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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1933
Page
1
Judge Clark of Mason City sentenced four young men to six months after a jury found them guilty of larceny by stealing beer by the case from trucks and selling it. The judge refused modification despite friends and parents arguing their good reputations.
The Legion meeting in Chicago gathers around 200000 attendees described as stalwart mid life men. The article compares the Legion’s size to the Grand Army of the Republic forty years ago and warns future declines, hoping no new war spawns a successor.
U.S. politician Smith Wildman Brookhart asserts that the government should own all railroads. He warns the public must not remain complacent about this expansion of state control.
In a pyrotechnic Chicago Exposition dated October 9 a fac simile city skyline is to be built and burned for spectators. The piece questions the nation’s debt from railroad deficits and government borrowing and ponders if Mrs. O’Leary’s cow will appear amid water displays.
The piece notes Robert Wright fined $500 for peace disturbance after forcing Max Komen to kiss the blue eagle. It mentions NRA slogans in Virginia and jokes about three letters meaning Now Resume Advertising. It also highlights Nell Rose Atwood in Washington nicknamed Cody or Eagle.
Chicago Daily News warns radical congressmen pressure the White House to print government unsecured greenbacks. The paper argues such demagoguery risks national welfare, contrasting controlled credit inflation with uncontrolled currency expansion and cautioning against epochal monetary disaster.
The article critiques fiat money demands by southern and western politicians aimed at President Roosevelt. It recalls Roosevelt’s Albany address urging a sound currency, stopping deficits, and avoiding inflationary measures that would undermine savings. It questions who decides sound money and warns against printing presses.
The Des Moines Register notes the blue eagle phase of the national recovery program has peaked and will fade. NRA now commonly refers to the entire program as Johnson plans to convert the NRA into a permanent entity. Inflation, permanent codes, farm price lags, and continued relief for winter dominate discussion as the campaign is seen as both a partial success and partial failure.
Federal court records show invoices from the J Walter Thompson Co linking payments for endorsements of Berkey and Gay Co furniture to Mrs Roosevelt and other prominent women. The invoices list amounts for Mrs Graham Fair Vanderbilt and Mrs A J Drexel Biddle and Mrs J B Harriman, while a trip expense for Mrs Calvin Coolidge’s endorsement is noted but no money shown.
In Council Bluffs the Nonpareil notes bankers face a dilemma urging liquidity while also urging more lending via investments. The phrase Heluva fix describes the tension in their financial stance.
An Algona Advance item notes Wallace, now Secretary, faces renewed hostility from critics who previously targeted Secretary Hyde. The piece frames shifting blame between officials and suggests the pain of political scrutiny.
Since August 1 Chief Justice Sullivan leads a crime cleanup in Chicago with 301 persons sent to prison. Five murderers are sentenced to die in the electric chair. Courts enforce businesslike trials and juries are secured quickly, eliminating previous delays.
The Anamosa school board removes penmanship from this year's program. The author argues clear handwriting remains essential for business success and questions funding for less critical “frills” amid rising tax costs.
Johnson states there will be no boycott of firms not joined to the NRA. He cites public resentment, government cost, and tight dollars as reasons. He adds that old customer relationships will persist amid rising prices and scarce money. A synthetic tobacco product has been developed in Germany using nicotine-impregnated paper dyed and scented to imitate tobacco.
The Cherokee Times notes the special session aims to act on the Brookings recommendation for drastic government reorganization but warns prospects are for only an idealistic, costly gesture amid tight finances.
The Webster City Freeman-Journal denounces profiteers as the greatest threat to prosperity. It criticizes businessmen who inflate prices and then claim they are aiding President Roosevelt's economic recovery, urging them to do their part rather than pretend collective effort.
Wayne Goodrich, Donald Gilmore, and Dean Smith of Buck Creek were arrested for stealing about 100 dollars worth of tools from the Greif garage in Hopkinton last June. A confession was obtained and they waived preliminary hearing before Justice J. J. Pentony. Gilmore and Smith posted bonds and were released. Goodrich remained imprisoned yesterday.
