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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
1
A collage of 1910s quips and brief items covers naval selloffs and deflated defenses, Wright brothers jabs at French tests, a Chicago shooting incident, Baltimore road tax plans, water waste, legal nudges about swearing, aviation quirks, Zeppelin optimism, marriage in a lion’s den, a million dollar French court award, gendered balloon rules, dove trials, rats with parasites, coffee futures, and water proposals for Columbus era streams.
A Montana brakeman was fined 800 for obtaining a rail pass for his wife and transferring it to another woman. The incident drew attention from his wife when she learned of the scheme.
An advance notice highlights Edison’s new flying machine as nearly as remarkable as his storage battery, which people awaited eagerly as they stood up at night to witness its first triumphal progress past a landmark.
It is reported that Alaska holds enough coal to delay the predicted fuel famine tied to the end of the century. This news brings relief to current coal users worried about a supply crisis in about 90 years.
The New York board of education grapples with a widespread matrimonial crisis crippling schools. Cupid defies modern norms by teaching traditional conjugation of the verb to love, shaping personal and school life in unexpected ways.
The double veil appears in fashionable society as men complain they cannot recognize their women friends. Coincidentally, women in semicivilized Turkey celebrate shedding veils while Western women in the same era adopt them again.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company states that 67 of its 85 principal officers began at the bottom and worked up. The fact supports discussions on employment paths for youth seeking large corporate careers.
A Wakefield Massachusetts woman eating sausage bit a tack, broke a front tooth, and a jury awarded her 2000 dollars in damages. The Boston Herald calls this the New England spirit, noting colonial resistance to tea taxes and this descendant’s staunch stance on sausage attacks.
Dr Wiley told the American Biscuit Makers Association that pure flour bread can wipe out dyspepsia and the divorcee problem by improving domestic happiness. He warned heavy bread and greasy desserts harm health beyond estimate and urged better digestible cooking to improve the world.
Col Henry M Nevins of Red Bank New Jersey won on the first ballot with 454 votes to 254 for Gov Van Sant and 90 for L T Dickason. Mrs Gillman of Roxbury Massachusetts named president of the Woman's Relief Corps Toledo Ohio named March of the Veterans president. details on other officers follow.
In Sonora California a forest fire threatening the famous big tree grove has been brought under control. The great trees are safe though some damage occurred from scorching. A number of dead giants were badly burned and few are expected to die if fall rains arrive early.
Miss Helen Cullen a young wealthy woman who had been ill for some time killed herself by swallowing iodine and leaping from a third story window at the Waldemar apartments in San Francisco She died several hours later in the courtyard below.
Hezekiah Monk, long time public charge and champion pauper, died Thursday at the Herkimer county poor house where he was born and lived all his life.
C. W. Trickett, leader of a reform campaign against illegal liquor sales in Kansas, was fined $500 in Kansas City Kansas city court for accepting an illegal fee.
James 5 Stackpole, Republican candidate for director of the poor and member of Stackpole Brothers publishers of the Lewistown Gazette, died by suicide near Miffintown after being mentally unbalanced.
Pittsburg exposition marks its twentieth annual season as the unique industrial exhibit in the United States opens in Pittsburg Pennsylvania on a Wednesday night kickoff.
The American Olympic team, fresh from London, arrived by yacht at Oyster Bay Monday. President Roosevelt greeted each athlete on the veranda at Sagamore Hill, praising Marathon hero John J. Hayes and Indian competitor Tewanina, and the group toasted the president.
Springfield Illinois grand jury adjourned after returning 17 indictments bringing total to 117 for the session. Four policemen Oscar Dahlkamp Joseph J Terendez George H Ohlman and George W Dawson were indicted for failing to suppress the riot. Sheriff Warner Chief Wilbur Morris and Capt Charles Walsh were commended by the panel while condemning cowardly officials.
