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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1915
Page
6
Motor vehicle data from Iowa shows 145,024 cars owned or operated in 1915 with fees totaling 1,398,306.67. Motorcycles numbered 7,049 as the 1915 registration closed, while 1916 forecasts target 175,000 cars and a shift to three year plates.
A playful Damocles imagines the sword of danger hovering above him but prefers a hairline capillary attraction to a hovering Zeppelin. The exchange blends humor and peril as a metaphor for risk choice between two threats.
A grim line in Penn State Froth reveals a dog named Fes died after swallowing watch keys, described as a tragedy. The dialogue centers on the loss and the humorous yet morbid tone surrounding the incident.
A physician advised a patient to live on water for five days, framing a trip across as beneficial. The exchange recalls a peculiar medical fad where travel and hydration were linked to healing.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports a peculiar courtroom scene where a judge, hungry during a land use dispute over tidelands, confiscates exhibit oysters and orders them prepared for the inner man while the case is taken under advisement.
The United States declares Austria-Hungary responsible for the submarine torpedoing of the Ancona. It cites the admiralty report admitting the ship was torpedoed with passengers aboard after engines stopped and demands compliance with prior demands to ensure humane conduct in war at sea.
The piece argues for preparedness in defense and in eternal welfare through faith in Jesus Christ. It links national readiness to spiritual readiness, noting immediate blessings, peace with God, and the promise of incorruptible bodies for believers, while urging timely personal salvation before death. It includes a WWI trench scene illustrating readiness.
London dated dispatch reports Brig. Gen. Herbert Campbell Holman of the Sixteenth Cavalry Indian Army wounded on the French front. Announcement also confirms Brig. Gen. George Benjamin Hodson Indian Army and Brig. Gen. G. D. L. Ryrie Australian forces wounded in the Dardanelles.
A specialist notes the pneumonia plague germ is related to the bubonic germ and its transmission remains unknown. The disease is said to be nearly always fatal. It is linked to the plague that killed 25 million Europeans in the fourteenth century.
Berlin dispatch notes that the Overseas News Agency reports a growing reactionary movement in Russia. It says Chief Interior Minister Chester banned conventions of the Russian national towns union and the Russian national union of self government, as Moscow is deemed unsafe after recent street riots. Similar accounts come from other regions.
A historical note recalls Samuel Woodworth born 1785, Massachusetts farmer, as the author linked to the song The Old Oaken Bucket and its supposed inspiration during a terrifically hot day, a claim debated given his era and position.
The quote suggests few men are vain enough to think they resemble the ideal image a skilled photographer can capture. It contrasts self-perception with how photographs reflect reality.
In a passage cited by Christian Science Monitor a German elector is urged to rely entirely on God rather than human means. The letter states no sword can help and that belief brings protection while action should be to do nothing until faith grows.
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