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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1917
Page
6
A 1916 essay argues marriage is a serious contract requiring transparency about income and expenses. It urges frank pre marriage talks on finances, regular cash for wifely needs, and recognition of a wife’s contributed value to home making to prevent friction and unhappiness.
A Connecticut Agricultural College guide outlines six weeks as the most dangerous for chicks and lists essential steps. It covers selecting strong breeders, preventing lice, proper brooder use, removing dead chicks, labeling weak stock, keeping breeders clean, delaying feeding for 48 to 60 hours, and providing clean small meals with protein and ash. It cites Dr. F P Shaw on chick digestion timing and feeding rationale.
The report notes Turkey placing bakeries under state control, China planning papermaking education in government schools, and the U S Coast Guard saving 1 507 lives last year. Australia claims the tallest trees on British soil. Cuba grows tobacco in 90 days. A Lafrance of Ottawa has six sons in the British Army. English colonies cover 13 002 321 square miles with 389 005 035 people.
When William A. Garrett led the Pere Marquette railroad he issued an anti smoking order for all on duty workers. In a freight yard a brakeman quietly smoked and challenged Garrett's authority with a calm reply showing he knew the manager.
A man boasts of a new idea at a boarding house about using labeled left overs so each boarder gets his own hash and pudding. The dialogue includes a patron and a snappy man at free lunch counters in a humorous exchange.
The amateur poultry raiser, noting pride in his birds, says that even if he gains nothing at the game he hopes his hens will soon pay their own costs. He explains that the hens have begun eating their own eggs, a sign of resourcefulness. The Missouri man asks how he calculates success.
A Shelbyville sage counsels a young man about entering society by suggesting he study the owl. The mentor advises him to look wise and hoot occasionally, implying measured silence and occasional wit as guidance.
Hazel questions Aimee about marrying Lapleigh and starting housekeeping. Aimee confirms the plan, and Hazel notes the advantage of securing a flat for their future home.
The dialogue shows Mrs Naggs wishing to be a man and Naggs replying that she would be knocked out in the first round. The exchange reflects stage banter about boxing and gender roles in a public setting.
A terse exchange questions a visitor's identity and complexion. The speaker recalls possibly seeing the young man while noting his complexion is described as fresh by the other.
The speaker explains in rustic terms that gos sip is a mouth disease. A playful exchange uses animal imagery to discuss a health condition in simple language.
Garrett confronted a food man asking him to choose between his cigar and his job. The brakeman stared into space, puffing on the cigar, and finally replied that both options were rotten, expressing uncertainty about what to say.
Popular Science Monthly describes a home treadmill device with a wooden belt on rollers, supported by steel legs that fold for storage. A handlebar aids stability and allows extra exertion while running, enabling any distance without leaving home.
Miss Luola E. Kennedy of Kansas State Agricultural College explains colds as germ diseases. Avoid exposure and poor hygiene, maintain proper sleep, diet, and rest, and keep air moist indoors. Hardening against cold is fine but not excessive. drugs are not a cure.
Ex queen Nathalie of Serbia who vanished at war’s start reappears disguised as Nathalie Kechoko, sweeping floors and aiding wounded in a Bordeaux hospital. Journalist Jean de Bonnefon reports her humble service contrasts with former royal splendor while she remains incognito to protect colleagues.
A survey of varied findings and notes from around the world includes new padlock combinations, a rich Burmese oil discovery, a zinc plant in Norway, Swiss poor relief, Chilean currency plans, water cycle facts, Persia temperance, a spoon clip invention, New York lumber use, a hidden bed concept, Paris film output, adjustable electric irons, oxygen and alcohol heart stimulation, Argentina lamp production, pine blister origin, New York eradication measures, and Italian wheel rim regulations.
A page offers several hard sauce recipes to pair with hot puddings. Instructions include warming butter with sugar and folding in egg whites with lemon and vanilla, or a maple sugar boil finished with whipped cream.
A double boiler scalds milk then thickens with cornstarch and milk. Butter and powdered sugar are creamed then vanilla and salt are added. Cool the thickened milk and beat in the sugar mixture and the stiffly whipped egg white for a light fluffy sauce.
