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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1905
Page
2
Fragmented verse describes fishing as a divine pursuit and the lake holding a hidden prize. The speaker contrasts waves and berries with warlike clouds and asks about luck, while an eagle and a mysterious rock suggest an elusive catch.
A yellow Angora dubbed the Brigand terrifies a Kansas City neighborhood. After a string of midnight raids and a dramatic pursuit, a local man kills a cat he believes is the brigand, only to find a misidentification when an ad asks for the lost yellow Angora Pet. The tale ends with a warning that the real Brigand may still be at large.
In St Paul Minnesota Judge Page Morris defined a cyclone as a violent storm with high winds rotating around a moving low pressure center. In the case Young Finche McConville vs Maryland Casualty a jury found the August storm a cyclone exempted by the policy clause, awarding $26,225 in damages after ruling the event was not a cyclone.
An exposition on nitrogen’s dual nature. In peace it serves life, but when bound in nitro compounds it becomes an engine of warfare and crime. A warning that even a small spark can unleash immense destructive force in bombs and shells.
The empress of Germany issued 51 diplomas signed by herself to women nurses and employees on North Brother Island who distinguished themselves in rescue work during the Gen. Slocum disaster last June.
A Bible story unfolds as Eliezer seeks a wife for Isaac from Abimelech’s kin but finds divine guidance in God’s plan. Abraham rejects an Abimelech alliance, years pass, then Isaac wed Rebekaah after a God-led journey and union.
A humorous illustration explains eyewear invented by a famed Austrian detective. The spectacles have two parts with magnifying lower looking-glass portions and plain upper lenses to reveal behind the wearer. In the scene a detective in a hotel appears to study a wall picture while secretly watching a nearby group.
The article explains a method by which birds photograph themselves using a camera set above a nest with a hidden string trigger. It also reports Union Pacific builds a Portland bound gasoline powered passenger car in Omaha with 25 seats, acetylene lighting, 40 mph speed, and compressed air for operations, suggesting broader adoption across railroads.
Two elephants at a large show surpassed last year’s pushing records on April 16. One elephant alone reached 7,200 pounds in pushing and 6,000 in pushing and pulling while the wagon weighed 4,500 pounds and required 1,200 pounds to move. Seventy-five men pulled 8,000 pounds and two camels could only pull 2,000 pounds. The report compares this year’s results with last year’s tests.
A new disk transmitter named Marble Swift replaces friction disk systems with large axle disks and small power shaft pulleys. The setup yields full power at low wheel speeds, eliminates slipping, and achieves about 87 percent efficiency versus 84.4 percent with sliding gears.
The piece cites Yale President Hadley and Boston and Maine President Tuttle on how railroads aid potato growers. It details eight to ten million Maine Aroostook bushels feeding Boston markets and how Michigan rates boosted Michigan and Maine exports, temporarily lowering prices to move crops.
A glass inverted on a slightly inclined marble table is made motionless by wetting its edge. A candle flame against the glass causes air inside to expand, lifting the glass onto a water film and it then slides down the incline.
Under the Italian Electrotechnical society a trial of electric powered plowing near Turin succeeded. Two 250 horsepower power cars flank the field, with a cable drawn plow operated by three men. The system plows seven to 15 acres in 12 hours using current from a trolley line.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer quote shows a man debating a milliner who demanded an advance for a new hat. The wife praises the stance, noting the couple’s insistence on paying nothing upfront and keeping the old hat.
Meandering Mike laments the Sahara as a terrible place while Plodding Pete notes a practical point that few people are scouting for farm hands there. The exchange appears in the Washington Star as a brief cartoonish remark.
Mrs Noowedd praises her husband as very determined and never gives up. Mrs Klosefist sighs over last year’s gown and echoes a similar resolve, reflecting a humorous, domestic exchange from a Chicago Sun feature.
A dialogue about absorbing the mind with blotting paper as a suggestion to help occupy worries.
A British delimitation commission bans European habitation in most Zululand. A Hungarian jockey club covers a bookmaker's 641,500 debt after the Austrian derby. UK emigration to 1904 totals 453,877 with Canada absorbing 26 percent. Osmunda regalis specimens head to St Petersburg from Adler. Krupp widow funds a convalescent home near Magdeburg. Egypt delays the Assuan dam scheme due to new masonry stress theory. German students adopt smoking races with uniform pipes. An English village wedding links a Kent daughter and a China-based bridegroom via a matrimonial ad.
The French government plans experiments in its Congo colony to cultivate a wild coffee tree found by explorer M. Chevalier. Miss Jane Nathan, the first South African born licensed dental surgeon, returns to Hanover to start her practice and is believed to be the first South African woman with a medical degree. Dr. Robert Koch led a caravan of 70 men to Morogoro to study plague and a bedbug borne fever that disrupts travel often for weeks.
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