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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1922
Page
1
A clever mouse in a vacant house endures hunger and treads a thin ice pond to escape Madam Puss. He flees to a well supplied pantry then returns home, reflecting that the longer route can be wiser.
A shopper muses on seasonal wardrobe costs and comfort. He compares prices and practicality of two piece and union suits, fearing wardrobe failures and illness as weather swings between cold and heat. He weighs one piece versus two for reliability.
The Visitor learns in a London Punch cartoon piece that an anxious artist offers his finest work for half the catalogue price. The exchange hints at desperation and a sly market value remark.
A woman offers etiquette guidance on table knife use and dining manners. The piece covers proper knife handling, placement, and when not to use a knife, including fish and dessert courses, with examples of improper behavior and expectations for a well mannered table.
The piece traces the name Jane Jeann and its variants Joan Jenny and Joanna from Joln origins to Tudor fame. It links Jane to royalty Jenny to domestic charm and cites Jenny Lind as the famed bearer. Turquoise is Jane's talisman with Wednesday as a lucky day and 3 as a lucky number.
A wry remark from the Louisville Courier Journal suggests a bond cannot be easily broken when a wife can share her husband.
A garbled line hints at a discussion of friendly interest and possible payoffs in a greenback trade. The fragment mentions making noise and a reward, suggesting informal negotiations or rumors without clear names or dates.
Professor Harold H. Bender of Princeton argues the Aryan homeland lay in central and southeastern Europe between the Baltic and Black Seas, with Lithuanians preserving Indo European speech. He posits 5 000 year residence near Poland Lithuania and Ukraine and traces language as evidence of a common ancient culture.
Political leaders of Pressburg in Czechoslovakia, a city of 80 000, resolved that feuds would prevent electing a single mayor. They agreed to appoint six burgomasters, each from a different party, serving two months in sequence to govern the city.
In Byracuse New York two girls arrested for shop lifting were ordered by Police Court Justice Shove to spend 24 hours in meditation and prayer. The judge urged them to search their consciences and confess faults before stating their remorse for stealing, not merely for being caught.
The excerpt notes the difficulty of estimating the length of the Indo European period while highlighting substantial evidence against non Indo European predecessors across Indo European territories. It emphasizes the scarcity of alternative prehistory in the region.
Thyras a shaggy police dog from Poland is hailed by sixteen passengers aboard the steam ship Gdansk which reached Brooklyn after storms that endangered youths. Captain A H Peterson recalls Thyras rescuing seven year old Zeata Zaborowski who dropped a doll and nearly went overboard. The dog and two companions helped guard the children during the perilous crossing.
In Poplar Bluff Missouri William Daniels and his sons survived a bull attack when the Hereford bull charged two boys aged ten and twelve. The enraged animal was slain by a veterinary surgeon who cited hydrophobia as the cause of the sudden frenzy.
Mrs. Charles H. Slating accepted a year of probation and reporting duties to substitute for her son Charles Reynolds, 26, who faced a third larceny case in two years. Reynolds was to be sentenced for stealing women’s silk hose, pending confirmation he is not a drug addict. The judge accepted the mother’s offer to take the sentence and seek treatment.
Pacific coast gulls wage endless war on English sparrows keeping wharves quiet and litter free. Experienced gulls act as sentinels chasing sparrows from roofs. one chase forced a sparrow into the water. Wharf operators thank the gulls for preventing grain waste and droppings from sparrows near shipments.
Sarane Lake New York and Charles Rivers of Glen Valley hunters recount a deer hunt in Black Brook Adirondacks. Rivers encountered a huge bear on a ledge, fell, dropped his rifle, but recovered it as the bear closed in, avoiding serious injury.
Universalist church pastor Wellington C. Holmes began a winter program replacing Sunday evening sermons with motion picture exhibits of a religious nature. The schedule runs through March, and last winter he drew full crowds by the added attraction.
The piece explains a legendary two part Hungarian crown tied to Duke Stephen and Duke Geisa with a forged inscription claiming kingship over Turks. It notes the crowns were welded, the pope’s gift in 1000, the Emperor Michael’s gift in 3072, and the 1849 theft during an independence uprising led by Kossuth.
Treasure hunters aboard Ripple pursue the sunken Merida off Virginia Capes about 2.6 miles east, claiming the wreck and an $8,000,000 haul include silver gold and gemstones. The May 1919 collision with Admiral Farragut left the Merida afloat six hours before sinking. copper ballast and even keel rest on the sand.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to give California Fig Syrup to children with constipation or illness. It promises quick relief within hours and stresses using genuine syrup with directions for all ages.
The piece notes Chinese claims of a six century old pebble counter carriage and describes early European precursors to taxicabs. It cites a seventeenth century English “way-wiser” attached to a stage coach that measured rods and miles. Further inventions in the following century failed to gain favor.
The article explains that early methods used solar heat and sea salinity to gauge Earth's age. It notes modern dating relies on uranium decay to radium and radium's decay to helium or lead, yielding ages from 10,000 to 20,000 million years for a habitable Earth.
A backwoods resident Mose visits the city and orders French fried potatoes at a restaurant. He tastes them and jokes that they do not taste like anything but plain United States spuds.
Ambrose, a piano tuner, confirmed the instrument was in good condition after tuning it and a later claim by the owner that it was out of tune was disproved. The owner noted tuning issues only when she sang, suggesting subjective perception rather than a mechanical fault.
An advertisement urges readers to take aspirin only as directed on the Bayer Tablets of Aspirin package. It highlights the Bayer Cross as a mark of genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for over twenty-one years.
John Van Dyke notes that ancient thinkers imagined Earth as a globe but could not grasp oceanic enormity. He praises Magellan’s circumnavigation and the question of the vast Pacific finally dawning on Renaissance minds.
The Journal of the American Medical Association details a treatment using Roentgen rays to remove hair followed by a follicle‑penetrating lotion that kills ringworm parasites. Observations note cosmetic changes after hair regrowth, but permanence is doubtful. The article also comments on cultural sayings and child-raising norms from various cultures.
In a Protestant church Sabbath school in Hendricks County the lesson on baptism focused on John the Baptist. A seventeen year old girl Mary kept glancing at new arrivals and answered John the Baptist when asked who came in. She then paid sharper attention to the lesson.
Humorous exchange shows a husband declaring a separation and a wife replying that they agree, highlighting ironic harmony in conflict within a domestic scene.
A brief dialogue from Life humorously contrasts market speculation with losses on supposed sure things. The exchange features lines about guessing the market and consistently losing money on bets believed to be certain.
A brief remark compares time to money and notes that delays by a slower competitor affect the outcome of a race. The quote emphasizes efficiency and urgency in performance and training.
In a humorous exchange a husband asks if he should give his wife an allowance. The wife replies that she already gives him an allowance, turning the joke on traditional roles.
A brief society item notes a shopper finds a skirt too short while a tailor calls it a flounce. The Louisville Courier Journal adds that women value family name yet may change it.
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