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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1923
Page
6
Goethe quotes frame a meditation on love as a transformative force. True love strengthens character, fuels nobility, and enriches souls. It endures injury and neglect, purifying and uplifting both giver and receiver across life and motherhood.
The Pathfinder theorizes why most people are right handed. Ancient warfare favored the right hand for action, as shields protected the heart on the left. Over ages, the right arm and brain developed, making the right hand more proficient and common.
A quotation emphasizes health and industry success through absolute consciousness surrender and strict time division, urging constant focus on one task without distraction. The speaker, Sismondi, highlights disciplined attention as the key to productive work and well being.
A manganese ore discovery is reported on the western fringe of a saline basin in Australia near Pernatti la doit about four miles north of Woocalla. The find marks a notable mineral occurrence in the region.
A fragment praising Greek thought as a universal yet individual genius. It extols Greek culture for its infinite flexibility strength and inclusive nature, comparing its diction to Italian and English and its imagery to films of summer. Mention of Culeridge and Demosthenes appears as a stylistic reference.
A writer on home economics says the real home worker values sunlit spaces and practical beauty. She adapts to any residence from town houses to four room apartments, using convenient tables and cheerful lighting to banish shadows and create airworthy comfort.
The tale follows Diogenes a colored mime employee in the South who admires a newspaper editor's pen. He asks the stationery dealer for a pen and requests a trenchant pen like the boss uses in a brief, humorous exchange.
A Western magistrate advises a thief to keep straight but the jailed man asks how a woman can manage when both ends meet. In Cairomeo tailors, workers iron clothes with their feet using a large flat iron balanced on a wooden block and guided by a handle.
The article describes a silvering method with two solutions labeled a and b. Solution a dissolves Rochelle salts and nitrate of silver in water, then reboils with added water. Solution b mixes nitrate of silver with ammonia and alenol, then water. Equal parts of a and b are used to silver glass plates, with careful preparation and standing time.
The cherry blossom represents happiness for the Japanese and signals spring through a national festival. Me loud notes Japan’s blend of natural generosity and human effort, with Tokyo gifting 3000 trees to Washington in 1912 as a gesture of friendship, making the blossoms a scenic Capitol landmark.
A Greek traveler describes effeminate dandies in ancient Athens who slept on sponge beds and used dressed peacock skin covers with feathers. Pink and purple cushions supported their heads as they rested.
A fragment notes statements that shipped goods could be moved cheaper between distant ports like Boston to Cuba or New York to Brazil than between nearby piers within the same city, implying a misdirection in freight pricing.
The tailor bird known as an East Indian warbler builds a hanging pouch by sewing leaves together with twisted fibers or cotton and using its bill as a needle. Often the nest forms when two leaves are joined, the pouch attached by leaf stalks, and a soft cup nest resides inside entered from above.
The easiest method is to boil the pineapple briefly. Submerge the fruit in boiling water for three to five minutes then remove and slice into half inch thick rounds. Peel and remove eyes, repeating with another pineapple while one remains in hot water. This preserves flavor and texture.
In a San Francisco hotel two well to do men joke about wives leaving for Del Monte and islands. One plans a radio message home saying Bon vivant to avoid costly words, hinting at a snappy style.
A spinster music teacher harasses a young librarian for months over references and book choices. The librarian, exhausted, defends the choice of modern works and laments the scarcity of items by old masters among available titles.
A newly described motion picture camera concept mounts portraits in a book form. Turning pages rapidly creates appearance of motion, offering a portable sequence device in a printed album.
A fragment warns that a person overly curious about the crowd’s workings, like Ike Ong, risks being stung by the collective labor of the bees and the crowd’s scrutiny.
In old Parisian practice banks close at noon and issue checkbooks by appointment only. Customers wait their turn on backless benches until their number is called, feeling money as a privilege rather than a right, a ritual tied to status and genealogy.
Monticello merchants announce evening hours starting Monday December 17 and continuing until Christmas. Shoppers unable to visit by day will have ample time each evening next week. Stores are described as stocked with attractive Christmas gifts.
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