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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1907
Page
6
Margaret Sangster argues that cooking is as essential as arithmetic and grammar for girls. She praises home kitchen training, explains bread making as a measured craft, and extols cooking classes for teaching chemistry of cooking and proper meals.
Italian criminologist Professor Lombroso reported in Annales des Sciences Psychiques on two psychic events at Signor Pavarino’s Turin home in 1900. Unseen forces toppled cups, heard rapier clashes, bells pulled, lights moved, a moving Alpine hat caused bruises, and eight months of unexplained disturbances, witnessed by reliable locals.
The report recounts eerie disturbances in Turin houses, with bottles and objects moved and broken by unseen hands. A printer’s family experiences loud wall knockings at night linked to a child, suggesting intelligent action but lacking a rational explanation. Public Opinion notes the investigator’s testimony and inability to explain.
An English gentleman wagers with George IV that geese will outrun turkeys. At sunset on a city road, geese take a slow lead while turkeys roost in a tree as the geese reach the finish, winning the bet.
testimonial from Mrs L Cousins Otterburn Michigan claims Chamberlains Pain Balm quickly eased quinsy and swelling. local ad promotes Hollisters Rocky Mountain Tea with price 385 cents and 35 cents urging cure of indigestion constipation and other ailments. ads credit O H Soetje Topeka Cincinnati papers reflect period health fads and marketing.
The Des Moines Capital offers a one year subscription for $2 during December 21 to 28 1907. New and old subscribers can participate by mail or at post offices and news dealers. The Capital provides full AP wire service coverage and top market reports with swift Iowa and world news.
Mr B W Hall of Waverly Virginia credits Chamberlains Cough Remedy with curing colds quickly and avoiding pneumonia. He says it is the best on the market and has recommended it to friends. For sale by O I Soetje Nebraska State Journal. The note about a girl’s age appears as an aside.
Items mention Dr King New Life Pills price five cents and a druggist O H Soetje, plus a Texas man with forty children drawing presidential attention. A Nebraskan report notes tightening rules on “tight wads” and optimism rising. Health tonics and public sentiment blend in compact clipping.
W C Bott of Star City Indiana extols Chamberlain s Cough Remedy for relief of croup and whooping cough in his children. He notes ten years of use with his family and says the remedy never fails to stop croup quickly. Sold by O H Soetje.
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