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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1915
Page
3
Archibald Newton and Mrs. Burton reunite after a long separation expressing nostalgia and affection. They move toward a shared future as their households blend with their children, amid a village fire scare and a confessed mutual love rekindling. The tale closes with a hopeful marriage proposal.
The Atlantic critiques latter-day American fiction for overemphasizing uplifting moral aims and sentimental tone. It questions whether such moralizing reflects thin emotion and whether American culture loses genuine complexity beneath machine-like patterns.
Early Panama Canal work brought many injuries from jumping on and off moving trains. West Indian officers enforced a new rule to arrest jumpers, detaining a white brakeman who protested he was the rear brakeman. The incident shows strict policing and cultural clash.
Miss Gushington and Scribbler discuss a novel’s ending and opening chapter in a humorous court scene with a judge presiding.
A Canadian soldier in Princess Patricia's Light Infantry describes three days in mud filled trenches under heavy bombardment near London. The letter details miles marched, 48 hours in rain soaked ditches, ankle deep mud, shells exploding near the front and the struggle to sleep and stay warm.
Letter from Joseph A. Mudd recounts John W. Davis of Fulton a Confederate veteran who was shot at Wilson’s Creek nearly fifty four years ago and labeled mortally wounded by a surgeon, yet he lived to die years later of natural causes as described by comrades. The tale links Davis to Capt. D. H. Melintyre Burbridge's regiment and Company A.
Wise-Abdella Saad wins divorce from Abdolla after nine years of faithful residence efforts. Judge Higbee approves the dissolution following a long separation touching a 1906 incident when the wife visited a neighbor and asked him to keep the coffee hot.
Virginia Minn story of A B Coates who found an unordered bottle of Kentucky whisky in an express package. The whisky had a note with his name and address from a year earlier when he released a bottle into the River Nile during an African voyage. The distillery apologized and sent a fresh bottle.
Harper's Magazine argues that variable weather boosts worker performance more than steady warmth. Daily temperature changes stimulate activity like a driver urging a horse, making storms valuable for climate efficiency.
The piece notes how map labels recount exploration and peril from Pike’s Peak to Kit Carson era. It highlights Hudson Strait and bays like Bay of God’s Mercy Terror Point Repulse Mistake Home Cape Comfort and Resolution Island as vivid memorials of explorers, whalers, and dangers faced at sea.
Mrs Sabilla Bell of Blairstown New Jersey who is aged one hundred is attended by a doctor for the first time in her life due to a mere cold.
Paris reports President Poincare granted clemency to several women condemned by a court martial for spying. The pardons alter the fate of multiple female agents awaiting execution.
Edison announces the first benzol plant built in the United States since the war. Completed in 29 days, it now produces 800 gallons daily in Johnstown Pa. Edison plans plants in Sydney Nova Scotia and another unknown site. Total benzol output aims for 2000 gallons daily. The plant also makes carbolic acid synthetically and serves Edison phonograph needs.
Fort Dodge Iowa five hundred miles a year is the goal for thirteen local girls who aim to be athletic. They will walk the distance on foot not by car and must avoid running around the house tango teas or shopping while tracking progress. At year end those who miss the target will host a banquet for the achievers.
Paris reports clever French revues performed in trenches within a mile and a half of German positions. The extracts show humor amid the shelling as troops entertain themselves with improvised productions and long runs despite harsh war conditions.
Miss Maud Emerson Lincoln of Marblehead Massachusetts who had been nearly blind since birth suddenly gained full sight in one eye and then the other after 21 years. The transformation left her startled by ordinary things and fearful of food as a new world opened, and she plans to pursue education now that she can see.
A New York physician arranged a $100 pearl in a plate of oysters for his wife at the Hotel Astor. She did not chew the shellfish and unknowingly swallowed the gem, prompting disbelief and concern.
An Atchison Globe quotation notes that a true leader foresees the crowd’s direction and moves to lead before the surge, shaping direction with timely vision.
An East to West trend sees Americans teaching the Chinese to add milk to tea and to enjoy condensed milk in desserts. A local condensed milk company drives the campaign and has already popularized condensed milk ice cream in China. Canned salmon also makes an impression as a Western staple reaches the Far East.
The article discusses memory based caricature and how figures like Sir Hubert von Herkomer and Walter Mackay developed mental shorthand for facial features. It notes Grose's Essay on Caricature as a foundational influence and explains that publishers use quick mental sketches to portray subjects, even in restricted settings such as trials.
The text argues that fear of poverty grips the educated classes and erodes ideals of poverty as liberation from material attachments. It laments loss of the ancient virtue of living by character and work, not wealth, and warns against choosing life irresponsibly for status.
A description of ocean life and the peril of ship propulsion, noting how foam like creatures die as the screw turns. Visualizes phosphorescent swarms near the surface in darkness and the constant marine hazards faced by vessels crossing the sea.
In a restrained prison scene Paul laments Demas who forsook him for worldly gain. The teaching contrasts loyalty to Christ with worldly attachments and urges surrender of all that hinders faith. Biblical examples and a sermon tone reinforce enduring hardship as a Christian soldier.
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