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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1903
Page
1
The Express notes Sir Thomas Lipton prohibits yacht races on Fridays or the thirteenth. It also reports living costs rising in the British royal household and King Edward requesting a $150,000 salary increase, totaling $2,500,000 annually.
Workmen digging 50 feet below the surface uncovered a prehistoric human remains in South Dakota. The distant ancestor is described as long deceased, with no political implications contemplated by locals.
The new service rifle, shorter and lighter than the Krag Jorgensen, will fire a harder round. It will be issued to the national guard in states meeting congress conditions.
Newspapers argue Miller’s death report is greatly exaggerated echoing Mark Twain’s quip about his own demise. The line highlights a common wart of sensationalism in early press coverage and literary notoriety surrounding Miller.
The Porpoise fired a torpedo after a mile and a half submerged run between two flags 150 feet apart, showing American gunners from pistols up remain dangerous.
Dr Koldewey writes from Berlin that the Ishtar Gate at ancient Babylon is completed. The gate’s size is described as imposing and six hundred cases of tiles reliefs and other subjects from Nebuchadnezzar’s palace have been shipped to Germany.
The town of Montana City Montana once a 4000 person placer camp lay deserted for two days after a fire. In these days of rapid communication the occurrence seems bizarre though the town thrived on mining profits and local enterprise.
The text notes Canadians seek divorce by going to the United States, as Canada is perceived to be free of divorce while the United States bears responsibility for both.
A Galway girl wins 3000 damages from an unfaithful suitor after a 14 year courtship in which she records 1286 kisses. The narrator notes the pace implies about eight dollars per year and far fewer than two per week, reflecting a modest courtship.
The Kenebee Journal notes farm help is scarce and the situation is alarming. It says farmers treat their workers as family, inviting them into social circles and family life, claiming many marriages arise and thrifty families are formed as a result.
The London Mail notes that in the last decade nearly 80 000 people in England and Wales died by self harm, a 200 percent rise over 50 years. The growth is similar in small towns and rural areas as in large cities, with three men suicidal for each woman. Personal crisis reports are higher among idle men and among working women than among their employed and nonworking counterparts.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson 73, England's grand old man of temperance, recently won a tough parliamentary race on temperance lines. He has spent 40 years championing temperance and has been a key figure in parliamentary crises for 25 years, with speculation that he might have become a minister if not aligned with the temperance cause.
Federal agriculture officials say scientific lumbering will become widespread in a few years creating a large, attractive field for educated youths. A forester shortage exists, with about one in ten competent, and demand will grow as lumber companies, pipe firms, railroads and related interests respond.
Ohio marked its one hundredth anniversary of statehood in May 1803 becoming the first state to observe a centennial this century. The note traces earlier and later state admissions from 1863 to 1896 and lists states admitted after Ohio through 1821.
The post office department uncovered a deficit of 227 300 dollars caused by unauthorized expenditures by Superintendent A W Machen. Attorney Charles Hallman Keep of Buffalo is named assistant secretary of the treasury to replace Milton Tiles.
Exchanges at leading U.S. clearing houses reached 2.218 billion dollars for the week ended 22 with a 3.8 percent rise from last year. US business failures numbered 191 in the week, up from 182 a year earlier. Widespread strikes idle about 165,000 workers in New York, costing nearly 4 million dollars weekly in earnings. A coal mining town Thornwood WV was wiped out by flames. Five killed and 12 injured in an elevator accident at Pittsburg PA. Prominent Republicans expect President Roosevelt to be renominated. Churches plan joint drive against divorce. John Kennedy of Gloversville NY killed in an explosion. Reliance defeats Columbia and Constitution in Long Island Sound race but race halted due to insufficient wind.
A flurry of weather calamities and related deaths sweep through Ashland Blaine Assoria York Lebanon Elwood Crawfordsville Enid and other towns. Tornadoes cloudbursts and cyclones cause destruction and loss while officials address crime and labor unrest.
In Seattle Roosevelt spoke of a bright future for the extreme northwest while Mark Hanna reiterates he is not a candidate for the 1904 presidential nomination.
