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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1889
Page
1
The Monticello Express notes weekly publication every Thursday under J. W. Doxsee with annual price 1 95 for in county and 15 cents extra for out of county postage.
A writer recalls Valley Forge and cites five living war governors Blair of Michigan Curtin of Pennsylvania Kirkwood of Iowa Gilpin and Evans of Colorado as Oklahoma returns to the foreground in national reminiscence.
The state shows a higher divorce rate per ten marriages over the past decade versus other states, sparking discussion on whether marriage is failing. No definitive debate appears within the excerpt.
Col Clarkson resumes duties after a brief vacation as officials prepare to wield authority once more. The pause is described as a temporary sabbatical to ready the tools of command.
Citizens note ex Governor Kirkwood’s health has improved as he tends his garden and travels between Iowa City and his suburb. Telegraph company consolidations reduce competitors to two firms, driving Chicago to New York freight rates up by thirty percent.
The railroad commissioners order the C. R. I. and P. Ry. Co. to rebuild the Fort Dodge to Tara segment and to provide adequate trains and passenger accommodations for towns along the Fort Dodge Des Moines route.
The initial Oklahoma vote produced a Republican majority, the only clear positive noted from the territory. Weaver was entangled in a quarrel with a boomer who challenged his claim, suggesting the results could have shown more balance otherwise.
A trio of young men in an Ohio town quietly rented all available houses for years, then sub let them at monthly advances of two to six dollars. The scheme, described as novel, centers on control of housing and rent markup, illustrating early trust-like arrangements in a local market.
The article notes the Samoan natives wear insufficient clothing for respectable dress and mentions three commissioners traveling to Berlin, one barred from court for not wearing a swallow tailed coat.
The centennial celebration was noted in many U.S. cities but New York papers focused mainly on events in New York and London. The writer hopes New Yorkers will seek more domestic news rather than Royal or distant reporting.
Seven states including Michigan Texas Tennessee Oregon West Virginia New Hampshire and Massachusetts voted in a comparatively short period against Constitutional Prohibition. The stance is not against temperance but against the method used to promote the cause.
The Oskaloosa Herald notes a town in Iowa sent three California boomers two years ago with money. One drives a beer wagon, one runs a bar as a clerk, and one works as a hotel clerk. Further details are available at Marshalltown. The paper says Ben Todd Frederick is not among them.
The type founders' trust has collapsed and prices of type and printer’s material have fallen 15 to 25 percent. Foundrymen rush to tell printers they bear no responsibility for the trust, and their circulars invite belief that many were dragged into the combine.
A critical look at the Cook County insane asylum attributes Burns death to brutal attendants and political influence over appointments. The piece calls for punishment of the men and systemic reform, while condemning the broader asylum system. It then contrasts college marriage statistics for New England versus coed and western schools, suggesting western coed graduates marry at higher rates and encouraging educated women to seek study and marriage in the west.
In an interview published in the Cedar Rapids Republican Captain J F Merry argues Iowa should avoid a land boom and pursue genuine growth based on honest data. He suggests a 300 page state pamphlet detailing soil water topography products people land prices towns schools and markets to attract eastern buyers.
E.R. Hutchins Grand President cautions at Dubuque Grand Lodge session that Illinois and Iowa Supreme Courts ruled that legal heirs excludes wives. Many beneficiary certificates name legal heirs, causing possible misinterpretation. Advise specifying exact names and relationships to avoid litigation.
Lawer Trewin moves to Lansing and George Crane appointed postmaster of Dubuque. Davenport banks report 7.25 million dollars in deposits. County races, centennial celebrations, Memorial Hall at Lenox College, and a wave of court activity fill May reports. Notable notes include a large Iowa family, a suicide in Maquoketa area, and district court docket with 23 new civil cases listed.
A Sunday school scene features a quiz on biblical figures as boys debate who made the sun and moon stand still. Moses is cited by one boy while others suggest Aaron or Joshua, with the teacher prompting Joshua as a correct answer.
In Harper's Magazine an exercise on orphanhood prompts a student discussion. The teacher declares I am an orphan and a child responds with a blunt, vulgar definition revealing the awkward social moment.
The paper plans an expose on J B Davis the Apache avenue grocer but delays after he subscribed and bought a year’s ad. Davis is described as genial enterprising and a credit to the state.
Quote from Texas Sittings notes that calm men conceal traits until pressure turns them exposed, implying flaws emerge under heat and stress.
A Toronto Mail item recalls a scene at a physician office where a young girl volunteers to speak for her sister during vaccination. The elder explains the sister is too young to distinguish left from right, so their mother washed both arms.
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