Seven summer visitors out of a ten person party drowned when a 35 foot sloop capsized in Penobscot Bay on Tuesday. The victims include Miss Alice Torre and Miss Eleanor Torre of Washington, Miss Kellogg and Lutie Kellogg of Baltimore, Mrs Lucy S Crawley of Philadelphia, Miss Elizabeth G Evans of Mount Holyoke Massachusetts, Jason C Hutchins of Bangor Maine, and Captain Haskell of Deer Isle. Survivors include Prof Edwin B Crawley of the University of Pennsylvania, Henry B Evans and others.
Director Edwin B. Frost of Yerkes observatory announced a new comet found by Prof. D. W. Moorehouse of Drake University Des Moines. The comet showed on three photographic plates from three cameras and has a tail several degrees long in the constellation Camelopardalis.
Edgar A. Whitney once linked to Parkhurst society crusades against police corruption was arrested in New York on two counts of grand larceny.
Frederick Cooper Hewitt died at his Owego home last Sunday leaving more than 4 million dollars to charitable institutions the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University.
In Corwith Iowa Judge Clark and creditor lawyers review 380 claims against the bank. Cashier Standring’s books allegedly show irregularities near seventy thousand dollars. Standring is currently missing.
A Wednesday afternoon fire in Cleveland at the Sag inaw Bay Lumber company yard consumed lumber valued at about 100000 dollars, burning two acres of timber. Fire crews fought the flames but the stock was largely destroyed.
A massive blaze in Rawhide Nevada destroyed the business district after nine am Friday. Dynamite aided demolition to halt flames while rescue efforts and mass relief raised over five thousand dollars for survivors. Two travelers reportedly died in the Ross hotel as martial law was declared.
Mrs. Marshall Field Jr of Chicago married Maldwin Drummond second son of the late Edgar Atheling Drummond at Westminster registry office in a simple ceremony witnessed by the duke of Westminster Craig W Wadsworth and Field’s two sons The couple’s future plans include Eaton prep for the sons and English schooling The union ties to the Field estate fortune of over 100 million dollars to be inherited by Field grandchildren
Police say Chester Jordan of Somerville confessed to killing his wife Honorah Jordan 23. He dismembered the body with a knife and shears, hid the torso in a trunk, and planned to dump the parts from the Harvard steamer, until a hackman alerted authorities.
Charles Oliver Jones, a Hammondsport New York aeronaut, plummeted 500 feet to his death at the Central Maine fair grounds in Waterville Maine watched by 25 060 spectators. Mrs Jones and their child were among the first at the scene. He died about ninety minutes after the accident as the dirigible balloon ascended and the gas bag leaked and sparks from the motor ignited the craft.
A Sunday blaze in central New Orleans destroyed many wholesale houses and plants over three blocks from Bienville and Chartres to Conti and Royal streets. Loss estimated at one to two million dollars as firefighters faced water shortages and a picnic detour delayed response.
More than 3000 Spanish American War veterans converge in Boston for the fifth annual encampment. A delegation from New York arrives by train to represent the Philippines. The opening banquet at the Quincy House honors Walter S. Hale, commander in chief, hosted by the state branch.
New York reports the Trust Company of America has repaid its $25,000,000 loan taken during the 1907 financial panic. The institution, which endured a sensational run, has managed its affairs to clear the debt and stabilize its finances.
C. S. Strong, private bank proprietor and town benefactor in Bowling Green and Prairie Depot, has made an assignment. Bank deposits range from eighty to ninety thousand dollars while assets total about seventy thousand. Assignees bond set at one hundred fifty thousand. Strong’s civic generosity is blamed for the failure.
The International Council of Women organized by American women at the 1893 Chicago fair opened its session in Geneva on Tuesday. It boasts about 7,000,000 members from regions worldwide.
In Philadelphia on Thursday Harry Spiegle was mortally wounded after a struggle for a revolver during a confrontation with his brother George H. Spiegle a recognized lumber merchant.
Professor Aaron S. Watkins received formal nomination by the National Prohibition party before a large Ada audience on Thursday night, signaling his candidacy for the vice presidency.
