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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1913
Page
1
A miscellany of light observations and quips on marriage, fashion, sportsmanship, city life and everyday conduct. Jests about divorces, toupees, fly swatters, canoe safety, and gossip mix with notes on baseball temperaments and urban plans. Includes a jab at mudslinging and a Chicago woman’s purse incident.
The vessel in New York was sponsored by fifty red haired school girls. The launching was said to carry enough strength to endure two lifetimes for ships. A man avoiding a parade with sash or banner shows lack of sympathy with modern publicity.
A Russian woman arrested in New York for an improper dance has returned to Europe. She leaves with a critical view of American standards of art and performance.
A hunter in Africa captures a crocodile that had just swallowed a buck, highlighting jungle thrillers over domestic fish tales.
The government surgeon announces money tainted by dirt is not dangerous due to germs. The public responds relieved as many had decided to take the chance anyway.
A Philadelphia clergyman was censured for adding onion sales to his clerical duties. He was warned that the extra occupation was not in good odor within the ministry.
A Chicago man reportedly used a beefsteak as a weapon in a domestic dispute. The claim notes the unusual choice of instrument and questions the likelihood of such an act.
A press dispatch reports the death of a famed aviator from natural causes prompting readers to ponder what constitutes a natural death for a pilot and how it is handled in obituary notices.
If people wore sensible shoes think of the chiropodists who would be thrown out of work. Wearers of foolish footgear have their uses.
A Chicago resident lost 1200 dollars to two Englishmen in a so-called sure thing scheme. The incident, described as record-breaking, was given top billing on the front page.
A British scientist argues that wearing clothes is an unnatural habit. Yet the article notes optimism as some women lead a return to nature, suggesting progress in embracing natural dress norms.
The line argues for strict accountability in preventing deaths and emphasizes shifting from reactive to proactive safety. It advocates modern methods that secure the door before a theft occurs, using the metaphor of protecting the steed from harm.
Washington reports extraordinary developments in the lobby scene as David Lamar claims alias identity and describes forged Union Pacific books totaling about 82 million dollars. He implicates Kuhn Loeb Co Harriman and others while several congressmen deny ties to lobbying groups and call for a full House inquiry.
Passengers joke about Noah on the ark and chestnuts of old tales. One man boasts of getting the freshest stories, prompting a humorous back‑and‑forth on the train.
About 1,000,000 tourists visit the Alps each year and around 24 die in accidents.
A dialogue highlights Wigley's appeal as a likable, everyday figure. The crowd admires his approachability and says his secret is simply being one of the common people, consistently modest about it.
The English prison mission distributes forty thousand personal letters to inmates in English jails each Christmas to offer support and hope.
Joseph Fansler a former East St. Louis city council member admits bribery by himself and others. He names six council members sharing 3000 for East St. Louis Interurban Railway and four for Alton & Southern crosses. Former mayor Charles Lambert allegedly handed 3000 to a councilman.
Telegraphic notes report George Townsend a Chicago railway promoter and brother of New Jersey congressman Ed ward Townsend committed suicide by jumping into the Missouri river at Kansas City. Other items note a Grand Rapids taxicab crash killing Cecil Powell and injuring six, Chicago suffrage parade, Husted mill explosion deaths in Buffalo totaling 22, and James Vilas an airboat crossing Lake Michigan in one hour 34 minutes with a passenger.
July 5 report says the Diana will voyage north to study Crocker Land, the Arctic area Peary sighted during his 1906 northward trek. The expedition seeks to extend geographic knowledge and confirm the land’s existence.
In Gettysburg on July 5 Governor Sulzer says he has read about a hooking frame up and dismisses it as a conspiracy with nothing to fear, calling the whole matter a likely scam.
Washington July 2 Democratic members of the house banking and currency committee postponed action on the administration currency bill. They said they needed more time to study the question.
The Department of Agriculture released a Summer Food Guide book with suggestions for hot weather meals. The article notes housewives can use simple clues to protect family health during heat.
