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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1911
Page
10
The piece riffs on contemporary quirks and headlines from diverse sources. It notes air travel, social behavior, humor in Punchs anniversary, crime, technology, aviation as peacemaker, and a dog bite incident as it goes to press. It reads as a collage of witty observations and short items.
Inventor Bell proposes a furnace that can cool a home, but the market already offers cooling-focused devices. The remark hints at a crowded field where such cooling technology is common.
City transit planners test megaphones for riders to signal stops on routes lacking bell warnings. Trials gauge effectiveness in guiding alighting at designated stations and improving boarding discipline.
A Pennsylvanian man attempted a two minute underwater stunt but stayed submerged for over two hours. He survived, proving the wager was reckless and life threatening rather than a bold feat.
A Chicagoan attempts to form a Society to honor old maids but finds few women willing to admit they are eligible for membership, reflecting social attitudes toward aged single women in the city.
A man lost in the clouds may be an energetic aviator pursuing altitude records rather than a dreamer. The line suggests bold pilots push to set new heights, challenging limits and redefining what is possible in flight.
From New York comes the tale of a man bitten by an enraged oyster. It remains for Winsted Conn to spring something about a man eating snail.
A New Jersey man bitten by a fly has developed blood poisoning. The report implies a dubious or humorous note about the fly's envy of the famed Jersey skeeter.
A New York woman received alimony awarded by her third husband upon marrying her fourth. The ruling ends a potential sequence of marriages and dissolves prospects of further matrimonial arrangements.
A newspaper-style note laments the need for a car that balks when the driver stops respecting it. The concept reflects concerns about maintenance, safety, and responsible vehicle use among motorists.
A French observer claims Americans are ignorant about aviation matters while noting the United States has suffered the full quota of aviator deaths.
Harvard physician Doctor Sargent asserts trousers outperform skirts in sitting standing walking and running. He also claims trousers strike a match faster than a block, highlighting practical advantages of pants over skirts.
A London man attempted to take his own life after his wife refused to speak. The piece hints at the envy of other men at his apparently happy home, implying social judgments about marriage and sentiment.
After testing, the dog police units in New York will stay on the force despite a tendency toward snap judgments. The assessment found value in their service and determined retention is warranted.
A Louisiana resident attempted to drown himself but could not sink due to his weight. He concluded he is not wanted in the world and has decided to live.
Monroe county produced 2,214,104 tons of coal in the year ending June 30, 1911, leading Iowa counties. Polk, Apanoose, and Mahaska followed with 1,668,291, 859,385, and 55,4385 tons respectively. State mine output totaled 7,590,935 tons, up from 7,222,480 in 1910 and 7,846,253 in 1909.
George A. Shultz a widower living on a small farm was killed by a shotgun blast at his home. W A Sydness who boarded with him said he woke to the gun report and saw a body in the kitchen. Sydness ran to an upstairs window and cried to a neighbor, who alerted Sheriff Al Cullen. Authorities do not accept suicide. Sydness has a family at Glen Flora Wisconsin.
Gov. B. F. Carroll gave the welcome address at the opening of the Army of the Tennessee reunion in Council Bluffs. Surviving members of the Iowa commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Fourth Iowa infantry, Gen. Grenville M. Dodge's first regiment, and Dodge's Second Iowa battery join the event.
Oskaloosa Loams police arrested Joe Wilson Mike Sullivan and John Ray charged with breaking into the storage house of Clarence Vermillion a dealer in explosives. A cache was found in nearby woods containing large quantities of dynamite nitro glycerine and caps likely for safe blowing operations.
Humboldt county farmer Humboldt John Kerker sues T. W. Rogers for 5000 dollars claiming injuries from a runaway alleged to have been caused by Rogers automobile. The case cites Rogers as a Humboldt business man.
Des Moines will host a new bakery built by W. M. Campbell of Pittsburg Pennsylvania. The plant with building and machinery is valued at about $60,000 and is planned to begin operation on January 1.
Burglars stole 160 dollars worth of hardware at J.A. Marsh store in Ainsworth. Two men were captured at Fairfield by Sheriff Shan Campbell with the stolen goods on them.
At a Toledo booster club meeting it was announced an opera house costing 15000 dollars will be erected in town. The gift comes from Mrs. Ella W. Weitling of Worcester New York, a former Toledo resident.
Mr and Mrs John O D Moore celebrated sixty two years of marriage as longtime residents of the township. Both are reported to be in their eighty third year and the couple were among the first to settle in the area.
The state prosecutes Elvin Brown for murder after he shot and killed Othea Brown on Labor Day. The trial opened in district court with Brown charged in connection to the death.
Ben Marks of Council Bluffs was indicted by a federal grand jury over ties to the Mabrasy gang but was dismissed by Judge Moe Pherson. His associates were exonerated in the same ruling.
Trevis P Anda is on trial for the murder of fisherman Rollie Swales after a April quarrel over a net ownership led to a fatal fight.
