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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1907
Page
5
The narrator recalls a chance encounter with Laurance Donovan in a Sherry's dinner scene on Broadway in October 1901. Donovan, elusive and ironic, hints at exile and danger while the narrator spots a mysterious woman near Arthur Pickering. The tone blends peril, cosmopolitan intrigue, and a hint of romance as past adventures collide with present plans.
A young housekeeper leaves hurried instructions for her husband. He answers 17 questions about chores and plants. She returns to find steam heat on high and plants placed on radiators, causing a humorous misfortune.
In a hedged Surrey field a slouch hatter leads a boy toward a cluster of berries. The elder explains berries are blackberries, while the boy insists they are red. The man replies that blackberries are red when green, revealing a rural exchange on fruit ripeness.
A man reflects that avoiding words and letters he could write spares him regret. Silence protects him from repeating past mistakes and missed chances.
Sheriff W B Griffin leads a 100 man posse to pursuit of Frank Ralston who attacked his sister Lucy Ralston, seized arms, and fled to timber. Ralston, deemed partially insane, was captured at his home by the sheriff and two deputies the morning after the crime and is jailed.
Hollen, Cass county supervisor, was found guilty on multiple counts of maladministration. The jury rejected clerical error defenses for repeated offenses of charging county work in different townships on the same day. He also faced a bill for attending a Des Moines good roads convention. The verdict dismisses him from the board, sparking possible criminal proceedings.
About fifty Simpson College students friends sign a pledge to refrain from tobacco use while students or until age twenty one. The chapel talk by a senior spurred a campaign by the college council and union revival services with female student help to curb the habit.
President A B Storms of the Iowa Agricultural College says nearly five thousand aspirants are turned away as the school raises standards. With 1,899 enrolled, facilities lag and a large class shows high failure rates, underscoring demand and space limits at the college.
A major Kensett blaze destroyed four leading blocks in the city with total losses estimated between 75 000 and 100 000 dollars. Firefighters from Northwood aided after the fire rekindled at 1 00. The origin remains unknown and key losses include A K Jerico hardware 30 000 J A Savie Co general store 15 000 George Merriner general store 15 000 Burgenson furniture 25 000 and B E Pollessiude harness 12 000.
Alfred Cohen of Horick & Horick, New York, was badly beaten at Ballingall hotel in Ottumwa by chambermaids Barbara Gillispie and Nan Hodge who accused him of theft. An inquiry found the waist in Cohen's possession. his face was marred with heavy bruising as he left.
Walter Watt a young attorney who served as a senate clerk during the last legislative session died on the 1st at the hospital for the insane in Independence. He attended nearly the entire assembly session and his decline is blamed on hard work and a lingering illness. He was brought home from Des Moines in a pitiful condition before being admitted to the asylum.
Triplets were born on the 1st to Mr and Mrs GD Striexler of Conrad. They are all daughters and strong and healthy.
Twenty five hundred dollars is cited as the motive behind injunction suits filed by Attorney C M Thorne against ninety seven local saloonkeepers. The Law and Order League shares the view, while the saloon men rail at the tactic. The attorney, noted as a Northwestern football player, is pressed to prove motives of patriotism as he seeks full enforcement of the malt tax law. If the injunctions take effect next week, Dubuque could approach a dry status until trials in October.
Seymour LeRoy Ware is under arrest on embezzlement charges from Stockholder Owens. County Attorney Carter and Corydon attorney Steel met with Bank Examiner Windsor. Ware remains at home under guard. sheriff served the warrant and Ware made a ration statement before raving, requiring medical sedation.
Dubuque lawyer Lawrence C M Thorne seeks permanent injunctions against 79 saloon proprietors. Actions filed on his own motion with plans for May term temporary injunctions and October term trials. Law and Order league disclaims knowledge. $25 attorney fee per injunction.
Engineer William Cahill of the Davenport Rock Island Northwestern Railway is in critical condition at St Luke's hospital after an extra freight train bumped his engine at Le Claire twelve miles east of here. Cahill was taking on water when the collision threw him from the cab and he struck the engine corner, crushing his skull and brain. He is hovering between life and death.
A bold thief fled after stealing a satchel containing $40,000 in bonds from a Northwestern train here. Police pursue the suspect as investigators catalog the seized items and review train security footage.
biblical account recounts Samson destroying temple pillars to kill himself and thousands of Philistines, delivering a dramatic victory for Israel as he dies in the collapse. The event is framed as a divine act of strength and sacrifice within the Judges narrative.
A sermonic meditation on Samson and Delilah contrasts evil with divine mercy. It argues evil blinds judgment, while repentance restores strength, citing biblical verses about temptation, sin, and forgiveness and noting Gaza as a confessional turning point. Samson’s captivity becomes spiritual renewal.
In Gaza Samson, blinded and chained, recalls his fall as Philistine lords mock him. He prays to God for strength one final time and leans on temple pillars, collapsing the arena and killing his captors and himself in the temple’s ruin.
A spruce young man pitches a ruse to a captain of industry claiming to clean up half a million dollars by leveraging his daughter’s wealth and a staged bankruptcy. The plan involves a fake investment, a marriage arrangement, and a wedding gift to shift funds, ending with the line Some geezers are never open for anything. Toledo Blade.
A compact saying attributes to Cervantes the belief that divine help surpasses personal effort when starting early, reflecting a stance on faith and initiative.
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