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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1920
Page
8
A column recalls the drouth and its effects on farming and markets. It laments lack of rain in spring, warns about speculative betting on grain prices, notes the struggles of gamblers and farmers, and ends with a humorous salute to endurance.
An essay contrasts a New York menswear shop that mishandles a defective shirt with a Chicago retailer that resolves issues immediately. It argues trifles drive reputations and wealth by proper attention to small details and customer satisfaction.
Poem recalls bygone leisure when life allowed rest and simple joys. The speaker contrasts old times with modern pressure as women wear fifteen dollar shoes and men chase gold, leaving little time for fishing and reading. The piece ends noting no rest for men today due to pursuing wealth.
A tasselled note on dream lore cites oracles and modern magicians linking horse dreams to luck. White horses foretell riches while black presage lesser fortune, with riding a horse signaling advancement, trading meaning a bargain loss, and buying promising money from speculation or real estate.
A fashion writer surveys midsummer hat trends with large hats in lace, ombre, taffeta, straw and floral garnitures. Paris influence shifts toward fabric hats, veils, ribbons and garden flower motifs, including petals, cherries and organza trims. Styles feature sailor shapes, veiled brims, and duvelyn sets in bold color contrasts.
A fragment from a 1920 Western Newspaper Union column presents home recipes and kitchen tips. Instructions include cucumber fry, tomato sauce with mustard and lemon, beets reheated with butter and sugar, squash and onion dish, and potato reuse with beef stew for salad.
The bureau of American ethnology preserves valuable material on North American Indian tribes including language customs habitations and other remains. The annual report grows richer from investigations, useful to scientists and the general public curious about the once powerful race fading through absorption into other peoples.
A Japanese laundry circular translates into a price list from Boston Transcript offerings. It states customers will be cleaned with careful service at low prices: ladies two dollars per hundred, gentlemen one thousand one hundred thirty four dollars per hundred.
The mole is not blind and has eyes barely pinhead sized. Its vision is aided by furred lids and hairs that shield its eyes from dust and dirt while burrowing.
A fashion critic advises choosing hats under top light to judge fit. The piece weighs face shape, nose prominence, and age, recommending brim size to favor features and suggesting round faces suit large hats while thin faces suit turbans or toques.
The trend spreads across midsummer wear with wool embroidery on blouses especially georgettes dresses hats parasols and bags.
A new gray color called tourterelle meaning turtle dove has gained admiration in France, with its soft tone and elegant appeal noted in fashion circles.
Mr Fox builds a tree house after tiring of ground living and invites friends to a woodland feast. Fox uses a ladder borrowed from Man and hosts guests including Badger Rabbit and Coon. A sleeping dog finds the scene and feasts on bones from the soup pot.
A rambling narrator muses on a cat and a goldfish living in a glass house. The cat guards the fish while the fish fears water and the cat grows jealous of visitors. The writer mentions a friend gifting a goldfish and suspects the cat may have harmed the fish or caused its disappearance.
Edna Kent Forbes presents a satirical mix of diet tips for dieters and a critique of travel excesses, contrasting sterile menus with gluten bread and butter avoidance. The Gadfly column ponders travel folly, human folly, and the urge to move, drawing humor from everyday rituals and the traveler’s burden.
A dialogue shows a mother and father lamenting their son's insistence on getting his own way. Each blames the other for his behavior, reflecting parental tensions and generational differences in a domestic scene.
Carmel Myers prepares to clean spectacles using a rotation of watering and water.
A southern lumber concern considers using an acetylene torch to fell cypress trees in swampy timber. The idea aims to avoid fire risk while testing the method's practicality, per Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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