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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1923
Page
8
Advice for workers to view themselves as investments to employers. It argues earnings power determines value, encourages high performance to attract big returns, and notes firms lure talented managers. Emphasizes paying worth to avoid being replaced and securing ongoing wages.
The poem laments how laws punish knife violence openly while heart-stabbing remains unseen and excused. It condemns bloodshed, noting wounds are visible and red, yet many deem the act of harming a heart as permissible and escape punishment.
A reflective piece extols patience as the path to progress across vocations from building to art. It elevates patient endurance, restraint, and self-judgment, noting even crisis solutions arise from patient minds. The passage ends with Harvard University expenses cited as six million dollars annually in 1923.
A McClure Syndicate style piece celebrates choosing hats by timing and taste. It argues busy shoppers wait for the right item seen in a window or in a shop, avoiding fashion sneers while proving smart headwear selection.
In a vivid household note a woman quips that men may marry only if kept busy. She bars them from kitchen chores and other household maneuvers in a brisk, tongue in cheek admonition. The item reflects playful domestic satire.
A New York Sun and Globe report notes a group described as boarders arriving at a Summit hillside farmhouse for the summer. The landlady joins in with light humor while guests, including a black and white cat, settle in, and the dialogue underscores the group feeling more like regular residents than seasonal boarders.
A collection of camp and fishing trip sandwiches is offered. Items include Combination Sandwiches with cold fowl or tongue and mayonnaise on buttered bread, jelly spreads, and paraffin wrapped chicken sandwiches. Mock Lobster using halibut or tuna with radishes and mayonnaise, and Chicken a la King on buttered bread. A Sweetbread and Cucumber Salad combines boiled sweetbreads with cucumber and mayonnaise dressing, garnished with celery tips and olives.
A New York fashion note urges careful planning for motor wear with coats and cape-coats as versatile anchors. It highlights camel hair stripes, gray greens, suede models, and linen wraps, showing how coats, cloches, turbans, and hats coordinate for warm and cool weather driving.
Mr Rooster proclaims kingship over the barnyard claiming hens must pay a grain of corn for sleep in his self styled castle. He locks the coop to enforce dues but neglects vigilance inviting fox, dog, and a harsh lesson about leadership. The plan collapses as predators breach his castle and the flock learns a wiser rule.
A Paris fashion writer describes many variations of the apron tunic dress for afternoon wear. Catalogs black satin butcher apron tunics, dark blue crepe, lace ruffled styles, and printed silk handkerchief accents. Wraps include crepe coats or capes with later georgette capes emerging.
Fragmentary diary style lines describe a family handling a suspected illness. It mentions scarlet fever, a distant relative in Lockport, and a missing item or illness passed between households. The text references Washington's Birthday and a journal entry style recount.
Deep cuffs dominate fashion with puffed sleeve continuations or attached gauntlet complements. White broadcloth embroidered linen and appliqued chiffon provide varied cuff decoration for striking contrast.
In a clipped sports note, a Deauville cart appears overdone while Benson sightings remain unclear. The fragment hints at trimming the scene but preserves a tense, unsettled mood in the local sports brief.
The piece explains that a sybarite is a lover of luxury and comfort, deriving from Sybaris in southern Italy. It notes the city's Greek founding about 720 B C and its rise and fall, with Seneca’s tale of a bed causing pain cited as a cultural anecdote.
Advice on proper dance etiquette urges men to safeguard gowns with gloves and handkerchiefs, ensure partners have chances, and avoid embarrassment. A note on diamonds compares Brazilian and Cape phosphorescence, suggesting glow tests to detect fakes.
The article traces the name Susanna from Hebrew Sehushannah to its forms in English French German and other languages. It notes Susanna’s biblical associations including Susanna of Daniel and saintly virgins and mentions the Queen Susanna of Tiflis. It adds folklore such as the garnet talisman and assigns Thursday as a lucky day and a lucky number.
The passage asserts that even the greatest may require the assistance of the humblest, and the humblest can rely on the greatest, underscoring mutual dependence in human affairs.
Poem line excerpts describe time as a heavy weight weighing on a man with idle days. The speaker notes that days without tasks feel like lead on the hands, contrasting burdens of worry with the dull ache of free time.
In a Chicago talk, Professor Ivan Arnold urges a complete life shift for doctors postwar. He cites a case where a bricklayer is advised to loaf abroad or switch to hard labor such as farming or writing. A separate note describes Mose Simpson jailed over taking a neighbor’s chickens, with humorous courtroom exchanges from the Atlanta Journal.
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