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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1914
Page
3
A brown linen waterproof travel apron with five pockets and flaps, detailing sizes and bindings. Also describes a handkerchief case with pink embroidery, a satin lining, and a sachet-filled interlining, plus a brown linen work bag with decorative stitching and ribbon borders.
The article surveys girdles and sashes as fashionable gifts decorates outfits with ribbons. It highlights wide plaid ribbon girdles with bows, dotted satin sashes, and methods to fasten and style using hooks eyes and velvet borders.
The text urges completing dependence on times and places to know God. It states God’s direction is moment to moment and the best possible path. It claims true peace comes from seeking God everywhere and serving the Lord in all things.
Holiday bags feature ribbon designs. A slipper bag uses Dresden ribbon over pasteboard with an oblong, opera-glass like box base, silk covered bottom and sides, and a gathered upper ribbon. A second bag folds striped and satin ribbons into a wide strip with a two inch top casing and satin ties for closure.
Pretty boudoir slippers made of plain ribbon suitable for all female family members from grandma to baby. Use two and a half inch ribbon sewed to leather insoles with down or quilted satin. soles are ready made and inexpensive. Slippers feature felled seam backs, elastic at the heel, toe fullness, and three small rosettes for finish.
A fragment notes John Tauler discussing service as nothingness and humility. The passage presents a spiritual reflection rather than a report of events or quotes.
A religious meditation extols faith in Christ, promising joy despite hardship. The verse suggests singing before a coming summer sun and asserts that divine salvation cannot be marred, urging believers to rejoice.
Berlin reports a dramatic night duel between French and German airships above a small town. The Republique and the German Victoria clash as bombs fall, roads and houses burn, and the French craft envelopes in flames disappearing into the night.
French and German troops in the Aisne trenches exchange taunts and small provocations. Germans in quarries wheel a horse with a placard boasting Russia’s defeat and Antwerp’s capture. French soldiers report the enemy singing and giving loud commands from yards away while omitting rifle fire when possible.
A German woman married to an Englishman visits Victoria station during mobilization. She learns her fifteen year old son, a naval cadet, is being mobilized. She finds him before he boards an outgoing train and he is assigned to a warship as midshipman.
A microbe causing gangrene in bullet and shrapnel wounds has been found by Dr James Scarlett and Dr Georges Desjardins of the American ambulance service. After initial impure cultures a single bacillus was isolated and serum prepared by Dr Henri Weisberg of the Pasteur Institute. The serum's battlefield use aims to halt infection early, preventing amputations and saving lives globally.
A Chicago man recalls a German officer showing how Germans stay ready for mobilization. He pointed to an army wagon loaded with two horseshoes hanging beneath, explaining the shoes were fitted to two horses: one at John Smith's farm and the other at John Jones's farm.
Geneva dispatch reports German military authorities promote non commissioned officers and even privates who distinguish themselves to officer rank on colonel recommendation without prior regimental nomination. Seen as a democratic concession likely to anger aristocratic caste officers.
Wounded German soldier saved seven French soldiers during fighting on the Yser. A bloodstained note on packing paper, read by Red Cross nurses, stated he acted heroically before being placed in an improvised hospital bed. The sketch of events was provided by French ambulance workers.
Paris reports the Intransigeant published with headlines in the first column about German trade marks. The writer Leon Bailly signed the piece, but the entire story text was missing leaving the column blank.
Copenhagen reports two German shipyards, Germania and Howard, constructing 30 armored lighters each able to carry 500 men and travel nine miles per hour. They would move to the Scheldt river if troop landings on the English coast permit.
After ten years in prison Mark Burnham gains a secret fortune and contemplates crime. A river rescue by a stranger leads him to adopt the rescuer’s life, assume a relative’s identity, and care for a destitute widow and five children. He befriends Ida Worth, hides his past, and plans a new future in love and virtue.
The piece notes a shift from clergy to diverse careers as higher education expands. It traces history from ecclesiastical dominance to law medicine and church, then to many fields now being treated as learned professions. It also cites business moving toward professional status with formal learning and ethics guiding practitioners.
A compact note on bathing history in Europe. Romans first valued hot springs like Baden Baden, Caracalla and others. After the empire fell, barbarian and Christian influence reduced bathing. Charlemagne revived warm-water baths at Aix-la-Chapelle, restoring Baden Baden as a health and pleasure resort.
A brief dialogue contrasts Johnny’s dedication with his focus on work. The speaker defends Johnny’s character while others criticize his commitment, noting his heart lies with his labor. The exchange highlights differing views on priority between passion and duty.
A Browning quotation about the richness of life through what we gain and what we lose is cited as a reflection on everyday human experience and perception.
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