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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1897
Page
1
A brisk start for the new administration draws world attention from Cuba to Greece. American sympathy backs Greece as it faces pressure from the Great Powers. Colonel Watterson laments the Democratic Party’s condition and quips about saving it with goose grease, joking about skunk oil.
Congress will assemble in special session on the call of President McKinley next Monday. The House agrees with the President but free silver senators may block Republican legislation if they persist. The Jones county grand jury has much work ahead with many criminal matters of importance to come before it. The jury’s personnel is better than usual and careful work is expected.
The State Register and Iowa Capital feud over payments to the state binder. Safe Young loses temper as public fatigue grows from ongoing exchanges, while a critic mocks the appearance of McKinley’s aging mother. McKinley honors her with a private and public acknowledgment.
The former president plans to retire from active life but not idle pursuits. Having twice held the nation’s highest office and accumulated a fortune, he may stay engaged without resuming his demanding professional practice, while enjoying fishing and duck hunting and pondering the fate of ex presidents.
The Outlook editor Dr Lyman Abbott and the New York Observer spar over the biblical story of Jonah. Tom Paine’s infidel writings are cited as anticipating Abbott’s view that the tale is fiction satirizing prophets.
The passage commends Secretary Olney praising his handling of the Venezuelan dispute with Great Britain. It notes his restraint against war with Spain and his patient management of Cuban issues. It lauds his conservatism, dignity, and service to the people, rather than partisan aims.
An American student recounts seven months with Barones von W and daughters in Pommerania. She details estate hunting parties with large drives for hares foxes and deer, the role of foresters, grand dinners, and courtly toasts followed by music and cards. Christmas Eve features a village school visit and a stunning tree lighting in a family drawing room.
B Murphy president of the fifth district editorial association appoints county historians to prepare a history of the press. Benton county J F Allen Times Vinton and F W Brown Union Belle Plaine Cedar county D C Mott Advertiser Tipton Grundy county A L Anderson Republican Grundy Center Jones county T E Booth Eureka Anamosa Linn county L P Bardwell Pilot Marion Marshall county Moses Waterman Times Republican Marshalltown Tama county Charles Wonser Herald Tama City District historian E A Sherman Record Cedar Rapids.
Glimpses of fashion trends with mentions of gilt braid frogs and aprons, plus a district court session in Anamosa listing numerous estates, guardianships, probate actions, and settlements. Notable items include Will admissions, executors named, bonds set, and sales approved.
The passage recalls two young girls in a Boston Herald excerpt. They gaze at a store window admiring dresses while one notices a ragged girl beside them. The older child asks if those are her best clothes, and the other responds that her best clothes are worn out.
The exchange notes Muggins asks if Bjones is well informed and Buggins confirms he knows as much as a recent college graduate. The Philadelphia Record quotes the remark as a witty summary of youthful knowledge.
Dialogue from the Wilfashington Times contrasts Dr Brimstone who both kills or cures with a butcher who does more, implying a double-edged character in a theatrical or fiction sketch.
A long docket item notes default judgments on promissory notes and drafts, decrees quieting title, divorces, guardians ad litem appointed, and various settlements. Also includes applications to sell intoxicating liquors, withdrawals, and motions for more specific statements, with multiple parties named and costs awarded.
The Shoe and Leather Reporter notes many imitation leathers from sheepskins closely resemble glazed kid black and colored and alligator. Used in low price shoes meeting rising demand. Russia yields eight bushels per acre but could double or triple with careful farming. Attila the Hun called Scourge of God for Europe’s devastation. The first U S piano appeared in Boston in 1828.
A compilation contrasts myths of Gog and Magog as giants chained at London’s Guildhall with notes on rival legends, then discusses Napoleon’s cosmopolitan shift in Paris during the 1814 crisis, citing Sloane’s Life of Napoleon.
In northern Madagascar a wild tribe calls the rock fortress home. The fortress rises 1,000 feet high and covers eight square miles. its sheer sides deter climb without artificial aid. A hollow interior and a single subterranean entrance define this remarkable stronghold.
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