30 Aug 1917
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1917
Page
1
A 1917 column explores male certainty about women and vows to marry, noting bachelors judge only a few examples. It ends with baseball hero Plink cited as a model of clean living impacting his career.
Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania discusses how nutrition impacts tuberculosis. He links digestion, nourishment, and lifestyle to disease risk, notes meat eggs beans fats and starches are essential, and calls for strong domestic food production to support troops and those at the front.
The passage explains drone bees as nonworking royal consorts and fertilizing the eggs before dying. The queen remains in the hive except swarming. removal causes the swarm to follow. If multiple queens appear they fight until one remains, becoming the colony's queen. A second queen forms when the colony grows too large. The old queen departs with followers as the new queen emerges.
The text discusses happiness as life’s great goal. It notes people pursue wealth and honors believing they bring happiness and contentment, while even criminals seek happiness through their choices.
Eddie Plank, long feared as a premier left hander, teetered on the edge of a comeback after a promising start with the Browns. A nervous breakdown and vanished arm strength ended his season early at the San Antonio camp, casting doubt on any future revival after 16 years of hard work in the major leagues.
Motivational verse extols the man who wins by daily toil and steadfast effort. It lauds persistent labor, cheerful outlook, and resilience against misfortune, asserting success comes to those who dig in each new day and maintain a positive spirit.
The text argues true happiness comes from love and unselfishness. It asserts happiness follows good thoughts and deeds. It advises seeking knowledge from great books to solve life’s issues.
The passage warns against constant mental tension from greed to learn and absorb every detail. It argues that attempting to remember everything leads to mental indigestion and confusion, and that one should avoid overloading the mind with minor issues.
Missouri inventor drives a boat along shallow streams using an airplane engine and propeller for steering and propulsion. Other notes mention iron salt impregnated carbons for UV rich light, pneumatic poison delivery, ground plowing cables, lighter rubber eyes, extra dial watches to gauge spring tension, and a motor boat exhausting air to reduce skin friction.
A page from The Mother's Cook Book offers elderberry pies with grapes for flavor, a favorite frozen dessert with citrus and bananas, peach mixtures with lemon juice, and quince balls prepared from parings. It also suggests fried cold rice cakes as a simple supper dish.
China starts shipping pig iron from what researchers call the world’s largest iron ore region. Analysts note the shipments mark a significant step in exploiting long prominent deposits.
East and West News reports that Japan will now provide full explanations for prohibiting any issue of a journal. The change ends the policy of silence and is seen as a major step toward liberty of the Japanese press, with editors’ protests noted.
A New York business man forced to New Jersey by ill health rebuilds his career repacking farm produce for direct sale. He expands from a one-horse wagon to multiple wagons and plans an auto truck, emphasizes cleanliness and presentation, and shows profit margins of 25 to 100 percent through organized marketing. He cultivates regular customers with polished packing and small gestures that attract female shoppers and build trust.
Advice on keeping fowls and chicks healthy before cold weather. Emphasizes green fodder in heat, immediate egg preservation, building hen houses now, free-range turkeys, daily grain for young geese, avoiding excess roosters, and shaded roosting coops for growing chicks.
A collection of pithy maxims on luck, aging, love, gullibility, and vanity. The quips humorously critique pride, flattery, and human folly, noting how fortune favors restraint and self awareness in social life.
Two Scottish recruits visit an English church for the first time. The organist plays a lively voluntary that astonishes them. A pew owner taps the soldier to move and he misreads the moment, offering his mate to dance instead.
The paper shortage spurs inventors to seek new raw materials with cellulose fiber from vegetables. Spinach stalks and Mexican sacaton grass are among promising options. A French scientist reports progress on a process to reuse old newspapers by removing printer ink.
An American resident of a small western town recounts a banquet held to honor the visiting French hero General Joffre, noting that the war was of remote interest there before U.S. entry and describing the town’s reception and atmosphere.
A Pall Mall Gazette correspondent reports Marshal Joffre and M. Viviani at a banquet where a toast to The Soldiers of France moved Joffre to tears. Viviani then kissed the marshal in French fashion, and the hall erupted in thunderous applause.
A reflective meditation contrasts the doomed pursuit of endless perfection with belief in God. The author argues that perpetual notion is unattainable outside divinity, labeling such quests as vain and prone to failure and insanity.
Various baby lore from Neyotians to Ireland beliefs and British artifacts. Notes that twelve midnight births are said to confer occult powers and that a hair belt repels evil spirits in Ireland. Rocking an empty cradle supposedly births a baby.
P A Vaile argues Americans suffer unsound feet and legs due to overreliance on automobiles and streetcars. He cites Harvard physician Dr Lloyd Brown noting many 1916 freshmen showed leg issues impacting military eligibility, and warns women's legs and feet have degenerated from neglect.
A brief wit exchange notes a marriage for money and questions where the wealth remains, with a light tone on the motive and outcome. The dialogue implies a perpetual investment in status and funds without change in possession.
Dialog heavy excerpt hints at family tensions and social rumors. Exchanges touch on a father’s fate and a mother’s plans, with lines about conduct and concealed whispers. The piece sketches social dynamics through clipped, colloquial banter and oblique threats of scandal.
A grand opening of a Seattle ball park featured a huge plaster ball filled with sparkling liquid and a model ocean liner used in a christening. The ship descended on a wire toward home plate, struck the ball, broke it, and spilled the contents as players from major shipbuilding firms prepared to take the field.
A brief note describes Belle changing color after a recent meeting with To. The encounter prompted Belle to say she would become a different kind.
A religious essay urges daily Bible reading as fuel for faith and service. It compares mining gold to mining scripture, urges thoughtful reflection, and promotes using spiritual insight in everyday conversations to strengthen others and oneself.
The piece reflects on praying for great works for God and contrasts Jabez, Staupitz, and Luther. It notes Staupitz warned Luther of church corruption but failed to act, allowing Luther to be chosen. Billy Sunday comments on trust and readiness for responsibility.
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