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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1912
Page
7
A collage of witty lines and observations from Monticello Iowa readers and columnists. Topics include sports jokes about swatting flies, rising hay and breakfast costs, labor and traffic, gender economy, air testing in Chicago, time and clocks, scams, Kipling critique, weather, bequests and tornadoes in Kansas.
Scientists discuss sunspots and the public's anticipation of occasional solar glimpses, embracing the sun’s freckles as a natural feature and a source of wonder for observers and enthusiasts.
A New Yorker absorbed 11 000 volts of electricity and survived, and doctors say the experience may have left lasting effects. The incident underscores the dangers of high voltage exposure and raises questions about safety protocols in similar settings.
A New York pastor who claimed he never heard of female angels appears unfamiliar with the theatrical world, suggesting a disconnect between his beliefs and the entertainment profession. He has drawn attention for his comments, contrasting religious views with stage traditions.
A reader muses on the English sparrow as a potential food, noting it would take many birds for a bite. The piece also cites a trivially inflated claim that a pound of soap yields over 25 million bubbles. The author generalizes about people’s varied use of time.
A Chicago judge argues basic baby care should cost no more than two dollars weekly but notes that infants quickly outgrow this limit as they grow. The remark frames cost standards for infant care and economic concerns for families.
A Boston figure endured a thirty day fast fueling discussion on civic pride. Commentators say such acts reveal character while question whether true Bostonians should overlook local beans in solidarity with a cause.
The passage ribaldly notes that even if a future scientist extols the housefly for its usefulness, the current effort to swat is unaffected. It hints at scientific speculation while keeping attention on present grievances.
The piece notes that while any American boy could rise to the presidency, the modern need for a pre convention campaign discourages many from pursuing the path. It reflects on ambition and political process without naming individuals or events.
A noted German policy shift signals Emperor William endorsing fox hunting, a move seen as pleasing England though likely upsetting the German farmer as crops risk damage and the humble tiller of the soil bears the burden.
The strongest poison known has been derived by a German chemist from the castor oil plant seed. The notion of castor oil as a harmless remedy contrasts with childhood memories of its ominous reputation.
A columnist dismisses rumors that the hobble skirt causes knock knees. The piece argues that if women show knock knees, the skirt merely reveals a preexisting trait rather than creating it. It critiques alarmist chatter and notes perception, not causation.
A Massachusetts man sat on a stick of dynamite kept in his pocket. He avoided harm, and, thankfully, has no family to be affected by the incident.
The state outlines a bold campaign to eradicate mosquitoes, but such extermination efforts remain elusive with past efforts described as persistent yet unrealized. Public health authorities emphasize urgent action while acknowledging historical challenges and uncertainties.
Des Moines Iowa official canvass of votes shows Senator W S Allen of Fairfield the Republican nominee for secretary of state with 62 270 votes to EF D Chassell of LeMars 61 502. County results varied widely with Page and Kossuth giving Allen large majors while others favored Chassell. The canvass notes surprise in Kossuth County.
The West Liberty convention closed with F. M. Wood of Urbana named president Grace McCormick Tipton elected vice president Ruth Gray Anamosa secretary J A Waddell Bennett treasurer George Smith Cedar Rapids superintendent of missions and Ethel Weise Anamosa superintendent of Bible study.
Oliver O'Brien narrowly escaped death at a Waterloo factory after gasoline on both arms ignited from a lighted candle. He had finished his shift and was cleaning grease when the flare occurred.
A special Democratic train bound for Baltimore carries several hundred Iowa delegates. It departs Des Moines Saturday night via Albia Ottumwa Fairfield and Burlington to pick up delegates along the route.
The Sioux City Foundry and Manufacturing company, long in receivership, was sold to First National Bank of Sioux City and Joseph Ryerson & Sons of Chicago. They bid for plant real estate and stock totaled $37,895.
In Sioux City police court forty two men, mostly prominent in business, were fined seven dollars each for violations of the city traffic ordinance prohibiting vehicles from standing on the left side of the street. Police made fifty five arrests of automobilists.
Carl Kullenbeck of Fort Dodge ate fifteen standard size nut sundaes in succession and washed them down with root beer on a wager. Friends hail him as champion ice cream eater of Iowa.
Mount Pleasant nine women escaped from the inebriate department of the state hospital. All but one have been returned. Three were captured at New London. One remains at large.
Logan Carlson Harris alias Carl Carlson and J H Morris were arrested on charges of robbing a local Ames store. Goods found in their possession were identified.
Perry W. E. Thomas, an employee of the Milwaukee company at the round house, suffered severe scalds when a boiler flue burst on the engine he was working on.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed three small buildings in Newton once occupied by the Randolph Stacker Company and used by small factories.
