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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1897
Page
2
The Express notes William Henry Harrison’s historic name change for a Harrison baby to Elizabeth. A Missouri paper reports a prominent citizen's illness labeled information of the brain, hinting at possible epidemic impact on the country.
A book discusses the subliminal self defined as the self hidden from view. It suggests this inner self can enjoy life more fully than the busy self that chases material gains and pays the bills.
The article notes that foreigners of old world origins are starting to value the American apple for its toothsome juicy quality fine flavor and rosy cheeks, praising its worth and appeal.
New York's Court of Appeals holds that an actual proposal is a condition precedent to suit for breach of promise of marriage. The article notes a man who loses his voice in such moments must brace for the outcome.
A Cleveland youth was arrested near Tiavana with a pass from Estrada Palma to Gomez found on him. He reportedly consumed the pass during a search, illustrating the era's daring and improvisational tactics.
The article notes that 4,000,000 banana bunches were eaten in 1896 by Americans. It suggests this shows either strong digestion or a notable disregard for stomach pains.
Colorado and western states discover high quality tea from alfalfa leaves and plan a home industry to stop sending millions of taels abroad for tea, signaling a shift in trade and policy toward domestic production.
The article outlines umpire duties for the season with the umpire as monarch of the field, responsible for maintaining order and ensuring good behavior by all players. It lauds the risk endured by umpires facing “hot balls” and hostile remarks from rival teams.
Mrs Ballington Booth speaks at the congress of mothers in Washington warning that public engagements do not excuse neglect of children. She says a mother who abandons her babe for public work erodes purpose and that proximity to a child enhances a mother’s ability to help it.
The Lexow committee reports a 4 billion cigarettes manufactured last year and 150 million all tobacco cigarettes. Profits on these totaled 7.58 million dollars. The trust also produced 140 million pounds of chewing tobacco and 80 million pounds of smoking tobacco, underscoring the vast scale of the industry.
The New York Sun argues bachelors should marry soon and finds a wife the best thing for a man of soul. It claims life in old age lacks meaning without love and family and notes millions of good women await to create homes of comfort and happiness for bachelors.
A Freeport paper cites Stephenson county farmers moving about $60,000 worth of chickens and eggs in the prior year. The piece contrasts poultry work as a light burden with social comments and crime trends from city reports and quirky domestic anecdotes about mean husbands.
In the Senate on the fourth the remaining appropriation bills were moved toward final action with one failing in conference and three approved for executive approval. At noon, the Senate adjourned sine die as the House disposed of all but the general deficiency bill and adjourned. The fifth featured a brief session with executive business, confirming McKinley cabinet choices. Hanna was sworn in as Ohio senator, and Mr. Foraker announced Mr. Davis as acting chairman of the foreign relations committee.
The article details President McKinley sworn in with a cabinet including Sherman Gage Alger Melkenna Gary Long Bliss Wilson and others. It notes a grand parade an inaugural ball and the oath administered by Chief Justice Fuller. It cites silver bullion holdings and a spike in business failures. A proclamation convoked Congress for March 15 and Sherman’s oath as secretary of state was first official act.
Senator Walcott of Colorado, after two months of talks with European financiers, arrives in New York optimistic about an international bi metal ism movement. Weekly United States clearing house exchanges total $1,010,426,627, up from $783,420,055. Star Pointer sells for $15,000. Worcester fires damage $400,000 with eight firefighters injured. Pennsylvania Railroad ends ten hour shifts. Tasigi Turkish consul general in Boston indicted for embezzling over $100,000.
A series of brief items recount hangings in Gadsden Alabama a double suicide at Parnell Missouri multiple family deaths from measles in Toluca Illinois a fatal railroad accident in Terre Haute Indiana and drownings. Notable losses include Chicago journalist John M Dandy in Los Angeles and a Park Theatre fire in Indianapolis. Washington and Oregon appointments fill vacancies in Florida and Oregon.
Lizzie MccDonain, a one year old living with foster parents in St. Louis, shot herself after leaving a note saying she was tired of living and wanted to be with her mother. In South Ottumwa bank, a small private lender, doors were shut with liabilities of 17000 dollars.
Reports say Greece will refuse the six day ultimatum to withdraw troops and fleet from Crete while war preparations in Athens intensify. Other dispatches note Spanish Cuban clash at Manzanillo, four Vacas gang members killed near Leon, and disasters from English and Spanish coast gales and shipwrecks with 27 sailors drowned.
