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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1906
Page
6
Poet J M Lewis recalls days of youth in a Houston Post verse about children at play. The reminiscence reflects playful routines, promises of supper bell, and the echo of laughter from long ago.
Spike McGunn recalls casing the Palace Hotel in San Francisco to burgle a prima donna’s suite. A fellow guest, a grinning stranger with a cutting wit, disarms him with calm talk and shrewd interrogation, revealing shared graft and a pliant setup for a heist gone sideways.
The narrator recounts a heist at a hotel in San Francisco where he and a partner steal a cash and jewel haul worth thousands. A bad setup with a locked door and a lookout goes awry as police arrive and the suspect is nabbed by a Denver detective and hotel staff. He faces trial with a two speaker sentence.
A British account describes Sakhalin's convict system where Siberian prisoners, including families, endure harsh transport to salt mines. Fetters, iron rods, and the brutal bodiga fusion with gags and torture contrast with travel allowances. The tale condemns Iletskaya and Lake balin abuses.
German kitchens in Berlin Munich and other cities recommend the fireless stove or cooking box. A wooden hay lined box with a tight lid holds pots of boiled food and slowly cooks for hours. It excels at soups and vegetables but not for steaks chops or cakes.
The New Zealand postmaster general aims to establish wireless telegraphy across the Tasman Sea within 42 months with Australia. The project is projected to cost £28,000.
A large portion of Brazil's population goes barefoot most days with footwear worn mainly on holidays. The text notes widespread barefoot practice and hints at cultural or economic factors shaping behavior.
The Iowa State Dairy Commissioner will pursue enforcement against sale and purchase of unclean adulterated or unwholesome cream. A July fourth law sets penalties of 25 to 100 dollars and double damages, aiming to improve butter quality and curb misleading practices by creamery men and farmers.
Anamosa items note T. E. Booth traveled to Cedar Falls last evening to attend an editorial association. Arthur Baker of Monticello made another visit to Anamosa last Sunday. Armour Gould Lee Pearson Blanche Hunnicutt and Mildred Ellison drove to Monticello Sunday. Concrete work nears post office and bricklaying progresses for the paying brick project. Daisy White 21 was taken to Independence by Sheriff Mogan after insanity proceedings initiated by her father Charles Hoyt. she had been at Glenwood for feeble minded care and married Samuel White of Stone City over two years ago.
Nickel Plate Road offers two round trip fares for summer travel from Chicago to Canadian and New England points. One fare plus 4.00 implements a 30 day limit with August 8 and 22 sale dates. A second option, one fare plus 2.00, carries a 15 day limit. Sleeping car berths reservations through John Y. Calahan, General Agent, Chicago. The article mentions quiet references to associates of Harry Thaw.
Mrs Mary Brown of 20 Lafayette Place Poughkeepsie N Y endorses Dr Kings New Life Pills as the most pleasant laxative for stomach liver and bowels. The Topeka Capital notes the product is 25 cents and guaranteed by O H Soetje druggist. A humorous line about married men sprinkling the lawn follows.
J W Coulter of Leslie endorses Dr King s New Discovery as a quick cure for long standing coughs and lung troubles. The ad claims it outperforms other medicines and includes price 50c and 1 00 with a trial bottle free from O H Soetje drug store. It also advertises Yale locks and Hollister s Rocky Mountain Tea with contact at O H Soetje Washington DC.
Mrs. Grant Shy of Springfield Illinois endorsements Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a necessity of housekeeping. The ad guarantees relief for cuts wounds burns and skin eruptions and notes a price of 25 cents from O H Soetje druggist.
Low fares to attend the Grand Army of the Republic Encampment in Minneapolis from August 13 to 16. Round trip tickets priced 4.80 via the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, on sale August 11 to 14 with final return by August 31, 1906. Extension possible on a small fee. inquire at ticket offices or write F A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
In Detroit Free Press style humor, two fish debate their capture and escape from a boat. The first fish recalls being landed in the boat’s bottom like jail, while the second asks how the escape occurred. The punchline: the boat leaks and someone bailed the fish out.
Tickets on sale via Nickel Plate road from Chicago August 8 and 22. One fare for round trip plus 4.00 for thirty day limit and one fare plus 2.00 for fifteen day limit. Information from John Y. Calahan General Agent 107 Adams St Chicago La Salle St Station only Depot on Elevated Railroad Loop.
A world fair will be held in New Zealand from November 1906 to April 1907. The exhibition aims to educate and show the colony’s resources in food production mineral yields and raw materials. Christchurch will host the event.
Mrs Nuritch recalls plans to leave for the summer and rent a Benton Beach bungalow. Mrs Ascum notes the last minute discovery that the bungalow lacked an elevator, a surprising detail that halted their plans.
The czar owns a vast estate over 100,000,000 acres, said to be three times England’s size. Report notes high priced spuds with prices up to $100 per potato for a new species, and an eye from such a potato fetching about a quarter of that amount.
An attraction near White City in Chicago is highlighted as the West's greatest amusement park The Alamo in Cedar Rapids open every evening and on Wednesday Saturday and Sunday afternoons Admission is 10 cents with vaudeville musical and special attractions described as top quality Acres of woods provide shade and picnic grounds Night lighting is emphasized as a feature.
An advertisement lists a 200 acre Brown farm located 1.5 miles east of Amber Iowa with 35 acres timber and the rest cultivated. It features an 8 room house a 40 by 60 barn a good well corn cribs granary and other buildings. The seller offers the farm at a bargain and invites offers. Also contains multiple notices of farm bargains in South Dakota and a Nickel Plate excursion to Chautauqua Lake New York.
Mrs Jennie Duncason of Haynesville Maine now seventy says Electric Bitters cured twenty years of chronic dyspepsia and left her as well as a girl. The remedy treats stomach and liver disorders blood weakness and general debility and is sold with a guarantee at O H Soetje's drug store for 50 cents. Toledo Blade notes an Oregon girl received seventeen marriage proposals in one day though details aren’t published.
Nickel Plate Road offers round trips from Chicago for 14 dollars starting July 27 with return by August 28. Tickets available at the Chicago City Ticket Office 107 Adams St and La Salle St Station, the sole depot on the Elevated Railroad Loop.
List of farms and tracts for sale in Jones County and nearby areas near Monticello Iowa. Properties range from 59 to 1980 acres with prices from 35 to 87.50 per acre and offers including cash down payments, financing terms, and farm features such as houses barns and timber. The advertisement invites inquiries for more details.
An old advertisement notes long life and good health from Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea priced at 35 cents. It attributes the remedy to O. H. Soetje and cites a June date in St Paul.
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