Boone Mrs A Standley, 44, resident here, is cutting her third set after fifteen years with false teeth. A doctor she consulted believes she may grow a full set.
Eugene Ely visiting his Davenport parents made two passenger flights before 10 000 spectators with Pet Peterson and Mrs Ely aboard as passengers.
An assortment of six rifles and steel jacketed ammunition was taken from the negro miners at Ogden by George H. Woodson of Buxton, a negro attorney, at the request of Governor B F Carroll. The arrival of the artillery stirred tension between white and Negro miners.
The Iowa Power hydro plant on the Skunk River sent electric current to Fairfield last week for six hours. All residential areas received power while commercial establishments remained unpowered during the inaugural supply.
Mount Pleasant residents vote Tuesday October 24 on creating a sanitary sewer district along Snipe Run valley and on building a terminal sewage disposal plant with a $30,000 expenditure placed before electors.
Des Moines reports the Home for the Aged sold a quarter section near Grimes Indiana to John S. Murrow executor for the David B. Murrow estate. The sale price was 22000 dollars, land willed to the home by David Murrow.
Bonaparte dedicated a new public park with a Saturday ceremony drawing a large crowd. Principal speakers were Hon. Lafe Young of Des Moines and Hon. S. F. E. Irish of this city.
In Emmetsburg the coroner's jury concluded the shooting of farmer Geo A Shultz was accidental. They found no evidence of foul play or any motive for self harm and returned a verdict accordingly.
An unidentified man was killed in Dewitt by a Chicago and North Western train. He appeared well dressed and about 35 years old, with Swedish or German descent.
A soft track wrecked a Rock Island freight train at Plymouth Junction, blocking traffic for 12 hours. An extra was sent from Mason City to transfer passengers.
A Western engine struck several freight cars at Sherman Junction in Charles City. Brakeman Ray Allen, riding on the pilot, sustained severe injuries.
Mrs Woith A Newberry of Argyle Iowa died at eighty after living sixty years in Lee County. She was one of the oldest residents in the area and passed away near Keokuk.
Freight train No 95 on the Iowa Central wrecked near Rockwell. Five cars were ditched and a mile of track torn up, but no one was hurt.
In Hampton the lightest city vote ever recorded defeated the proposition for an electric light plant by more than fifty votes. The result ends a long campaign by supporters and opponents in the city.
Burglars broke into two grocery shops a drug store and a dry goods store in Charles City. The total value of money and merchandise taken is not known.
Cedar Rapids reports Cromwell Bowen of Des Moines elected illustrious grand master by the grand council of Royal and Select Masters during a recent ses sion in Des Moines.
Keokuk physician Dr. Victor B. Ochiltree died after an apoplectic stroke while visiting a patient. He was a prominent local figure and practitioner in the community.
Mason City residents reject the bond proposal to fund a new school house totaling 175000 dollars. The vote outcome ends the plan for the municipal project and reallocates focus to other funding options.
J W A Goeldner fell into a well on his farm during repairs near here and was drowned. The accident emphasizes dangers of farm maintenance and loss of a local resident.
The body of Marion B. Stoker, a well known traveling man from Garner Iowa, was found on Rock Island tracks near Cedar Rapids with the head severed from the body.
Keokuk resident Louis Orifan, a popcorn vender, shot Freeda Sweeney at her home. He says he was displaying a revolver which discharged accidentally.
A. A. West secretary of the Iowa City Auto club guides the Drum brothers on a River-to-River route through Iowa. The brothers map a path for the Sunset Trail toward the Pacific Coast.
The contract for the new St. Joseph's Catholic church to be built in Davenport was awarded. The church will cost about $40,000 and construction will begin soon.
The Italian expeditionary force lands at Tripoli aboard fast transports, is greeted with enthusiasm, and shells the countryside to deter Turkish attacks. Derna is bombarded with hospitals and barracks damaged and casualties reported. Berlin reports suggest an armistice is near through German mediation.
A credible report says Guaymas a 30 000 population town on the Gulf of California in Sonora has been wiped out by a cloudburst and tidal wave. Southern Pacific offices say they cannot reach Guaymas by wire and deny any disaster. The town hosts a sizable American colony.
Papers were served on Nathan Allen founder of the leather trust in New York in a suit for more than 200000 brought by Mrs Helen Dwelle Jen kins who toured Europe with him in 1909 and received jewels. Allen had pleaded guilty to smuggling indictments last week and was fined 12000 by Judge Kough.
William Lee twenty two, who confesses to killing his mother father and brother, goes on trial in Boonville Indiana. He says the motive was his parents refusal to finance his courtship to seventeen year old Nina Taylor.
In St. Paul Minnesota the Women of St. Paul collected over 15000 during their annual tag day to fund the tuberculosis campaign.
Edward Farrell, manager of the James Butler stores, part of one of New York City’s largest retail grocers, must pay a $500 fine for possessing a large quantity of impure condensed milk.