A simple recipe for a fruit flavored sauce using sugar cornstarch or flour water and fruit juice or vinegar with butter nutmeg and salt. The text also describes a rich sauce option with butter powdered sugar and whipped cream and advises flavor to taste.
Naturalists cite Sysbonby as the fastest known animal with about 26 feet per stride in instantaneous photos. Observations compare dog and hare speeds, note giraffes at 15 meters per second under ideal conditions, and report elephants moving two yards per second while bearing heavy weights comparable to six horses.
Dark blue and gray ensembles dominate this season with a gray doveskin trotter suit trimmed in white suede. Fabric gloves are common except at formal events. Angel sleeves return in long loose shapes as Weils of dark tulle are heavily embroidered in white or gray. Small girls’ dresses mirror middy styles. A Paisley shawl can be refashioned into an evening wrap.
The barge built entirely of reinforced concrete by N. K. Frogner at Christiania last summer inspires eight more including two 100 ton and six 3000 ton barges at Moss. Construction times are five weeks for a 100 ton pod and four months for a 3000 ton vessel.
The article traces how desert dwellers, notably Arabs, shaped civilization through solitude and initiative. It links modern irrigation projects to a democratic, progressive spirit, noting irrigated regions lead in productive farming and reforms, while maintaining low illiteracy. Irrigation is framed as life from death, reviving waste lands.
The piece by Hugh Mearns in McClure's argues American speech diverges from British English, showcasing humorous phonetic spellings and slang. It notes Americans flatten consonants and alter vowels, tracing the evolving American vernacular as print and speech drift apart.
A Trinidad planter combines sugar cane refuse and bamboo fibers to produce paper rivaling wood pulp. An auto wheel reel speeds up line work by letting a lineman handle wire faster. A French professor develops electromagnetism resistant surgical instruments from secret steel alloy. An auger bit design thick at edges and thin center aims to reduce clogging. European practice cuts wall slots and inserts asphalt coated lead plates to block dampness in stone buildings. A Wisconsin inventor creates portable gear to connect with any telephone or telegraph system for talking or sending messages.
The text notes that high altitude populations in South America show weaker higher pitched voices. Among Andean plateaus at 10 000 to 14 000 feet, men are described as having voices like women and women as children, with shrill monotone singing.
The caguan, a Filipino animal described as a mix of monkey and bat, hangs head downward with four limbs together resembling a large fruit. Birds and predators ignore it while it remains camouflaged among fruit trees in the tropical forest.
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon warns that a waist measure of forty or more is unlucky for men five feet eight or shorter. Overweight strains liver and kidneys and can be fatal. He urges control of appetite, exercise, proper diet, and seeking expert help to avoid the fat and forty stage and protect mental sharpness and self-respect.
In a congressional race a veteran candidate boasted of battles and bloodied feet to sway voters. A listener cried foul unsure if the stories matched his record, then declared he would vote for the rival who had not “been to the wars.”
Dr J Mitchell Bruce of Charing Cross hospital London told students at the winter session that children’s curiosity is a hunger for knowledge for its own sake. He cited Oliver Wendell Holmes on children as a source of parental despair and described the small boy’s quest as pure inquiry rather than a physiological need.
A bird perches high on a tree and settles on a sturdy branch as it searches for a roost. It feels nearly certain no harm will come while it rests.
In New York a new job for women uses them as decoys in sight-seeing cars. Known as squatters, they dress attractively carry cameras and guide books and sit in vacant cars until demand rises. They then switch to an empty car at the next stand, effectively filling cars with passengers before dismounting to another stand.
The article explains that virtues such as virtue knowledge temperance patience godliness brotherly kindness and charity arise from faith in Christ rather than being added separately. It emphasizes that these seven graces grow simultaneously from the root of faith and cites Galatians 5 22 and Jeremy Taylor to urge continual prayer and cultivation.
A historical reflection cites a Wall Street Journal claim that America should revive traditional piety to improve daily life and family discipline. The piece argues piety shapes business culture by encouraging timely prayers and responsible labor during harvest and community prayer meetings.
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