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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1907
Page
1
A severe California railway crash last Saturday killed many excursionists from the East, including Shriners from Reading. The catastrophe harms railway finances and travel by deterring potential riders, highlighting the need for improved safety to boost later travel.
The piece notes a $70,000,000 national treasury surplus amid canal construction and irrigation projects. It argues the Dingley tariff boosted jobs, wages, and trade while advocating free trade in the future. It also mentions a Des Moines man winning an injunction against his mother in law and reports on Senator William B. Allison’s improving health in Dubuque.
A notorious confession by Dr. 8. A. Knopff of New York, famed for fighting consumption, claims he gave hopeless TB patients large morphine doses to end their lives. The statement, made at a Washington tuberculosis congress, drew swift condemnation during the ensuing discussion.
Des Moines editor Henry Wallace warns drought may cut yields despite corn potential. He expects Iowa crops to fall short of recent bumper years while wheat futures spike on the Chicago board, with prices rising toward a dollar. Harper's Weekly critique targets both Roosevelt and Bryan.
The Cedar Rapids Republican contends Iowa voters would back Theodore Roosevelt first in a presidential race. It predicts Taft second with Cannon and Foraker lower, and notes a stronger standing for Fairbanks than Foraker while urging continued attention on Fairbanks.
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald predicts Vice President Fairbanks could be the Republican nominee next year while Bryan defeats him. The paper cites a campaign cry about choosing Republicans or triggering panic, arguing Bryan's election would bring socialism and steer the nation with more certainty, despite panic fears.
The piece notes Iowa banks hold about 400 million in deposits earning low interest. It argues investors seek cheaper Dakotas, Canadian lands, and the South for better returns and questions trust in local securities. It also critiques mandatory Keeley cure funding and reform efforts for inebriates, calling for reform of the drunkard rehabilitation approach.
The Minneapolis Journal recalls a Reinbeck incident involving a school patron and a school ma am. It argues that awareness may embolden many teachers with courage and lead to stricter control of unruly pupils, suggesting higher pay and bolder authority for teachers to save the country.
The Chicago Post denounces mining advertisements as fakes, noting most Sunday inserts in other Chicago papers are fraudulent. It urges readers to avoid investing, claiming nine tenths of such ads are bogus and doomed to fail.
In an off year the Des Moines community quarrels over consolidating school districts. The dispute has grown so heated that neighbors avoid speaking as they pass, and a vote will be held once the contention advances.
A defunct Seymour bank cashier is blamed for chaos as unopened letters aged up to ten years were found containing drafts money and remittances revealing a lack of system and gross mismanagement.
The threat to slow trains in retaliation for a two cent fare is unlikely to deter the public. With many accidents involving fast trains, commuters appear ready to accept slower rides rather than unsafe services.
Senator Platt says he will retire with public opinion turning against him for years. The weekly weather bulletin notes May 13 temperatures 3 to 5 degrees below normal, lows of 26 and highs of 90 at Sioux City. Precipitation was light with snow flurries in the northeast. most of the state stayed rainless. Continued cold dry weather harms seed germination and vegetation growth.
The Cedar county fair will be held in Tipton on September 10 11 12 and 18. Other items note deaths injuries and local events across Iowa including notable figures in Dubuque Milwaukee and Waterloo and a history roundup of the Jamestown Exposition plans.
An elderly man recalls a long vanished school day beside a leaning apple tree in the glen after returning from a western state. The narrator sympathizes with leaving boyhood friends and reflects that such a tree invites learning and imagination, with lessons learned while watching children climb and observe.
Rev F W Grogsman now of Carroll spent yesterday with old friends in Hopkinton A L Barker orders cement block apparatus soon to start blocks for building Post office inspector spent days here checking routes with Postmaster Tibbitts may adjust rural routes for better service Uncle A B Wheeless went to Greeley to attend 84 year old Robert Hunter funeral Hunter a Mexican War veteran leaves Wheeless only surviving local veteran in this county School board filled vacancies Miss Perkins declines to serve replaced by Miss Vivian Dunlap Lew McDonald of Cherokee state normal graduate elected principal Miss Mary I Coder Center Junction primary teacher Peoria Herald Transcript What is so rare as a day in June says Brother Lowell piano in tune.
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