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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1900
Page
4
Des Moines report details Chairman Weaver coordinating precinct level volunteers to pledge turnout. Township chairs to name five reliable Republican workers per precinct, track who has voted, and ensure full registration lists are current by Oct 25 27 and Nov 3. Also recalls ballot marking rules and notes Frank Rhodes’s stance with the 16 to 1 crowd.
A Washington Star report details the Supreme Court's formal, velvet roped procession and hushed, reverent audience as justices enter, the silent doorman, and the rule that lawyers must wear black. It contrasts court ceremony with vandalized White House zones and notes reporters' limited access.
October 22, 1896 Mr. Bryan declares the Republican claim of prosperity faulty and vows lifelong effort to end the gold standard. He denounces Republican finance and platform as surrendering self government and asserts a commitment to free silver and American dollar for the people.
The ballot this year lists seven tickets including Republican Democratic Social Labor Social Democrat Peoples Prohibitionists and United Christian. Five advance by petition while the first two require only 2 percent of last general election votes to gain a place on the ticket.
Wyoming Journal notes McClure's magazine will publish a vivid diary from Natharine Mullikin Lowry detailing the siege of foreign legations in Pekin. The issue will include illustrated plans and the diary is printed on a new Challenge cylinder press in the Journal office, praised for speed and poster work.
The Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway Co offers daily excursion tickets to Clear Lake Iowa at one fare and a third for round trip until Sept. 30. Clear Lake ranks as a premier Northwest summer resort. A tablet will mark the grave site of Mary Girard wife of Stephen Girard after a wing was torn from Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Hospital.
A speaker laments the loss of a loved one marked by the bee's arrival. The verse evokes sorrow and prompts pity from a listener. The tale centers on romantic despair and a symbolic insect guiding the emotional tone.
A mixed fragment from a 19th or early 20th century issue features quotes on inspiration from a Chicago Post excerpt, rail excursion offers from Monticello to Clear Lake at 3.50 round trip, homeseekers’ sale details on Burlington routes, a Cedar Rapids Route contact, and subscription promos for The Express and The Des Moines Capital. It ends with a gossip note that General De Wet is referenced in Transvaal dispatches.
An ad-like fragment promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a cure for itching piles and various injuries with a 25 cent price and guaranteed cure. It also mentions Helen Keller entering Radcliffe College and finding geometry and algebra hard yet excelling in languages.
John Oliver recalls a frightening illness with yellow skin and weakness. Three doctors gave up, but Electric Bitters produced a marked improvement after three weeks, turning him into a well man who says the remedy spared him from the grave. Sold for 50 cents at Prader's drug store.
Annie F. Springer of Philadelphia credits Dr King’s New Discovery with curing a years long hacking cough. She reports chest pain relief and improved sleep after failed remedies. The advertisement promises cures for throat chest and lungs with prices and a free trial at Prader’s drug store.
An array of patent medicine pitches promotes DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for burns eczema and wounds, Raven Food for poultry, Kadol or Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for indigestion and stomach trouble, and Dr King’s New Wife Pills. The items tout cures and testimonials and name D C Prader W H Lewis and Paul Blanchot with local distribution in Monticello Iowa and Dakar Senegal.
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