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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1912
Page
8
A remote 1912 government crop estimate prompts disbelief as farmers doubt the optimism of official projections. Analysts note inflated yields or miscalculations, challenging credibility of the opulent report.
The Des Moines crop survey shows the seven state corn belt totaling 1.779 billion bushels with Iowa at 384 million. Wheat and other grains show record regional yields, rail car shortages loom, and Iowa farm values rise amid strong banking profits and rising university enrollment.
Indianapolis detectives increasingly rely on fingerprinting, following New York practices. Captain Holtz cites burglar clearances and glove use by criminals, while Bertillon clerk Bert Perrott emphasizes the need for clear prints. The process links现场 crime scenes to on-file records for positive identifications.
Mrs Joseph Collins of Harrison receives a post card claiming her husband died in Laurel Hill tuberculosis hospital and must claim his body at once. The unsigned card postmarked Harrison leads police to probe who played the prank amid shock and confusion. In Warsaw footpads adopt a sly theft by kissing the wife from a cart while accomplices rob the provisions, leaving the husband with only the cart.
In the Church of Sts. John and Paul a Gothic sarcophagus on the opposite side of the high altar holds a mummified body, head to the right, with a detached foot. Identified as Andrea Morosini, famed warrior and part of a family that produced four doges of Venice, the remains were left undisturbed.
New York brokers recall Blind Charley the beggar who built a $100000 hoard from passing appreciation and donations. After a Coney Island outing with a boy, he vanished, exposing traders who never invested a dime with the man who funded his own fortune.
Four year old son of John Hills in La Crosse Wisconsin fell into the self feeder of his father's threshing machine. He was ground to pieces and his remains were dug out in small fragments.
Bloomington Michigan reports a reduced honey crop statewide as weather kept bees lazy. The drought and cooler wet season hindered flowering, affecting production across major apiaries and farmers relying on honey as a key commodity.
A dynamite blast touched off by youths chased from a Church of Christ grounds shattered the building and interrupted a meeting in Huntington. No further details on casualties or motive were provided.
The intact tomb will be exhibited to the public as soon as the restoration of the church is completed.
A septuagenarian roller skates through Tacoma streets at a neck breaking pace drawing yawns from late clerks. He says skating keeps him healthy and appetites strong while noting he once skated in Holland and that a doctor approves the activity.
Warden Johnston has 32 inmates examined by eye and ear specialists to improve physical conditions. Jacob Oppenheimer known as the Hyena, under death sentence, will get glasses. Another prisoner will receive an artificial eye to boost self respect and aid reform efforts.
New York religious publications say church attendance is unusually low this summer. Fifth and Madison avenues and Trinity on Broadway report sparse congregations with only twenty six at a wealthy up town church and forty at another, despite visitors.
The Southern Pacific Railway asked the United States government to intervene in Mexico to protect railway property as rebels led by General Salazar gather near Cananea. 1,200 Mexican federal troops were moved into Mexican territory via Juarez to Nogales to deter disruption along the border.
Hartford Sept 14 Democratic state convention enthusiastically nominated Simeon W Baldwin for governor and listed the rest of the ticket including Lieutenant Governor Lyman Tingler Albert W Phillips Secretary of State I B Robert Treasurer Daniel P Dunn Controller Henry Mc Manus Charles T Coyle M B Cary Oscar O Tanner W B Perry Jr and John Fisk as presidential electors set for the slate.
The survey party working between Alaska and Yukon arrived after mapping the 142d meridian from the Pacific to the Arctic. In Hillsville, Lloyd and Clare Allen were sentenced to execution on November 22 for murder in the first degree. In Atlanta, union pressmen’s strike against three papers ended with workers returning to work. A slight wage increase was reported.
Washington reports Representative Frank Buchanan of Illinois faces charges to be filed with a senate judiciary subcommittee by Walter Drew of the National Directors Association. The Chicago resident allegedly aided labor violence in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and in the past led the International Association of Structural Bridge and Iron Workers with J. J. McNamara, now imprisoned for Los Angeles dynamiting cases.
A slight earthquake shock was felt in San Francisco with no damage or excitement reported. Minor tremors reached San Jose about fifty miles away as residents noted the light vibrations. The Archbishop of Lyons Cardinal Peter Hercules Collulio died after a long illness in Lyons France.
The Kamerun of the Hamburg American line was wrecked Wednesday off the west coast of Africa. The crew, all of whom were rescued, has been taken to Monrovia, Liberia.
One man died and seven were injured when a work train collided with a freight train on the West Virginia division near Neffs Cumberland Maryland on Wednesday.
Lieut. Siebert, an aviator attached to the Red army in the imperial maneuvers in Saxony, fell Wednesday with his aeroplane while scouting and was killed in Dresden.
A sermon outlines four growth themes from Second Peter 1 verses one through eleven. It emphasizes faith as a gift, growth through the Word, seven facets of Christian character, and a threefold result of growth including assurance and reward.
A meditation on diligent attention to small duties, urging constant practice of grace without fretfulness. The text counsels trust, childlike freedom, and cheerful perseverance, believing grace guides in small as in great matters and prevents violation of love’s law.
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