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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1901
Page
4
The 1872 Haidarabad case describes Chilka a 40 year old Hindoo peddler of fetiches with talismans. He vanished from a locked guardhouse while under arrest and later reappeared in a village 20 miles away. Authorities doubted the escape tale while he kept silent about the pink stone charm.
A Hindu prisoner Chilka vanishes from a locked cell after a pink stone is given to him. Despite four guards and a locked door, he reappears, then escapes again using the stone as a charm. Officials debate superstition and conclude the vanishing is real though unexplainable.
Epigraph from Banbury Oxfordshire memorializing Richard Richards who died on the seventh of April 1656 after gangrene from a lost toe and leg. The verse condemns tyranny and foretells justice when the trumpet calls. Located in Banbury.
A widow boards with her daughter as a savage bachelor voice taunts a child. The girl sings I know something I won t tell while the bachelor dismisses her with a grim retort. Reported by the Indianapolis Press in a period tone.
An old country housewife laments poverty to her unsympathetic husband describing missing quilts chairs dresses and a burial cap. He snaps in frustration asking why she did not die when she had a cap implying harsh humor.
Italian peasants in swampy regions light fires to purify the air from malaria poison, but this practice attracts mosquitoes that transmit malarial fever, making the custom harmful rather than helpful.
At Peckforton Cheshire England a very queer beehive stands shaped like a castle on an elephant's back and carved from stone, attracting interest from visitors and locals.
A Washington Star report explains the tobacco flavorer who crafts consistent flavor across varieties and origins. Despite low annual hours, skilled flavorers draw high pay, with salaries from eight to ten dollars per day for about one hour of work monthly.
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports on Chinese jade arm rings worn from youth, believed to grant luck and longevity. The lore includes emperors who used bracelets to guide decrees and a signal at death confirming burial with the amulet, plus claims of barometer-like properties.
A Pearson's note describes a brutal lumber camp game called Jack where be ye. Two men blindfolded kneel with leather straps or ropes held taut to keep distance while one strikes at the imagined opponent. Bets, cheers, and rounds follow until someone is wounded or quits. Hard knocks are expected though malice is rare at start.
An Indianapolis Journal snippet contrasts American ruler excess with a humorous exchange about upbringing. The piece mentions in Japan offering tea to arriving visitors as a sign of courtesy and not omitting a greeting.
A mixed read features a note praising the fifteenth Psalm as a gentlemanly ideal, then shifts to medical remedies like Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion, One Minute Cough Cure for coughs, and DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve. It mentions telegraph speed of Queen Victoria’s 1837 speech, Warns of dentist threats, praises Early Risers pills, and notes railway line counts and a subscription offer for Tur Express and Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean.
The Pan American exposition to be held in Buffalo from May 1 to November 1 1901 aims to showcase Western Hemisphere progress over a century and foster closer ties among the Americas. The Nickel Plate road promotes travel from Chicago to Buffalo and other eastern cities with affordable dining car meals and no extra fares. Officials invite interested parties to request the exposition folder and arrange hotel or rooming accommodations through the line’s agents in Chicago and Buffalo.
The poet Robert Burns outlined a ten part scale of good wifeship. He assigns four parts to good nature two to good sense and one to wit and personal charms. The remaining two degrees cover fortune education family and blood.
A Lancaster man F J Green credits Electric Bitters with curing years of indigestion and nervous debility and says his wife has stayed healthy using the tonic. The ad promotes the medicine at 50 cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
Mrs. Chas Applegate of Alexandria Indiana reports coughing fits and blood spitting until three one dollar bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery cured her and she gained 58 pounds. The ad claims it cures Coughs Cols La Grippe Bronchitis and throat and lung troubles with trial bottles at O H Soetje’s drug store. It adds a shipyard growth fact noting world yards rising from fewer than fifty to over seven hundred and annual vessel output of about 1 000.
Ad touts Dr King’s New Life Pills promising energy and liver relief. Claims cure torpid liver jaundice biliousness fever ague and malaria with no griping or weakness. 25c at C Fh Soetje’s. Also a humorous exchange about a doctor deducting a quarter for six cigars.
A Morgantown woman credits Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with curing scald head and eczema after failing treatment. An agriculture department note cites 1900 crop value at 1.861 billion dollars, up 300 million from 1899. A Maryland man reports relief from stomach neuralgia after Kadol Dyspepsia Cure, praising its digestion claim.
An advertisement warns that counterfeit witch hazel salves risk blood poisoning and urges buyers to seek the original DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. It touts the product as harmless and healing for skin diseases and especially piles, attributed to D. O. Prader.
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