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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1912
Page
1
A collection of wry observations from The Monticello Express on social trends and public manners. Jokes about dancing, travel, fashion on a budget, education, labor, automobiles, sports, and daily life peppered with quotable quips and pointed opinions.
A London nerve specialist argues that contemporary fashion endangers women's health and may prove deadly as they strive to stay in style. The remark highlights concerns about restrictive attire and its mental and physical toll on women.
An Englishman introduces a stingless bee concept and jokes that only an itchless woolen undershirt remains to secure lasting fame. The light note highlights a playful innovation sequence and a cheeky wish for a practical improvement.
A Cincinnati woman says she married a man without a fault, but warns of the trouble awaiting him, hinting at unforeseen complications in their union.
A Canadian lumberman marries the girl he wooed through an interpreter, proving that love crosses language barriers. The tale underscores the idea that affection remains universal despite linguistic differences.
A West Virginia girl flagged a passing train using her apron and helped avert a wreck. The incident shows how practical clothing enabled quick action, implying a hobble skirt would have hindered her efforts.
A London pastor advocates allowing young people to flirt in chapel as attendance rises. The Toledo Blade notes that the worst never happens, implying consequences may still come.
New York court determines a nagging wife cannot be legally stopped by the courts, while a grouchy husband is similarly protected, highlighting a humorous legal quirk in domestic disputes.
A Chicago judge held that lem on flavor is not lemon flavor unless it contains lemon. The ruling centers on how a product is described to the ultimate consumer.
A western man proposes to raise and fatten turkeys on a grasshopper diet. He hints at a turkey trotting stunt to be staged in Vandeville.
Questioning why mountain inhabitants seem more quarrelsome than plains dwellers. Suggests a link to environment and mobility, joking about elevators causing peevishness.
A German savant claims musicians' personalities are shaped by the instruments they play aiming to influence audiences. He then advocates removing the bass drum, arguing orchestras already have enough percussion and knock.
A writer laments the slow progress of any inventor who can quickly free a man with a foot fastened in a railway frog. The piece critiques the delay in producing a proven release device and urges faster action.
The city issues an order for numbered stepless street cars intended for women in hobble skirts. The remark invites speculation if the ladies will respond by purchasing stepless trains for future ball gowns.
A French reformer argues that high costs of raising a child equals maintaining an automobile. He claims France’s birth rate declined once families faced car and child expenses, implying that childrearing is as costly as owning a car.
Paris and Constantinople report Bulgaria refuses armistice terms and demands include Adrianople Scutar Janina and Tchatalja lines. Nazim Pasha ordered to resume operations amid cholera and mounting Turkish casualties. French note holds Turkey responsible for violence against Christians.
The Carnegie Foundation trustees announce pensions of 25000 annually for future ex presidents and their unmarried widows, no application required, to support their later years. Taft plans to receive the pension upon retirement next March. The second annual meeting was held with members including Andrew Carnegie Elihu Root Henry S Pritchett Woodward Taylor Frew Franks and Bertram.
In Hammond Indiana on Thursday nineteen year old Frank Cravens shot his stepmother Mrs Lincoln Cravens after a trivial quarrel and then shot himself. Both are reported to be fatally wounded by physicians.
Andre Frey the well known aviator was killed at Rheims France when his aeroplane collapsed during a flight around the aerodrome. He fell more than 150 feet to the ground Thursday.
The Marquam building on Sixth street in Portland collapsed Thursday with bright floors on the Sixth street façade falling away. No injuries were reported.
Idaho Governor telegraphed the credentials of Kirtland J. Perky to the secretary of the senate on Tuesday to avoid delay. Perky fills the new Idaho seat as the term begins.
A five alienists panel declared John Schrank insane after examining his mental state following the Roosevelt assassination attempt. Judge Backus will review the finding and determine next steps for Schrank.
Supreme Court declares license agreements among sanitary enameled ironware manufacturers illegal under Sherman act. Government had charged 60 defendants including 16 corporations with restraining interstate trade and attempting monopoly in bathtub ware.
An Ottawa Illinois Sioux passenger train on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line from Kansas City to Chicago was halted between Ottumwa and Mystic by two bandits. They boarded at Mystic robbed travelers and kept them prisoner until Ottumwa. Loot reported about 360 dollars.
Raids by postal inspectors hit nearly every state on Wednesday as a nationwide crusade against doctors and druggists promoting dangerous remedies began. In Chicago ten were arrested. total arrests reached 173 across 72 towns and cities.
In New York the gunmen Gyp the Blood Lefty Louie Whitey Lewis and Dago Frank Cirofici were found guilty of murder in the first degree for the Rosenthal killing. The verdict came after a short jury deliberation. Sentencing date to be fixed by Justice Goff.
Fire at the St. George hotel on East 3rd street in Los Angeles killed three and injured twenty as flames trapped guests on upper floors. The dead are actress Mrs Charlotte Harrington jewelry clerk Joseph Martin and Mrs Elia Moran.
In a battle Thursday near Madera Chihuahua federals under Gen Jose Blanco defeated two bands of rebels led by Richardo Terrazas and Juan Ramos. Twelve rebels were killed.
