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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1898
Page
7
A novel machine combines bicycle and rowing motion for full body training. The row cycle uses car like gear and can change settings mid motion, enabling winter road and track work without hands leaving the apparatus. James A. Ten Eyck endorses its potential for indoor training.
Wolf von Schierbrand reports from Berlin on the swift rise of bicycles in Germany, with judges, generals, and professors riding publicly. Women of high society increasingly cycle, skirts debated, bloomers common in races, and American bikes gaining despite German production downturns.
Instructions from L. A. W. Bulletin describe turning a bicycle to rest on its saddle and handlebars. Spread paper to protect floor, then stand to the side, lean over the top tube, and grip the front forks and rear stays before lifting the machine and lowering the top tube to rest safely.
A German forestry authority reports the discovery of Philotocae electrica in India. Its leaves shock touch, affect magnetic needles up to 70 feet away, vary with time and weather, and deter birds and insects from perching.
The Rochester Democrat urges riders to dismount on steep grades and walk when needed to avoid heart strain. It criticizes hot day bravado and overexertion, praising prudent cycling and condemning hot weather vanity. It compares the bicycle to a useful tool that can misbehave if misused.
A naval officer recalls Asiatic cholera aboard the U S S Bennington at Honolulu in 1895. He credits calm nerve and disciplined quarantine for the crew's survival after one death and a three month island-wide health quarantine.
A Chicago Inter Ocean note describes spiraling tape over a tire puncture after a plug fix. It advises leaving the plug slightly protruding and wrapping tape on both sides to secure without pressing the plug flat, using a surgeon like method to seal.
A Birmingham company is forming to build a cycle railway modeled on a switchback concept. The venture aims to introduce a novelty transport line to connect riders along a defined route as plans develop.
The article notes early American secret service use in the Revolutionary War with agents in British camps and Lafayette's sympathetic ink from France. Washington proposed margins written in ink for hidden messages, after blank letters. It cites a 30 000 dollar annual congressional appropriation for secret service and mentions postwar activity and a Gettys era incident with Gen Butler paying for a hand organ and monkey to aid disguise.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat cited officer remarks showing men can adapt to missing grooming items. An army officer described shaving seated on a camp stool or cot without a mirror, claiming it is more comfortable and safer, and asserting he can shave as easily in a tent as at a tensorial table.
A locomotive requires about 45 gallons of water for every mile it travels.
Dotty questions halos worn by angels in a church book. Her mother explains angels wear halos all the time, even at home and while they sleep, wondering if removing them would break them. The Detroit Free Press highlights a child’s curious take on sacred imagery.
In cross examination a lawyer insinuates the witness linked to the prisoner by claiming evening visits at the prisoner's house. The witness confirms. the lawyer probes the nature of any business and the answer reveals they were courting the prisoner's daughter.
Asa Robinson returned to Mt Sterling Illinois after Civil War service with the 83d Pennsylvania Volunteers. He suffered rheumatism and sciatica until three years ago when he used Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, taking three boxes and reporting marked improvement and lasting relief. He credits the pills with restoring his health and enabling him to work again.
A brief dialogue exchange from Town Topics and Pick-Me-Up features a character asserting knowledge of her own mind and another replying with a cheerful agreement. An ad-style line promotes Hale's Honey of Horehound and Pike's Toothache Drops as a cure in one minute.
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