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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1900
Page
6
A narrating child plots an April Fools joke with wildflowers gathered in woods. He plans to place a vase of pink purple white and blue blooms for his sister May and shout April Fool when she returns from school. He seeks a kinder, still playful prank.
A family memoir describes five brothers near a Vermont hilltop home where a stout sled coasts half a mile. A bear, drawn by the sled, climbs aboard and careens downhill, crashing at a wall and tumbling after the bear escapes into the woods.
Bradford Torrey notes the song sparrow as common in New England by mid March with a bright varied song. He explains its distinguishing markings from vesper and savanna sparrows, and recounts a correspondent’s observation of a pair that fed nestlings with worms and a white moth, then migrated and sang across seasons in different habitats.
A stranger praises a gentleman who captured a burly burglar and restrained him until he ceased resisting. The exchange shifts to a request about accepting an agency for long-felt household necessities manufactured by the caller.
Telegraphed reports from Nicholson and Plumer describe Boer forces moving from Goodes Siding and Bulawayo fronts with a sharp engagement at Bodle’s post. Casualties include Lieut Chapman and a corporal. Lieut Tyler dies of wounds. Artillery duel ends sunset with Boers shelling from a ridge.
Mumeie Indiana reports a catastrophic explosion at the James Wickwin sawmill six miles southwest of town. Three men died Thomas Sullivan Lon Van Buskirk and Mavioun Carey. The injured include James Dragstum James McCreary and Willi Green. The boiler blast caused by a ruptured water pipe sent debris across the area, with the mill owner narrowly escaping.
Mew Work March 24 rank Erne of Guffalo defended his lightweight world title against Joe Gans of Baltimore before the Breathgway Athletic Club Friday night. Erne dominated early and landed heavy blows. in the twelfth round Gans suffered a broken left eye from a single right hand, leaving the referee little choice but to award the decision to Erne.
Onl for Convention, Duluth, Minn., March 24. Chairman Charles A Towne of the national committee of the silver republican party issues a call for a national convention to meet in the Coates opera house in Kansas City, Missouri, on July 4 to nominate candidates for president and vice president.
Four masked men visited the home of George Rittle a 35 year old Black man near Carthage South Carolina Tuesday night. They attempted to hang him but he escaped briefly. He was later caught, mutilated and hanged and shot by the assailants who are believed to be moonshiners.
In a secret session at Germania hall 1,500 machinists union and nonunion alike voted to strike after four hours of discussion. The action, effective eight o clock Thursday morning, will affect about 55 machine shops and manufactories in Cleveland, Ohio.
Chief Wilkie of the secret service reports a new counterfeit ten dollar note found in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The note closely mirrors a counterfeit ten dollar bill recovered last November in large quantities.
A sweeping look at the Canadian West shows intense activity across districts from Winnipeg east to the Rockies. Growth appears widespread in homes, farms, schools, and business, with Winnipeg as a banking and trade hub. over 12,000 settlers came from the United States last year, and new churches and schools spread across the region.
The Overland Limited departs Chicago at 6 20 P M daily and reaches San Francisco on the third day with no car changes and full dining barber and library car service. The Pacific Express leaves Chicago at 10 30 P M daily offering through sleepers to California with touristic features and weekly escorted trips. For information contact W B Kaiskerm 22 Hifthave Chicago IL.
A humorous Harvard Lampoon snippet advertises Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement benefits and cures for headaches with claims about liver and kidney health. It lists prices at 25 and 50 cents and includes the pun line When is a pun mot a pun Usually.
An old warning about mercury in catarrh cures urges prescriptions from reputable physicians. It extols Trall's Catarrh Cure by I J Cheney Co Toledo and notes internal use targets blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by druggists at 75 cents per bottle alongside Hall's Family Pills.
An amateur philanthropist led a Sunday school class of Chinamen with zealous learners. A standout pupil, after months, thanked the teacher for kindness to the poor heathen and announced he could interpret and secure work at a pamding house, promising to put the teacher on a good thing.
Grain-O described as a delicious nourishing drink that replaces coffee with none of its injurious properties. It aids digestion and strengthens the nerves, not a stimulant but health boosting for both children and adults. Priced at 15 and 25e.
Cawler relays a returned Mlondiker's odd claim about miners sleeping six abreast in a shanty. They lay like spoons in a cage facing one way until tired, then he would call out Lawyer, meaning Lie on the other side, while Judge echoes the term.
A Baltimore American fragment shows a heated, satirical exchange where a king and a poet laureate spar over language and decorum. The dialogue includes crude slang and challenges to power, implying a public dispute about censorship and cultural authority.
We provide a free sample bottle of Kemp's Balsam and urge immediate purchase from your druggist. The ad emphasizes rapid cough relief and touts affordable Lauge bottles in sizes 25 and 60 vents, warning delays are dangerous.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt notes Maax-Klitasy loving horses and Joax-The novel scene with Eean riding a horse with arms around its neck. The quirky phrasing suggests a feature on equestrian imagery in local culture.
Newspaper blurb cites Mrs Henpeck worried as her husband talks in his sleep. Also features an Atlanta dropy treatment ad from Green's Sons and a Chicago Daily News proverb about leaving evil company.
An old Chicago Daily News advertising blurb touts Laxative Hromo Quinine tablets to cure a cold in one day with a money back guarantee. It features a testimonial from Dr. G W Patterson of Inkster Michigan dated November 5 1804.
In March and April the South celebrates spring with buds flowers and early produce. The Louisville Nashville Railroad offers round trip tickets at about half rates to major Tennessee Alabama Georgia and West Florida destinations. Contact P Sid Jones in Birmingham or J W Ridgely in Chicago for excursion details.
A Chicago Chronicle item recalls Glen McDonough writing lines for a chorus girl in a farce. The green actress asks for a second act line and is told she can enter with the line Here is the ham. The quip clarifies the line is a confession, not a speech.
An advertisement invites readers to write Allen Olmsted of Leroy New York for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ras PRE a powder for feet. It claims to cure chilblains sweating damp swollen aching feet and to make shoes fit better. It notes that all druggists and shoe stores sell it for 250.
In a brief exchange, Mia jokes about giving up something during Lent while Flyabout suggests she should stop talking so much. The judge weighs in as the light dialogue unfolds.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for painful menstruation. It claims women write grateful letters to Mrs. Pinkham and urges sufferers to obtain the remedy and her free advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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