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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1907
Page
2
A collection of pithy sayings and quips on health, politics, finance, and society from The Express in Monticello Iowa. The notes mock doctors, memory, and current events with wry humor about debt, reform, and daily life.
The Esperanto waltz arrives to give dancers more than music appreciation. It promises a way for waltzers to express thoughts beyond admiring the melody or the ballroom.
A New York barber conflict emerges as barbers vow to refuse service to men who shave themselves. The report also notes girls eager to wed should quickly learn the hair-cutting trade to boost marriage prospects.
The Washington Post notes an English scientist disputing Darwin’s assertion that humans descended from monkeys. The scientist contends Darwin did not actually state that claim, inviting reexamination of Darwin’s writings.
A Washington paper notes a man fishing who swings his line and nets an English sparrow, then shares a second tale of a disciple of Isaak Walton who reels in a catch so large it pulls him overboard.
The famed 1868 lightweight bare knuckles champion Billy Edwards died. He reportedly left a fortune and an unblemished reputation for honesty and decent behavior, prompting questions about how he earned his standing in boxing history.
An English statistician notes it costs 37000 to raise a society girl. It must be recorded as spent on art for art's sake, while the girl’s aim is often to win an impoverished nobleman, who adds to the expense.
Egyptian sun temple Sesebi rediscovered by Prof James 4HEasted of the University of Chicago. The city, lost for 3 300 years, lies in Nubia near the third cataract on the Nile, once built by Amenhotep IV and now located in a remote district.
A Berlin visitor reports bands playing the Marseillaise in Strasburg this summer, the first since Germany seized Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco Prussian war. Local reaction remains muted with little public disturbance noted.
A Maine paper reports a bold incident where a storekeeper placed a pitch barrel as a lookout. A regular visitor occupied the barrel and later freed himself from an open barrel of small nails. He departed with a considerable amount of hardware.
Last month the foundation stone for the Peace Palace was laid in The Hague. Mr. Carnegie, funding the building, suggests it should be called The Temple of Peace. Ideas are more often enshrined in temples than in palaces.
The remark questions whether an inventor who claims solar energy use has secured the sun’s consent. In an era preoccupied with the consent of the governed, the note suggests caution about heralding such a breakthrough.
Commander 1 Peary intends to restore the Maine owned pinky schooner just before sailing north. The project aims to perpetuate a once famous fisheries and coastwise trade vessel now nearly extinct.
An English newspaper pays tribute to Mark Twain and quotes a misprint calling one of his books Life wm the Minneapolis. The item notes the humorous error and reflects on Twain's global fame.
Testimony in the government’s suit alleges Standard Oil operates in Texas as Corsicana Refining with Folger and Payne directing affairs. Rockefeller’s stake is revealed at 266,854 shares of 972,500. Eight‑year profits from 1899 to 1906 total about 490 million dollars for the company and 61 million yearly average. Indiana subsidiary earns 10.5 million in 1906 on a 1 million capitalization.
Chicago voters rejected the new city charter by about two to one in a special election held Tuesday. The measure faced opposition from the United societies for Local Self-Government the South Park board the Deneen Republican faction and the Democratic party. Critics argued the charter would raise taxes contributing to its defeat.
In Lodz Russian Poland troops and police burst onto Marcus Silberstein's large cotton mill. Silberstein was murdered by his employer on Sept 18 for refusing to pay workers for time lost on strike. Eight hundred workers were taken into custody.
A campaign against Greek eateries began after Frank McFadden a laundry courier was attacked by the Royal restaurant owner on North Chicago Street. The restaurant keeper a waiter and a cook are in custody.
Governor Deneen appoints Dr. Cyrus H. Anderson of McLeansboro as superintendent of the Chester asylum for insane criminals replacing the late Dr. Walter E. Singer.
Marshalltown reports former president of the International Association of Railway Surgeons Dr H L Getz attempted suicide at West Liberty railway station by stabbing himself over the heart. He was found and life is described as precarious.
Laurence Miller, released from the penitentiary Thursday, was rearrested on a Detroit warrant. He had been charged with swindling lumber dealer Fred J. Stone and had earlier worked as a bank clerk in Charleston West Virginia.
