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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1909
Page
1
The page surveys evolving technology and society, noting wireless navigation, air travel, and war tech while praising industrial progress and education reform. It contrasts old views with modern realities and hints at future prosperity through improved infrastructure, agriculture, and transportation.
Despite wartime losses Japan reports two million more inhabitants since Russia war end. The rise boosts industrial and commercial capacity and military power. Officials say Japan pursues peaceful progress, leveraging trade gains at home and abroad for lasting advance.
A mine disaster at the St Paul Company shaft near Cherry Ill left 384 miners entombed after a fire. Eleven rescuers died in vain efforts while 181 of 565 men lowered into the mine were saved. blame for negligence was suggested as the fire consumed ventilating systems and led to sealing of the shafts.
Eleven rescuers perish after guiding 185 miners to safety in a fire that consumes the shaft. Engineman delays final lift as flames erupt. ten heroes are dead by the ground level. Tom Flood is rescued briefly before dying, uttering a final grim line.
A Massachusetts party led by Gov. Draper tours New Orleans Dedicate the Massachusetts monument in the national cemetery at Baton Rouge after a river trip city tour and luncheon at the Country Club.
Grant Rapids Ohio Royal Vogel a schoolboy injured two weeks ago in a football game is dead.
Superintendent Jenkins announced plans to arrange instruction in jiu jitsu for officers of the division after presenting a marble clock to Sidney Williams for aiding a constable amid a hostile crowd. He noted the frequent violence against police and hoped lessons would reduce assaults.
A compact survey lists major mine disasters by year and location from 1902 to 1909. Entries name towns across the United States and abroad such as Fraterville Tennessee Havana Wyoming Monongahela West Virginia and Johnstown Pennsylvania with death toll estimates and scattered notes on victims.
A papal audience with Mgr. Agius, titular archbishop of Palmyra and apostolic delegate to the Philippines, highlighted the church’s need for more priests after the withdrawal of Spanish friars left clerical workers scarce across the archipelago.
Three children died and a fourth grew ill from a baffling illness in Cincinnati tied to Mrs. Mary Gener’s family. Pathologist Prof Wooley led autopsies on the latest death as Sophie Howard and her 13 year old daughter arrived with similar symptoms. The disease resembles diphtheria but autopsies indicate it is something else.
A tire burst on an automobile carrying Japanese commercial commissioners returning from Swope Park. Bokushin Oi president of the Sulphuric Acid Company of Osaka and a member of Japan’s house of representatives, was bruised and taken to a special train for treatment after the car left the road and struck rocks.
In Cairo Illinois a mob of over ten thousand infuriated citizens lynched a Black man and a white man after a police failure to restore order. The Black man confessed to a crime implicating Arthur Alexander before being hanged. Salzner also was lynched as guards and militia arrived to suppress the riot. Coroner verdicts attributed both deaths to unknown assailants. Governor Deneen ordered state troops to Cairo to reestablish control.
Essay excerpt attributed to Izaak Walton noting that when a matter lies in everyone’s hands it becomes neglected by no one and nobody acts.
Electric mouse traps kill rodents that enter them by applying 110 volt current, marking a recent invention in pest control.
A brief column echoes gratitude with a proverb about asking, noting that the man who never shuts the door visits most often. It blends comic folk wisdom with light social observation.
Dialogue shows Hilda urging Harold to reveal their engagement to her father as peril surrounds them. The plea for sacrifice underscores a tense scene where death looms and family acceptance is sought.
A Topeka wedding, described as fashionable, featured elaborate preparations and a notable baritone who would sing. A six year old sister pressed to join the program, asking to sing Jesus Look with Mercy. Her father declined, then relented with disbelief at her choice.
A Chicago ads claim from F. J. Cheney & Co offers one hundred dollars to any deafness case caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The pitch asserts deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and promotes remedies, including Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A young couple faced incompatibility six years after marriage and filed for divorce. Their child Cherry comments on the situation, saying she would marry only if it meant having a father for her children.
A brief note from the Yale Record records casual social exchanges between students. The first Freshman Prexie invites the second Freshman to dinner next Sunday, while the football captain bows in acknowledgment.
Perry Davis Painkiller advised for sore chest and tickling throat signaling a cold. Available at all druggists in 25c 3c and 60c bottles. A little learning makes a bore doubly tiresome.
A famed Berliner secured a win by asking 560 people one whispered question. He asked each if they had heard that Meyer had failed and received the same reply from all. The exchange confirmed the bet, with the half whispered prompt prompting uniform responses from every respondent.
A dialogue shows Billy-Ma asking if spanking helps and Mother-No replying it hurts her, Billy counters that hurting both without benefit is foolish.
The California Fig Syrup Co. urges buyers to trust its full statement of ingredients and method, claiming perfect purity and uniformity in its laxative remedy. It emphasizes figs from California for taste and medicinal principles from beneficial plants, and urges purchase only from its genuine product.
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