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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1906
Page
5
A reflective piece noting Providence grants each at least seventy years to fulfill a life mission, while warning premature death stems from personal fault. The tone urges purpose and responsibility in aging well.
An advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for nervous exhaustion during life changes. It features Mrs Mary L Koehne of Chicago praising the product for dizziness back pain and headaches and claims it can cure female disorders. Mrs Pinkham invites women to write for advice.
A Maine summer scene at a Cape Elizabeth store shows locals debating fame. A newcomer lists celebrated natives from Maine including Longfellow Hamlin Blaine Fessenden Reed. An elder fisherman quips about Josh Pillsbury skin fish, highlighting local character over distant celebrity.
E S Martin argues in Appleton's Magazine that San Francisco stands apart among American cities as a vibrant, self driven literary hub. He notes its independent spirit, geographic isolation, supportive readership, wealth, and history of producing fresh, vigorous writing.
Mrs. Nathaniel Field of St Albans Maine says Dr Williams Pink Pills revived her health after severe anemia symptoms. She describes pale gums headaches vomiting rapid heartbeats and nerve pain ending after starting the pills and noting weight gain from 120 to 154 pounds. The ad claims the pills cure anemia and other ailments and are sold by the Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY 50 cents per box six for 2.50.
Herring salad mixes smoked herring with onion eggs potato parsley salt pepper vinegar and oil. Sardine salad bones and fillets sardines with boiled eggs mustards shallot and vinegar, lettuce and capsicum garnish. Salmon salad uses cooked salmon lemon juice vinegar capers mayonnaise and lettuce with brief chilling. Lobster salad prepares boiled lobster with a yolk dressing of oil vinegar mustard and cayenne for serving.
A veteran domestic worker explains a thrifty method to avoid poverty. She keeps a visible list of essential sundries such as soap starch flour salt and allocates weekly funds to them. This method prevents shortages like an empty saltbox or vinegar jug when money is tight.
Peel wash and grate a large sweet potato. Heat one quart of milk and whisk in a cup of grated potato. Beat four eggs and stir with milk and potatoes. Add butter salt and pepper, bake in an earthen dish 20 minutes until custard firms. Serve hot as a vegetable.
Mr. Rhodes recalled to friends after dinner his first meeting with Beit. He described Beit’s relentless work ethic and his vow to control the diamond out, trading ambition with Rhodes to join forces. The two men chose to join hands and cooperate.
A historic cleaning recipe uses two parts soda one part pumice stone and one part finely powdered salt. Sift the mixture, mix with water, rub on marble to lift stains, then rub with salt and water, wash and dry.
Describes top fruits for jelly making after currants including crabapples quinces grapes blackberries raspberries and peaches. Notes: using fruit before it is fully ripe yields clearer jelly and gentle simmering with no stirring produces finer grain jelly.
North Dakota enacted a law to curb paint adulteration by requiring labels on products. The measure allows buyers to choose mixtures or genuine white lead and linseed oil, insisting only labeled pure white lead must bear that designation. The speaker notes broader applicability to foods and other goods to prevent unwitting purchases.
Sir James Dewar, a leading chemical authority, condemns petrol and gasoline motors for London buses and freight vans citing toxic gases and carbon monoxide. He argues science cannot render petrol combustion harmless and warns the air already suffers from pollution.
A Midwest woman describes crippling bilious colic headaches and stomach catarrh from coffee. She stopped coffee, switched to Postum Food Coffee, and reports rapid health improvement, crediting the product and its makers in Battle Creek Michigan.
The article argues Cream of Tartar and Alum baking powders are chemically pure with no harmful residua. It cites analyses showing Cream of Tartar leaves residue when heated, while Alum fully evaporates during baking. It asserts Alum powder is wholesome, cheaper, and widely used in water purification.
A valley cloud and distant rumble prompt a mountaintop sighting by a stone age man. The fugitive yells Shuecks mistaking a roaming dinosaur for an automobile, then resumes hewing an apartment house from the cliff.
Describes travel en route to Niagara Falls and Georgian Bay regions via the Grand Trunk Railway System. Promotes double track Chicago to Montreal and Niagara Falls routes and offers tourist publications from Geo. W. Vaux at 185 Adams St Chicago.
The article describes the United States army’s new 30 caliber rifle with bullets rotating once every ten inches. Muzzle velocity reaches 2,300 feet per second, equating to about 2,760 rotations per second if rifling holds. Bullet circumference measures .942 inches, yielding a peripheral speed of 2,600 inches per second or 13,000 feet per minute.
Profile of Prof Edward Perkins Clarke newly named principal of a Central New York school for the deaf, inspired to teach the deaf due to both parents being deaf. Also brief ads claim cures for nervous disorders, warnings about tobacco, and baby teething syrup claims.
A brief opinion cites safety and sanitation concerns with burying the dead suggesting cremation as a cleaner alternative.
Claude N. Johnson of Maple Grove Farm Walnut Kan writes that Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills stopped two years of itching eruption after using a doctor failed to cure him. He found relief from the first application and was fully cured after following the Cuticura regimen beginning with the book and purchasing the three products. June 15 1905.
The Seattle chief of police believes prize fighters and their entourages attract criminals. He has ordered all boxers trainers and others connected with the ring to depart the city or seek respectable employment.
The article notes the decline of rural trades as they yield to councils favoring slated roofs and modern materials. It argues that cottagers lose autonomy as thatching and woodcraft fade and as homes shift from wood burning to coal due to redesigned fireplaces.
Putnam faceless dyes prove quick to light and wash fast, color more goods than rivals. Each package priced at 10 cents.
Justus Miles Foreman has left New York for an extended voyage through Australia, New Zealand, and the South Seas. He states the trip is not to seek new literary material but to indulge in travel and play.
A story recounts how Alfred Best befriended many, including one ungrateful man who later fell on hard times. In a private act of aid, Best arranged discreet help through a trusted intermediary to avoid the recipient realizing the gift came from him.
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