At the German Methodist Episcopal conference for western states the vote approved amalgamating the German college at Mount Pleasant Iowa and the theological seminary at Warrenton Missouri. The united school will be located at Warrenton Missouri.
James Stanwood Pierce dies at his Tacoma home of apoplexy at age 78. He was a cousin of President Franklin Pierce and a longtime resident of Washington.
Ithaca New York Dean Liberty Bailey of the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell announces he has accepted President Roosevelt's request to head a commission to investigate farmer conditions and propose recommendations for improving rural life.
The Pacific fleet under Rear Admiral Swinburne completed the first stage testing towing torpedo boat destroyers. The flagship West Virginia with Maryland Pennsylvania and Tennessee docked at Honolulu harbor at one o'clock Wednesday afternoon. The fleet’s supply ship Solace anchored offshore as residents witnessed the arrival.
Guthrie Oklahoma district judge A H Huston declared unconstitutional the Oklahoma segregated school law that provided separate school boards and separate schools for Negroes in the new state.
Fire at the Davis, Medary & Platz tannery in La Crosse Wisconsin razed the entire property Tuesday afternoon. Loss estimated between thirty thousand and forty thousand dollars.
Springfield Illinois Roy Young, age 15, pleaded guilty to burglary larceny arson and riot for setting fires to numerous negro homes in the recent race violence. Judge Creighton sent him to the Pontiac reform school. George Richardson, indicted for assault on Mrs Hallam and later exonerated, was ordered released from Bloomington jail.
Daniel Godell killed Edna Kennett, a Loyal hotel checker, after learning she would marry William Witt. He shot her on the street Friday evening, she died within an hour, then wounded himself in a suicide attempt. he survived and was expected to recover.
Frank Pierce Sargent, commissioner general of immigration and former grand master of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, died at the Manor House in Washington on Friday at age 54. He was a prominent figure in U S labor circles for over sixteen years.
Alexander Troup proprietor and editor of the New Haven Union and former Connecticut Democratic national committeeman died of heart failure in the Grand Central Station waiting room Friday evening.
Salt Lake City won the bid to host the forty third Grand Army of the Republic encampment next year defeating Washington by four hundred fifty seven votes to one hundred four.
Thousands of Australians cheered as the American battleships weighed anchor at eight Saturday morning and set course for Albany where a week will be spent coal gathering. The state government hosted Admiral Sperry and senior officers at a luncheon while officers and men enjoyed baseball lacrosse matches and a regatta before departure.
A large part of Sumner Mississippi was burned when a fire started in the H. H. Polk & Co building. The blaze destroyed most of the business section and caused an estimated property loss of $100,000. One man lost his life in the incident.
Chicago multimillionaire Emanuel Mandel dies in Basle Switzerland after an accident at the railway station. He sustained fatal injuries from a fall Thursday night while in transit, according to local reports from the scene.
Rev G M Gray of Whitesboro Texas testifies four years of lumbago pain vanished after using Dean’s Kidney Pills. He reluctantly allows his name to be used to help others with kidney trouble. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A reader recalls eczema recurring for three summers and reports complete cure after using Cuticura Ointment. An Indiana mother credits Cuticura with curing her grandson and notes a Michigan case by Mrs. Sarah E. Lusk of Coldwater with dates in 1907.
A Scotch husband contemplates burial options for his dying wife. She insists on being buried in Craeburn kirk yard despite the cost, preferring rest in her native parish. He offers a cautious three month trial in Aberdeen to appease her.
A Brooklyn five year old, famed as a doll connoisseur, received a real baby. She examined it with a critical eye and, after a pause, praised the infant as nice but remarked that its head was loose, illustrating her unusual judgment.
Discussion on language growth and invention notes the term Ethergram for wireless messages, already used in Great Britain and proposed to designate messages sent by the new method. The piece urges adoption of the neologism.
A Virginia mother credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her health and enabling her to nurse her four month old baby. She says after starting the cereal she recovered strength, tended to her work, and the baby remained in fine condition. The note promotes the cereal as a wholesome, brain and nerve supporting food for children.
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