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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1902
Page
1
In a West Indies horror likened to Vesuvius devastation, a divorced woman reportedly forges wholesale to aid her former husband. The piece notes it's a novel crime motive driven by love rather than typical crimes.
A British doctor links indoor tennis game ping-pong to tenosynovitis or ping-pong ankle. The writer notes prior ailments named for sports and argues the latest would make the list complete.
A Yankee inventor offers a plan for a moving platform on the Brooklyn Bridge to allow larger crowds. Directors consider the proposal as a potential enhancement to the famed structure.
In his death American literature loses a distinguished representative whose place rests not on volume or long-term popularity but on his originality and the distinctive American quality of his writings.
The London Lancet warns excessive bathing damages the skin by macerating the epidermis and accelerating malpighian layer cell proliferation. The speaker disagrees, saying the danger is not as severe as stated.
Thomas A Edison believes Santos-Dumont has solved the airship problem while Santos claims a million dollars could fund an ocean crossing airship for 100 passengers in two days. The piece remains skeptical that airships will become a popular ocean transport.
The post office department awarded a canoe route contract in the Philippines and a dog sled mail delivery contract in Alaska. The Alaska route covers 414 miles between Eagle and Valdez with trips twice monthly, paying at least 1500 dollars per trip.
Seven former cabinet members live in New York including three ex secretaries of the treasury Fairchilds Carlisle and Gage four ex Ministers to France Bigelow Morton Reid and Porter two ex governors and two ex lieutenant governors plus eighteen who have served as mayors of New York or Brooklyn.
Canada contemplates a sharp demographic shift as thousands of United States farmers migrate to western lands offering very cheap acreage. Canadian leaders worry the influx could spark new ideas among locals and even fuel an annexation movement.
John D. Maud a wealthy farmer near Hamilton Ohio left a will directing that 5000 in government bonds be used for a county weed fund. Only the income from the bonds may be spent to wage a ceaseless war against noxious wild and disfiguring plants. The provision aims to create a lasting weed fund.
Paul Leicester Ford, murdered by his brother in New York, was a versatile and industrious writer. His successful novels include Honorable Peter Stirling and Ja nice Meredith, with biographies of Washington and Franklin gaining wide attention in both the US and England. His essays on varied topics appeared regularly in popular magazines.
The piece argues physicians who admit meat is injurious should embrace vegetarianism. It notes being a vegetarian is not discreditable and that meat is often the first article prescribed or interpreted in many diseases, suggesting people would benefit from cutting meat.
Western railroads push high speed development with traffic surges in recent years. Officials expect 1902 to bring record-breaking performances including trains from New York to Chicago in about 18 hours, signaling a dramatic rise in schedule speeds.
A survey of recent actions in Congress includes fortifications funding, Philippine debates, a bill to establish an Indian agricultural school in Wahpeton, and a large Ute land transfer. Overseas reports note Madrid and London diplomacy, Cuban ministerial appointments, Boer's peace hopes, and volcanic activity in Martinique and St Vincent with casualties and evacuations.
Emperor William will present a Frederick the Great statue to the United States to be set in Washington for Prince Henry's visit. Samuel Hoar of Concord has accepted Roosevelt’s offer for the U S Supreme Court seat formerly held by Justice Horace Gray as Gray plans retirement. Foreign Commerce Bureau: US shoe imports to India up fourfold. cotton piece imports rose in 1901.
The $120 million hard ware trust collapse is announced. Seven day exchanges at U S clearing houses totalled 2 384 492 235. down from 2 952 007 481 previous week and 30 8 percent from last year. US business failures numbered 228 in the week ending the 16th, up from 218 prior week and 177 a year earlier. A Mass death toll includes Mrs. George Buck aged 75 and Mrs. Hannah Cummings over 50 burned in Shrewsbury. The Presbyterian assembly in New York says the creed does not reach infant damnation. Striking anthracite miners plot to shut all US coal mines. At Arlington cemetery Roosevelt Henderson Foraker Hepburn Grosvenor and Gardiner spoke at the reinterment of Gen W S Rosecrans.
The report details suicides by Hannah Kickel and Anton Regler in Farlin Iowa after a note about poverty, Carrie Nation’s jail term in Topeka for bar fixtures, a deadly Atlanta fight leaving eight dead and many injured, and widespread effects of a hurricane across Texas with Goliad’s near destruction and heavy casualties. It also notes teachers preparing for a national convention in Minneapolis, a Springfield miners dispute resolved, and police chief Ames of Minneapolis facing bribery charges, among other regional incidents.
Doctors who examined bodies at St. Pierre agree the victims were smothered by noxious gases that swept down from Mont Velee ahead of the advancing flames. The Cuba president elect named his cabinet. Yamaya, secretary of state under Gen. Wood, will remain.
