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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1914
Page
3
A first person memoir traces a mail order firm from its early days to major expansion in the east. It details lavish stock grants to founders, cash sales, and the lure of catalogures while urging readers to support home merchants and unite for local prosperity.
The New York County Lawyers' Association ethics committee considers improper a firm brief noting a ex-judge member’s present view on a litigated matter. It rules such reference as outside allowable argument and disallows certain professional conduct advertising claims.
In Calcutta a silver cannon ball bears engraved curses from Anadnagar’s princess Cande during Mogul invasion. The tale says her treasury was poured into bullets with maledictions, fired at invaders until the town capitulated and little spoil remained.
In a small southwestern town a town council orders a local tax on dogs, imposing one dollar on male dogs and three dollars on female dogs, a move noted in the local newspaper and discussed as overly delicate by Harper's Magazine.
London reports ridicule of German prisoner convoys used to buoy morale as crews stage grand trains through Aix-la-Chapelle while Allied troops dodge shells. A Dublin fusilier recounts humor amid battle with pigs and jokes about Kaiser. The piece contrasts German theatrical bravado with grim front-line realities.
The state board of education proposes 870000 in new college buildings funded by millage for Iowa State College Ames University of Iowa and Cedar Falls Teachers College plus home economics and animal husbandry facilities. The board also urges reducing the college building millage from ten to seven twentieths of a mill in 1917 and continuing it for five years.
Report notes that New York society girls run a novelty shop named Little Belgium behind a counter to raise funds for Belgian relief. The venture aims to aid destitute Belgians during the crisis.
Berliner Tageblatt reports a wounded German officer saying France pays British auxiliary troops. Each non fighting day earns four francs per man, while battle days pay eight francs. He notes the French government currently provisions the entire British force on French soil.
London newspaper owners agree to print only match results to avoid affecting recruitment and diverting attention from the war.
The Central Unemployed Body for London reports wholesale dismissals of German and Austrian waiters last month did not help English waiters. Vacated posts are filled by Italians Frenchmen and Dutchmen as Englishmen avoid waiter work. The sharp decline in English waiter availability persists as demand shifts.
Private Preston aged eighteen nicknamed the baby of a Manchester regiment led his company against German forces after all officers were killed, rallying comrades in a pivotal frontline moment.
During his first week at the front the prince of Wales sent two long letters to his mother describing experiences and observations. Both letters were opened by the censor and passed for transmission in the same manner as ordinary soldiers' correspondence.
A cow named Bossy strayed between French and German trenches 100 yards apart. Both sides pledged to let the milker milk Bossy if the other side fired first. The Germans fired first and killed the cow with the initial shot.
In Berne Switzerland cheese tops Swiss watches as the district exports value driven by dairy production. The report notes cheese surpasses watches in export value and highlights its role as a leading regional product.
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