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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1921
Page
3
A 1921 Western Newspaper Union feature offers practical meal planning ideas. It gives a dish using leftover salt mackerel and potatoes formed into balls with butter and pepper, plus a deep fat fry method. It also outlines a Pacific Salad with spaghetti celery peppers pickles and dressed greens to complement the meal.
Florida Walker urges constant excitement and enthusiasm in work. He compares enthusiasm to the ant’s curiosity and Edison’s feverish effort, arguing fulfillment comes from purposeful labor. If current work lacks spark, seek a new job that rouses mind and hands, or remain a snail that never advances.
Poem and vignette reveal outdoorsman romance and rugged life in the forest. The speaker contrasts woods love with city life, praising pine scent, starry skies, and labor in tamarack lands, while noting strength forged by loneliness and nature.
Aunt Belle phones her sister and learns Bernice says the mother is busy with a toothache and the baby on the front porch. The piece adds a note that the song Comin Through the Rye refers to the River Rye, not a rye field.
Advice column focuses on climbing careers with practical steps for ambition. Emphasizes resume building, skill development, networking, and professional conduct to advance in competitive workplaces.
The article notes banks and trust companies increasingly appoint women to major roles. It highlights examples at New York Trust and Guaranty Trust where women assist budgets and sell bonds. It advises women to pursue finance studies, work part time in financial offices, and seek night classes to gain practical experience.
Excavations by the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Hukes-dasr-el-Bahri recovered a ram-like stone figure bearing six cloth sacks filled with sand. Dated to the Eleventh Dynasty around 2160 B C, it joins a Twelfth Dynasty find of three crude wooden dolls, flat and simply carved to resemble dressed figures.
A playful quote imagines George Washington crossing the Delaware to reach Atlantic City. The Boston Transcript frames the gag as a light aside in historical humor.
El Dorado Arkansas draws notice after a large gas discovery and the first successful oil well now producing 25 000 barrels daily as shown in the accompanying photograph.
Jacob and Sarah Dick of New York celebrate their seventy fifth wedding anniversary. Born in Ivistick Gu cia they were married there and arrived in America 35 years ago. They are eighty eight years old and in good health with all faculties intact.
Professor Vaillant of France suffered the loss of an arm and both hands due to radium experiments. The incident highlights the dangers faced by researchers handling radioactive materials.
October 81 1920 marks war end date per Italian government. Colorado plans a research lab to develop petroleum from shales at a new university. An English alloy resembles nine carat gold, ductile and corrosion resistant. California proposes 200 million for Kern and San Joaquin river power plants. About 550 U.S. owned plants in Canada produce varied goods from phonographs to locomotives. Tierra del Fuego natives excel in stone throwing. A tubular ink ribbon dispenser improves typewriter ribbons. Slovakia’s coal reserves are 1.7177 billion tons, mining started ten years ago. Women may enter Louvain University if living with family or religious institutions. Harvard Law School is oldest in the U.S. and English-speaking world. A novel check book becomes ornamental metal for a watch chain. European railroads employ double deck hog cars with drainage to curb disease spread.
Researchers Dr. W. W. Garner and I. H. Allard of the U S Department of Agriculture discovered that controlling daily light exposure can speed or delay poinsettia blooming. Limited sunlight signals shorter days and prompts earlier flowering for the holiday season.
A New Haven 1807 passport text exalts authorities as Most Serene Puissant High Illustrious Noble and more. It proclaims approval by government and lists ranks from Lords to Regents, addressing both ecclesiastical and secular cities and officials who may view the patent.
A Senator Sorghum quips about Jeffersonian simplicity praising what commands public approval and political influence, revealing a humorous take on political ideals.
A fragment notes a dialogue on unlucky days, debating Friday’s bad reputation and whether reputation alone marks bad luck. The quirky exchange hints at superstition shaping calendar lore without naming people or places.
The report notes multiple property sales including Frank Gotch grounds sold to Fred Pinch at 225 dollars per acre and Albert Harris selling a 200 acre farm near Waukon for 39 800 dollars. It also covers labor, crime, legal actions, and public notices from Muscatine to Boone counties.
Ellery Sedgwick Boston editor openly mocks the survival of best selling writers. A West author boastfully claims his latest book has translations into French German Spanish and Chinese. Sedgwick quips asking why not translate into English.
A Scotsman note from August 4, 1889, links gob to mouth and describes coastguard meetings where yarns, pipe, and chew lead to good natured banter and free expectoration. The terms gobbies and gob arise from this habit, later applied to ships crewed by gobs.
A historical notice urges careful examination of Castoria bottles, the well known remedy for infants and children, to ensure safety and authenticity amid warnings about its contents and labeling.
Cape John Jacob Astor is set to receive ten million dollars in rent over the next twenty years under a lease signed last week in New York City. The property is the Hotel Astor on Broadway between Forty fourth and Forty fifth streets, part of the Eden estate once sold for thirty four thousand dollars.
The item notes a belief that the stork brings sorrow and trouble to households, observed as a superstition.
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