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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1921
Page
3
A feature urges tackling dull tasks first to free time for important duties. It advises fixed daily routines, planning each day, and organizing tasks by a budget of time and energy to boost competence and future career advancement.
A prose precept urges aspiring workers to cultivate harmony with employers, avoid sharp words, and control emotions. It argues that steady, courteous speech and restraint yield respect, advancement, and lasting esteem, warning that irritability can ruin futures.
Poem urges leaving past regrets behind and embracing new opportunities as the New Year opens. It speaks of sunrise, shifting fortunes, and turning toward the east to seize the day with renewed purpose and hope.
The piece argues that systematic work is essential for progress and that planned tasks yield better results. It urges arranging tasks by importance, budgeting time, and deciding task order in advance to maximize daily productivity.
A quirky verse notes Aslam returning from work on a train when a meter hits a hitch and the rail rattles with a jerk. The poem captures transit life and light humor aboard the car.
The article describes how the lower half of the humerus and the first joint of the timuh signify will power and generosity. It notes love of children and animals in a well-developed mount near the forefinger and states ministers should have a strong head for brain power and common sense.
A 1923 Western Union recipe fragment teaches sponge method bread making. It details ingredient ratios for a domed loaf, including warm liquid, salt, yeast, mashed potato, and flour, with steps to rise, knead, shape into leaves, and bake in a hot oven.
Polynesian wedding customs feature the groom absent from the feast, sent into the bush until after guests depart. He is only summoned when the bride is part of his family and the celebrations near completion. The tradition remains unexplained.
Fragmentary excerpt outlines palm lines and finger shapes as signs of trustworthiness and kindness for a clergyman, noting the forefinger base fork and concave thumb, with a brief mention that reason and logic also matter.
A humorous verse piece by John Kendrick Bangs titled A Line O' Cheer. The light verse plays on cheer and rhymes with playful quips and linguistic wit.
A quirky opinion piece argues that five percent are trait blazers while the rest stay in old habits. It notes how new inventions meet resistance from those content with well enough alone and reflects on a Michigan boom with 15,828 idle farms and 8,800 vacant farm buildings observed as a consequence.
Four year old Salome Blewett of Oakland is pictured as Salome in a classic dance. The piece notes coconut land wealth on Nauru where land value is tied to trees and nuts, with owners retaining harvesting rights and land plots described by rods and roads.
The bill introduced by Rep Gordon Lee of Georgia would authorize a national park on Blue Ridge and Calcutta mountains forests in Georgia with land leasing for hotels and cottages. It aims to shift park management from Interior to Agriculture, prompting opposition that such action bypasses standard congression process.
The article notes 430 patent examiners with 281 resigning in 82 months. Many left for higher pay or patent law, leaving the office overloaded with nearly 60 000 applications. It argues the office retards industry and calls for salary increases. several bills have passed chambers but not become law. A new favorable bill sits in the House.
The Women's Party advocates a constitutional amendment to guarantee gender equality while the National Consumers' League led by Jane Addams and others opposes it citing loss of state granted protections. Miss Jeanette Rankin notes different needs for men and women in the labor arena and warns of sweeping social discriminations.
A fragmentary 19th century article notes a buried forest near Peterborough England. It mentions various historical curiosities including Jenner as a poet, a giant volcanic crater in Teoland, a massive gold nugget, and outdated views on military literacy and labor.
The saying stems from older usage where prove meant test. Thus the line meant the exception tests the rule, not confirms it, revealing shifts in meaning over time.
The white bears are described as fastidious about grooming, using curved buvy to comb hair and licking themselves to make fur shine, a curious detail noted in region lore.
The reminiscence notes Mrs Pruner once boasted about her fine table and now contrasts it with her claims of superior cuisine. A sharp detail mentions board costs rising by five dollars per week.
In a terse exchange the First Cubist asks about a troubling matter, the Second Cubist replies with alarm. Baron X seeks the portrait he commissioned and the artists confront a mix up over which work is intended.
The sole female member of Congress Miss Alice Robertson of Oklahoma spoke against the maternity bill and opened with three funny stories. She recounted a Cherokee girl spelling the alphabet and counting to 25, a nursery governess bee sting joke, and a boy’s claim of a million cats that was really just two making noise.
President Harding may consider clemency for war law violators after a cabinet discussion approved leniency where possible. Debate in the House centered on amnesty resolutions led by Meyer London. four Medal of Honor holders supported the measure. Debs case to be treated separately with Justice Department input sought.
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