Adam Unsatz longtime Iowa City grocer was found dead in his store from heart failure. The death ends his decades of service in the local business community.
Police from Council Bluffs and nearby counties hunt three robbers who forced Ike Thomas and his family from a farm ten miles north, then looted the homestead and terrified residents.
Earl Gruber 28, a dredgeboat employee, drowned while bathing in a drainage ditch at Fort Dodge after being seized by cramps. Rescue efforts failed as he disappeared under the water.
A four year old Shorthorn cow on William Nolan's farm south of Dubuque gave birth to triplet heifers all perfectly formed and similarly marked. The trio weighed 12% pounds combined. A parallel case is known elsewhere.
Iowa City reports Dr. Henry Morrow, after ten years as a dentistry instructor at the State University of Iowa, resigns to accept a comparable position elsewhere.
Des Moines welcomed Charles T. Kelley and his wife traveling in a covered wagon on a westward journey. Eighteen years earlier Kelley led an army of over 1,000 men marching through Des Moines toward Washington to protest labor conditions before President Cleveland. The group stayed at an abandoned stove works in northeast Des Moines before being ferried down the Des Moines River toward the nation’s capital.
Washington report says the Interstate Commerce Commission granted a rehearing request by the Sioux City Terminal Elevator Company and others in the proportional grain case against railroads centering Sioux City. The original decision, issued earlier this year, was largely unfavorable to grain interests.
Otis Davis, while fishing below the dam at Coralville near here, found an immense pearl weighing a little over 18 grains in a sand bed among clam shells. Iowa City jewelers estimate its value will exceed $500.
At the closing session in Council Bluffs the state Degree of Honor voted to hold the next convention in Sioux City and approved consolidation with the National Lodge by a two thirds majority.
F C Davidson of Emmetsburg seeks the nomination to succeed Judge A D Bailie of Storm Lake on the bench in the Fourteenth judicial district. The district includes Kossuth Palo Alto Clay Dickinson Emmet Humboldt and Buena Vista counties.
Greenfield records its first pellagra case as Miss Ella May, a longtime resident, was diagnosed by local physicians and confirmed by the state board of health president who visited last week.
Creditors of the defunct First National bank in Chariton receive a final 4 percent dividend, bringing total paid to 45 2 3 percent. The bank failed after Cashier F R Crocker died by his own hand, nearly four years and eight months ago.
Formal call issued for the judicial convention to nominate district judges. Judge B B Woodruff seeks reelection, while Judge Arthur of Logan aims to fill the unexpired term of Congressmen Green.
Three men burglarized the Rob Elliston post office in Mount Ayr early Tuesday then stole a team and buggy. They fleeing toward Diagonal abandoned the rig and likely escaped on a Great Western train.
C A Peebles of Jackson township spent days in hospital with his wife for a serious illness. Twenty five neighbors gathered and plowed his corn as a surprise when he returned from Sioux City last week.
Marion Al Thompson, a local painter, attempted to take his own life by cutting his throat on the rear steps of the courthouse. He was moved to a hospital and may recover.
Ida Grove reports Charles Anderson a prominent Hayes township farmer took his own life in his barn. Despondency is listed as the cause.
Atlantic reports the Cass County teachers institute is in session with one hundred six five teachers enrolled for the annual meeting.
Fort Dodge justice of the peace S N Magowan appoints twenty five deputies to halt glass throwing on city pavements. Auto tires ruined by the debris prompting the crackdown.
Hamburg report says Jack Hunter a liveryman was killed in a pistol duel with his brother James Hunter. The other brother remains in critical condition though physicians say he may survive.
In Des Moines the First Baptist church members raised 17000 dollars in subscriptions on a five year plan to clear all outstanding indebtedness within minutes Sunday morning.
Mrs. L C Empkie aged 63 wife of a senior Empkie Shugart Hardware partner died from injuries suffered two weeks earlier in an automobile collision in Council Bluffs.
A midnight explosion at the Victor-American Fuel Hastings mine 16 miles north of Trinidad Colorado killed twelve workers including Fire Boss John Thomas and American Pete Miller. Ten victims were foreigners. Rescue teams battled gas and heavy falls as officials blamed a windy shot and gas buildup.
In New York on June 20 a wealthy Hip Sing Tong member known as Yee Toy was assassinated near the Four Brothers society headquarters on Pell Street shortly before midnight. Police say he was the real leader of the ongoing tong wars in Chinatown.
The battleship Mississippi was sent from Guantanamo to Santiago by the navy department on Wednesday. The move followed confirmation that Marines under Captain Manwaring were in danger.
President Taft was re-elected to the Yale corporation with 3,231 votes out of 3,263 cast at the alumni dinner in New Haven Connecticut on June 21. He remains a long standing member from the national leadership era.
