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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1896
Page
5
Good Roads argues that road quality acts as a hidden tax on farm production and marketing. Poor roads increase labor, wear, and transport time, reducing net returns even when the farm shows profit. The piece urges road improvements to prevent loss from field to market.
Advice from the St. Louis Republic on proper pruning to avoid weakening trees, urgent removal of diseased branches, and careful planting of grapes and other fruit crops. Emphasizes rooting, staking avoidance, sun exposure, early setting out, and deep planting for young trees.
A civic plea argues that public funds fund railroads and roads, urging that only the best, most organized road systems should be built. It stresses that taxpayers bear the cost and farmers should unite to push for high quality, affordable routes.
Farmers facing muddy streams to water cattle can bridge with simple, durable arrangements. Stout sticks braced at angles support rough logs, then soil fills gaps and grass grows to prevent wash. A second note advises testing new potato varieties sparingly and sticking to proven types for reliability.
Ohio Farmer describes a 16 by 24 foot cheap cow stable to house six cows with a four foot wide feed alley a deep narrow ditch and a three and a half to four foot wide walk. loft feed bins spill spouts down to three boxes below and daily gutter cleaning with absorbents to keep cows clean. balloon frame or tongue and groove siding recommended and the cost estimated under 500 dollars for a durable structure.
Farm News urges farmers to aid in stopping filled cheese manufacture and sale. It argues suppression could stabilize both cheese and butter markets, noting relation between export cheese trade and butter prices and calling for action against axle grease products.
A Madison County farmer invents a covered pen for cattle to pass through. A glass dome traps flies as brushes sweep them off during the dark passage. The flies are retained in the dome, and animals learn to walk through when bites begin. The device is patented.
Westward lands once called a wasteland are found rich in plant nutrients. Government soil analysis shows chemistry favorable for growth. Future work will identify plants that tolerate alkali and drought, as sage and cactus flourish on these soils.
The hospital notes that sterilized milk alters albumen to peptone and changes fat distribution, yet investigations by Dr Blasius of Brunswick show the nutritive properties remain unaffected.
Prof. Stewart fed two cows to boost milk and butter output. One cow yielded 60 percent more milk in year two and was kept to 18. The other rose one-third in milk and half in butter, producing 6278 pounds in year 19. Heifer calves from both proved ordinary milkers at first but later became good. An engineer in New York estimated 1895 pavement costs per square yard for granite and asphalt on varying concrete depths.
There is civilization enlightenment and economy in good roads. Good roads lead to prompt and steady attendance upon church services school room duties neighborly intercourse and social advancement. Dad roads lead to profanity worry trials and tribulations and loss of time. Galveston Tex Tribune.
Des Moines reports Keokuk minister Rev. John Burgess D D aged 84 with a long career in the Methodist Episcopal church. The piece notes his early life, military chaplaincy, letters from Queen Victoria, and later Keokuk residence following ill health. It also lists Iowa’s 25 largest cities and updates on a German heir case involving merchant tailor H C Schultz. Geological donations, a vagrant definition by Judge Ladd, and a summary of Iowa fish law closing seasons are included.
The Association of Grain Dealers of Northwestern Iowa in Sioux City plans suits against the Sioux City & Pacific, Sioux City & Northern, Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern, Illinois Central, Chicago & Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul lines. They seek about 1,000,000 dollars in overcharge refunds for grain shipments to Chicago from northwestern Iowa.
The 22d annual encampment of the Iowa Grand Army met in Cedar Rapids and drew nearly 2,500 delegates, the largest in state history. Officers for the next year were elected: Department commander Josiah Given of Des Moines, senior vice commander H. M. Day of Cedar Rapids, junior vice commander E. I. Weiser of Decorah, medical director H. C. MonCoy of Algona, chaplain N. Barrett of Iowa City. The Women's Relief Corps reelected Mrs. Helen Griffith as division president.
In Newton district court Judge Dewey wed George E. Russell aged 75 afflicted with palsy to Nancy Marquette who pleaded guilty to 50 years and was on her third marriage. Jurors urged the court to kiss the bride, but the judge declined.
Governor of South Dakota approves a requisition at the request of Gov Drake for Thomas B Teller wanted in Woollbury County on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. He is named as part of an organized gang killing wolves and collecting bounties in South Dakota and Iowa.
Frank Smith, Charles Hurd and Albert Gray of Chicago pleaded guilty in federal court at Keokuk to using the mails in a green goods swindle. They were sentenced to 2 years and fined 2000 dollars each after being arrested at the Hotel Delaware in Chicago delivering bogus securities to supposed farmers who were actually U S marshals.
A meeting of ministers and prominent citizens in Des Moines led to the creation of a civic federation aimed at advancing municipal reform. The group will be non political and non sectarian, seeking moral honest and economical city government and will succeed the former church federation as the citys strongest organization.
W N Jordan, president of the defunct Jordan bank of Baxter, failed March 12, was arrested for obtaining money under false pretenses and held to the grand jury. The bank had deposits the day of failure, but only $300 found in the assignee’s barns. Cyclone across three counties damages Horton and Nashua. deaths reported in Ottumwa and Dubuque.
Paul Gross of 62 South Third Street Quincy Illinois a noted local figure credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with curing his heart palpitations and restoring his health after years of near death. He says three boxes stopped the palpitations and a later relapse was cured with another box concluding that the pills are unmatched for heart disease and blood restoration.
Advertisements promote the Santa Fe Route as the direct through line from Chicago and Kansas City to Cripple Creek with luxurious Pullmans and low rates. It offers a descriptive free book via GT Nicholson and highlights farming lands in South Dakota along the Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul line. The page includes theater ads, agency openings, and quotes from periodical sources.
A historical advertisement proclaims deafness cannot be cured by local applications and promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure as the remedy. It offers a $100 reward for any deafness case caused by catarrh that the cure cannot fix, with testimonials and a note on competing quips about jesters.
A clumsy medical elixir advertisement purports stomach bitters and nerve restorers as cures for biliousness fever and nervous symptoms. It touts products from Dr Kino and Piso's Cure for Consumption while quoting mixed testimonials and stray moral lines from newspapers and editors.
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