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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1905
Page
3
Quick results claim from Wea. Hill of Concord, Justice of the Peace, praising Donn’s Kidney Pills for irregular kidney secretions and backache. Includes Buffalo endorsement Foster-Milburn Co. selling at 50 cents per box.
The British Museum exhibit features the oldest Bible manuscript from the ninth century and a 1562 Mary Queen of Scots letter sold for 4500 dollars. Other items include Boswell’s 1763 Psalter bought for 15 pounds and Egyptologist Petrie’s Sinai discoveries. A possible ancient letter from Attica, dated four centuries BCE, is reported engraved on lead.
A railroad president states private car lines should come under Interstate Commerce Commission control. He notes lines are paid mileage without discrimination and excess charges are for shippers to contest. As long as no law governs rates, car mileage payments are legal like rental for property.
A collection of light witticisms and exchanges about marriage names and social fashions. The banter includes a Russian general joke about a long name and a punchline about wedding presents. A brief scene hints at a comic interruption where a passerby asks if there was a cry for help and a flirtatious moment is teased.
A hostess reassures a distinguished foreign guest that the setting is engaging. The guest replies that he will not find it dull and asks if the hostess and her husband provide enough amusement.
Gov. Cummins told a Senate Interstate Commerce Committee hearing that the Esch Townsend bill should be abandoned. He urged giving the commission power to fix rates based on railroad service cost and favored railroads owning cars. He warned against overcapitalization and supported maintaining six percent returns on investment. He opposed broad commission power but favored federal rate adjustment to end discriminatory practices.
Director Sage of the Iowa weather and crop service reports planting nearly finished and pasture and grain fields benefiting from warm spring rains. Small grain lags slightly due to moisture shortage but conditions are improving. corn planting shows progress in early areas. Grass and small grain growth steady. fruit prospects strong. garden truck emerging early.
The Iowa Automobile club with headquarters in this city will build and maintain for one year a sample good road from W Ninth Street end to Fort Des Moines. Joe Trigg demonstrated a leveler and scraper for dirt roads, and W W Wise of the board of public works said the device would be tested with board assistance. An appropriation to fund the yearlong project was approved.
Paroled convict Joseph Buck of this county asks for readmission to Fort Madison. Governor Cummins suspended Buck’s sentence on April 17, 1905, after a brief period of freedom. A telephone message from Warden Jones confirmed Buck’s return to the prison, where Buck preferred confinement to liberty.
Benjamin F Parker, a renowned local saloon owner known for his temperance battles, has filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition likely ending his long career. The move marks a major turn in a figure once prominent in city nightlife and reform debates.
J D Edmundson of Des Moines has loaned 40000 dollars to the Women's Christian association to help build a 50000 dollar hospital in Council Bluffs. The loan bears five percent interest and will be canceled at his death with the property passing to the hospital free of encumbrance. The new institution will be named the Council Bluffs Memorial hospital and Edmundson's Walnut Hill cemetery lot will be cared for by the association.
Kinsley Jordan known as Stormy of Ottumwa died at 73 after a national reputation as a bitter opponent of Iowa's temperance law. He ran a saloon on South Vine street gaining fame for open defiance. He leaves a wife and seven children and is remembered for eccentric yet honest traits.
The Sioux City Live Stock Fair association schedules a September 11 to 16 event with $12,000 in purses for harness horse races. Four big stakes of $1,000 each are filled from about 40 horses drawn from Nebraska Minnesota Iowa and Missouri. Entries for class races close September 5. The midway features 22 shows including a daredevil act a woman sliding 2,000 feet in midair by teeth from a 300 foot cable aiming to land in front of the grandstand described as the greatest leap for life.
The Jones school of auctioneering and oratory has graduated 17 new auctioneers. Founded by Carey M. Jones, the two year old institution trains in English oratory and the stock, jewelry, and related auction lines. A banquet and vaudeville accompanied commencement and graduate Capt Wilson Miller of Toledo is believed oldest attendee at 66, a Civil War veteran.
The faculty of the state university announced the coming year’s honors with a list including Harry M. Ivans Grundy Center animal biology Arthur L. Tatum Penny college and David N. Dodd Coe college chemistry D d McDonald Western college evacuation James A Marmon Simpson college and Aliee Rigby Cornell college English Bertha Sunier Iowa City French Paul Edinger Iowa City geology Mabel E Ellerton Morningside college and KE N Ferris German Mary K Heard ophthalmology and otology G W Gerbert Parsons college political economy and sociology Charles D Wood physics Samuel D Collett botany Hugh S Buffum education Edmund C Nelson history H H Fitch Latin Daniel Starch Co L Wassam political economy and sociology J O Johnson political science Fred Albert internal medicine C H Edmundson zoology
Senator Dolliver of Iowa arrived in Washington with a battle scarred face following his father's funeral. He blamed the Chicago teamsters strike for the unrest and encountered a mob during his stroll, targeting nonunion seamstresses.
New York Life Insurance sues Burlington firm Chittenden & Eastman for 2700 insurance paid to as beneficiaries of William Jarvis who disappeared years ago and was thought dead. At a Cincinnati fire an unknown man injured led H E Jarvis to identify him as the long lost brother and bring him home. The firm refuses refund claiming Jarvis is legally dead.
