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Giuseppe Saletti delivers a mystery yellow envelope to four gamblers in a club and his choice to return to Italy with the cash. Becket helps the boy and later reconciles with Nell Felton as the steamer sails away.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1912
Page
7
Giuseppe Saletti delivers a mystery yellow envelope to four gamblers in a club and his choice to return to Italy with the cash. Becket helps the boy and later reconciles with Nell Felton as the steamer sails away.
The Century Magazine announces a broad slate for 1913 including the After the War series with editors such as Col. Henry Watterson and Harrison Grey Otis and a new serial by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Travel pieces by Jules Guerin, work on The Unmarried Woman, and illustrations by notable artists accompany fiction from Owen Johnson and Ruth McHerny Stuart. Mrs. Charles J. Coxsee and daughter Beatrice visit Cascade after six weeks at Monticello.
An advertisement from San Antonio promoting Dr King’s New Life Pills as a remedy for stomach, liver, and kidney trouble. It claims the product injects new life and energy, calling it the best medicine, priced at 25 cents at O. H. Soetje’s.
It suggests the possibility of a White House wedding or two within the next four years.
An Iowa notice lists services for Perkins Eclipse and Star wind mills including repairs on mills and pumps with pumps and pipes for sale all work guaranteed by Leroy Clark. Also advertisements for farming loans, real estate for sale and multiple public auctions with farm livestock crops and implements.
The Pall Mall Gazette notes St Michael’s Mount as the legendary site linked to Jack and the Beanstalk, giving Lord St Levan and Major Edward St Aubyn the nicknames Jack and Bean. The quote from Gibbon deems history a ledger of human crimes and follies.
Mrs. J. E. Cox of Joliet Illinois says a dreadful cough from typhoid pneumonia vanished after using Dr. King's New Discovery. She praises its quick relief and safety, noting the medicine nearly ended her cough and saved her life. Trial bottle offered free at O. H. Soetje's with bottles priced 60 cents and 1.00.
Of Montour Iowa farmer in Tama county rented his land to his son in law but his deafness left him reliant on reading. About a year ago cataracts formed and left him blind until he consulted Dr Weber and now he can read again and feels back in touch with life.
The piece portrays an old bachelor praised by women as a romantic figure who suffered for a beauty long dead, reflecting on self-centered bachelorhood and enduring longing across years. The tone critiques nostalgic mythmaking around unattainable love and personal sacrifice.
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