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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
1
Practical guidance on repurposing leftovers from vegetables and meats. From corn and beans to peas and onions, the article offers methods to transform small portions into new dishes such as corn fritters, scalloped corn, bean salads, green pea omelets, and lamb chop garnishes, using simple sauces and buttered crumbs.
A poem by Edgar A. Guest in which the speaker prefers fatherly joy over royal power. He imagines a life spent with children rather than a throne, finding happiness in simple family moments and affectionate children's rushes upon his return.
A satirical monologue warns that random curiosity invades privacy and harms families. It likens prying to a growing nose and notes gossip damages marriages, loyalty, and roads funding. It urges restraint and reading parables to curb intrusive behavior.
A dialog contrasts a customer trying a new dress with a modiste who insists the design’s babyish look is deliberate. The scene shifts to a description of winding electric motor armatures as the goal of a motor driven device.
Dream lore holds that dreamchildren are blessings and good omens. Analysts say seeing children laughing portends happiness and success, especially for the childless or childfree, with girls deemed slightly riskier but both genders bringing fortune if engaged with.
The text argues rewards motivate work and leadership, citing Gustavus Swift and Lincoln as examples. It urges going beyond pay, praising alertness and industry, and says true happiness comes from character and inner peace rather than money or material gains.
An old dream interpretation notes that dreaming of one child signals impending birth for married couples, with the child's beauty promising fortune and illness if seen nursing a sick mother. It contrasts critics who tie many children to losses, while lovers of dream-child belief see overall good luck. The piece closes with a jokey vignette about a dream of receiving money and a playful suggestion to sleep again.
Washington reports the largest concentration of sea power in U S history will form the unified Atlantic and Pacific fleets near the Gulf of Panama for January maneuvers The plan calls for ships in active service only with limited drills and unofficial competitions under Admirals Wilson and Rodman The event marks the first major mobilization of the modern navy and will involve around 800 vessels including eighteen dreadnoughts and substantial destroyer and auxiliary forces with Tennessee leading the battleship contingent.
James Longen of Clifton Heights PA swallowed a pearl by accident with oysters twenty years ago. A small lump on his neck began causing pain and he squeezed it. The pearl then broke through the skin, ending the discomfort.
In Collestrada Umbria the Junior Red Cross school makes osier kitchen utensils to supply villages since Italian stamping mills wartime output is redirected. Orphans craft colanders baskets and reed sifters, competing with horsehair methods, with nearly a hundred baskets weekly absorbed by nearby towns.
Abe Mitchell, a famed English golfer and longtime holder of the world championship, is highlighted as one of the era’s most renowned figures in the sport.
A 1920 season report tells of a man eating shark caught at Piney Point Maryland up the Potomac estuary where waters are still salty. A doctor in the party removed the shark’s teeth and kept them as souvenirs. Piney Point is noted as not a summer resort.
A dispatch from Iluzhin reports Tomsk Novo Nikolaevsk and Krasnoyarsk once wealthy Siberian cities now dead towns with deserted streets and destroyed houses. Public executions terrorize the populace as editors are executed and Kolchak officers reportedly killed. Peasants revolt and form regiments near Minusinsk to push against the Reds, starving the towns of food.
Damaged mines in northern France are slowly being restored and are expected to reach 250 000 tons monthly by year end, about half the prewar level. Pumping floods and rebuilt shafts delay fullnormal production while reconstruction work proceeds with Belgian assistance after failed negotiations with Germany.
The spire of Norwich cathedral in England rises 314 feet, making it the tallest. The original spire was destroyed by lightning in 1463, and the present one is about 450 years old. Bangkok Siam has nine moving picture houses.
The ruby is July’s birthstone and was tied to many old superstitions. Folks believed it granted night vision when worn at the neck and protected against evil, plague, poison, and eye disease when worn on the forehead.
A Birmingham Age Herald quote quips about Dolblay living off a rich wife’s generosity. The exchange questions how long he can maintain such spending as he remains deemed too precious to work.
Ferdinand Foch will receive an expensive baton with gold inscriptions of his victories Metz St Gond the second Marne and Strasbourg. The baton bears the motto Terror belli cus Pacis and marks 1914 19 with France US Lorraine cross and Knights of Columbus arms. James A Flaherty of Philadelphia supreme knight will present it when Foch unveils Lafayette statue the Knights of Columbus plan for France.
A detective notes uncertainty over burglars possibly entering a house. He observes the disturbed scene but considers another explanation that the husband may be conducting lonely housekeeping while his wife and children are away for the summer.
A gossiping club scene questions whether Harry Lauder has quit golf after 46 years of playing. The exchange at the first tee hints at a lost golf pall and a rift with a physician over missed calls.
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