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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1898
Page
4
The design features a rubble stone foundation, 16 inch walls, a 10 room layout with parlor living room dining room kitchen and more. Exterior includes chocolate color paint with white trim, cedar shingles, press brick chimneys, and a veranda with brick railing.
The New York Herald notes photos are now displayed on walls in many rooms replacing frames. Portraits, not scenery, are favored, arranged in panels and patterns using small brass tacks to reflect artistic taste. Also cited is the Chenab irrigation canal in India as a vast project, plus the China to St Petersburg canal of 4,172 miles.
Screen doors are produced largely by machinery and sold cheaply in varying sizes. Factories, busy in winter producing snow shovels, ship doors to wholesale buyers in carload lots. The wholesale season runs April to July with extended retail distribution. Exported nationwide. One tenth of the world remains unexplored.
Iowa acreage reports indicate 213 859 fewer corn acres this year bringing total corn area to 8 396 286. Spring wheat plantings rise to 1 298 231 acres while winter wheat planted last fall and not abandoned totals 191 451 acres. Day spans 2 230 455 acres with oats 4 299 243 versus 4 405 782 last year. rye 210 300 versus 226 128. barley 609 589 versus 651 867. flax 225 014 versus 249 882. peas 164 456 versus 163- last year.
Paul Dengler a Chicago and Western baggage man returned home in Clinton to find his wife and two young children missing. A note said she planned to die and take the children. An all night search uncovered the three bodies in a barrel by the house with water, heads submerged and feet protruding. Mrs Dengler was 38 and the children 5 years and 19 months.
Four men were killed and one fatally injured when a scaffold broke at the Glucose Sugar Refining plant in Marshalltown. The workers Adolph Brender James Lamb George Mc Laughlin all from Peoria and John Carrigan from Springfield died. Driscoll of Peoria was fatally injured. They fell from scaffolding while placing large iron pieces into a tank.
The State Pharmaceutical association, in Mason City in session, chose Clear Lake as the next meeting place. Elected officers include W. G. Bale of Webster City as president J. W. Ballard of Davenport as first vice president Bentley of Oskaloosa as second vice president J. B. Webb of DeWitt as treasurer A. H. Miles of Des Moines as secretary and executive committee members B. A. Morgan of Marshalltown E. B. Baldwin of Hampton and A. A. Broadle of Waverly.
The 5000 acre Mud Lake tract, Iowa's largest reclaimed swamp land, was sold in Webster City to Nathan She of Des Moines. D A Kent, a professor at the Ames Agricultural College, invested about 22000 in the project and held a judgment for the sale amount.
Sergt. John W. French of Hampton dies of typhoid fever at the Second division hospital in Chickamauga Park Georgia at age 22 after five years with company D. His burial takes place in Hampton. Rev J W Luke, former president of Burlington Institute in Burlington, is killed by a Burlington train while walking on the depot tracks en route to meet his daughter.
Gov Boies cattle theft traced to Chicago stockyards with a 2900 sale sum. Madrid banks consolidate leaving Carey tied to Des Moines. Carl Larson 40 commits suicide in Scott Township. Des Moines to buy waterworks plant. Lost Creek man Philip Denning dies after horse kick. A N Ferris elected president of Northwestern Iowa Dental Society in Waterloo. Ames First Baptist Church marks 30th anniversary. Highland Township schoolhouses gain cyclone brick ce ment caves. Lucas County officials oppose Chariton drainage project. Ezra Abernathy dies by suicide in Moulton. Missouri River bed changes worry Sioux City region. C J A Fricson gifts 12800 to Augustana College at Rock Island. John Slaby dies in Iowa City at 64. Samuel Farnsworth found dead near Creston. Abe Smith skeleton found near Marks post office. Idaho stock farm barns burn at Independence. Unknown man found near Creston with gunshot wound. Nes Bert Brown killed by a horse near Prophetstown. D C Bloomer hosts 82nd birthday banquet for Pottawattamie Bar members.
Washington issues a historic document from President McKinley guiding military occupation of Santiago de Cuba. It outlines treatment of inhabitants, preservation of private rights, and administration under U S command with emphasis on protection and orderly transition.
A farmer creeping toward a cherry tree confronts a boy in a tree guarding fruit. A tense exchange ends with the boy recalling Maine as he drops a cherry and the farmer hints at another tree. The scene plays out with rustic humor and local color.
The piece recounts Jacob Nuren Schmidt, new Hamilton alderman, confusing a council vote on paving Sibley street. He taps his chest and declares he seconded the motion in Germanic phrasing, while neighbors and the chair struggle to follow the claim amid the lighthearted confusion.
Mrs. Adams wife of Rev A R Adams pastor of Bedford Christian Church Blandinsville Ill recounts six year battle with illness. She describes weight loss pain and a hard ridge in the left abdomen along with nervousness and female troubles. After trying ten physicians she credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with her recovery taking eleventh box now able to work and eat well. She urges others to try the remedy.
Frequent rains in Cuba bring malaria fevers, common in the United States as well. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is advertised as a cure for malaria troubles, improves blood, nerves, muscles, and flesh, and treats dyspepsia and constipation.
A pointed quip in the style of Puck notes the limits of pursuing war with Spain, suggesting humor about catching the foe as fast as possible and not overreacting to conflicts. The line reflects satirical commentary rather than a news report.
A Detroit Journal observer notes some young men have dazzling futures they cannot see where they step. The L A Bulletin adds a quip that money talks and back talk hints at forthcoming changes to you.
A brief feature notes a saying from Uncle Mose about earning a living. It contrasts prayer for daily bread with the need to hustle for the nightly meal, reflecting a pragmatic view on survival in the community. The Indianapolis Journal frames the dialect and wisdom with local color.
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