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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1902
Page
8
A college president, famed for a trim yacht on the River Thames, capsized while at sea and lost his hat. A student offered his own headgear and humor broke the tension as the bald leader laughed at the unlikely aid amid the mishap.
An advertisement touts Dr Schiffmann's Asthma Cure for asthma hay fever and bronchitis with instant relief and promised free sample packages via druggists or by mail. Includes testimonials and various unrelated quips and ads from the period.
An old drug advertisement promises a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. It notes all druggists will refund the purchase if the remedy fails and lists the price as 25 cents.
A Washington official’s son, a second lieutenant at Columbus Barracks Ohio, is home briefly. The Washington Star notes many recruits are being trained there. A sentinel asked to repeat orders replies walking post must be alert and keep out disreputable people except officers wives and families. Another sentinel adds children may not leave post without mothers or nurses.
Morenci Michigan letter from J. S. Whitehead praises Dodd's Kidney Pills for kidney pain and mobility loss. He recalls severe suffering and months of use before improvement, urging others to seek the remedy.
Des Moines Iowa reports a state fair with receipts $10 000 higher than last year and strong turnout at the new stock pavilion. President Roosevelt will tour Iowa September 29 30 with Cortelyou enforcing a strict schedule. Farm machinery prices are rising 5 to 25 percent. Hereford cattle sale reinforces Iowa markets.
A seven room concrete foundation house can be erected for 1600 dollars. Ground plan 22 by 30 feet with a tower reception area. Details include parlor kitchens parlors and bedrooms with pine interiors, cedar shingles, and gas and furnace piping.
Des Moines based Agar Packing employee M F Mullins is billed as the world champion butcher, defending the belt nine times with a 1 400 pound steer record of four minutes and five seconds set 17 years ago. Contests occur in multiple cities with eight minute kill requirements. a Sioux City rival Larry Noon may challenge Mullins soon. Also reported are three Assyrian emigrant boys arrested near Wort Dodge, tried at Clarion, and returning home, amid smuggling investigations.
Cedar Falls farmers storm Cedar Valley Telephone, demanding phones as staff shortages bite. One man camps in the office to secure service. Manager Bennett offers two dollars a day to work as a lineman, convincing the man the supply shortage claim is true.
The Haut-Parleur is described as a loud talking phone enabling hands free, distant talk in offices ships and factories. It lets the speaker command engines or coordinate with workers while a phonographic attachment can record conversations.
A new haut parlour device lets a whole gathering listen together with clear voice. It eliminates the hazy shuffling common to telephones and phonographs, delivering unified sound for all attendees.
On August 1, 1881 William IV and Queen Adelaide formally opened the London Bridge with ceremony. The royal procession from Buckingham Palace to Somerset House proceeded by barge, with a grand pavilion near Old Fishmongers Hall. The king praised the bridge to two committee members, noting it the grandest spectacle seen.
Mrs M K Bousch of Richmond and Miss Pearl Bouseh recount dramatic improvements after using Peruna for catarrh. The ad markets Peruna as the era’s catarrh remedy and invites readers to request Dr Hartman’s free health book and personal advice.
The excerpt describes the day passing from dawn to night as a sequence of garments: a gray dawn bathes in dew, morning arrives in gold, the day wears a smiling, satisfied presence, and ends in somber evening dress wrapped in night. The moral notes that even the day has a close.
Travelers last or west will find low fares with full travel facilities. Colored porters attend to passengers, with special care for ladies and children. Modern day coaches sleeping cars and dining service of highest order. Meals from 35 cents to 1.00, a la carte available. No excess fare on any train. Read tickets read via the Nickel Plate Road.
A Connecticut woman's diary entry from 1700 notes a roast and pork dinner with Dr SB- carving and making a quip about Mother Eve's makeup, followed by a social aside from Sister Patty. The fragment references Living Church topics and a proverb about first sight and death.
The Mobile and Ohio Railroad will begin dining car service on Sunday August Flat, shortening the trip between the city and St. Louis via Meridian. The cars offer à la carte meals, allow payment per order, and promise comfortable interiors with electric lighting and fans. The service aims to be convenient and near cost, not profit oriented.
Metals in soil gradually revert to compounds as iron tin copper silver and lead form oxides sulphides and carbonates under saline water. Gold and platinum disappear through friction and mechanical action, while deposits accumulate for future centuries.
Experiments in France explore using rolled aluminum sheets as book and writing paper substitutes. Sheets four thousandths of an inch thick weigh less than paper, resist oxidation, are fire and water proof, and worm resistant with appropriate machinery to make them thinner.
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