This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 28 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1904
Page
3
An Express commentary notes a Boston paper's odd instruction to smile before sleep and jokes about the mismatch of alcohol weight. It suggests leap year travel to the Philippines for bachelors, implying a shortage of women and easy pickings this year.
A column fiches humorous science claims and odd notes from the era. It mentions the shah knitting for Edward and jokes about fluorescent X ray anatomy and leg grafting. Also notes alcohol from sawdust as a success and whiskey from waste juices marketed widely.
A reader laments dull war coverage as reporters are bottled up in Tokio and distant fronts with censored updates. The writer explains that censorship and distance blunt detail, reducing the immediacy and drama once felt in earlier conflicts.
The piece notes that Jones Falls, long seen as an eyesore, ultimately served to protect a Baltimore residence from destruction while lamenting its ugliness and impact on the city’s beauty.
The Japanese admiral Uriu who won at Chemulpo is an Annapolis Naval Academy graduate from the class of 1881 and now 41. His merit has driven his advancement. His wife is a Vassar College graduate, and the couple embodies culture and progress in New Japan.
A New York College of Physicians and Surgeons exhibition features a man who reportedly eats 20 hearty meals daily due to stenosis of the oesophagus with an oesophageal diverticulum. Professors describe his unusual appetite while noting his ability to move about despite the condition.
The University of Michigan reportedly announced a radical claim that radium placed in water overnight becomes a universal cure for cancer lupus and morphine addiction. The note also jokes that radium cannot determine sex or blow up battleships.
The Senate’s ratification of the Panama canal treaty ends a long public debate and clears the way for executive action. President Roosevelt noted in his annual message that a canal across the isthmus has been planned for 400 years and worked on for two score years, and now it will be built.
Count Zeppelin and Thomas A. Edison lead advocates of aerial navigation with $112000 from supporters. Edison, while not dedicating much time, believes air travel may be practicable later and seeks new flying principles not based on imitation of birds. Washington’s birthday is urged to be celebrated long as the Constitution endures.
The 58th Congress reports Senate ratified the Panama canal treaty by 66 to 14 with 14 Democrats in the majority. The chamber considered an agricultural appropriation and a legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill carrying 28,736,285 dollars. The House debated the naval appropriation bill and a measure restricting yearly immigration to 80,000 aliens, with exceptions for Canada, Mexico and Cuba.
In Washington the Supreme Court holds railroads are exempt from damages where passengers traveling free are killed or injured. Senate leaders say both congressional chambers will be ready to adjourn by April 15. Panama Canal treaty ratifications signed with exchange of commitments and commissioners named. World’s fair rates set coach excursions at one cent per mile.
Reports from Brookville Westville Baltimore Kittanning Pittsburg and Johnstown detail hangings including Michael Pallone for murder and Harry A Zillfaro for killing his wife while John Conroy faced similar fate. Other items note deaths of G S Griffith James Parish Lee and Yale student Robert J Rich.
A series of brief items reports events across states. Frank Lewandowski killed his wife and himself in Chicago. Charles Dick nominated to succeed Hanna in Ohio. Waukegan refinery explosion kills five. Loveless liver stable fire destroys 34 horses. Stockton laundry fire burns five Chinese deaths. Cairo post office burglary nets 400 dollars. Sam Cortes dies, ninth dynamite explosion victim. National broom company formed in Chicago. Canton to Carrollton birthday trip for 90-year-old father and 62-year-old son. Death sentences for two youths in Chicago murder. Marysville congress renomination. Missouri lawyer H M Pollard dies in St. Louis. James Bare dies in Sioux City at 102. Jabel Register hanged in Whiteville. Dyersville wreck kills stockmen and cattle. Ninth Indiana renominates Charles B. Landis.
James nearly cleared the business district of Conneaut Harbor Ohio. The estate of the late Senator Hanna is appraised at seven million dollars.
Reported dispatches describe a Japanese fleet attempting to block Port Arthur with inflammables but repelled by Russian guns. Twenty three Japanese warships then appeared and engaged Russian forces off the harbor. A second Port Arthur engagement followed as Japan presses eastern operations while secrecy into movements mystifies Europe.
The senate and house debated and passed measures on government supply transportation and pensions. Major items included a bill mandating American ships, the naval appropriation bill, and numerous reports of fires, hangings, and battleships setting records.
Washington verdicts find August W. Machen George E Lorenz and Diller B Groff guilty on conspiracy to defraud the government in a post office scandal. Sentences impose $10000 fines and two years in prison with bonds set at $20000. Samuel Groff pending. Prosecution details show 200000 in transactions and 40 percent take.
President Roosevelt signed the proclamation putting into effect the Panama isthmian canal treaty at 11:50 a m on Friday. The exchange of ratifications with Panamas Bunau Varilla concluded diplomatic negotiations started in the early 1800s. Further work involves only legal questions to be settled by law officers.
Five miners and a shift boss perished in a cave-in at the Minnie Healy mine on the 1000 foot level in Butte Montana. Foreman Kane warned of soft ground earlier that day and workmen bulkheaded weak spots before the collapse. The cause remains unknown as no witnesses survived.
Advance of 10 cents per barrel in flour announced as wheat prices peak on Thursday. Bakers limit purchases and a bread price increase seems possible. In Des Moines an elevator accident at the state house killed Mrs B Fountain and her mother Mrs A Hogue at 11 o’clock Friday.
The steamer Queen, after a fierce fire and storm off the Columbia River, arrived in Port Townsend reporting 14 dead among passengers and crew. Names include Miss Steiner Clellum, Mrs Adams, D Newsbury, H Buckley, A Neilson, J Neilson, P Freitas, W H Eneman, M Sommers, H Douglas, A Donelly, Raymond, Peter Malin, and M Flynn. Capt. Cousins ordered lifeboats as flames raged, some boats capsized, ship then stabilized and steered toward Puget Sound and Seattle.
Madison fire destroys the capitol building with losses around 800000. Most state records thought safe in vaults, while insurance lapses leave only about 6000 available. Fire may revive push to move the capital to Milwaukee. In a separate note, St Louis Republic correspondent William Daniels was found dead in his office in Washington with a gas leak.
Was Friend of Lincoln, Yates Center Kan February 29 Captain R A Hurt aged 83 dies. An early Kansas settler from Illinois he knew Abraham Lincoln personally. Railways Kill Many Chicago February 29 report shows six months to June 30 1903 1771 killed 22972 injured in the United States versus 311 killed 8303 injured in Great Britain.
John B. Huddy, a Michigan Central switchman who recently moved from Bay City, killed his wife and then himself in Jackson on Saturday. Mrs. Huddy had sought a divorce.
A Arkansas physician endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for malarial and uric acid kidney diseases. He cites cases from Wynne and Jarry, describes symptoms back pain urine changes and Bright's disease risk, and notes relief and potential cure within days or weeks. A free trial offer via Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo. NY.
A boy tells his mother a girl next block is far sicker than he is and asks to send her the doctor’s medicine. The mother reassures him he will recover soon yet considers aiding the ill child.
The notice touts Salzer's seeds with astonishing per acre yields across several states in 1903 and 1904 including 157 bu Indiana and 220 bu Michigan. It invites readers to send 10 cents for the catalog and farm seed samples from John A. Salzer Seed Co. La Crosse Wis. The excerpt ends with a comic exchange from the Philadelphia Ledger.
Rail fare set at 30 dollars for travel between St Louis and California with daily Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cars on the Iron Mountain Route. Tickets on sale during March and April via company agents. Details from H G Township G P T Agent St Louis.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.