A Tuesday blaze in Detroit destroys the Wellington Banks residence killing three children. The victims are Orville Banks fifteen Adolph Banks ten and Obal Banks four.
Washington date June 20 The Interstate Commerce Commission on its own initiative ordered an investigation into railroad transportation rates practices and regulations for hard coal.
President Taft vetoes the army appropriation bill, warning against riders attached to appropriations. The veto would leave the army without funding for the next fiscal year unless Congress passes a single appropriations bill. It also blocks Wood’s ouster and army reorganization proposed in the bill.
In a crowded court Miami June and Whitmans as witness recount Thaws murder of Stanford White. President Taft pardons Franklin P. Mays for land fraud conviction after claims of improper prosecutorial methods. Gen Woodford seriously ill near Oxford after illness struck him at an inn.
Arthur Baumgartner of Hempstead died in a collision between a touring car and a runabout at a road intersection on the Long Island Motor Parkway. Six others were injured in the Thursday crash near Hempstead New York.
One man killed and nine workers injured when a scaffold fell at the Anglo American Provision company power house in Chicago on Thursday. Four others narrowly escaped serious harm as the collapse occurred during construction.
The island of Cul len in the Philippines declares a leper republic with Michael Whalen, an American and the only American leper on the island, as its first president.
Miss Jennie Weiss an 18 year old German girl died in a downtown New York hospital after a seltzer bottle exploded injuring her. The incident occurred Tuesday and she was to be married.
Kansas City report notes Mr. and Mrs. John P. Cudahy reconciled after a divorce two years ago. They now live together, with Jacks at the former wife’s home and Mrs. Cudahy at 3527 Main. Children remain with their paternal grandparents. decree followed a 1924 assault on banker Jere Lillis.
In Douai France Captain Dubois and Lieut Albert Peignan two French army officers and trained airmen were killed when their biplanes collided in midair during morning practice. The crash occurred as they could not see one another through hazy conditions.
The Norris resolution passed by the house makes it illegal for agents of importers to join foreign pools or trusts that control supply or prices of imported goods. It declares any such combination or contract illegal and void if it restrains trade or raises prices, with confiscation of contraband once courts find a monopoly.
Reports from Tucson on June 21 describe a battle south of Tepic on June 16 where 32 Mexican insurrectos and one federal soldier died and 6 federals were wounded. The rebels numbered 400 under the Retteria brothers and Juan Canedo. the 150 federals fought under General Castillo. All prisoners among the rebels were executed on the battlefield.
In White Plains New York on June 22 Mrs Annie Hibbard of Tompkins Corners fell while hanging a picture of Franklin D Roosevelt and fractured her skull.
The captain of the steamer Ilford reports finding three Titanic victims’ bodies 370 miles from the sinking site after arriving in Hamburg from Galveston.
Chinese troops stationed at Mukden mutinied causing widespread destruction. Dispatches report many natives were killed or injured and hundreds of houses were burned or ruined in the upheaval near Peking.
Five deaths since Friday near San Juan diagnosed as bubonic plague by the insular board of health. Local authorities investigate cases and monitor spread in Porto Rico.
Santiago Cuba June 21 insurgents set ablaze the Pompo Manganese company complex near La Maya seven miles from Santiago. The American owned facility suffered total loss as flames swept through warehouses and workshops.
The arrangement committee in Baltimore selects former Judge Alton B. Parker as temporary chairman with Urey Woodson of Kentucky as temporary secretary and John J. Martin of Missouri as temporary sergeant at arms. The choice faces possible opposition from William J. Bryan and awaits full committee approval.
Gen Edward S Bragg commander of the Iron Brigade during the Civil War died at 4 40 p m Thursday in Fond du Lac Wisconsin He was eighty five last February and had served in Congress and in diplomatic posts in Mexico Cuba and China He gained fame at the 1884 Democratic Convention for praising foes he made
President Taft signed the Hughes eight hour bill imposing an eight hour workday for government labor and issued an executive order exempting Panama Canal work from the law.
President A Lawrence Lowell conferred 530 degrees in course at Harvard University on Thursday in Cambridge Massachusetts. Honorary degrees were bestowed upon thirteen persons.
Gibraltar June 22 Spain ordered no further reinforcements be sent to Melilla. Regiments stationed at Algeciras and nearby areas are to be held in readiness for possible action at Lara che and Alcazar if required.
London reports chronic hunger and dire want affecting thousands of women and children as a prolonged strike by transport workers disrupts food distribution and daily life in the capital.
A small band of suffragists assaulted David Lloyd George the chancellor of the exchequer outside Caxton Hall in Westminster. The incident occurred on a Wednesday in London.
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