The conference report on the omnibus claims bill was adopted by the Senate on the 19th carrying 1 688 498 dollars. A retirement bill for Surgeon General Sternberg passed. Senator Dolliver urged support for the Philippine bill. The House approved the naval appropriation with in house shipbuilding in government yards. An eight hour work on all government contracts bill passed and a national sanitarium at Hot Springs was authorized. Tragedies include a coal mine explosion in Tennessee with 225 deaths and 34 bodies recovered, and a lake drowning in Ireland among nine tourists. King Alfonso reviewed 14 000 troops. A bomb found in Vienna before Emperor Francis Joseph departed. Consul Prentiss and family found in St Pierre ruins. Roosevelt asked for suspension of subscription receipts. Gaynor and Greene returned from Montreal to Quebec over fraud. A deadly tornado in Goliad Texas left 98 dead and 103 injured. William Leet sentenced to 30 years for wife murder.
United States dispatches from Texas report a major hurricane sweeping from the Red River to the lower Gulf coast, with Goliad hit hardest including at least 74 deaths and extensive destruction. San Antonio and Fort Sam Houston suffer significant damage as aid trains bring doctors, nurses, and supplies. Other incidents include storms in St Paul and Etna, and a Manila cholera update.
New York hotels raise dining room prices amid higher beef and food costs. Roosevelt’s book The Deer Family issued. Andrew C. Bradley, 58, a DC supreme court justice, dies in Washington after brief illness. Industrial commission report recalls a trade controlling combine. Senators oppose Nicaragua canal route and cite Martinique horror. American insurance losses in Martinique small. St Vincent risks with English, French insurers. 1901 US Japan trade shown as leading. Africa exports five percent. Franklin Indiana reports Anna Marguerite Whitesides with four living great-grandmothers. Lord Whelvin denies Mars signaling claim. Henry H. Windsor warns of volcanic eruptions from Mont Consefuina if canal built. Modjeska denies leaving stage. to present Queen of Castile next year. Schwab buys Staten Island resort assets for friends. Western railroads commit to ending livestock discrimination for Packers. States on latter to be raised.
King Alfonso reached age sixteen and took the oath to uphold the constitution in a grand Madrid ceremony. The procession featured the Royal Crown carriage, ornate gilding, and the Infanta Maria Teresa. An anarchist plot was uncovered with six arrests, including Gabriel Lopez.
A testimonial style letter touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for uterine inflammation and related female ailments. It includes a forfeit claim, urges sick women to write for advice, and lists symptoms such as irregular menses, weakness, and depression. The ad emphasizes personal recovery and brand trust.
In a colorful exchange from the Ohio State Journal, two lawyers discuss settling the Gotrox estate. The first notes the case was difficult, while the second recalls fighting to prevent heirs from receiving portions of the estate.
In a wry exchange, Gladys asks if Ferdy traced his lineage while Ethel confirms the first ancestor was a garbage contractor. The judge riffs that the forebear seemed "in the dumps" about something.
Ladies gain comfort and fit by using Allen's Foot-Ease. Trial package offered free with purchase. Sold at all druggists for 25 cents. Address Olmsted, LeRoy, New York.
A comic exchange jokes about legal fees as a litigant asks what a case costs and a lawyer offers sixty dollars. An ad promotes Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer promising cure for fits with a free trial bottle from Dr. R. H. Kline Ltd.
The excerpt compiles humorous remarks and dialogue on money death opinions and cures. It references a Yonkers Statesman line about debt, a joke about Piso’s Cure for Consumption, a Trinity Springs Indiana note, and a Puck quip about brains. It also includes an advertisement line for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a refund claim.
A Chicago Chronicle vignette notes a young heiress who loves farming and laments that almost all she plants is lost. Her dining companion, a rising physician, counters that he often loses what he plants. The humor contrasts two fortunes and views on farming.
Describes Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in northwestern Iowa along the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern line. Includes Minnesota and Iowa game laws. Mentions boarding houses hotels and boating rentals. Address to request from Jno G. Farmer Cedar Rapids Iowa Fea.
A visitor at the medical college tells a student a macabre secret in a whispered tale that the embryo M. D. claims they raised the skeletons, a bizarre exchange reported by the Chicago Daily News.
The notice cites Second Kings chapter four verse ten as basis for a short tale in The Four-Track News. It offers a free yearly subscription to US addresses, with single copies at 5 cents. Mail Geo H Daniels at Grand Central Station New York.
In a brief humorous exchange from the Chicago Daily News a man confesses a long evening spent with a young couple and their newborn while another remark notes the common belief that others care about one’s troubles.
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