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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1901
Page
4
A fragment from Songs of the Morning features a speaker weighing gifts of lilies and roses against private love. The narrator guards mystery, asserting love as a human flame beyond compare to praise, while addressing a literary admirer.
A passenger James Melwill, an Englishman called Jimmy, captivates with charm aboard the Ocean Queen from Melbourne to London on August 16 1881. A gang in steerage hijacks the ship intercepts a gold cargo of over a million dollars and transfers loot to a brig, leaving the passengers and crew to endure a perilous voyage before pursuit launches.
A Berlin report says a German prince, to avoid bad luck at table numbers, opened a small dinner with 18 seats. When Herr L arrived late, a baroness cried 13 of us, but the prince explained that Herr L is not among the peers and belongs to a burgher family.
The painter James McNeill Whistler prompts a clever novelist to admit a poor portrait. The sitter defends the work as bad art, and Whistler retorts that the sitter is a bad work of nature. The exchange appears in the Argo naut.
The piece notes that Mexico's rainy season arrives as afternoon showers rather than a steady downpour. Showers occur daily, with brief clear spells, and the period is celebrated as the finest of the year in contrast to tropical regions.
A Kansas City Independent report describes big red ants enslaving black ants. Invading armies seize eggs and pupae, then rearing them to perform hard labor, including feeding captors, while some slave species cannot feed themselves.
A humorous exchange notes a color blind man who calls red purple and nile green turkey red. The oculist deems it the worst case he has seen and the man asks for a statement, joking about his wife needing samples matched next week.
The Pan American exposition to run May 1 to November 1 1901 aims to show western hemisphere progress and foster closer ties among nations. The Nickel Plate road offers travel from Chicago to Buffalo with meals in dining cars and hotel referrals for visitors, alongside a subscription offer for The Express and Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean.
A longstanding royal obligation requires the sultan to take a new wife each year in an official ceremony. The practice reflects ceremonial duties tied to succession and court protocol.
A household praise claims Electric Bitters improve female troubles and health as a grand tonic. The testimonial from C. H. Scotje offers 50 cent price and guaranteed satisfaction. An inquest in Columbus Ohio notes a juryman advice about rinsing clothing in alum to prevent flames from clothes.
Alexandria Indiana resident Mrs. Chas Applegate reports severe coughs and consumption cured by three one-dollar bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery. The product promises to treat coughs colds grippe bronchitis and all threats to the lungs with prices 50 cents and one dollar and free trial bottles at O H Soetje’s drug store.
An ad extols Dr King’s New Life Pills promising 24 hour work by tiny workers curing torpid liver jaundice biliousness fever and ague and banishing sick headache with no griping. Pills are small tasty and 25 cents at O H Soetje’s. Canon Anderson a Montreal based Episcopal clergyman died is noted as the oldest canon and last crown rector in Canada.
A collage of patent medicine pitches cites Bucklen’s Arica Salve curing scalp scalds and eczema, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion, and DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve for skin ills. It also notes high child mortality in Boston and mentions notable figures like Mrs Cronje and Yale PhD holder Sarah Scoville Whittlesey.
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