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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1902
Page
1
The Mississippi senator Money reportedly drew a knife on a streetcar conductor over a five cent fare. The incident unfolds as he appears today before a police court for questioning. The piece also notes broader political clamor over beef trusts and antitrust enforcement.
The article groups the eleventh districts and others by current state officers or vacancies and notes the Fifth district may win a state office. It lists officers across districts, then condemns idleness and urges labor as honorable and essential for advancement and respect. The piece urges workers to seek productive positions rather than rely on luck or status.
Local notes report Marshallton receives 85000 dollars for a post office building. The item appears among a batch of community updates including school leadership, local accidents, weddings, church plans, and rural delivery expansions across Delaware and neighboring towns.
The Sioux City Journal quotes Senator Money of Mississippi as a courteous but excitable man. The Davenport Democrat recalls a divorce trial where he described his wife as “a pretty good woman, but she was awful nervous about the house.” He adds, I won’t make up.
The Jones County Times editor labeled as Bourbon is accused of clinging to past platitudes and misrepresenting the Democratic Party. The piece urges Lanigan to drop populist venom and respect Grover Cleveland without repeating insinuations of corruption tied to 1892.
The Hopkinton Leader notes South Fork township personal assessment rose by about $23,000 in the past year per Assessor Ricketts books. Hog and cattle valuations fell while moneys and credits nearly doubled. Total valuation this year is $228,352 with 178 polls and $1 exempt by age. Assessor found 134 hogs.
Hubbard derides Dowie as a shouting revivalist with a Christian Science veneer appealing to credulous unthinking followers. He accuses Dowie of exploiting faith for profit paying six percent on deposits, selling Zion City lots, and promising inflated stock returns while waging external warfare. He cites followers and money, noting Dowie’s seven million dollar net and sixty thousand adherents, and questions the movement’s longevity.
East Cascade resident loses eighty dollars concealed in an old hat burned during annual house-cleaning. The four twenty-dollar bills had been hidden in the hat for fourteen years.
A missionary narrates years of housing on Holon with Presbyterian colleagues, field work in Kiungchow, Vodou, and Hoshow, and evangelistic efforts amid Chinese New Year. He details daily services, a notable conversion, and the death of pioneer Jere miassen from typhoid, with reflections on toil, prayer, and Christ’s value.
Three townships Wayne Fairview and Cass report higher assessment rolls to the county auditor with an increase in money and credits of over 119000 dollars versus last year. This yields about 1200 dollars more in taxes. The tax ferrets revived interest in interest bearing securities and bearing a proportional burden of public charges. Soon all townships towns and cities will have assessments and levies may lighten county school and city levies.
At Cedar Rapids the Republican congressional convention renominates Congressman Robert G. Cousins for a sixth term by acclamation with no opposition. He is expected to be re elected by a large majority. The report notes no other candidates are in the race. A separate item reports a Paris widow found dead in her shop chair after winning a 25 000 lottery prize.
An old advertisement proclaims Scott's Emulsion can wake a sleeping thin body, making it hungry and use food to grow flesh. It claims a thin person is on strike and cannot utilize nutrients, but the emulsion supposedly restarts metabolism, with a free sample offer and a 1.00 price at druggists.
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