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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1902
Page
1
A French airship is reported completed and awaiting testing. Observers suggest competition could pressure inventor or promoter Mr Sintos Dumont to lower his steep per flight charges.
Medical scientists meeting in Berlin for the international congress for the prevention of consumption report progress in fighting the great white plague. No ground toward a cure was made in the past year, but prevention methods show promise.
Britain braces for renewed Boer conflict danger while planning military operations in Somaliland. The eastern Africa region remains hard to reach as native factions, led by capable chiefs, are driven by religious zeal.
Wellesley students will study farming with a designated land area set aside for tilling. The program aims to raise the humble occupation of the gardener to the dignity of a profession and suggests other humble occupations might receive similar treatment if successful.
The attorney general's official report to the president affirms the validity of the Panama Canal company's titles to canal property and franchises. The government offered $40,000,000, suggesting the Panama route favored by the president under congressional resolution.
It is claimed that fine quality hard coal exists in Colorado New Mexico Virginia and North Carolina. New Mexico and Colorado mines could meet western demand and, amid a strike, may be developed to relieve the west from dependence on Pennsylvania operators.
The latest statistics report 17 299 230 pupils across U S schools, about one per four inhabitants. The figures suggest American progress and power and invite comparison with other nations.
In a Berlin speech Professor Koch asserts that boiling does not destroy tubercular bacilli and that milk sterilization harms quality. He also says butter with bacilli is not infectious and milk from a tuberculous cow is largely harmless, statements he believes the public should not hear.
A writer in Thurlow Weed's Albany Evening Journal penned letters under the alias Baron Roorbach. No such baron or man named Roorbach existed, yet the fabrications were so complete that Roorbach became a symbol for personal character attacks aimed at harming a man who could not respond in time to stop the harm.
First Assistant Postmaster General Winne issues a letter to rural free delivery postmasters. They must not condemn patron letter boxes but continue to serve existing boxes until route inspectors and special agents inspect them for safety and compliance.
The Enquirer notes that before the War of 1812 nearly all anthracite came from Liverpool. In 1813 a few tons were sold in Philadelphia for 21 per ton with little demand. It was not until the mid 1800s that anthracite became common in Philadelphia as charcoal wagons continued to transport coal from Camden.
Loading and unloading ore at Duluth Minnesota now uses machinery to unload at 1000 tons per hour with no shovelers required. The efficiency gain is said to equal adding 50 large ships under old methods, showing how duality of Great Lakes facilities keeps advancing.
A weekly digest sourced from Washington dispatches reports Secretary Shaw ending state and municipal bonds as public deposit security. The president notes progress on the coal strike commission. General Corbin urges restoring the old army canteen for soldier sobriety. Rural Free Delivery officials claim rapid extensions with a $24 million funding need. Experts say U.S. gains have risen about 200 percent over ten years.
The week ended the 7th saw 148 business failures, down from 191 a year earlier. Clearing house totals reached 2.24 billion dollars, up 10.9 percent. Roswell Neardsley, 93, longtime North Lansing postmaster, died in Ithaca New York after 74 years of service. Other items include deaths of Sadie M. Jones at 102 in Binghamton, Cubans ordered back from Point Loma, a coma death at St Vincent’s New York, a suicide pact in Oswego Canal near Syracuse, a major fire at Keystone Driller in Beaver Falls causing about 100000 dollars in losses, Mascagni’s arrest in Boston, and a settlement of 5000 dollars in a Yale fatal auto case.
Multiple brief items report deaths including a pastor and missionary found in a church in Omaha from gas, and Prof George Hausmann in Napa. Other notes cover burglaries in Kansas and Culver, political shifts in Indiana and Montana, a Nome storm disaster, earthquakes in Michigan, a Nashville fire, and legal actions in Illinois and Indiana.
A gang burglarized Schefer Bros in Sigourney Indiana stealing 800 dollars in silk and 300 dollars in furs. Sampson, linked to the Cardiff giant fraud, is reported dead in Chicago. He was one of three men who carved the statue and originators allegedly made 20000 dollars.
Reports say Boni de Castellane husband of Anna Gould was unseated by the French chamber on charges of irregularities in his election. Other items note Annie O Mahony Ireland first woman jailed under crimes act and a census indicating Ireland’s population fell by about 245000 since 1891 with half of women unmarried.
