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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1907
Page
7
In a witty tale Lady Isabel dodges a determined admirer while balancing her husband Vernon’s presence. A staged meeting with Colonel Allison ends awkwardly as Vernon arrives early, exposing male vanity and the perils of flirtation in social life.
In Great Barrington Massachusetts Mrs. Albert Barnes hires retirees as nursery maids to care for her three year old son Frederick. Mills Weaver a frail elder and former businessman leads the program with daily interactions while two other men John K Siggins and Frank E Bassett follow suit caring for young boys and guiding them on strolls and nature lessons.
Reported in Denver Colorado the Christian Assembly church on Welton Street claims the Apostolic gift of many tongues enabling exhortation only. Members speak languages unknown to themselves and expect missions to China and India. Notable cases include Miss Mabel Smith of Galveston Texas who supposedly speaks 18 languages and Miss Evelyn Schippie who speaks Chinese.
The pastor Rev Gilbert Farr and his wife are described as fluent in multiple languages and claim the apostles power remains active today. He recounts a recent camp meeting where 40 members reportedly received the Holy Ghost gift of languages with winds and trembling accompanying the phenomenon.
The renowned scholar W F Craig died in London after a long career shaping Shakespearean studies. He prepared a planned exhaustive Shakespeare Lexicon and edited King Lear for the Dowden edition under Prof. Edward Dowden, leaving a void for a worthy successor in his supervisory role.
In Denver Judge McCall's division Miss Hilda Smith, Colorado's first woman juror, sat beside five men during the divorce case of Harvey H. Fretz against Hattie F. Fretz. The jury returned a desertion decree and Miss Smith, who plans to return to reporting, earned $1.50 for her foray into the jury box.
A railway magnate travels incognito and asks a passenger about carriage lighting. The passenger, an oculist, responds that the light suits him perfectly, pleasing the magnate who assumes the man is a professional.
Washington reports a Department of Agriculture bulletin states eucalyptus oil is 80 useful and non-poisonous. It has been used for decades and recently expanded in medicine as an antiseptic and remedy for fevers throat bronchi and lungs.
A whimsical exchange hints that a widow in half-mourning expresses unsettled feelings, with Puck prompting that the guess is for the listener to determine. The playful verse invites contemplation of whether the widow’s mood leans toward action or doubt.
In Saint Jean de Maurienne a 93 year old woman who was born in 1814 died in her native Savoy village without leaving it. Her nationality shifted three times due to political changes: first French under Bonaparte, then Italian after Sardinia’s reconstitution, and finally French again when Nice and Savoy were ceded to France in 1860.
About ten species of vegetable sponges are grown in warm regions of Africa and Asia especially Algeria. The edible fruit becomes pulp that separates with age, yielding a substitute for real sponge used in toilets and baths. Algerian sponges are in large demand in India.
Iowa reports say western railroads plan to contest state two-cent passenger fare laws in state and federal courts. If, as Chicago disputes suggest, local laws are upheld, fare reductions may be stalled for years while cases wind through higher courts.
A wedding in Knoxville collapses a floor trapping about eighty guests nine feet below. The bride Miss Bessie Davis and groom MH Green of Hope Ark escape injury as guests are hauled from the basement. Father K Davis, a Knoxville merchant, leads the family amid the tragedy.
Report from Knoxville indicates several victims of the Davis home incident remain in serious condition after the floor display collapsed during a Tuesday evening wedding. Officials note some victims are in collapse or paralyzed states.
The school board votes for a $60,000 high school project while a new bank frontage takes the fourth and fifth floors. A $00,000 depot is planned for Newton & Northwestern, with a $30,000 subway and three new stores plus a hotel proposal.
Osceola women through the Village Improvement Society secure a conditional $10,000 from Andrew Carnegie for a library building. City council sets a March 25 special election on a property tax to fund a $20,000 structure, likely to be modeled after a local example, as women in the city plan an active campaign.
Jay W. Woodrow of Des Moines and R R. W. Clark of Grinnell are Iowa's Rhodes Scholars. Woodrow, a Drake University liberal arts student and physics assistant, will finish his four year course in June and may depart for Oxford next term.
Pauline Tepe a seven year old girl was the target of an alleged attack by conductor Walter Drallinger on a Burlington street car. He drugged her with chloroform and left her unconscious on the car tracks before being arrested in Veite Indiana.
Mrs. George Stech in Centerville escaped a brutal home invasion after a wouldbe assailant attacked her when she refused entry. She used a telephone to call for help, screamed into the line as the struggle drew neighbors, who traced the scene and found her bound and unconscious. Bloodhounds are tracking the attacker with a $100 reward offered.
Nearly five hundred school children from Oelwein and other points rode via the Citizen Western to Des Moines to view the legislature. The group filled the galleries of both houses and explored the state house during the morning session.
Detectives were sent to the old plow works near First and Iowa after a safe at the Sioux City Gas and Electric company office was blown open. Inspectors found the knob pounded off with a hammer or sledge and only five cents taken.
A Clinton revival led by Gypsy Smith and local ministers ended Tuesday with more than 400 people professing public conversion to Christianity. Officials say the total will exceed 400, though only openly professed conversions are counted. Many more may have been influenced privately by the Gypsy’s message and warnings.
Cedar Rapids reports a rural mail carrier Frank Simpson age five and a half is mortally wounded at his mother home eight miles northeast of Marion in a dispute with his brother and two brothers in law. State and federal authorities investigate as conflicting stories emerge with the mother as a witness to the fatal attack.
Mayor Frank McNinger narrowly escaped death when attempting to unsolder a screw top from a large gasoline tank at his gas house adjoining his hardware store. The tank exploded, five gallon gasoline cans ignited, and flames spread in the room. McNinger emerged with a burned hand and his coat burned off.
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