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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1922
Page
3
An early morning meditation urges youth to pursue high aims and steadfast virtue. It speaks of a new day, crossed thresholds, and choosing the harder path toward wealth and fame, urging resolve and faith to avoid distractions and failures.
A column urges self study over rote asking for answers, stressing effort to fix spellings and vocabulary, using language learning as a model for digging out rules from printed authorities, and contrasts asking questions with independent reasoning. It includes a recipe and a note of copyright 1922.
A devotional verse petitions God for blessings this day and night. The speaker asks for health, cheerful strength, restful sleep, renewed awakening, and courage for the right, ending with an amen and a note of copyright.
A concise recounting of Tammany origins from May 12 1789 to its 1805 charter showing its antifederalist leaning and the link to Tamanend the Delaware chief. It notes the split between the charitable Tammany Society and the political body that uses Tammany Hall with society consent.
A fragment lists baked goods and ingredients from Verece Merwe's Mother’s Cook Book. It includes White Cookies with butter sugar eggs cream and nutmeg, Fruit Cake with dates soda cocoa and lemon, and Ginger Cookies with shortening molasses.
A humorous exchange asks where to obtain venison pies for a throw during a Shakespearean comedy fim. The dialogue references books as faithful repositories that may be neglected but when opened again will impart their instruction.
The article explains ancient beliefs that fingernail shape and skin growth indicate character. Short broad nails suggest a dominant, orderly person who may clash with others, while certain spatulate nails imply a passion for tidying and perfecting order. A humorous aside mentions table rappings and knockings at supper.
Historic Franciscan museum The Alamo in San Antonio Texas traces its origins to 1722 while other notes mention Coos county Oregon coyote eradication payments eight dollars for males nine for females and inventions and discoveries in oil and technology.
Bloomer the brindle bull terrier received a medal in Columbus Ohio for aiding police by capturing two burglars. The dog is pictured with one of his best friends.
Miss Edith Harrington of Newton Massachusetts is named prettiest motorist of New England for the fourth time, adding to her two prior bathing beauty contest victories from last summer.
In a playful exchange, a humor column notes that former Pullman train names have faded from rail service and are now repurposed as soft drink brand names. The jest contrasts nostalgia for travel with modern marketing trends.
The piece quotes Thackeray on Eve and happiness and questions whether the tempter would have succeeded with a contented Eve. It notes a Boston Transcript appreciation about Charline dining with a large neighborly family and her sigh at the idea of a one party family.
A humorous exchange where a boy asks about a canary selling job and the shopkeeper responds that he only wants to know how the canaries lost their tails. The punchline hinges on the boy’s awkward interpretation of the request.
In a conversation about diplomacy, Miss Cayenne asserts diplomats must be polite as a cover for concealed anger. The exchange underscores how politeness can mask true sentiment in negotiations.
A wide range of items from LeMars to Des Moines covers suicides financial troubles political candidacy and inmate releases. Notable notes include Col. E B Piper running for congress, a confession of murder by two boys, county wage cuts in northeast Iowa, and Capt. John Buchanan resigning after farm bureau cuts.
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