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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1929
Page
8
Practical spring guidance for homemakers on preserving eggs in waterglass and using corn meal breads. Advice covers fermented milks and diet, laundering rayon, and organizing a dedicated sewing area with tools, patterns, and cutting space for efficient work.
R L Cochran of Iowa State College poultry department outlines selecting breeding hens free from disqualifications, good type and color, with high egg production. Plan uses 25 hens per 200 chicks, one male per 12–14 hens, separate breeding pens, good feed, and regular egg collection to avoid chilling with storage at 50–60 degrees for up to ten days.
Iowa State College farm crops department reports discing bluegrass pastures improves forage quality and yield. For seeding after discing use equal parts medium red clover, biennial sweet clover, and hardy alfalfa. on poorly drained land favor red clover and alfalfa. Seeding rates 8-12 pounds per acre. use a disc drill for best germination. broadcast-and-harrow is an alternative. Manure with light super phosphate boosts results, especially for Carrington area.
A fragment from the Indianapolis Star notes a speaker in past tense about art, memory, and mortality. It references a biologist who denies the ape as man's ancestor and contemplates a period in Tennessee. The verse laments deferral of testimony and the silent fate of reputation after death. The piece closes with a 5¢ marker and catalog-like metadata.
Jones county farmers are urged to plant alfalfa, a leading forage legume with diverse uses. The article notes Iowa's substantial acreage, advises caution in early grazing, and cites benefits for dairying poultry and egg production while recommending consulting The Express field man for guidance.
The article notes rising life expectancy in the United States and global health gains. It highlights a decline in deaths from most diseases over 25 years, with influenza causing over ten million deaths in 1918 19 and diabetes cancer and heart disease remaining challenging. Life expectancy rose from 35 to 58 years in the past half century.
The William Pickering farm between Stone City and Viola was sold recently to George Matthiessen. Matthiessen’s son will farm the property. George Meeks had a car accident near Springville last Saturday as his Hudson skidded and burned. he escaped and insured the loss. The Anamosa Fair association held its 1929 annual meeting in the court room with reports from Treasurer T. E. Watters and Secretary A. L. Remley. Officers for 1929 were elected: President O. J. Cash Jr, vice president C. C. Stephens, secretary John W. McNamara, treasurer T. E. Watters. The 1929 fair dates were Sept 11–14. Spain’s wartime trade with the United States is noted as having increased since prohibition.
Royal academician W P Frith painted in the countryside in summer and grew fond of a rush-bottomed chair owned by a kind elderly watcher. He offered 1 shilling for it, but the woman refused and proposed an exchange for one of his small 'pieters' valued at a thousand dollars. Frith ultimately left with the chair and a tale to tell Ju Nan Hawthorne.
Mrs. Alexander King comments on thinning vegetable courses and the shift to serving vegetables without juice on the dinner plate. She notes the move toward using forks or knives and forks, especially if adopting the European dining method, due to vegetables becoming less drippy.
A neighbor rushes to tell Mrs. O'Malley her husband collapsed from heat while at the foundry furnace. The scene unfolds with concern as the news is shared in dialectal speech.
In St. Magnus the Martyr London church readies a display of 1831 relics from Bonar's Stead tavern including the famed ialstaff cup and a tobacco box praised by Washington Irving. The box cover shows the inn with revelers and two chairs bear the names Prince Hal and Falstaff. An inscription notes the box was used at the vestry meetings at the Boar's Head.
An Ap elderly nomon watches a basketball match where her son plays. After a moment she asks the object of the game. The guide explains to put the ball to chat get, and she quips that it would be simpler if players would step aside.
The Monticello schedule lists passenger and freight trains with arrival and departure times at the Monticello station, including connections at Delaware for Dubuque and at Oxford Junction for Chicago. The council selects adopted bills totaling multiple fund payments and approves a pavement and storm sewer share with the Iowa State Highway Commission, fixing 50 percent cost to each party for Main street intersections.
RegularMonticello Iowa meeting of the board of education held February 4 1929 at 7 30 p m in which members Shover Stimson Roberts Ricklefs and Fraser attended. Bills were approved for payment including utilities, publishing, coal, lumber and piano cover. A motion to secure Arthur Bennett as commencement speaker was approved and the meeting adjourned.
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