Twenty one persons were injured when a Seaboard Air Line passenger train from Helena to Columbus was partially derailed three miles east of Cordele, Georgia.
Senate committee hearing on the Lorimer election resumes in Chicago. Peffers, Hopkins aide, names five Republican lawmakers he says were bribed or offered money to switch votes, including Downing, McCormick, Burgett, Lawrence, and Fieldstock. McCormick recalls being offered 2500 dollars to change his vote and refusing.
In Caruthersville Missouri a mob of 75 masked men pulled prisoners from the city jail and lynched A B Richardson and Ben Woods. Richardson was found shot and dumped in the Mississippi River. Woods is believed to have suffered the same fate after an assault on two white women.
President Taft told Bellingham that the Panama Canal would be usable on July 1 1913 and called it the greatest constructive work since the Christian era. He warned that only a major untoward event could delay the opening and hinted ships might cross then.
Kansas City aviator C P Rodgers landed at Swope Park after 84 miles from Marshall Mo reaching 1483 miles since leaving New York and nearing the halfway point of his cross country journey destined to the west coast.
In Galesburg a bomb was hurled at the home of W P Drew a Knox College professor. It missed an open window and broke seven windows tearing a hole in the side porch. The family slept upstairs unharmed. Drew helped prosecute illegal liquor selling and anti saloon workers suspect the act aimed to intimidate him.
The Interstate Commerce Commission has begun an inquiry into railroad control of dock facilities along the Gulf of Mexico the Mississippi River and the Atlantic coast seeking to determine how rail lines manage port operations and access.
Heavy landslides from the Palisades two miles north of Highland station halted traffic on the West Shore railroad for a long stretch and disrupted service across the line.
Jury selection begins in Los Angeles with 123 veniremen examined for the McNamara murder trial tied to the Los Angeles Times explosion. Indications favor James B. McNamara to face trial first as Clarence Darrow contends the venue is unacceptable to the defense.
Senator Isaac Stephenson's 1908 nomination campaign saw about $1,800 paid out without accounting. U S Attorney George H. Gordon testified he received $1,800 from the Stephenson fund while serving as Chicago Northwestern attorney at La Crosse. D E Riordan of Ashland testified he spent $3,200 of the fund.
The Chicago board of trade announced that after November 1 the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad will cancel a seven cent per hundred pound rate from Chicago to St Louis and East St Louis on grain carloads. The rate, in effect since August 19, applied to milled or malted grain from Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota and North and South Dakota. From November 1 the rate to St Louis via this line will match other lines at seven and a half cents for malt and eight cents for other grain products.
Louisville authorities prepare to sentence Frank M. Stan ley a man described as near the real name of a dapper impersonator. He used the mails to defraud by posing as officers of a $10,000,000 Kansas City lumber company and its Kentucky agent at Wickliffe. He obtained about $20,000 in personal property on the company’s high rating.
A telegram to Dr. Harvey W. Wiley asks if it is legal and proper to offer money to public officials as a reward. Wiley states he will consider the query and reveal what is being driven at as he reviews the unripe orange controversy before the department.
The village of Sho bonier north of Centralia, housing about 1 000 residents, was removed from the map after a special election deciding whether to retain the corporation.
Officers and friends began a systematic search in Sterling Kansas for Ralph Johnson a professor of mathematics at Sterling High School who disappeared on October 7 and is the subject of a local investigation.
Michael Kiger aged forty was slain with his revolver by Charles Foxworthy who fled to Indiana. Foxworthy surrendered and is jailed in Covington Indiana. The nine teen Bessie King, related to the King family, had worked at the Foxworthy home. Mrs. Foxworthy took her two children toward North Dakota but was stopped at Champaign where her husband abducted the children.
Rebels control Wu Chang Hankow and Han Yang with arsenals iron works captured. Sun Yat Sen likely to become president while Nanking and Changsha rumored to revolt. Imperial edicts call up troops. mutinies and bank seizures weaken the Manchu state. Foreign missions evacuate as foreigners protected.
Louisville probate reveals John Krauth a pork packer left his widow $40 000 for life and divided the remainder into four shares for two daughters and a grandson. One son Reginald is to have his share held in trust until divorce while John J. Krauth receives only $1 amid accusations the sons’ wives were blamed for the rift.
John Young arrested by Neenah police on train robbery charges was brought to Fargo and sentenced to fifteen years at hard labor in the North Dakota state penitentiary.
A north bound Hocking Valley freight train struck a handcar used by trackmen in Upper Sandusky Ohio killing three workers and injuring several others.
William Dagner known as Dakota John Dietz fortified himself in a haystack while contesting property. He was arrested in Bottineau North Dakota on a contempt of court charge for violating a court order.
Felix Barron a deaf mute forty years old in Muskegon Michigan fired bullets into his face and is thought to die. The incident reflects a tragic suicide attempt amid isolation. Authorities report the circumstances as a lone self inflicted act.
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