Washington reports the American Red Cross sent 8000 dollars to Balkan relief efforts on Thursday for Turkish Bulgarian and Serbian soldiers, bringing the total U S aid to 48000 dollars.
S Mallouf, a Syrian grocer in Cairo with his father M Mallouf, was shot and killed Wednesday by three Black robbers attempting a hold up. The incident occurred in the store in Cairo.
Governor Mann granted Floyd and Claude Allen a respite until December 13 after their death sentences on November 22 for involvement in the Hillaville Virginia courthouse murders.
Buffalo, November 21. The supreme court grand jury returned an indictment charging murder in the first degree against J Frank Hickey for the death of seven year old Joseph Josephs of Lackawanna. The case follows the boy's fatal injury and related investigations.
Washington November 22 John D Rockefeller contributed $5000 to the American Red Cross for Balkan relief. The donation increases the national total to $40000.
Vallejo California November 22 The century old receiving ship Independence the oldest vessel in the navy was placed out of commission at Mare Island navy yard on Wednesday. The cruiser Cleveland takes her place.
In St. Louis on November 21 the jury in the HF. G. Lewis mail fraud case reported to Judge Willard that Lewis was acquitted.
Robbers dynamited the Kingston Bank and Trust Company vault on Monday, seizing $1,500 in cash and escaping. The blast shattered the vault as the heist occurred in Kingston, Tennessee, on November 20.
In Los Angeles on November 21 police at Central station were driven outside by a masked man wearing a monkey head, who carried a box with an infernal machine and threatened to detonate it if touched. He was captured by a ruse.
Neenah Wisconsin November 23 Chester Robbie aged fifty five died in a hospital after living three days with a broken neck from a fall downstairs. His body was completely paralyzed.
Joseph I. Berry the ap praiser filed a report with the deputy state controller showing the estate of the late Joseph Pulitzer valued at 18 525 116 22 dollars. The real and personal property are included in the filing made in New York.
William Little aged sixty one president of the West Side Dime Savings Bank died by suicide in Columbus on Wednesday. He suffered a nervous breakdown and hanged himself with a rope fashioned from bedclothes. The tragedy occurred during a period of personal distress and financial strain.
Mrs Hetty Green celebrated her seventy eighth birthday in New York on Thursday. She is described as possibly the world s richest woman and the world s greatest businesswoman.
Des Moines reports railroads are withdrawing holiday rates and excursions this year. The two cent fare is cited as the main cause, with lawmakers seen as using excursion pricing as a model for broader fare cuts. Railroads argue other sectors raise prices with costs while they must keep earnings and invest in machinery, leading to no holiday excursions.
James Bauer a wealthy farmer from near Kingsley Iowa must pay his wife twelve thousand dollars in alimony plus a little more. He recently sold a 280 acre farm for forty thousand dollars to fund the settlement and custody of two of their three children after a conference of attorneys arranged the terms.
In Creston Judge Evans fined Matthew Ahern twenty dollars and costs after finding him guilty of contempt for attempting to bribe jurors in his damage suit against the city. Ahern had previously been awarded two hundred fifty five dollars for injuries from a sidewalk fall. bribe evidence emerged during the trial.
Woodbury county grand jury returned thirty nine indictments including five members of the election board for the Second precinct Fifth ward. They allegedly allowed nearly one hundred illegal votes during the special election on the proposed telephone merger.
Bloomfield lodge No. 22 I O O F marked its sixty third anniversary with a banquet for about 150 Odd Fellows and their wives and sweethearts.
Marshal Woods shot and killed M. 8. Moore, 65, after Moore fired on Oscar Berg Fred Gardner and the marshal. Moore, a non resident, was said to be demented. The incident occurred in Gowrie.
Fort Dodge resident B R McClosky was found guilty of second degree murder for stabbing Thomas Brown of Webster City on September 2. Sentencing date not yet set.
Socialists in Mason City plan a weekly newspaper to be named Cerro Gordo County Leader with John Spence as editor. The first issue is slated for November 30.
In Algona the tied race for Kossuth County clerk ends with each candidate risking 250 dollars. The winner Clerk Stephenson gains the office while the loser receives 500 dollars.
In Dubuque an 18 year old, Paul Hoffman, ingested a large dose of what he believed was licorice powder but was actually poisonous insect destroyer. Prompt physician action saved him from fatal poisoning.
The Interstate Tile Association and the Iowa Cement Users' Association will hold a joint meeting in Mason City during the first week of January 1913.
Des Moines reports former Iowa governor William Larrabee died at his Clermont home on November 16 1912 after a five month illness. He served 1886 to 1890 and championed measures from railroad rate reform to public utility ownership and woman suffrage, earning a legacy as a fearless defender of the plain people. He and Ann Appleman wed in Clermont in 1861 and left a modest estate that aided education and music in state institutions.
Safes in Woodford & Wheeler lumber offices and S. J. Clausen grain office Mason City were forced open and contents stolen in a recent burglary. A cafe served two large oysters to I. G. Williams of William Brothers Pleasantville, and he was injured operating a saw powered by a gas engine.
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