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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1905
Page
7
In this Bible story segment, Jacob travels to Haran to seek a wife, longs for Rachel, and negotiates with Laban. He agrees to seven years of service in exchange for Rachel, faces deception about Leah, endures years of hardship, and finally is united with Rachel while holding faith in God's promise.
Katherine Morton argues in the Washington Star that a motherless girl labeled the Ugly Duckling by neighbors is hindered by bad posture and nervous habits. The piece urges early help to correct pigeon toes and rounded shoulders before lasting physical and behavioral issues develop.
The coat is a loose lacque garment with slight waist shaping and large pearl buttons. A self material collar faced with contrasting goods and pointed side straps keep the band in place. It is trim, uses little fabric, and can be quickly made.
The remark suggests parents with their own kids may hesitate to advise others on childrearing, implying firsthand experience shapes views and cautions against prescriptive guidance. It frames parenting as nuanced and context dependent.
A columnist recounts Mme D Arcy on how constant worry ages women more than dissipation. She notes a “worrying woman” bears deep lines from stress, while remedies like baths and massages can aid, and urges avoiding worry to stay beautiful.
The Philadelphia Press outlines proper attire and behavior for an afternoon tea. Guests should wear a handsome street costume with matching accessories and leave cards for the hostess and host. guests attending remotely should mail their cards the same day. Hosts and entertainers should maintain formal decorum and greet newcomers succinctly upon entry.
Fashion notes describe new suspender models for swimwear with white serge, blue silk, and linen voile jackets. Colors include Mary land brown and beige straw hats with rose trims. Flying sleeves emerge, some with winged or gathered outer sides and varying fullness.
The Post echoes an editorial caption from the Commoner praising Bryan for boosting Democratic confidence. It notes decades of defeats since 1892 and questions whether Bryan’s leadership has steered the party toward victory or deeper decline.
A free trade paper urges negotiating tariffs with Germany but favors a home grown protectionist approach. It questions pacifying continental policy, noting Congress will decide tariffs to protect American industry amid German market pressures. The stance contrasts free trader theory with protectionist Republican views.
A compilation of editorials and quotes from newspapers debating tariffs, trade, and political rhetoric. Notable points include criticism of Ohio speed laws, optimism about U S trade growth, and responses to Gov Cummins and Secretary Shaw on reciprocity.
A detailed note describes the giant water bug found with a trout on Herkimer county, noting its size up to two and a half inches, brown color, and predatory habits on small fish. The report explains its distribution worldwide, its danger to fish in aquaria, and a North American species with eggs carried by the male on its back, an unusual behavior observed by Country Gentleman.
A historic note on protozoa biology reports Edwin Linton observing an ameba undergo spontaneous death by disintegration. The creature showed conflicting movement and pseudopod formation indicating a fatal internal rearrangement, challenging the idea that such organisms are truly immortal through fission.
The description records a single ameba forming pseudopodia at the anterior end, then a staged binary fission with central thinning and two nearly equal new individuals. One daughter moves normally while the other ceases pseudopodia, swells into a spherical form, and rapidly disintegrates as osmosis expands the remaining granules into an inert mass.
The article discusses utilities to prevent burial alive and describes a coffin pipe with a whistle to the surface. Aimed at cemetery staff, the design lets a buried person signal distress by blowing a locomotive style whistle through the pipe, alerting attendants to a possible error.
Technical writers urge that vehicle wheels lag behind other carriage parts. Experiments with heavy loads show taller and broader wheels reduce road damage, with England recommending tires about 10 1/4 inches wide for an eight ton axle load.
A Texas Panhandle sheriff says his officers will shoot at the first sign of an escape attempt while holding the warrant. He recalls a tale of ramming a warrant down a shotgun muzzle and firing to ensure service before the shot.
A 212 foot wireless telegraph pole in Los Angeles rises above all others by 100 feet and will serve as a station on the Los Angeles to Puget Sound line, drawing significant civic interest due to its height and construction.
The Indian squaw from Coffeyville Kansas has died at age 116. Tradition claims she carried buttermilk to Gen. Andrew Jackson’s camp during the War of 1812, earning the nickname Little Buttercup.
A Sedalia Missouri girl taking singing lessons asked if she could do anything with her voice. The teacher cautiously replied that it might come in handy in case of fire.
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