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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1896
Page
1
An 1890s column blends satire on freckles and fashion with headlines on bicycles aboard yachts and wealthy heiresses like Gertrude Vanderbilt. It notes bicycle popularity, urban life, elevator sarcasm about actresses, aeronaut fatalities, and aging myths, plus mississippi snag boat work and dangerous navigation.
The article notes a 20 percent drop in the number of US paper factories over 15 years while production rose 40 percent. Current US mill capacity is 300000 tons annually with over $100 million invested across about 700 factories and a workforce larger than the standing army. New York and Massachusetts lead in output, and wood is increasingly used in paper making.
Reports say Captain Josuha Stotumbe of Boston navigated the schooner Alameda Spray from Boston to Apia Samoa with no assistance. The voyage, if true, would crown him among the era’s bravest seamen amid the Horn and Pacific perils from Valparaiso to Honolulu.
The week saw grain stocks in the United States at Wheat 46,495,000 and Corn 18,781,000 bushels with smaller oats rye and barley totals. Business failures reached 315 for the seven days ending the 11th, while clearing houses reported $759,020,224 in exchanges. A Goshen Indiana express train fire consumed money cars. Polk Wells died in Anamosa prison. Bryan toured the south and east. Delegates and governors visited McKinley at Canton. Charles Hamilton was hanged in Paris Arkansas. Colorado’s People’s Party nominated Morton S. Bailey. National Letter Carriers elected J. N. Parsons. A drowning occurred near Dubuque and Burke Cochran campaigned for sound money in Chicago. A Las Vegas shooting suicide occurred. miners near Victor faced deaths by poisoning. Louisville politics noted sound money nominees. Eureka bridge collapse killed four. Ship Kinsey lynched near Lovett, Georgia for assault. Congressional nominations listed for several districts across Alabama Louisiana Kentucky.
A violent storm damages shipping and shore properties along the New England coast. Garret A Hobart endorses the gold standard and protection. Died: Rev William M Swindells at 54 in Ocean Grove NJ. J G Greenleaf nominated for NH governor. Comedian James Lewis dies at 58 in New York. Died: Rev H A Delano at 43 in Leicester MA. Francis J Child dies at 71 in Boston. Silas Huffman dies near Far Hills NJ. Mrs Henry Ward Beecher ill with whooping cough in Brooklyn. Baseball league standings list teams by week ending 13th. Ocean wreck deaths include Henry Wardford and four sons near Belle Isle. Lightning kills W C Bowers in Cooperstown NM and W A Kerman Jr in Utica NY. Fire destroys Delaware oil works in Trainer PA valued at 100000. Red Cross rep Clara Parton arrives in New York from Armenian troubles.
Reports note fatalities from domestic violence in Ashtabula and Richmond, a centenarian death in Milwaukee, and a fatal quarrel in St. Augustine. Political events include unions and conventions in Louisville, Des Moines, Denver, and Milwaukee. bank closures in New Orleans. and a Christian Endeavor convention set for San Francisco in July 1897.
Reports from Digby New York mention Peter Wheeler hanged for the murder of Annie Nemp ton aged 16 at Bear River in January. Cuba troops suffer yellow fever while Mata moros consul John B. Gorman dies in Mexico. Fram arrives at Christiania with Nansen welcomed aboard. Havana executes 12 insurgent incendiaries. Athens sentences 16 Greek officers for Cretan rebellion. Progreso theater destroyed in Monterey Mexico. A Paris tornado damages property, five dead and over 50 injured. Eliza Dutcher and son 11 murdered at Moneton Newfoundland. Fort Palamidi executes 15 brigands. Cavite conspirators shot. 51 insur gents shot in Havana per Weyler. Belgrade uncovers plot to dethrone King Alexander.
Maine voted Republican by a 45 000 to 50 000 margin with Llewellyn Powers elected governor and Reed Dingley Milliken and Boutelle reelected to Congress. Republicans won every county 140 of 151 representatives and all senators. Other items include bank failure in New Whatcom and major fires in Little Rock Kansas City Milwaukee and Philadelphia.
Charles Emory Smith of the Philadelphia Press addresses the Ohio Republican Editorial Association in Canton. Maj. McKinley thanks him and praises the press, urging honest money, public integrity, and unity with conservative allies as the campaign shifts into high gear.
A compilation of editorials and letters from Chicago to Boston and Philadelphia on Vermont’s voting results. Calls for sound money victory and a Republican sweep are paired with observations on Bryan’s campaign and the free silver movement.
Leslie's Weekly commends Maj. McKinleys letter of acceptance as clear and forceful. It contrasts his stance with the Democratic candidate and urges reading by every American voter. The piece argues free silver and related policies threaten national prosperity and honors McKinleys Chicago platform as vital to restoration.
A large Pennsylvania Republican delegation visited Maj. McKinley in Canton on September 11. He praised Abraham Lincoln, defended tariff policy, and urged unity under protection to labor and home industry ahead of the November election.
The article notes mud wasps build nests to avoid rain and predators and carry many parasites. It describes the eye of a fly as giving full horizon awareness aiding flight. It mentions the cheese fly laying about 250 eggs in cheese and wasps robbing bees. It explains the mosquito bite causes itching due to injected acrid juice.
An OCR fragment lists a Texas book offer Address D J Price Palestine Texas seven cents postage for a 200 page illustrated book on Texas. The text weaves quotes and notices about theater and cures, noting McVicker’s Theater in Chicago and Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer with free trial offer. The patchwork item blends ad copy and unrelated quotes from periodicals.
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