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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1900
Page
6
Poem vignette describing a baby pressed against a window pane soothing a weary heart. The speaker highlights the baby’s comforting presence turning darkness into light and gloom into brightness. A tender domestic image centers on the child’s innocent gaze.
A Kansas typewriter Forest in 1896 used deception and stealth to copy the populist platform. He hid a carbon, dodged reporters, and bribery attempts to obtain the full platform for his press association. Forest slipped copies to telegraphers and claimed the exclusive, earning praise from Chicago editors.
Canton scene as William McKinley receives official notification of his second nomination with Senator Lodge delivering a stirring speech. Distinguished guests include Hanna Bliss Payne and Day. Oyster Bay's Theodore Roosevelt is notified for the vice presidency and vows to back McKinley’s reelection with broad support.
Bradstreet's notes temperate trade with signs of improved demand though volumes remain modest. Prospects hinge on large Western wheat and corn yields, high cotton prices, and steady railroad earnings. iron and steel pricing struggles persist amid wage agreements and falling furnace stock.
Cincinnati hosts the Baptist Young People's Union tenth annual convention at Music Hall with large attendance, delays due to railroad rates, welcome addresses by Rev Waren Partridge and Col William Melish, and annual reports read by Rev Dr E K Chivers. Officers named include John H Chapman for another term as president. Banners awarded for Bible readings to Oakland Church and other honors.
Dr. Carlos Borailius buys 82 000 acres in Chontales from Nicaragua for colonization. The agreement requires 100 northern European settlers within four years, establishment of agricultural schools, import of Tolstein and Durham cattle, and Swiss or Danish cheese making. Exemptions include taxes and military service. duties on implements and cattle are waived. Fines and land reversion apply for noncompliance.
Secret Service officials investigate an apparent theft of two sheets of ten dollar notes from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. About 80 dollars were involved, with four notes per sheet. The notes were unnumbered and not currency but were passed in the city before being refused. The thief is described as a clerk, many of them young women, and the case marks the bureau's second theft since the war.
Mary J Kennedy manager of Armour & Co. exhibits Peruna at the Trans Mississippi Exposition in Omaha writes that prolonged travel caused stomach catarrh and indigestion. After trying doctors and Peruna she reports three months of use left her rejuvenated and permanently cured. The company claims Peruna erases chronic catarrh, boosts stomach and liver, and purifies blood, with summer catarrh symptoms disappearing. Free samples offered by The Peruna Medicine Co. Columbus Ohio.
Mrs Woodlawn of Prairie avenue protests 18 cents a pound roast beef as cattle sellers claim meat sells for six dollars on the hoof. She vows to raise the issue at the Social Economies club citing market monopoly and choosing trout over beef.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer report relays a rural tale of a dramatic neck injury and a mock surgical fix. The old man Pimpernel recounts a case where doctors allegedly align the vertebrae with improvised methods and glue.
In a store scene a young man flirts with a girl behind the counter as he asks what the shop sells. She replies they sell everything and jokes about items like family ties and later family sare. The man rejects the latter offer and leaves.
A man tied his wife's clothesline from his St. Bernard to his bicycle and rode in the road. The dog spotted a friend, the bike lurched, struck the dog, and the rider was knocked toward the curb, promising not to repeat the stunt.
To a thoughtful mind the trust problem is serious and creeping in society like digestive disorders. The notice promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the reliable remedy for stomach ailments and urges readers to try it.
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad offers Homeseekers Excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of June July and August to Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North and South Carolina Tennessee and Texas. One fare plus $2 for the round trip with fifteen days for going and twenty one days for returning and stopover privileges in Homeseekers Territory. A wide vestibuled train operates between Chicago and Texas cities with daily departures at 1 50 PM offering Pullman Sleeping Cars and Free Reclining Chair Cars.
McSwitters and McSwitters quit smoking for three months. Four weeks later Hach craved a goat cigar and the pair struck a bargain. McSwitters paid five dollars to call it done, passing funds to MesSwitters who collected twelve payments as others bought him off.
The Lake Superior region is praised as a healthful and scenic summer destination accessible by the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway. Marquette Michigan offers rest, comfort, hotels, food, and immunity from wy fever, with a call to request a book describing Marquette and the copper country by sending four cents and stamps to Geo. UH Heatford, Chicago.
An archaeologist explains that the cake walk shown in the Detroit Journal represents a series of movements designed to aid digestion, interpreting the scene as a distant future view of ancient ritual.
A vintage ad touts Cascarets as a cure for ailments from headaches to cancer by regulating bowels. It promises natural movements with no gripe or pain and urges a 10 cent start. The genuine product is in metal boxes stamped with its brand and warns against imitators.
In a quoted passage Mack O Reill cites Blighter moving from a cellar full of champagne to only beer as circumstances change. Duke V remarks that circumstances alter cases, reflecting the shift in fortunes or behavior.
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a powder to ease tight or new shoes. It promises relief from burning itching swelling hot callouses sore and sweating and urges readers to buy from druggists and shoe stores.
A candidate warns of damaging reports in circulation while the campaign chairman remarks there is little money behind the effort. The exchange reflects campaign tensions and concern over publicity in the Detroit Journal.
An Indianapolis Journal verse notes a playful flaw in nature linking corn’s sweetness to weather that seems favorable yet leaves the speaker with a sense of regret about being born.
A health note listing daily bowels for health and references to liver kidneys cures headaches and a price of 26 with a negation.
A quotation from the Philadelphia North American notes how youth seek world reform at twenty five while at sixty a man may be ready to be reformed himself, reflecting on age and change.
A collage of old quotations and ad lines from U.S. newspapers praising cures and jokes. Mentions Laxative Bromo Quinine for colds, Pisos Cure, White's Yugatan Gum, and various quips. Names include Somerville Journal Indianapolis Journal Minneapolis and Chicago Daily News reminiscences.
A collage of brief quotations from 1920s newspapers using witty tests of speech and obstacle metaphors. The lines mix playful banter and sharp asides attributed to various editors, reflecting period tone rather than a single event.
Fifty thousand women testify to relief from painful periods through Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Grateful letters praised its effect on menstruation, noting severe strain on a woman's vitality when period pain occurs.
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