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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1921
Page
6
William A. Radford presents a low cost, ship lap framed house plan on a 60 foot lot. The design includes three second floor bedrooms with large dormers, a central hall, and a first floor living dining library and kitchen. A full basement houses laundry and storage with room for tools and produce.
Not a goddess nemesis but a wife who uncovers a secret in her husband’s life that he would prefer to forget as described in the New York Sun.
A Chicago Tribune correspondent recalls arriving as a bride in a western town with a college, entertaining faculty women in the dormitory, sharing home meals and music. On the eve of Christmas break three students arrived with bulky parcels after visiting the laundress, revealing a quaint misgiving about gift giving in a small town.
The fortyish Aunt Mary resists being labeled an old maid by married brothers. Her five year old niece Jean defends her, declaring she isn’t old when teachers say one is not old until stockings roll down over knees. The evening party ends with laughter and a shift in talk.
A Indiana minister’s wife readies for hospital surgery as her husband and seven year old twins Flora and Floyd are confronted by the father about worrying her. Floyd recalls a cruel remark from Mr Long about replacing the mother with another wife and a Sunday school teacher.
The United States Department of Agriculture urges farmers to grow their own table crops and poultry feed to counter high freight costs. It promotes temporary pastures for sheep, smaller productive plots, movable fencing, and quick poultry meat, eggs, and dairy as the main home-supply strategy this season.
A sermon notes Jesus universal need for rebirth to enter God’s kingdom. It argues the natural man cannot receive spiritual things, urges belief in Christ for new life, and compares birth from above to natural birth. It cites scriptural backing from John 3, Romans 8, and 1 Corinthians 2.
The Bureau of Markets proposes standard container sizes for hampers road stave baskets and splint market baskets to unify capacity shapes and strength. The standards written into a bill before Congress would reduce hundreds of current styles to five splint sizes five round-basket sizes and six hamper sizes with specific quart and bushel measurements.
A manual advises using arsenate spray to kill green cabbage worms and cabbage looper. Laundry soap is omitted to improve leaf adhesion. Nicotine sulphate or kerosene emulsion with soap may be used against harlequin cabbage bug and aphids.
Sweet clover has often been objected to for its persistent growth and classed as a weed by many farmers. Correct cultural methods will control the crop. Plowing under sweet clover in the spring makes a good green manure crop on any farm.
Estimates show yearly manure savings from mature animals: five tons for dairy cows 8.5 tons for other cattle four tons for sheep and goats 0.4 ton for hogs 0.6 ton.
Clam shells from button-cutting refuse produce fine lime for soil improvement per the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. When used they improve ground quality and yield. Watch for cabbage worms. Dust the plants early with green and all-slaked lime dust while dew is on the leaves to deter insects.
A small flock of laying hens on a town or village lot or in a city back yard is an important branch of poultry keeping.
Practical guidance urges limiting needless roosters to protect profits and preparing birds for market. It also stresses caring for work horses during warm days to maintain health and performance.
Continued thorough cultivation is necessary to produce good crops of cabbage. Poisoned bran is the specific remedy for cut worms and grasshoppers.
A brief religious reflection quotes Psalms 17 15 affirming personal sight of God in righteousness and satisfaction upon awakening to his likeness. The devotional text emphasizes inner vision and divine resemblance as a guiding spiritual aim.
A compact meditation on fidelity and divine guidance citing John Henry Newman and Irondon. The text contrasts changing worldly wealth with a constant spiritual anchor and invites placing oneself under divine presence to discover the Kingdom of God within.
A 30 year old warning condemns unproven substitutes for baby care and extols Fletcher's Castoria as a trusted aid for infants. The exhortation urges mothers to avoid new or similar remedies and to rely on the familiar product.
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