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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1927
Page
8
A guide discusses milk yield for cottage cheese and the nutrition of dried banana figs. It covers budgeting for 1928 with essentials and monthly planning, plus fabric notes on velveteen and corduroy for children's clothing. It notes teen boys’ high energy needs and promotes milk, eggs, fruits, and vegetables.
A Davenport Times opinion demeans men who avoid obligations and advocate taxation of the successful to cover others failures, arguing such approaches reward laziness and punish merit.
The Sioux City Journal argues the jury system aids criminals and enables lax punishment. The piece claims mercy and remiss justice favor suspects, allowing them to escape accountability.
A collage of quips on marriage work and irony from old papers. Jokes about self talk honeymoon dentistry applause telegrams thrifty wives and absent minded professors span a 19th to early 20th century humor arc.
A farmer uses a two foot globe for the sun with a circle 82 feet away for Mercury and a pea 215 feet away for Earth. Saturn is a small orange two-fifths of 4 miles distant, illustrating vast planetary gaps. The piece notes Saturn's distance about 56 trillion miles, far larger than Earth's.
The passage discusses tree anatomy with emphasis on roots, trunk, crown, and underground portions. It mentions a tree association and various plants or trees, using broken phrases that reference growth, land, and routes between trees. The text appears as a scrambled excerpt from an observational note.
The article notes ancient customs of orange blossoms worn by brides as symbols of luck and happiness. It references ideas about the orange as a golden apple from myth and mentions Anglo-Saxon brides giving small knots and ribbons to friends for wedding day.
The Gulf Stream is described as flowing from the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and the Bahamas, turning northeast along the American coast. It is about fifty miles wide at its narrowest, about 2000 feet deep, and after Bermudas splits into several streams roughly 150 miles wide in total. Beyond latitude 40N its distinct features fade into the general warm-water drift toward Europe.
In a sketch of John Hay by Charles F Thwing a Lincoln anecdote is recounted from a Buffalo campaign stop. A man told Lincoln that with him and God they could win, to which Lincoln replied I kind of think you are more than half right.
Ruskin and Carlyle discuss why deeply humane literature commands less sales while popular but false works sell in the thousands. Ruskin replies that the key difference is love. novels with love move readers, unlike works lacking it. Scribner's Magazine.
Good Idea Caperscope returns home exhausted to a tense scene as Pryoobe confronts a nonresponsive household. Pryoobe plans to travel back to town to dine at the Ort heron while Ad fe delays, asking for five more minutes as the reading continues.
An antiquated scene at the Pall Mall gallery involves patrons and artists writing lines beneath portraits and inscriptions. Yvette Goubert reads a verse and notes it as an ugly but expressive worded gift from God. Chance and Hayward exchange quips about the album captions within Avanta Constitution.
Judd Mortimer Lewis writes in the Houston Post Dispatch that there is no peace to hate, no joy in crooked deeds, and no lasting profit in crime. He argues that revenge harms the perpetrator, life loses value, and true rewards lie in virtue and the good will of others.
Betty Clarkson rejects Abner Wray mainly because of his father’s fortune and the family business. Abner persists revealing he is not wealthy and vows to marry for love. Betty resolves to test him by visiting a tailored clothing display where Abner will sew on camera, hoping to confirm her feelings.
An unnamed woman disappears from sight and is escorted by Abner Wray who drags her toward a car. Betty follows the exodus with evident joy as onlookers fail to notice the abrupt change in custody.
The oldest water power site in America lies on the Wisconsin river at South Berwick Maine more than a century old. Established in 1620 by Ferdinando Gorges the site includes a log dam and grist mill and was created under a crown grant to develop water power. It has operated continuously since.
A newly rich man asks Beau Brummell to name his party and picks eleven including himself. The host says that makes an even number and Brummell feigns surprise asking if he will be invited. The curious arithmetic amuses the scene.
The text notes that French was used across Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries, spurring literature and studies to read it. Many foreign students came to the University of Varna, aiding the spread. French became dominant for treaties and diplomacy in Louis XIV’s era.
A red sandstone relief from the Mathura school is in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The thin double sided pediment slab features a triple ornamental design and likely formed the temple entrance, suggesting a stone structure with a roof.
The Brus Stone dating to 1004, once part of the Cu We of Brus at Annan, was permanently embedded in the town wall during a ceremony led by Mr Robert Bruce. After a century and a half missing, it was found ten years ago in a North Devon garden.
City council invites written or verbal bids for the old fire station at First Street opposite the Presbyterian church. Bids are due at 8 p.m. in the council rooms. property is the brick building covering the site. City Clerk Ray Echternacht authenticates bids.
A primary teacher tried teaching Bertha to say ate but she answered with I dried it after washing her face this morning. The exchange highlights a child's literal reply and the humorous mispronunciation.
The unreformed calendar persists in parts of Europe and England where Christmas falls on December 25 but government payments on national debt occur on January 12. Midsummer dividends are issued on July 5 instead of June 24.
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