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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1904
Page
6
A 19th century note in House Eel recommends drinking with meals only if needed. It suggests chewing food slowly and thoroughly to enable future meals to be swallowed without liquids, claiming digestion improves when not washed down with drinks.
A Boston Budget note suggests that initial pouring over wet grounds yields the best flavor, while later pours may reduce the quality of the drip coffee. It frames redripping as a potential failure technique in traditional coffee making.
A reader from La Porte Ind seeks medical advice about daytime numbness in the left hand and feet lasting about half an hour. The response cites poor circulation and gland inactivity and suggests herb remedies or osteopathic Swedish movements for relief.
A People’s Home Journal note details lemon and lime substitutions for a lemon pumpkin pie. It explains zesting the rind to extract essential oil, then juicing, with guidance on using two lemons or three limes for sufficient acidity and flavor.
Boil tender parsnips then scrape and slice lengthwise. Cook with two tablespoons butter pepper salt and minced parsley. Boil until sauce forms then stir in three tablespoons cream with a quarter teaspoon flour. Pour sauce over parsnips and serve.
Tender apples steamed and sieved with butter eggs milk and gilt. The mixture bakes in cups set in a water bath for twenty minutes then topped with meringue and browned. Serve cold.
A Des Moines Mormon missionary G F Lloyd urged polygamy, citing scriptural injunctions and Joseph Smith as historical leaders. He argued multiple wives reflect ideal home life and sacred fireside, challenging contemporary virtue standards.
J E Gilbert of the Shiloh settlement Maine files labeas corpus in Waterloo Iowa to recover Elizbeth Grace Gilbert who has lived years with a Waterloo family and grandmother. Gilbert, Shiloh superintendent, aims to take her to Jerusalem as missionary. The girl was abandoned years ago. case stirs local sympathy despite bitter district court contest.
Ottumwa street commissioner A. W. Hill was indicted by the grand jury on a charge of cheating by false pretense. He posted a $500 bond. The alleged act occurred March 8 and involved reporting a city worker as Murphy and drawing $15 for work not performed. James King, a former employee, had urged council to investigate warrants. the inquiry was dropped before the true bill was returned.
The Iowa state board of health establishes a culture station to curb contagious disease spread. Fort Dodge station offers approved medical apparatus for germ discovery to local physicians and provides glass receptacles for sending specimens to a Iowa City specialist for precise identification.
Katie Stummeyer fourteen, attempting to rescue her younger brother Willie from an oncoming Great Western passenger train near Carol, lost her life on the viaduct after guiding him to safety before being struck. The accident occurred as the train emerged from a deep cut on a sharp curve, catching them unaware.
Referee J M Helwick declared the Dixon savings bank bankrupt amid allegations cashier Arnold Beuthien wrecked the bank and vanished. Depositors at Dixon and New Liberty face losses totaling about $100 000 as Beuthien is linked to wrecking another bank there.
A roundup of Iowa notices includes deaths of Rev. Joseph Goft Lemen and Henry Freeman, business changes at the Dumont Times, resignations in the anti alcohol movement, a suicide in Scott County, a Panora free corn contest, a slot machine scare in Iowa Falls, a caretaker killed aboard a Illinois Central coach, four lakes ordered drained, an elopement disclosure from Fairfield, a tragic accidental hanging of Priscilla Davis, a Stanhope farmer’s suicide, a Chariton child’s death, and the Western Union appeal over a forged telegram case.
Rev James Davis to be consecrated as coadjutor bishop of Iowa by Archbishop Keane at Sacred Heart Cathedral Davenport on Wednesday November 30. Estimated attendance includes 20 to 24 bishops and archbishops and about 200 priests. Davis, aged 52 next month, was born near Knocktopher Kilkenny Ireland to James and Margaret Davis. two brothers entered priesthood and three sisters are nuns.
Bronze Carnegie medals to Des Moines residents for voluntary life saving or self sacrifice in the United States or Canada after April 15, 1904. Nominations may be made directly to F. M. Wilmot of the Carnegie commission or via the press. five million gold bonds fund the awards.
Wilson Keairnes of Shelby county east of Woodbine has tilled the same Iowa farm since 1851. At 81, he has lived 53 years on the land, possibly longer on the slope than any other settler. He recalls the Willow river mill near Magnolia and a wolf damaged belt incident.
The Upper Mississippi Improvement association elected officers in Dubuque with Thomas Wilkinson as president and L B Boswell as secretary. Resolutions urged Congress to fund a six foot channel between St. Louis and St. Paul, to be finished after the Isthmian canal opens. La Crosse chosen for next convention. Speakers included Congressmen Birdsall and Haugen, A J Crocker, and C H Williamson.
At the Iowa State College meeting in Ames the board cleared fall business and announced Prof. A. Beach of Geneva New York will chair horticulture starting September 1 1905. He comes from the New York State Experiment Station where promology research and costly illustrations are under way. Prof. A T Erwin becomes associate professor and a dairy farm purchase committee was formed. The new creamery building advances toward readiness for a wine dairy farm maintenance plan.
Mrs. Matt McDermott, visiting the world's fair, identified her husband she believed dead after he disappeared from Clare a year and a half ago. He left May 10, 1908 for Port Dodge, sparking searches in fields and ponds with no trace until this discovery.
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