Miss Gertrude Pullman of Centerville, unable to bear that Thursday would have been her wedding day, killed herself with strychnine. Her fiancé George De Ford had died three weeks earlier after a brief illness. She placed her wedding garments on the bed and lingered for hours before friends could distract her, later found in an upper room in agony.
Settlement of the affairs of the broken First National Bank in Grinnell progresses satisfactorily under Receiver G W Swords. The comptroller of the treasury authorizes a dividend between early and mid June, expected at ten percent, bringing total paid to depositors to about 55 percent. About $35,000 will circulate locally from the final distribution.
Joint boards of Harrison and Monona counties ordered the contract for the Monona Harrison drainage canal. Sealed bids are due June 8, 1905, with the joint boards to meet again to award. Project costs exceed $200,000 and aim to convert 76,000 acres now overflowed into arable corn land.
Early morning blaze in Massena gutted five buildings including a butcher shop owned by John Brown. Property loss estimated at 17 000 to 20 000 dollars with about 7 000 dollars insured. Fire discovered around 3 a.m. and extensive damage reported.
The Southwestern Iowa Bankers association adopted a resolution condemning the national bankruptcy law and urging its repeal. The measure, presented by Carl F. Kuehnler of Dennison, aligns with views attributed to Secretary Shaw.
Anamosa reports scarlet fever outbreak in Martelle area. Garner notes F A Keup sues for 10000 for alleged slander against T S Thompson. Cedar Falls dedicates the Graham memorial monument costing 1400. Belle Plaine hosts tenth annual Women’s Home Missionary Society meeting. Charles City mill burns, losses 30000 with 4000 insurance. Tama details serious accident. conductor Henry loses a leg. Sioux City hosts Iowa state mail carriers. Boone I Company I votes 43 for Major Mahoney. Council Bluffs suspects wolf breeding for bounty. Centerville electric railroad prospects to Forbush and nearby towns. Burlington founder Robert Donahue dies after 50 years in hardware. Ocheydan cyclone injures Mrs Larse. Creston captures Landis Deringer after three days. Ottumwa changes Burlingotn rounds convention dates from May 27 to May 29.
The teamsters joint council voted to extend the citywide strike toward involving nearly all 85 000 union drivers. Employers demanded deliveries to contract firms regardless of strikes, while unions threatened to strike any driver obeying such orders. A funeral parade for George S. Pierce drew 7000 labor supporters, pierce a striking driver shot by Deputy Waldorf. he was buried in Louisville after services at his South Central Park residence.
Newburg New York May 15 Mrs Henrietta Robinson known as the veiled murderess died at Mateawan state hospital. She was convicted of the 1858 Troy murders of Timothy Lanaga and Catharine Lubee and sentenced to hang, later commuted. She refused to reveal her identity in death as she had kept her veil for sixty years.
Reports from Moscow and provinces show order prevailing in most of Russia on May Day. Minor disturbances in Reval Kishineff and a few other places were the only incidents, with no serious riots or deaths by midnight. Social Democrats and Socialists failed to signalize the day with anti government demonstrations. Dispatches cite holiday calm in Kazan Tiflis Saratov Cronstadt Rostov on Don Kiev Volga delta Tomsk and other cities.
Manila reports two weeks of heavy combat on Jolo Island as Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood’s force campos to isolate and trap Moro chief Pala and about 600 armed followers. Casualties total seven killed and 19 wounded for Wood’s troops and 300 killed for Pala. Pala and his men refuse capture and face a swamp surround by Wood’s detachments from multiple regiments and scouts.
Jessie Bartlett Davis a leading comic opera star died Sunday morning at her home 4740 Grand boulevard Chicago after a two day illness from araemic poisoning and heart valve weakness. Her husband Will J Davis son Will J Davis Jr and sister Mrs Birdie Quackenbos were at her bedside. She had been unconscious for several hours and passed peacefully.
Attorney General Moody issues an opinion holding the eight hour law applies to employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission working on the isthmus of Panama.
In Besicza at the Almasy coal mine a premature blast during blasting operations on Saturday killed twenty-two miners. Authorities reported the disaster occurred near Buda-Pesth as rescue efforts commenced and investigations began into the accident.
In Mexico City on May a treaty between France and Mexico was signed to reduce postage. The new arrangement makes the rate to France equal to the rate to the United States.
Former Arkansas governor and commander of the Arkansas division United Confederate Veterans General Thomas J. Churchill died in Little Rock after a lingering illness on May 15. He had served as governor and led Confederate veteran group in the state.
Articles claim Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound strengthens the female body to prevent miscarriages and infertility. Letters from Milwaukee women praise improvements in health and eventual successful births after using the remedy. The notice invites readers to write Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice to expectant or aspiring mothers.
Ovison Swett Mend en in Success Magazine asks if your habitual facial expression is sour morose repellent or sunny and cheerful. He warns a dull angry or despondent look repels others while a bright expression signals goodwill and boosts how people respond to you.
Chicago to Asbury Park Baltimore Buffalo Jagara Walla Philadelphia Toronto and more advertised with return fares and set going dates. Fares range from 10.00 to 21.80 with multiple July September and May dates. Contact Geo W Vaux or G P T A for full schedules and descriptive literature.
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