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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1909
Page
8
An instructional piece on punctuation urges using marks only to clarify meaning. It argues against overreliance on rules, explains common errors with commas, and promotes simple, clear expression for business letters to reduce customer confusion and boost profits.
A veteran author advises on affordable letterhead design focusing on paper and type. He notes cheap bonds offer cloth or parchment-like finishes, recommends French gray on book paper, and warns against mismatched fonts. Emphasizing a single strong type and balanced proportions, he urges a readable head that projects prestige with minimal cost.
A discussion on how lengthy letters and printed matter can build conviction and trigger orders. It covers two main approaches: pique curiosity with a long lead and then flood with detail, or lure readers step by step with striking catchlines and brief paragraphs leading to a full explanation of value.
The text urges guiding the buyer to see the value of a Condensed National dictionary by contrasting limits of pocket and unabridged editions. It argues for direct, conviction backed claims and suggests typewritten emphasis over all caps to improve readability.
A monument near the St Bernard hospice in Switzerland honors Barry a dog who over ten years saved 40 travelers in the snow and once warmed and revived a dying child before guiding it to safety. Barry was killed by an unknown person, and the inscription notes he saved 40 and was killed by the forty first.
An Unkind Masculine Individual recalls a humorous dialogue about a wife who saves by buying silk stockings and gloves before tariffs. He notes she argues savings, calculates duties, and ultimately spends a last 75 cents on chocolates, highlighting household budgeting follies.
An Alaska bear attack left a fishing captain with 64 bear bites and deep scratches. After a week surviving on berries and leaves he crawled to the beach and reached Sitka hospital in seven days, later recovering fully in 37 days. The report notes his nerve and endurance and comments on infection resistance.
This fragment notes an old hunting claim that bears never bite humans and treats the idea as a fallacy. It discusses how such beliefs arise from hunters’ experiences and beliefs rather than evidence.
The Berliner Tageblatt reports a New York letter announcing the death of the New German theater. Sympathy is offered to H. Blitz business manager Dr Baumbeld and Eugene Burg artistic leaders as the theater is leased to Americans for a final fashion themed experience amid a somber end to its promising start.
A lighthearted exchange contrasts two names Pat and Bridget as they joke about Scotland. Pat comments that styles are murdered there, Bridget notes the pun by saying they "kilt" entirely.
Ten people died and about forty were wounded when two electric cars on the Chicago Lake Shore South Bend line collided head on in Porter county Indiana. Motorman George A Reed was killed for disobeying orders to wait for the west bound car at Wilson. The scene was described as sickening with wreckage welded into a mass and a nearby home serving as hospital and morgue.
Crown Point Indiana reports quiet after Friday and Saturday automobile races. Joe Matson won the first in a Chalmers-Detroit car and Louis Chevrolet won the second in the Bugatti.
The American branch of the International Banking corporation established in the city will be opened on Wednesday.
A Sunday blaze leveled the G. B. Lewis Company main factory in Watertown Wisconsin, one of the nation's largest beekeepers supply makers. Loss estimated at $80,000, fully insured.
Boston National League club president George Dovey collapsed and died on the Pennsylvania railroad line between Cedarville and Xenia while on a trip Saturday.
An old remark about Amos Dore hints at home tensions. Aunt Em recalls Amos and wife in harmony until after his death while Lije Daniels claimed Amos suffered from tight shoes. Amos says debt shoes make him forget troubles, a quip cited from Youth's Companion.
A playful exchange where a caller tries to speak with a typewriter but is told the machine is already engaged. The quip adds that the speaker is the person she is engaged to, turning the moment into a lighthearted gag.
An old advertisement claims backache dizziness headaches and other pains stem from kidney trouble and that Dean’s Kidney Pills can cure thousands, featuring Mrs. C R Foresman of Canon City and prices of 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co. Also includes a humor quote about examination stories and a tobacco ad note for Lewis’ Single Binder cigars after a $5 bill break.
A Chicago woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with preventing another operation after two prior surgeries. She reports relief from inflammation and a small tumor and urges others to build up the feminine system with the herbal remedy.
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