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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1937
Page
4
The piece surveys Fremont county archives unearthed in Sidney and notes the first court records from 1850. It mentions Otto Priem raising bullfrogs for market, a Glendale school class with the Pierce siblings, missing goldfish in Iowa Falls, and long-held family farm ties with the Potters.
The jumper crossed to the opposite bank landing without injury despite a front tire blowout on impact. The leap prompted no further damage, and observers noted a clear, successful landing.
A transient who entered Northwood in Worth county caused trouble by smashing a restaurant window and sleeping in the city lockup. Mayor Sabin urged him to move on. Joe Lilly, famed Des Moines big game hunter, leaves for Alaska to hunt Arctic whales with an Indian guide. Clifford Miner of Humboldt County operates a sheep farm despite blindness, producing over 100 lambs last year and also raises pigs and poultry.
Funeral services for Mrs. Ella Fuller of Independence, aged about six decades and three, were held from her son's home. Born Ella Jane Fowler in North Gilford Connecticut, she moved to Monticello at 17, married LaFayette Pulley in 1874, lived in Monticello Savanna and Independence, and dies after a Sunday stroke. She is survived by sister Hattie Fowler, son Charles, and three grandchildren.
Charles Field son of Mrs Louise Field sustains a fractured left arm after slipping over benches on the kittenball field east of the school house Tuesday evening. He will write exams with his right hand and considers it lucky his injury is to the left arm as track season ends.
The local Red Cross chapter will hold its annual meeting May 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the library. Members paying one dollar or more in dues are urged to attend and vote on officers and reports. Chaired by Dr. E H DeShaw.
The text outlines the Middle Ages as the period from the fall of Rome onward with the end falling at different markers such as 1453 for the eastern empire, 1470 with printing, 1492 with Columbus, or around 1520 during the Reformation era, reflecting varying scholarly cutoffs.
A garbled OCR passage sketches arcane Western Saga motifs with names like Sasante and Hest pbyes Leasdne. It hints at earth and sundae rituals, skin peels, and horned figures, referencing a show called Cerys Weekly and a distant Aviary or Anville setting, all in archaic, unclear terms.
George H. Davis of Kansas City was elected president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting in Washington. He succeeds Harper Sibley and is noted as a banker, farmer and merchant. The Chamber opposed Roosevelt court reform and called for Wagner Act amendments.
The 1937 Hindenburg disaster ended the famed airship voyage after a flame outbreak near landing in Lakehurst New Jersey. Captain Max Pruss commanded the skyliner on a Germany to United States flight for the first time. He had been a subordinate to Lehmann and Eckener on the previous schedule and trained in Zeppelin work for twenty five years.
A legislative member who rallies party members to vote is called the whip. The term derives from British Parliament where it originated as whipper in a hunter’s aide who kept dogs in line.
Local legend on the old Crankfort bridge describes a medieval Iron cross atop a rock bearing a tale of an architect who sacrificed to the devil to secure safe passage for the first crossing. The Rhineland artifact bears no figure of Christ, inviting whispered lore.
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