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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1921
Page
1
A Paris fashion feature notes a craze for hand drawn and waxed fabrics in lingerie dresses. It cites export trends to America, worker roles in Paris, and designers like Agnes, Carlot, and Doucet showing satin cire and georgette ensembles with intricate trims.
Pirates manager George Gibson says his team can beat anyone if pitching holds and young guns Glazner and Yellowhorse shine. He notes the Giants loom as main obstacle while praising McCraw and Moran and highlighting a tough late schedule ahead.
Shaple Jines notes diverse sleeve silhouettes from flaring cuffs to bishop sleeves and long slashed styles. Coats feature double wide sleeves with inner layers while belts shift to jeweled buckles, beads, and beaded fringe accents on evening wear.
Ty Cobb favors Slicker Parks, University of Michigan pitcher, as a poised hurler with strikeout prowess. The youth shows baseball intelligence and a repertoire that hints at major league potential, drawing attention from scouts and fans alike.
Oddball notes cover tennis in bad weather, Withe Hieppe as world champion bil- uardist set to winner take all matches, and Edward Martin leaving Stanford athletics for a business offer. Dempsey rarely wins credit, wrestling forecasts vary, and ticket costs may ease. West Virginia University plans a new stadium, Great Britain may skip official representation, and Charles White regains boxing status after suspension. Tulsi management authorizes Wray Query trade to Sioux City for Ed Spell as help. Helped by hipper trucks, race-horse transport expands while Audubinus retires to stud after Suburban and Carter handicaps.
A description of fashionable hat trims includes a fringed silk scarf with sailor hat styling and a patent leather trim decorated with blue forget me nots and four tiny pink rosebuds.
Rogers Hornsby, star of the National League, seeks a .400 season in 1920. The Cardinal second baseman and outfielder speaks of his year, praising good pitching, straight line hitting, and his 42 ounce bat. Weighing 165 pounds at twenty five, he remains unfazed by Giants’ 200000 offer and insists on heart and skill driving his play.
A compilation of player movements and statistics across leagues. Tred Bratch returns to Chattanooga from Joplin, Joe Wagner joins Greenville, Jim Reynolds joins Spartanburg, Joe Ben Smith reverts to Detroit, Lute Boone out with appendicitis, and Purcell leads Central league batting. Gulliver notes include Cravath Wahgner Ruth across majors, Hornsby praised, Mint league extends season, Prough bats five-for-five, and Branch Rickey's lineup shifts. Seattle trial outfielder Mirey Brown, Dec Strub eyes Jim O Connell buy, Jones moves to St. Louis, and San Antonio trades pitchers with Galveston.
Pitcher Joe Boehling was released by the Toronto club after being bought from Portland of the Pacific Coast league for 1500 dollars and then joining Bridgeport of the Eastern league.
Two top money winners from last year Rifle Grenade and King Watts will not be raced on the grand circuit this season. They will be turned out this year aiding eligibility for 2:07 paces for Rifle Grenade and 2:08 trots for King Watts during the 1922 campaign.
Germantown Cricket Club in Philadelphia hosts the national championship on William Z. Tilden’s home courts next September. Tilden holds the world United States British and New Zealand titles.
Harvard's varsity baseball team enters 1922 nearly unchanged after sweeping Yale and Princeton. Captain Emmons, the second baseman and only regular not returning, signals a stable lineup as the season approaches.
Outt leader Leon Gostin and pitcher Vinthietm Nelson York join the Nationals from the Columbia club of the South Atlanta league.
The Chicago White Sox reveal plans for next season and have signed pitcher Lindke and shortstop Julian from the Walla Mazoo club. They are to report to the team next spring.
Martinsburg Blue Ridge league pitcher Ross Roberts has been sold to Petersburg in the Virginia league, transferring from the Martinsburg club to a higher level in the regional circuit.
New York police and a matron uncover a concealed roll of $488 on Mile Renner a 24 year old wanderer who claimed poverty after a two week hunger spell. She was charged with vagrancy and hospitalized for observation after a court review.
Policeman Finger warns about a carbonic gas tank being unloaded near a station. An explosion rocks the area, injuring officers and sending the tank skyward. The tank travels seven stories, knocks a ball from a flagpole, and lands on a rear fire escape as investigators search for the remaining fragments.
In Evans ton Illinois two young women, Miss Sophie Daehr of Syracuse and Miss Frieda Sheen, await the trial of Edward Breuer a former army sergeant on charges of bigamy. The wives declare they are best of pals and express no jealousy despite the situation.
Walter Poster, a North Carolina cattleman, fought a mother bear and three cubs during a Blue Ridge roundup. Using only a pocket knife after being mauled, he survived as the bear retreated about 200 yards and was later found dead. In New York, composer Rudolph Friml's naturalization was denied due to a divorce filed by his second wife Blanche Friml on grounds of infidelity, affecting his eligibility because witnesses must attest good character for five years.
Charles I. Chimplin of Chicago won the prize for best loaf of bread at the Evanston fair defeating 45 women entrants. The award was a work apron daintily embellished with blue ribbons.
In New York a divorce case concluded with Mr. and Mrs. A. Twilling remaining seated together after the hearing, sharing a kiss and handshake before leaving in opposite directions, a moment noted as establishing a behavioral precedent.
Reading pa seven year old Virginia Funk found a five foot nine inch black snake in her Esterly bathroom. The creature entered after climbing a tree and dropping onto a rear portico. Oscar A Funk a Canadian hunter captured it and Wesley E Conklin of Philadelphia shot it in the yard. Mrs Conklin accompanied Virginia.
Mrs Thomas Lewis reported missing jewels after a trip as officers from three cities pursued the case. The gems were later located under a mattress in a Philadelphia hotel, and Mrs Lewis recalled leaving them there after returning home.
In Uneas Oklahoma the eight month old son of Mr and Mrs George Jacquires swallowed a safety pin. Doctors closed the pin with instruments and pulled it out through the child's mouth without surgery.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania Joseph A Fryer of Parsons was killed when a private whisky still exploded in his cellar and whisky burst over him as flames. A physician's report confirmed the death.
Detroit police say sixteen year old Scout Harry Hayes died after a pebble hurled by a passing car struck him. One escorting girl recalled a machine passing, a whizzing sound, and the boy wiping blood from his head before collapsing. He never regained consciousness.
James Jenkins of Pratt Kansas nearly blinded after mistaking croton oil for eye medicine. He applied the oil in front of a harvest hand to prove it could cure eye trouble. In Sheboygan Wisconsin a pavement explosion sent bricks flying injuring a woman nearby.
A Moundsville West Virginia woman testifies that two years of irregular, painful periods ceased after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges other girls to try the remedy and invites letters to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. for health advice with confidentiality.
An advertisement warns that only Bayer named aspirin on packaging or tablets is genuine for physicians prescribed use. It lists uses from colds to neuralgia and pain and notes cheap twelve tablet tins. Druggists offer larger packages. The ad ends with a joke about marital harmony.
This advertisement touts Cuticura Soap to soak and cleanse hands, followed by Cuticura Ointment for drying and rubbing in, and tissue to remove surplus ointment. It claims Cuticura can handle all toilet needs when Soap Ointment and Talcum are used together.
A Louisville Courier-Journal item notes a young woman arrives at a resort with $300 saved. She plans to cheerfully buy ice cream and candy until funds are spent, while asking if she is the first girl the companion has ever loved.
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