. Six lepers remain under care as doctors note leprosy is less dangerous than tuberculosis, a larger issue on the island.
In York Pennsylvania a curious alley cat sniffed through the Baughman house refuse in a hotel yard. It found half a dozen Chesapeake Bay turtles being cleaned and a turtle head clamped to its right forepaw after the head remained stuck when the cat fled the scene.
The notice discusses moderation as a scarce value amid extreme conditions, highlighting its role in guiding conduct and decision making. It underscores challenges to maintaining balanced judgment when pressures mount and urges steady, principled behavior.
Allentown report states Stephen Bloss of Washington township left an estate valued at $20,000 with a will that mandates yearly widow offerings of 10 bushels each wheat rye and oats 12 bushels corn 15 bushels potatoes 26 pounds lard one hog about 200 pounds 30 pounds beef in fall and various staples The widow also gets fuel care costs and a $1000 price reduction on the real estate if she troubles Flora and is sick the executors must fetch a doctor but she pays the bill Provisions tailor care and crop contingencies into the widow’s share.
The 18 month old child of Mr and Mrs Henry Strain died after consuming a large amount of cheap colored candy their parents bought. A physician could not be summoned in time to save the child.
The composer works through his comic opera overture for the second act while a candid friend listens. The friend notes a haunting familiarity across most numbers evoking Wagner Liszt Sousa and Herbert. The composer asks the friend to judge the andante movement and the friend replies with playful mishearing about antediluvian movements.
Mrs Justgottit proposes a clever plan for an afternoon spring housecleaning party inviting the entire set of 400 to don aprons and use mops and dusters to clean the house while the idea is welcomed by the group. The originator of previous playful dinners criticizes the plan and suggests Mrs Justgottit will lead the effort.
The father objects to a young suitor for his daughter citing lack of sense but the mother recalls his own past proposal. The quarrel is settled only after a new bonnet, roses, and earnest discussion.
A young man asks a riddle about himself and a bale of hay. The woman replies that no horse would eat him, delivering a sharp, humorous rebuke.
Sheffield cutlery makers report rising demand for the filings and sawings of celluloid used in knife handles. Once discarded as waste the inflammable scrap now fetches 8d to 5d a pound as new uses emerge for the dust.
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