Twelve boys aged nine to fifteen drowned when a wooden bridge from the municipal bath house to the Merrimac river bank collapsed in Lawrence Massachusetts. About 40 boys were present. many could not swim and most disappeared in a flash as the plank gave way. Rescue efforts saved some, but 12 bodies were recovered by nightfall. In a separate incident at Hickhart Indiana four Schwyn sisters aged 16, 13, 11, and 7 drowned in the St Joseph river after the youngest strayed beyond her depth and others died trying to rescue her.
Miss Mignon Hopkins daughter of a Brooklyn attorney sues Gov. William Sulzer in Philadelphia claiming breach of promise. She cites an engagement date and letters she says prove his intent to marry, alleging he jilted her and wed another woman in Atlantic City on January 8, 1908.
An appeal to the U S State Department in Washington seeks Morrison of Los Angeles release after he was detained by Mexican federal forces on July 5 in Los Angeles California report says Morrison is held prisoner by Mexico authorities.
France defeats the United States in all four singles at La Boulie July 3 in an international professional golf match.
New York reports the counting of a strike vote by 100000 trainmen on 45 roads. The process began Tuesday as Eastern railroads face a new serious dispute that could disrupt traffic.
Frank Orff and John F. B. Atkin were acquitted by direction of the court of using bails to defraud, as officers of the Columbian Sterling Publishing company.
Berlin reports the Imperial Parliament granted the government the full army increase, including six new cavalry regiments, totaling 136 000 men. The move expands German military strength as of July 2.
The Frankfurt Gazette Athens dispatch reports Greece will wage war on Bulgaria without a formal declaration after repeated treaty breaches and boundary provocations. Bulgaria attacks Greek and Servian positions across a 140 mile front in Macedonia with Bulgarian forces reportedly surrounding a Greek contingent.
Latonia Kentucky on July 3 authorities captured a gang of counterfeiters operating in the betting ring between the third and fourth races. The arrest sparked wild crowd excitement until officers clarified the charge. The counterfeit money had been circulating for some time with Cincinnati detectives on the case for days.
Four passengers died and 13 were injured when a Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul passenger train wrecked inside Milwaukee city limits last night.
Catholic Bishop John Jansen of the Belleville diocese died in St. Louis on July 3, according to local church officials from Missouri.
The engagement of Miss Jessie Wodrow Wilson youngest daughter of the president to Francis B Sayre of New York was announced at the White House on Independence Day Lancaster Pa July.
After investigating conditions at a Portland fruit cannery where several girls struck the Oregon Welfare Commission set a minimum wage for all women workers.
A woman used nerve and quick wits to save Sheriff Frank Crook and prevent a jail escape by 50 prisoners. She procured a revolver and held off the mob, keeping the county jail secure.
Cleveland July 2 The historic mansion of John D Rockefeller has been converted from a private residence into a semi public institution aimed at aiding alcohol rehabilitation and recovery.
Seven men were stabbed in the Gettysburg hotel dining room when an argument over Lincoln sparked a brawl. Three victims, Farber Maugin and Griffin, are in serious condition at the state hospital. The assailants fled as guests panicked, women screamed, and drills by state constabulary pressed to arrest suspects. The veteran defender disappeared unhurt.
In Emmett Michigan two wealthy Sullivan brothers in law died and their sister in law the widow of one and sister of the other remains in critical condition after a bent hair pin was removed from her throat. Authorities face baffling questions about a shared poison in their food.
Mrs Champ Clark wife of the speaker was the orator of the day at the Jane MacAfee chapter D A R Fourth of July celebration in Washington She is a descendant of Jane MacAfee.
In London, July 5, the marquis of Northampton agreed to pay Daisy Markham two hundred fifty thousand dollars to settle a breach of promise suit.
Coroner reports sixteen more deaths from the heat in Chicago bringing the total to one hundred one. The new fatalities include many infants in the tenement districts and urban wards.
Representative Jen O'Neil Browne and Miss Nellia Hiordan left Ottawa Illinois for Chicago on Monday amid reports by relatives that their marriage followed the license issuance.
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