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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1896
Page
8
Nelly La Rue Brown writes a poem from Springfield Massachusetts about a mother overwhelmed by chores and the desire for the baby to sleep. The poem imagines endless work piling up from sewing to cleaning and caring for children while pondering the worth of a mother’s love if the baby would only sleep.
Dr. Albert Kane Rudd confesses to killing his best friend Charles Booth to secure life insurance for his widow. He details their seven year friendship, shared work, and the plan to insure Booth before using chloroform and an African knob to end his life. The body is found in Booth's smoking room. Rudd is jailed awaiting further proceedings.
The Fifty fourth congress ends its long session hampered by a split Senate and a Republican House. It failed to resolve revenue and currency issues with free coinage vetoed by the Senate. While indorsing Cleveland's Venezuelan policy and funding coast defenses, the body is noted for financial impotence and limited achievement.
A traveler staying with a baronet was warned to check his pistols as a thief rode away. The man reloaded and later killed a masked highwayman who charged him. The corpse proved to be the baronet's son, a gambler who had been waylaying guests. An inquest confirmed his identity and crime.
A Colorado hunter, an ex circus acrobat, escaped a charging bear by performing multiple somersaults to reach his gun. After three failed flips and a fall due to heavy boots, two passing mountaineers shot the bear dead. The exhausted hunter had to be carried home.
Congress approves the river and harbor bill over President Cleveland's veto by 220 to 60 in the House, with Senate backing. The committee report defends the measure and criticizes the president's review, noting most appropriations repeat existing laws and highlighting the contract system as cost efficient.
The Chinese legation in Washington overlooks a brownstone on a popular avenue. Mrs Yang Yu and her children are often seen on the south porch wearing black skull caps and silk robes. The minister is in South America and the staff includes two secretaries, eleven attaches and three translators.
A Victorian era guide explains at home dog training using praise over punishment. It covers teaching basics like sit up shake hands ring the bell and crawling and includes steps to raise the stick and balance on hind legs for clever tricks.
Congressional analysis paints a mixed record with bills on immigration bankruptcy and river and harbor funding. Critics blame the senate for free silver speeches and delayed financial measures while praising the abolition of the district attorney fee system. The nut and bolt trust is cited as further evidence of Democratic promises kept or broken.
A compilation of editorial opinions from multiple papers evaluating Gen Scho field Grover Cleveland Campbell and McKinley in the 19th century US political scene. The comments touch on Cleveland’s treasury stance and third term chances, party realignment, and McKinley’s G A R ties.
A children’s verse from Youth's Companion celebrates parents sowing and sewing with care. The father plants grain and the mother mends and makes clothing, while a child vows to help as they grow, believing small acts of love accumulate.
A historical note explains how Eskimos trap wolves by placing a blubber wrapped stake with a flint tip in the ice. Wolves lick the blubber, bite the flint, cut their tongues, and, driven by hunger and blood, turn on each other. The flint stake is said to be more deadly than the blubber and whalebone method.
A Swiss mechanical watch announced by Casimir Livan uses a phonographic cylinder and a photographic plate to reproduce a human voice hour by hour. The case relies on phonograph principles rather than a stirring mechanism, marking a novel audio timepiece.
L E Chittenden describes a swallows gathering on Lake Champlain where hundreds converge on cedar branches. The birds settle along every limb, quiet after a noisy social start, and a dawn reveille roars from the tall cedars as flocks disperse across the lake.
Despondent manager fears ruin as a theater fire spreads. Critics warn the new play’s moral lesson may deter audiences and fail to cover usher salaries, while the public debates the show’s appeal amid heat and pursuit of a box office record.
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