Cedar Rapids Paramount will show Bing Crosby in Too Much Harmony for four days starting Saturday October 7. Cast includes Jack Oakie Skeets Gallagher and Ned Sparks in a music filled comedy with girls and dancing. Advance ad notes the picture is more elaborate than vaudeville and packed with laughter.
Farmers of Iowa county revive horse and buggy transport driving to town with stocky Dobbin. Marengo city council plans to re erect hitching racks at three convenient spots as horse traffic increases in the business district. In Rock Rapids Lyon county a Minnesota pair swerved to miss danger and crashed into a telephone pole badly damaging their car and requiring a wrecker.
A gang broke into the Co operative Produce Company at Shenandoah Page County and carried off a safe weighing four men and lifting it free. They loaded the safe into a truck and escaped westward with 75 dollars. The same night an oil station nearby was entered and a second safe opened yielding 15 dollars. Both crimes occurred under street lighting, suggesting boldness by the same gang.
Elmer Taylor of Traer Tama county vouches for a tale of a barn fire near Traer caused by spontaneous combustion in green hay. Firemen fought ten hours. hay and straw moved out to stop spread. Sixty tons burned. hay loss about 300 dollars while building damage tops five dollars. Farm run by Alden and Elmer Ladehoff.
In New Sharon Mahaska county five year olds Jerry and Merilyn Gregson began hitchhiking to explore the state. A passerby rescued them by guiding them home after four miles. In LeMars Plymouth county Civil War veteran John C Ruble 91 died. He rode with Lincoln guard duty and hunted Booth after Lincoln assassination.
Bobby Feese of Albia, Monroe county, found a carrier pigeon with a broken leg near his flock. He nursed the bird at home, repaired its leg, and banded it. The visitor recovers at the Feese home and a note will be placed in the leg band to trace its origin.
Miss Janet Sinclair spent the summer beautifying the Humboldt riverfront with large beds of petunias. Thieves dug up the entire bed by the roots and carried away the plants, turning a once beauty spot into loss for the community.
Donald Soper of Eldora Hardin county returns from a world Boy Scout meeting in Europe where he attended the pope’s audience in Rome with 2 000 scouts. The trip was wonderful and many social functions are arranged for Soper where he will recount his experiences.
The fragment hints at a story of his travels and the mixed feelings of readers toward his position. It lacks clear names, places, or dates, but suggests a travel narrative with mixed public reaction and ongoing commentary.
A joke at Odebolt Snc county during a kit tenball game led to the ball allegedly "plopping" and scattering. Jokesters used painted overripe muskmelons to resemble kittens, with the umpire and a pitcher suspected of organizing the ruse.
A passerby swapped an eight day French silver watch from 1747 with open face works for a violin at Harold Raines jewelry store in Oskaloosa Mahaska county. The engravings show it was shown at many fairs and expositions and it has ticked since before the American Revolution.
In Sheldon Iowa an international kittenball contest saw German team defeat Irish 3 1 in the finals while the Hollanders beat the Scandinavians 9 6 for consolation honors. Burglars entered the R M Cundiff home at Pocahontas while family slept and took thirty dollars from trousers left on the back porch.
The assailant fired at Idella Trout at Eldora in Hardin county. A lead pellet pierced the diaphragm and lodged near the heart, moving with heartbeat and breathing. It later ulcerated into the stomach and passed through the bowel, with Trout surviving the incident.
About thirty Rhode Island Red chickens were stolen from the Ed Beeman farm near Osceola Clarke county not long ago. Sheriff Stan sel conducted a thorough investigation but found no clues. A few days later the Beeman children saw a white hen, their pet, stagger into the yard with others straggling in from a field all weak from starvation.
The Humboldt Republican notes that many claim the average investor loses money, estimating odds at 12 to 1 against the market dabbler. Yet many persist as confident lambs certain they are the 12th man in the game.
A patient reports rapid relief from stomach trouble after four days of treatment at Palmer's Drug Store. They say gas sour stomach and pains disappeared and appetite returned, allowing them to eat without discomfort.
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