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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1902
Page
8
A New York Times report describes a school drill where a pupil named Sarah finally produces sound. The teacher warns of failure, but Sarah declares the audience will applaud as payment from her mother for brother Andy’s quick claps.
Travel advertisement touts the Northwestern Limited trains from Chicago to St Paul Minneapolis via Chicago and Northwestern Railways. It lists departure times 9 am 3 pm and 10 pm with elegant electric lighting, dining car service, and luxurious Western equipment. Tickets available from agents or W B Kniskern Chicago.
Mr. F. Batsch of Horicon Wisconsin praises Dr August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea for helping him rid a stubborn tough. He expresses gratitude to the discoverer of this medicine.
Uncle Eben mutters that every rose has its thorn and jokes that without roses there would be only thorns to complain about in a Washington Star quote.
The notice features Walter Mc Laughlin of Wheel ing West Virginia praising Dean's Kidney Pills after a severe back and urinary illness. He credits the medicine with a dramatic recovery after doctors and quarts of other medicines failed. Free trials are offered by Yester Milburn Co. and the pills cost 50 cents a box.
Paris officials showcase alcohol illumination with two lamp types incandescents using a Welsbach mantle and free flame carbonized alcohol lamps. Experiments indicate alcohol can be a primary light source, delivering high candle power through vaporization under pressure and bright flames without a mantle for domestic use.
A project to chart the sky uses 40 minute exposures to magnitude 14 for photographic plates and magnitude 11 for catalogue stars. Greenwich has completed plates for declination 64 degrees to the pole, with counting underway. The effort by 18 observatories aims at about 13 million stars and over 3 million catalogue entries.
Two boys aboard the training ship Minneapolis, Perry McCoy and Anse Hatfield, represent opposing sides of the famous Hatfield McCoy feud. The youths have laid aside ancestral enmity and become fast friends, sleeping in hammocks side by side.
Belgium expands electric towage on canals using overhead trolley powered tractors hauling one boat at a time. Tractors operate along banks with no tracks, exchanging barges when paths are narrow. System yields about 2 1/2 miles per hour for 70 ton freight boats and also distributes power and lighting as a secondary income stream.
A compact two story cottage with full basement and hot air furnace offered for 1200 dollars. Plans by Stanley A Dennis architect 250 Broadway New York City describe hem frame structure plastered walls cypress trim ash stairs and modern sanitary plumbing. Exterior finished with two coats white lead and linseed oil paint made for narrow lots as small as 20 feet.
A little chicken who hates rain and cold quarrels with every blade of grass. He is shunned by peers for his sour mood until he decides to change and join the others in happiness. The poem, from Child Garden, explores envy, resilience, and social bonds.
In Eleanor Gates's Chapters from the Biography of a Prairie Girl, a girl and her brothers drown out a badger den threatening a Dakota wheat field. The battle ends with a dramatic drowning of the mother badger amid yelps and fighting.
The Chicago Tribune profiles Taffy a Californian sailor of the road and rail who has journeyed between Pasadena and Chicago for years often riding in baggage cars on long trips He is devoted to his mistress Mrs Franklin Smith and prefers horse coach and trolleycar life while avoiding normal dog socializing and has even posed as a vessel figurehead crossing the Mississippi
A Tacoma Daily Ledger item tells how Tigh McGowan started in Kansas City by currying mules at the streetcar stables and rose to driving a car, joining the police, and earning a fortune. The piece stresses diligence and versatility as his path to success and public respect.
The article describes a method using a needle and thread passed under the rind to loop around the apple. By pulling the thread ends, the apple splits into two parts and can be divided further without removing the rind.
A set of letters claims Peruna cures catarrh of the kidneys and Bright's disease. Major Mars of Wisconsin Cavalry, John Vance of Wartford City, and J Brake of Petrolea detail relief after using Peruna and related tonics. The ad urges readers with kidney trouble to write to Dr. Hartman for free advice.
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