Supreme Court Justice J Franklin Fort was nominated for governor by the Republican state convention on the first ballot in Trenton New Jersey reflecting party support.
President Roosevelt will begin a seventeen day camping trip in northeastern Louisiana around October 56 after a Western and Southern speaking tour. He departs Oyster Bay soon for Washington and then Memphis for a speech. camp ends October 21 at Vicksburg with a Hermitage address the next day. Hosts are John A. McElhinney of New Iberia and John M. Parker of New Orleans.
A seven passenger racing car carrying Elks and a chauffeur crashed into a telephone pole on West Humlando hill. Three died immediately, a fourth died later, and several others were seriously hurt. The dead are John S. Grey Britten L. Graves W. H. Ralston and H. Winnal. Surviving injured are James English George Buckley F. H. Ward and A. W. Markscheffel. They had been visiting the Elks clubhouse at Manitou and were on their way home.
The Wisconsin railway commission rules the La Crosse Gas & Electric rates too low and not earning sufficient profits. The company must implement a higher rate scale under the new public service relief law, the first such decision in the state. The local corporation has already appealed.
In Peking, Liang Ton Yen formerly chosen to succeed Sir Chentung Liang Cheng as minister to Washington was named assistant secretary of the wai wu pu. No official ministerial replacement named yet, but Wu Ting Fang is expected to return to the Washington post after a four year absence.
The strike by Southern Pacific dock workers ends after concessions from the company. Wages remain at 30 to 40 cents an hour and the wage scale is unchanged.
Mrs. Elizabeth M. Holmes, ejected from the White House in January 1906 after multiple interview attempts, was adjudged insane by a sheriff's jury on Thursday in New York.
Dr. W. E. Singer aged 80, superintendent of the asylum for criminals insane at Chester, died at the institution. The remains will be interred in Belleville.
Caracas reports the Venezuelan government has paid the Belgian legation in Caracas the initial portion of the 2 million dollar debt. The move signals ongoing settlement of claims by Belgian creditors.
Spokane reports that robbers who stopped the Great Northern train near Rexford Montana on September 12 took about $40 000 mostly in large bills. The haul was declared secured by the bandits.
A brake failure caused the Jones and Laughlin mine cage to plunge 75 feet in Negaunee Michigan. Eleven men were killed and seven fatally injured. Seven survivors face critical wounds as families gather above the shaft. Authorities and clergy assist grieving crowds.
Harrisburg report notes two cent fare law declared invalid and unconstitutional in its application to the Susquehanna River & Western Railway company. Judge Shull of Perry County Court delivered the Bloomfield opinion on Thursday outlining the ruling.
From admiralty circles in London comes word that Britain will substitute oil for coal at naval bases worldwide. The government has reportedly purchased large oil supplies in Texas Romania and Galicia and plans to dominate Nigeria's oil potential as drilling expands in key sites.
A Milwaukee report notes Waupun dispatch that the Milwaukee common council passed an ordinance restricting women from entering saloons unless accompanied by their husbands.
Five sect members in Zion City Illinois were arrested on the confession of one to torturing to death 64 year old Letitia Greenhaulgh crippled for over two decades by rheumatism. The son and daughter of the victim were among the accused. The group twisted her limbs and neck to drive out a devil they believed possessed her, and she died shortly after.
Warrants issued for 14 of 18 persons and firms named by the capitol investigation commission as involved in the decorating frauds in Pennsylvania's $13,000,000 capitol. The warrants were sworn before Harrisburg aldermen and nearly all defendants appeared, waived a hearing and posted bail.
Mrs. Lillian White Grant 40 a widow and kindergarten principal at University Congregational church Hyde Park was found murdered in her Madison Avenue room. Jewelry missing and strangulation with a broken neck indicate robbery as the motive. A colored man who aided her is being sought by police.
A collision between a freight train and the El Paso express at Encarnacion near Aguas Calientes results in about 30 deaths and many injuries. Officials confirm the wreck but offer no details. No U.S. train arrived Thursday on the Central.
In New York a baker Henry Fischner killed Miss Johanna Hoffman after she refused to marry him. He fatally wounded himself in the same bakery on Tenth Avenue, dying later in a hospital. Witnesses saw the short confrontation as Fischner opened fire.