Mr. Cannon of Illinois cites Fifty fourth congress appropriations at 1 048 487 018, 49 797 812 more than the prior congress. Indiana adjourned sine die after 61 days. Taft jailed two years and fined 500 in Cuba filibuster case. Lexington savings bank in Baltimore failed. Mrs. Beecher dies aged 85 in Stamford. Charleston store failed for 100000. Greece powers dispute hint blockade at Pirrwus Crete. German American bank at Tonawanda resumes. Weyler orders court martial for Cuba arrestees. West Boylston to be destroyed for Boston waterworks. Blandford to succeed Olney as AG secretary aide. Clara Juccard died starved in New York. Bahia unrest kills colonel 200 soldiers three officials. Cincinnati building society failed 230000. Senate spends Sunday in executive session on arbitration treaty. Oscar A. Jones confirmed pension agent at Detroit. adjourned to the 10th.
A nationwide wave pushes for women to join Maine school boards. Other items note Alabama exempting ex Confederates from peddling licenses, Miss Grace Fairweather as top woman billiard player, and shifting social tactics by New York haberdashers to auction off bad accounts.
Greece replies to the powers with objections to autonomy for Crete and calls for recalling Greek forces. Germany and Russia approve an immediate blockade of Crete and its coasts, with French and British ministers also backing coercive measures to enforce a withdrawal of Turkish and Cretan forces.
Chairman Joseph G. Cannon attacks Congressional waste in the Fifty-fourth Congress. He cites total appropriations of 1 042 437 018 53, notes excess over the prior Congress due to fortifications river and harbor work and postal costs, and calls for a tribunal to settle claims rather than ad hoc amendments. He blames Senate courtesy and inflated estimates.
The Lexow investigating committee report, about 10 000 words, will be presented to the New York Senate detailing that trusts exist to restrict life essentials and regulate trade. It notes capital aggregations operate to suppress competition control output and dictate prices and urges affirmative legislation to restrain or prohibit such combines.
John D. Hart was sentenced by Judge Butler to two years in prison and a $500 fine plus costs for aiding in fitting out a filibustering expedition aboard the Laurada. Hart appealed, bail renewed, and he was released from custody as the case moves to the United States circuit court.
A list of household cures includes powdered alum as a nosebleed snuff, prepared chalk mixed with lard for burns, cloves with cotton for toothache, resin in a stove vessel for cough, sage tea with vinegar and sugar for sore throat, and chlorine of lime diluted in water for bad breath each morning.
Readers learn that Hall's Catarrh Cure is claimed as a positive cure for catarrh a constitutional disease. It is described as taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces with a $100 reward for any failing case and testimonials available from F. J. Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills recommended.
The speaker dismisses pity for overweight individuals, asserting that every truly fat person constantly requires support and sympathy. The remark portrays a blunt, unsentimental view of body image and social judgment.
The article notes pleasant South weather and blooming nature while advertising L and N rail round trip tickets at about half rates to Tennessee Alabama and West Florida on the first and third Tuesdays of March and April. It directs readers to contact P Atmore in Louisville or J K Ridgely in Chicago for details.
The Hot Springs in the Black Hills offer medicinal baths said to cure rheumatism neuralgia and related ailments. First class hotel accommodations and baths are promoted with tourist tickets on sale daily and special low rates on the first and third Tuesdays each month.
The B and O S W Ry to start through Pullman Buffet Sleepers on trains 4 and 5 between Baltimore and Chicago via Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Through service lets passengers reach Florida New Orleans Cincinnati without changing cars. Also mentions other ads and quips from periodicals.
The article argues land idle across the country burdens taxes and suggests turning wet land to cultivation via ditching or tile drainage. It notes timber land clearing is harder and promotes the Milne Manufacturing Co Hawkeye Grub and Stump machine as a superior, circle-clearing solution for two acres per session and invites inquiries for catalogues and prices.
A woman was found unconscious in the street and rushed to a hospital where morphine sores were found on her body. Once a respected New York publishing house employee, she turned to morphine after health decline. Doctors cited a treatable womb condition cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. A letter from Mrs Bertua Learman of Pittsburgh praises the remedy and urges others to seek help.
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