First stage of the Paris Madrid automobile race reports eight deaths within 343 miles and the contest is halted by Premier Combes and Spanish government orders. Marcel Renault, winner of the Paris Vienna event, was fatally hurt and reports from Yokohama claim Russian troops entered Youghampho on the Yalu. United States consul McWade notes famine in China with starving parents selling children for food. Max O Rell, author Paul Blouet, dies in Paris at 55. Hyde Park mass meeting protests the Education Bill.
National league percentages for the week ending the 25th list Chicago 727 New York 700 Pittsburg 471 Brooklyn 600 Cincinnati 405 Boston 3 Philadelphia 251 St Louis 265 A separate note cites American league leaders Chicago 671 Detroit 552 Cleveland 538 Philadelphia 553 Thoston 817 St Louis 60 New York 448 Washington 545 plus multiple other headlines including arrests, deaths, and a record rail run.
A six mile fence surrounds the St Louis exposition grounds. Germany rebukes a Philadelphia press censor law as unfit for free America. Wilkes Barre’s N Bertels gains a high Japan government school post. Philadelphia moves to bring 60 000 Jews escaping Russian cities to the U S. Netherlands to station a large warship in West Indian waters. Mrs Isabel Deecher Albert Berkshire Beecher kin speaks on tours. Homestead Pa marks Schwab school dedication with town holiday. New York principals seek discipline reform using rods on unruly pupils. French Senator Piot proposes medals for mothers alongside firemen and gymnasts. Wallace Nesbit, 44, named to fill a Toronto Supreme Court vacancy after Justice Nesbit’s death. Ex president Harrison papers to John L Griffiths for his life story. Carnegie says Washington should be capital of the English speaking race. William Devery eyes New York mayoralty after Tammany roles. Paris Lafayette monument pedestal by American schoolchildren finished in New York and shipping to France.
In the first stage from Versailles to Bordeaux several crashes injured drivers and a fatality occurred as Premier Combes ordered the contest stopped on French soil. Renault and Barrows suffered serious injuries while others fell to wrecks and a second leg from Bordeaux to the Spanish frontier was canceled.
The American Society of Equity based in Indianapolis announces a national bulletin urging a minimum wheat price of one dollar. It claims prosperity, high demand, rising wages, and a low visible supply to justify higher farm prices and asks farmers not to sell wheat for under one dollar.
On May 25 Matinicoek Point L T a wind from zephyr to eight knots saw Reliance dominate the Long Island Sound race. The event lacked finishers before 6:30 but Hemeshoff's latest yacht proved superior on all points of the triangular course, leading by two miles at the time limit.
In St Louis on May 25 the jury returned a guilty verdict after 55 minutes deliberation before Judge Ryan. Hartmann faces a six year penitentiary term, the harshest sentence yet in the bribery trials. Separately in Erie Pennsylvania May 25 a locomotive boiler explosion near May’s Siding fatally injures one man and wounds four others.
Six men died and nine were injured when a boiler exploded at Wilson & Cochran's sawmill near Maringo Station in Plaquemine parish on May 25. The incident follows reports from Wilcox about the same time.
A campaign against divorce is planned by Methodist, Presbyterian, and Protestant Episcopal church representatives in New York. Archbishop Farley of the Roman Catholic church will be asked to cooperate.
A humorous Chicago Tribune exchange on sermon length contrasts a passenger who teases about a pastor with a 25 minute limit and a speaker who reveals he is the preacher himself.
A Cleveland Leader quote features a colored parson claiming older men get less wool as they age. Deacon Flatfoot questions the claim, and the parson grins, asserting the logic behind the saying.
In Houghton County a man named James Culet claims forty two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills cured twenty years of rheumatism and kidney trouble after unsuccessful efforts with doctors and medicines. He reports feeling like a new man and endorses the remedy.
An 1900 ad copy touts Allen's Foot-Ease as a remedy for hot sweaty feet with a 25 cent price and free trial offer. It warns against substitutes and provides address in Le Roy New York. The prose includes miscellaneous maxims and testimonials from newspapers and readers.
Mrs J B Finn of 82 East High Street Buffalo N Y credits Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio with restoring her health after a prolonged decline due to catarrh She notes a quick rejuvenation and says a dose or two keeps her worn out days away The text highlights catarrh as a cause of female diseases and promotes Peruna as a cure for catarrh wherever located.
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