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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1916
Page
10
State board contracts 250000 pounds of cane sugar at 6.24 per hundred to supply sixteen institutions for six months. Meat contracts go to Chicago. beef 11.70 per hundred, ham and bacon up. Recruiting slows as Iowa guards await Funston orders and border deployment.
Report describes a new trench weapon the “light o mine” by Grindell Matthews that uses a lens and clockwork to detonate a long pipe of TNT filled with shrapnel. Raiders place the device in the enemy trench and a sunlit beam triggers the blast when the Germans reoccupy the trench. The system relies on daylight and a focused lens, with no wireless detonation.
Private Cryster of the Washington National Guard and Miss Florence Sweeney of Duquesne Pennsylvania wed by telegraph with ceremonies in Calexico and Duquesne. Chaplain Sulliger officiated. the bride and groom had known each other for years. The wedding was repeated by telegraph and followed a mail proposal and acceptance.
Marquette Michigan Senator Alton T Roberts suggests cows should be fed in courses with an appetizer and dessert. He recalls trials with phonographic music to boost milk then notes beet as an appetizer and clarifies he does not feed alcohol to cattle. He adds the U S civil service lists 482 721 employees.
A British officer recounts a nocturnal patrol into No Man's Land to observe a German redoubt under cover of darkness. Telepathic calm among troops helps them guide their squad back safely after spotting nearly a hundred workers at the German parapet and coordinating with the O C to target the trench with machine guns.
The letter-writer urges readers to curb waste from daily routines and energy use. He argues Standard Oil and a railroad president enforce safety and efficiency while households waste money each morning and night, prompting the question how many mornings ruin the feast and how many pennies slip away unnoticed.
Magistrate Krotel sentenced Philip Levine, thirteen years old, to never smile or flirt with any girl in New York City for life after he allegedly smiled at Dora Rubinewits and blew smoke at her on an elevated train.
Mrs. Frank Immerick of Indianapolis caught and landed a large mouth bass weighing 74 pounds on Manitou, described as probably the largest bass ever taken by a woman.
The remarks imply Bill earned money quickly leading to his downfall. he is reported to be in the penitentiary for counterfeiting. The excerpt presents a condemnatory view of his criminal activity and its consequences.
The piece describes 600 French artists forming vast open yard studios in Belleville near Paris to paint life-size landscapes of fortresses towns and camps as decoys for enemy air scouts. Artists forego brushes and work in secrecy as they aid military deception by creating convincing false features while others are withdrawn from combat.
News from Iteme reports uncovering the century’s finest archeological finds in Cyrenaica. A statue of Alexander the Great dominates at over 65 feet tall in pristine condition, alongside a Athena head, a unique Eros, and a perfect satyr sculpture.
The Coffeyville Journal notes a cow drinks a tubful daily if hydrants are handy. If water is drawn by bucket, half a barrel to a barrel per day. Water hauled from two miles away uses three barrels daily, three miles five barrels, and beyond that no test exists due to slow delivery.
A summary note observes that major battles across the western front followed rivers such as the Marne Aisne Meuse and Somme while eastern front clashes occurred along the Vistula Dvina Dniester Bug Styr and Lipa and a British setback occurred near the Tigris in a dramatic river theatre.
A Denver trial tested an electric mail truck delivering 195 parcels in 6 hours 23 minutes. The nearly fifty mile route excluded 49 minutes for shifting the load and lunch. Current cost ran just over one cent per mile, making each package about a third of a cent to deliver.
A reader reflects on the Second Coming of Christ, citing biblical passages from Matthew Acts and Thessalonians. It discusses why fixed dates are wrong, the nearness of the event, and how belief should shape holy living, repentance, and readiness for judgment.
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