A Malta mine near Sparta Minnesota is burning with three men trapped underground. Firemen battled the blaze through Tuesday night and Wednesday with little progress. The blaze reportedly began from a lit cigarette discarded into hay in underground stables.
Arthur Cummings and John Edwards inmates awaiting grand jury action on grand larceny charges escaped from the Laporte county jail after injuring Sheriff Smutzer’s wife with an iron rod during a water delivery. Mrs. Smutzer crawled outside and locked the door, thwarting a mass escape by 11 other prisoners.
South Dakota rail commissioners reduce maximum passenger fares from three to two and a half cents per mile effective October 5.
John Hustis of Hustis Ford Wisconsin pioneer and leading figure in state development dies at age 97 in Hustis Ford. He helped shape early industry and community life in Wisconsin.
A mysterious poisoner in Gerst alley Allegheny is blamed for killing horses and goats and is suspected of attempting to kill a whole family on Wednesday. Victims named include Mrs Magyzie Hoffman 44 Fred Hofman 22 Charles Hoffman 7 Esther Hoffman 5 Eveline Tuscher 10.
Near Casablanca General Drude’s 2000 infantry expedition with cavalry and artillery formed two hollow squares and marched 40 kilometers in 12 hours. A morning fog halted them briefly, tribesmen attacked but were dispersed. a cavalry charge repelled Moorish horsemen. Casualties: one killed and ten wounded.
Chancellor R S Hicks of the Mississippi district court ruled the Gulf Compress company an illegal trust. The firm has one year to wind up operations in the state and withdraw. It denies requests for a receiver. The company, formed two years ago, owns 31 compresses, 16 in Mississippi, and is accused of restraining trade and manipulating cotton costs.
A broken rail caused the Chattanooga and Washington Limited to leave the track just north of Ryan's Siding on Sunday. The train, with a baggage car a day coach and three sleepers, suffered extensive fire damage to the sleepers. A special train transported all passengers to this city.
Detroit reports the Lake Superior tragedy of the Alexander Nimick where Captain Randall First Mate James Hayes and five sailors were lost when the steamer stranded and broke up in a severe northwest gale. Eleven crewmen survived by reaching shore.
Reports from Merida Yucatan detail a clash as Maya rebels ambushed a federal patrol near San Isidro. Seven soldiers were slain along with a number of attackers in the fighting.
J N C Shumway longtime Illinois state senator and president of the National Building and Loan association died at his Taylorville home from a paralytic stroke Sunday He was 57 years old
Samuel Sloan a leading railroad man died at his home in Garrison On The Hudson Sunday at age 90. He was widely respected for his long career in the rail industry and his contributions to American transportation.
Chicago bitter verdict in Judge Marcus Kavanaugh's court finds Frank J Constantine guilty of the murder of Louise Gentry. A jury fixes the punishment at life imprisonment in the state penitentiary.
The big coal pockets of the Erie railroad at Hornell, hub of the Susquehanna division, burned Sunday night incurring an estimated loss of $100,000. Fire destroyed the facilities leading to extensive damage.
Roanoke Virginia reports Col. Robert E. Withers longtime diplomat and former United States senator from Virginia died at his Wytheville home Saturday night after a long illness. He was 85.
The Tennessee company mine plant in East Joplin was blown up by dynamite Saturday. Damage is estimated in the thousands of dollars.
A report by the Propriety Association of America finds only three percent of accidental deaths from medicines traced to patent remedies across 80 million people in two years ending June 30, 1907. Most deaths linked to mishandling or overdose, not the medicines themselves.
A Selma man recalls Senator Pettus reacting to immigration in his later years. Pettus noted the burden on women as he watched a proud immigrant man walk with his family, joking that the wife carries everything else.
A Belgian engineer reportedly patents a new steel cutting process. Heat the metal with an oxyhydrogen flame then apply a small stream of oxygen gas to form a fusible oxide that flows from the cut. The result is a smooth cut about 1 one hundredth inch wide.
The line suggests that when people have little to say they often restrain themselves, while those with more to say may struggle to stay silent. It reflects on restraint, voice, and social pressure in communication dynamics.
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