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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1922
Page
3
The essay argues children learn cause and effect early, but as teens grow they risk imprudence. It urges youths in dangerous ages to stop, look, and listen to elders who warn of temptations, hidden pitfalls, and the costs of vanity and vice. It ends with a call to press forward on the right path.
The essay traces William Howard Taft's lifelong drive to be Chief Justice, noting how his early judgeship, service under Roosevelt, and presidency were steps toward that goal. It argues honest ambition shapes ability, helps reach high office, and yields personal reward, with Taft's career culminating in the post he long sought.
An Irish spectator exclaims wow at an unseen performer while others watch exercises. The Boston Transcript notes a lighthearted scene and digresses to explain why overcoats are typically dark, citing that dark colors absorb more heat and keep warmth in during winter.
The text argues that hand shape reveals artistic potential. Long fingers and supple hands suggest attention to detail and success in arts. A small upper thumb phalanx and a flat thumb are favorable. A well-developed middle finger and a strong top phalanx of the third finger signal love of beauty and color perception.
A fragment describes how faces react to cold with a device dubbed a surface thermometer. The text notes that the mechanism helps demonstrate thermal sensation on the skin.
The text argues that nerves adapt to conditions, so people notice changes based on habit. It compares barefoot vs masked faces, water temperature, city noise versus country quiet, and work in glare versus darkness, claiming discomfort is simply a matter of habit.
The verses describe life as an adventure where hunters, sailors, and travelers recount toil and pain at firesides. Memory heals, softens falls, and time makes life lovely. Justice is invoked with a quip about delaying justice.
A local cookbook item shares methods for tongue dish and Barley Fudge. Instructions detail slow tongue cooking, cooling, skinning, and optional flavorings. Fudge recipe covers barley, sugar, corn syrup, milk to soft ball stage, vanilla, then cooling into squares.
A frightened individual issues a dire threat claiming they would harm themselves with Paris Green if rejected, prompting authorities to issue a warning and review safety measures.
An English gardener raised rhubarb sticks described as HT inches long. The report notes unusually large output from his pie plant though the exact length is unclear due to the damaged text.
A playful wordplay note centers on a kiss divided by two and humor about division by nothing. The snippet reflects a witty line circulating in 1921 era press.
A visitor praises a new device saying it can perform the work of ten men and quips that his wife should have married it. The exchange highlights the era's wonder at mechanization and labor-saving innovations.
Madeira is described as thickly populated for its size with 142 268 residents including many enslaved workers and a high labor force. The text notes the climate as delightful except when dust storms blow from Morocco.
In a Wall Street office district tale a fourteen weeks-old South American Jaguar is kept as a good luck mascot. Every morning an employee named Martha Real escorts the cub to the ticket area to spit on it for luck.
A wide array of brief items covers world trivia and historic firsts. Notes include Naples churches count, ancient Arab trading with India, wave energy basics, lifelong mating in animals, freshwater catfish stings, Argentina’s battery factory, mixer timing device, small durable perfume bottle, American Prix de Rome parallel via the American Academy in Rome with Leo Sowerby, NY University endowment fund contributions, eye eating monkeys, bird singing changes, elephant dietary needs, left-sleeping tendencies, Madagascar lemurs, potato bug origin, penguin behavior, fish surviving out of water in India, New Zealand drainage efforts, a 1901 New York clergyman postcard, Jersey marital bank accounts rule, and a wry note on women.
Officials of the Union League club of Chicago praise ten year old Ralph Talitoff as a boy chess marvel rivaling Stanley Streschewski the Polish prodigy. Ralph recently triumphed over 80 contestants in a club tournament while his seven year old brother Irving nearly matches him in weekly contests.
Gorki trained as a baker's apprentice in a Kazan cellar while Chaliapin learned shoemaking. Both sought theater chorus roles. Gorki was accepted, Chaliapin later found fame as a singer. Chaliapin also worked as one of the burlaps pulling boats on the Volga.
West-Because when he made a statement everybody understood ex actly what he meant.
A fragment from the agony column quotes a woman authoring a terse message to Bertram. It reads Bertram, don't ever speak to me again P. S. But you may write in care of general delivery J. T. The ad suggests sensitive personal correspondence rather than public information.
Professor Walter Ripman of the University of London declares war on high sounding terms in favor of slang. He endorses plain words like prom for perambulator and step lift for escalator, arguing simpler usage should prevail in language.
A line from the Atchison Globe notes that a lawyer discusses a client’s property with careful, advised language, underscoring how possession and ownership are framed in legal counsel.
The article recalls William Jennings Bryan at a reception during the arms conference where a waiter filled his water glass with gin. Bryan drank, the glass broke, but he remained good natured as reporters spread the tale. Friends note a first drink can affect a man quickly.
Washington dispatch reports an economic conference may be held in spring 1922 following the armament talks. Delegations show tentative approval, with no set date or invitees yet. A possible broader meeting on commercial finance could be proposed if the present conference succeeds.
Gen Henry J. Reilly explains Japan bases its war army on universal compulsory service and training in peace. All men 18 to 21 face examination. physically fit recruits serve two to six months by branch with extended reserve training. In war, reservists mobilize to match standing strength and replace casualties, mirroring Germany’s 1914 model.
Excerpts from a Congressional Record speech by Representative B. G. Lowrey of Mississippi mockingly arguing for the maternity bill. The remarks include humor about women and mind, references to Iago and Sherman, and comparisons to wartime slaughter while praising American womanhood.
Revenue Commissioner Blair reports a fiscal year drop of 812 million in tax receipts, with 4.595 billion paid into the treasury vs 5.407 billion prior year. Income and profits taxes totaled 8.228 billion, and liquor and tobacco revenues added 1.867 billion. Collection cost rose to 87 cents per 100 dollars. Distilleries held large whisky reserves as 86.805 million gallons produced, down 13 million from the year before. Bond withdrawals rose by 6 million gallons to 34 million.
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