An accident damaged the East River bridge causing about 1.5 million dollars in damage and reports say five men may have drowned. Other items note Roosevelt's southbound trip, Cuba and Venezuela tensions, and a string of global and domestic events.
John Jacob Astor ends his 17 year monopoly on marine turbine propellers. Reed Smoot denies polygamy in a Salt Lake interview. Prof McAlister reports Gezer site found by Palestine Exploration Society. A new Canadian transcontinental line to Port Simpson will be 248 miles shorter than CPR. Ladrones on Leyte killed a president and abducted children, burned town. Four Chicago passenger steamship cabal efforts fail for cash. Stephen Griswold to mark 40 years as Plymouth Church usher. Annie Painter and C D Band sealers arrive Victoria with 435 and 515 skins. Gen Greely praises autos usefulness to signal service but notes machine shortages. Secretary Shaw may seek repeal of limits on national bank note circulation. Henry Brock longtime Congressional Hotel proprietor dies in Washington. Portia Washington dropped from Wellesley classes over music failure. Florence B Edgett and crew reach New York after 1400 miles at sea in open boat. hurricane wrecks their crab boat.
Chicago dispatch reports Roosevelt's annual message to Congress nearly finished with one week left before November 23 return. It outlines Cuba reciprocity prospects, trust regulation, tariff reductions, currency reform, and navy expansion while signaling cabinet-backed currency and revenue measures. In Minnedosa and Yorkton regions, Doukhobor agitators are forcibly moved by mounted police after a dramatic transport by army special, marking a historic Canadian episode.
Fred Winkdohner, Bloomington collector of special assessments and member of a prominent German family, was found dead in bed Sunday. He was the only Democrat elected to the collector position in Bloomington. Also, Dr. Robert Kedzie, longtime Michigan agricultural college chemistry professor, died at 79 after retirement.
A Guadalajara dispatch reports Colima volcano threatening eruption with residents fleeing bases of the mountain toward Manzanillo and other safety points as authorities warn of danger.
The general committee of church extension of the Methodist Episcopal church held their final session Saturday in Philadelphia. They authorized $348,000 for church building purposes for the coming year.
In St Paul Minnesota November 10 reports say Great Northern Superintendent E F Egan disappeared while hunting near Belton Montana. James J Hill ordered 100 men to search the surrounding country with snowstorms hindering trails and hopes fading for the missing man who may have perished in bear or mountain lion country.
Nellie Corcoran, aged about 20, lay in a mysterious coma for 20 days at St. Vincent's hospital after falling unconscious October 18. Doctors from many specialties could not determine the cause despite electricity and stimulant trials. An autopsy will be performed to solve the case.
Chicago agents of the internal revenue department confiscate illegally packed cigarettes, most trust-made, stamping out dealers and distributors. Over 1,000,000 paper pipes impounded by A. L. Davis and H. N. Schlosse with more quantities seized Saturday as prosecutions are prepared in New York and elsewhere. Cholera in the Philippines remains intermittent. 105000 cases and 67000 deaths recorded, actual cases likely 20 percent higher.
Dublin reports Ireland's total population fell since 1891 by about 248 000 with nearly half of women remaining unmarried. In New York a man leapt from the Brooklyn Bridge into the East River, vanishing beneath the water. he appeared about 25 and the body was not found. In China a tax revolt against indemnity payments has erupted in the southwest Li province, with troops dispatched to quell the disorder.
A crafty Yankee horse trader sells a feeble, game-obsessed horse to a deacon. After each test ride the horse sits when moved by the rider, prompting the deacon to trade his own horse and $50. The trick ends when the animal wets the rider, proving the horse’s sport is “thru and thru.”
A Chicago Daily News anecdote tells of hailstones as large as eggs in Arkansas. A local responds that hens laid on them to hatch frozen chickens, creating a comic image of weather mischief and misplaced poultry expectations.
A humorous quip from the Chicago Chronicle about a man who writes poetry and tries to publish it after his wife critiques him. She notes he rhymes "hundred" with "onward," he defends it citing Tennyson, who could do such things, while she counters he cannot.
A Chicago physician attending a severe rheumatic case yields to a humble German who applies St Jacobs Oil. After the first use the patient’s pain eases, and within two days he improves enough to recover completely.
Mrs May Sta uts of Edgerton Wisconsin reports relief from severe back pains and menstrual distress after two months use of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. She gained weight and says she feels better and urges others to use the remedy for female troubles.
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