12 Aug 1926
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1926
Page
1
An essay laments the misreading of rural life by urban fans as it urges readers to value the wholesome American countryside over sensational city life. It contrasts poverty and hardship with simple neighborly virtue and calls for honest, daily life.
A passerby overhears a playful quarrel about locks and happiness before an aunt suddenly faints during a street performance. The joke turns on recovery of hearing and a cheeky quip about closing the door.
A brief remark laments that the publication never recoups costs from printing a poem. The line hints at financial strain in a newspaper’s literary page without naming authors or outlets.
A fragment from a Stockholm periodical exchange features banter about cooperation and a comic collision of roles. Characters include Hinula Siren and Liza, with references to a mats tress factory and a playful misfit man.
Rev. Edwin A. Adams of Walpole Massachusetts singlehandedly organized the lone Amherst College Class of 1861 reunion. He elected himself president and secretary at dinner and adjourned the gathering himself, celebrated by the Brooklyn Eagle as the most loyal alumnus.
Article boasts Birmingham’s municipal treasury near 15 million pounds about 75 million dollars as evidence of frugality. It questions whether a man deserves friends who expect him to be profitable and hints at social attitudes toward wealth and prudence.
Bessie a seven year old Holstein owned by Harry Bangard near Winnipeg and ten days apart gave birth to a male calf and later presented a normal brother calf to the same arrival. The event puzzles observers and is deemed unprecedented in animal histories.
A boy named Jack, on his first lake trip, complains the bathing salt leaks as he is lowered into the water. He asks his father to return it, noting the product is no good and unsuitable for use.
A tense scene unfolds as a clerk scolds a delinquent customer, who defiantly proclaims he never pays. The interaction centers on a Good Hardware shop, highlighting a clash over payment and responsibility.
The Constantinople cemetery is described as a lively social hub with shaded cypress trees, flower beds, pagodas, winding paths, and refreshment vendors. Maids bring charges there for twilight strolls as the crescent moon shines, turning the space into a social garden rather than a mere burial ground.
In Broward County Florida archaeologists uncovered a burial mound near the Atlantic coast believed to date 2000 years. An idol 35 feet tall carved from sea mangrove and shell features a female likeness. The body was wood and the mound sits near the site of early white settlement in Florida.
The Bayer label asserts aspirin is proven safe by millions and prescribed for colds headaches neuritis lumbago toothache rheumatism neuralgia and other pains. In England after years women bicycle racers returned to a meet drawing 12 000 spectators.
Professor Bailey Willis of Stanford University asserts that American skyscrapers are safe in earthquakes due to good engineering and sound construction.
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