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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1921
Page
10
A concise moral essay urges kindness and friendship to brighten lives and ease burdens. It extols friendship as the highest good, linking it to peace, moral courage, and spiritual well being, and cites quotes about friendship’s value for all people.
John Blake argues that time cannot be borrowed or replaced once spent. He warns that delaying today’s work wastes future hours, creates backlog, and harms others through idle interruptions, urging focused work and careful time allocation.
A reflective verse exploring human knowledge versus belief. The speaker mocks reliance on God while boasting scientific prowess from measuring celestial distances to debating life and death. The poem ends by noting limits to comprehension and the idea that death may be final.
A vintage recipe page shares Hot Water Gingerbread with sugar molasses and ginger, a light cake outcome, and a butter sugar egg flour mix with sour cream twist. It also outlines Spiced Tongue with calf tongue simmered in liquor, onions, peppers, dates, and raisins, finished with a rich sauce.
Frederick the Great sought a carefree retreat 20 miles from Berlin and built Sans Souci a one story residence. He hosted 200 guests at his first dinner yet slept personally on an iron cot. His boyhood farming training funded a seven-farm operation yielding about $10 000 a year.
Walter I Robinson argues that foresight and thrift prevent hardship in hard times. He notes higher wages and luxury temptations then warns that rapid spending leads to distress, urging early action to secure future comfort and fairness.
A short quotation from Bishop Luatimer emphasizes value in keeping things orderly over extensive remembrance. The line reflects a cautious moral stance on memory and discipline.
Miriam Lelehner reports from Chicago News on a bold plan for a U S traveler to enter Europe’s hotel trade. The piece notes high costs for building and labor, currency effects, and land taxes, with posts like hotel portiers gaining power after war. It details travel chaos in Munich, Budapest, and Vienna as guests struggle for rooms and payorphans, ending with Peru’s sanitation spending in Lima and other towns.
Stephen A. Long a Margate City carpenter and his family built a small bungalow over the summer and celebrated with a theater outing. Upon returning they found their newly finished home destroyed by fire caused by a spark from the living room fireplace. the house was uninsured.
In Lanarkshire close to 600 men lost a day’s work as trout choked the water supply for boilers at a colliery. The cage could not be lifted to the pithead because the boilers were down. After effort the breakdown cause was found. The trout weighed one pound six ounces. Work resumed next day.
A frightened rabbit exposed a stash hidden by two men who beat Harold B. Winchell and his wife Marion with a gas pipe. An auto party woman chased the rabbit and forced the animal out, pulling a stick containing a watch and chain later identified as Winchell’s, leading to recovery of the rest of the stolen valuables.
In the Davis area near Davis West Virginia bee hunters report a banner season with 14 well-filled hives found and honey yields up to 150 pounds per tree. Local expert notes high grade honey and strong forage across the Alleghenies.
In Ellensburg Sam Haurris connected signal lines in a railroad section house to power a still. The block signals failed and he was discovered at once. In Circleville Mrs George L Miller cut open a chicken gizzard found a diamond worth 100 dollars and brought it to a jeweler.
Dutch social democratic MPs criticized the expense of guarding the former German emperor and threatened to interpellate the government. The speaker branded the Kaiser a deserter and noted a telegram to Prince Eitel Friedrich referencing comrades not beaten on the battlefield. Nights in the Sahara are described as bitterly cold.
A sermon fragment from Moody Bible Institute discusses hearing God's call as the turning point between heaven and hell. It uses biblical imagery of a ready feast and creation prior to action, urging repentance and faith in Christ to obtain new life and eternal glory.
The text argues that without communion with God the soul shrivels in confinement. It likens earthly life to closed rooms where worry and weakness grow. True vitality comes from fellowship with the Lord, which steadies and transforms the wavering soul.
A reflective meditation on heedless wrongdoing and its ripple effects on loved ones. The speaker asserts that sin harms not only the sinner but others who care for them, urging moral imagination to spare future sorrows among fathers and sons.
A reflective note on progress emphasizing movement toward a goal rather than current position. It frames life as a voyage where one must sail with or against the wind, never remain idle or anchored. The metaphor underscores purposeful action toward a desired destination.
A biblical saying notes that a prophet is not honored in his homeland or among his own people according to Matthew 13 57. The passage reflects a theme of skepticism toward familiar figures and the limits of local reverence.
A devotional excerpt invokes divine mercy amid fear and calls God to revive his work within the years, seeking remembrance in wrath and mercy alike. The text emphasizes supplication and perseverance in faith across time.
A brief devotional line from Psalm 84 11 emphasizes that God acts as sun and shield, promising grace and glory to those who wait uprightly. The passage frames divine protection and blessing as rewards for steadfast patience and righteousness.
A tense exchange unfolds as Bobby arrives in tears after a clash of play and mud. The mother questions why the boy cries while addressing a past scuffle and a child named Toston Dranscript appears in the dialogue.
A muttered Bayer aspirin advertisement touts Bayer Tablets of Aspirin for various pains with promised safety marks. A separate fragment describes a boy punished by Pat for stalling, with another youngster defending him and a stray remark about blame and help.
An advertisement claims many women suffer kidney and bladder trouble. It credits Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root with restoring health, offers sample bottles for 1 cent, and notes bottles are sold at drug stores.
Fragmentary dialogue shows Porking and Trown in a street exchange about war and charges. Incoherent phrases reference old friends and a wartime context with vague accusations and time limits. The readable portion centers on a tense street remark and implied legal action.
Mrs Viola Jordan of Danville Illinois testifies to relief from a chronic bronchial cough after using Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery She says the product rebuilt her health and eased congestion enabling better rest and energy The notice urges readers to obtain the medicine and contact Dr Pierce's Invalids Hotel in Buffalo NY for advice
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