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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1899
Page
4
A Baltimore businessman, visiting New York, loses his glass eye and endures a prank that backfires. A friend hides the eye in the overcoat pocket, pawns the coat for ten dollars, and a frantic telegram from Mr. X follows. The eye is later found in the coat’s inside pocket after a night of solitary confinement.
A New Orleans Times-Democrat piece notes unusual quirks in distilling with examples. An expert cites inexplicable output changes in a dis tillery and the failed attempt to duplicate, plus regional limits where Bourbon flourishes only east of Kentucky and inland rye fails west of the Alleghanies. A Kentucky colonel reportedly avoids rye as harmful as water.
An exchange ends with a misidentification as Mars. The Earth speaker corrects the caller that Earth is not Mars and notes the fourth planet from the sun is Mercury. The Chicago Tribune references the Earth Mars miscommunication.
The Atchison Globe argues that beliefs like lightning rods offered false protection and that society still clings to other goofy notions. It urges readers to shed prejudice and accept common sense instead of popular but misguided ideas.
A collage of snippet quotes shows satirical takes on illness engagement breaking and social pretension. The selections cite Washington Star Detroit Journal Kansas City Independent and Little Falls Herald with wry lines about affluence pride and social graces. The tone is breezy and lampooning.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway offers round trip excursion tickets to Omaha for nine dollars every Tuesday and Thursday until October 31. Tickets are valid for five days. Also advertised are Linn county farms for sale at 42 to 50 dollars per acre near markets, via H. M. Troy of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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