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Newspaper
Monmouth Herald
Location
Monmouth, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1925
Page
7
Our Bargain Column advertises a rent for a two room house near the Normal, an orange shawl found and to be returned to the Normal office, a modern rental, sale items including oakwood by cord, a large heater, a second hand piano, and private garage. Guy H. Deming, Realtor, notes local business growth, soil quality, and available city homes and farm land.
A real estate notice promotes buying 88 acres improved and various other parcels near towns, with prices like 6500 and 7000 for several tracts. It argues real estate outpaces stocks and highlights flexible terms from F. K. Skedn, a real estate agent, as an inheritance opportunity.
Agents sell guaranteed hosiery direct from mill to wearer all sizes and colors. Salary paid for full time or spare hours. No money needed for samples. International Mills, 1311 Morristown, Pa.
A house fire near Monmouth Oregon damaged a home described as fully insured yet unrepairable at double cost. The family narrowly escaped death and lost possessions money cannot replace. The Hartford Fire Insurance Company offers a service to reduce fire risk through Chambers and Powell agency.
A dated poem recounts a speaker who rejects a chase for riches and follows a nature path to happiness. He contrasts a friend's pursuit of wealth with his own discovery of contentment by wandering a byway leading to Nowhere and finding purpose in work aligned with personal calling.
The story contrasts Caleb Sanderson’s conservative stance against his daughter Helen’s romance with Ralph Young, a bold Wall Street trader. Ralph touts profits and a grand future, while Caleb clings to tradition, until a market crash test and shifting financial realities force a new view.
Ralph loses his money and pride in the storm. He confesses to Helen and offers marriage, but she wants him to marry regardless of wealth. Caleb, Helen’s father, tests Ralph and then proposes a partnership, pairing Ralph with Helen in business and life.
A South Idaho farmer jokes that his three daughters will leave for Twin Falls Three Creek and triplets trigger superstition. He warns his elder grandchildren and hopeful son in law to avoid Thousand Springs as the family plans move.
Two men discuss a lodge brother sentenced to 90 days in the workhouse for stealing watermelons. One calls him guilty as stated while the other retells the captain’s remark as purely cursory and crude. The dialogue reflects dialect and humor from Everybody’s Mogurine.
A quirky tale recounts Uncle Eben misreading a settlement scene as industrious and promising, only to see distant symbols like wheel clotheslines and waning signs of progress. The narrator notes Eben’s humor and the village's stubborn appetite for misperceived plans.
Explains that the kettle’s singing comes from steam pressure as water boils. Vapor escapes the spout causing vibrations that mimic vocal tremors. Air from the lungs is similarly compressed to produce voice tones, linking kettle sounds and human speech by common pressure effects.
A child named Dora refuses to get up claiming the Bible instructs against early rising. Her uncle, a learned man, tries explanations but Dora reads the second verse of Psalm 127 aloud, It is vain for you to rise up early. The tale appears in the Kansas City Star.
A 1924 Western Newspaper Union piece urges a young photographer known as the camera girl to shoot varied scenes for city newspapers and magazines. It recommends capturing farm life, town views, school buildings, and unusual targets, selling both local and distant images by mail to maximize earnings.
Detroit News reports that 1838 missionaries heard natives claim huge ancestral birds once inhabited New Zealand. One survivor, said to have a human head and a bodyguard, allegedly killed long ago. Whalers supposedly glimpsed the beast, with bone later studied by Richard Owen as from a giant bird leg.
A poet’s book once failed but burned in a publisher’s fire and was insured. The loss turned into a brilliant posthumous fortune as every copy was paid for by the insurer. The author notes poets rarely enjoy such luck.
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