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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1922
Page
4
A historical note lists subscription costs and advertising rates for a Montezuma Indiana paper. It records 31.66 yearly in advance for Indiana and Illinois, 1.75 for other states, and 1 cent per word with a 20 cent minimum. It credits Maud Scott McNamee as assistant editor and notes the office cover charges and care of thanks pricing.
A collection of wry observations contrasts economic absurdities with social foibles. It notes deficits, inflation jokes, arts debates, fashion critiques, family dynamics, and cultural oddities across continents, using tongue in cheek as a lens on modern life.
A distant time forecast claims no servant girls in U S homes in ten years. A note on mutual ignorance between Americans and Canadians follows, acknowledging gaps in self knowledge and cross border awareness.
The article discusses the belief that some interests aim to control ether near Earth for a radio monopoly, noting that interplanetary space remains unclaimed and undeveloped.
A remark notes a woman’s resolve in a homicide by stating she does not plead ignorance about the gun being loaded whether the target is a husband or a stranger.
A commenter notes Americans spend about 100 million dollars more on candy each year than on education, and adds the remark that such spending choices yield less favorable outcomes.
A business man known to the Woman receives many humorous letters. One letter, shared this morning, complains that a delivered order arrived with metal sheets bent and keys broken. The writer expresses disgust with the service and vows not to order again.
A Medical Review of Reviews surveyed doctors in 46 states finding three quarters recommend a hearty breakfast. An authority notes digestion is best after sleep and breakfast fuels the body like a furnace. Illinois health chief Rawlings even endorses pie with bacon and eggs as safe. Emerson is cited for always eating pie at breakfast.
The lady’s counsel described the husband as brutal violent and passionate while the husband’s counsel called the wife spiteful angry and waspish. The judge interjected that incompatibility of temper did not seem to apply.
Community notes report residents visiting relatives and friends in Terre Haute Danville Clinton and Rockville. Property for sale in Montezuma included a 7 room house with outbuildings and 3 acres. Seed oats and ground rye offered. Multiple local moves visits illnesses and social events noted.
The Vermont Press association set a memorial tablet on the old office of the Northern Spectator a country weekly newspaper. The ragged boy was Horace Greeley and the event marks a notable moment in journalism history.
New York reports $2,000,000 raised to secure $1,000,000 offered by John D Rockefeller and John D Rockefeller Jr for seven women’s colleges in the Orient. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller memorial fund paid the Rockefeller gift, extending the deadline by one month. The total $3,000,000 will fund Ginling College Nanking Yenching College Peking Women’s Christian College Madras Union Missionary Medical School Vellore Isabella Thoburn College Lucknow Tokyo Women’s Christian College. ten mission boards oversee the institutions.
An eastern tale recounts King Solomon entering worship in splendor when the Angel of Death touches him. Priests recoil, demons stay away, a small brown mouse removes the staff causing the king to collapse, and from the dust the gold crown is recovered.
The Czechoslovak Bibliografical institute reports 1900 had 4600 new books, 1921 about 4900, and by end of June last year 1926 1926 books published. Of these 857 were in philosophy drama music art and belles lettres while science totaled 1059. The data reflect increased literary activity due to territory expansion and expanded free library support.
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania museum and the British museum plan explorations of Ur the homeland of the Patriarch Abraham. No systematic digging has occurred yet though vast cuneiform text libraries have been compiled from finds near Ur by traveling explorers and Arabs.
A small Chinese firma replaces 60 laborers with trucks, claiming one truck costs about 31 dollars per day while the same work by coolies would cost 36 to 48 dollars in labor. The move aims at cheaper and more efficient workloads.
In Liberia, students who master a class teach others and are themselves taught by those who finished the next level. Many children walk eight miles through swamps to reach the schools.
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