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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
2
A 1921 Western Newspaper clip presents a heritage style collection of recipes and prose. It includes honey infused dishes such as Honey Ice Cream and Honey Pudding, plus methods for Farina Spoon Bread Grilled Egg Plant and a Fruit Salad Dressing. The piece blends poetry with cooking notes and a note about beekeeping.
A fragmented reminiscence recalls leaving school amid pep and gilded ideals. The narrator notes earned salt and dreams, hinting at personal growth through challenges and the taste of achievement.
A fragmented dream column suggests that dreaming of friends indicates forthcoming pleasure and good news. Absent friends foretold to return or you may travel to see them, with caution against overt laughter or frivolity that could temper the luck. Drinking with friends is deemed lucky, though the piece warns against excess.
Explorers dispute the card game name origin arguing it came from cries for silence or attention or from terms meaning to sweep or whisk. Linguistic clues in German Danish Septeh and Woyelish suggest a link to wiping or brooming as trump play evolved.
A light exchange reveals a family plan as one parent contemplates taking Willie to the circus. The other parent resists, proposing involvement by Smith if attendance is required.
Two specially built 750 ton vessels will cremate up to 30 bodies at a time. They will dock at a prepared wharf, hold funeral services onboard, then sail seven miles off the bay for cremation. moderate charges and convenience bolster expectations of success.
This piece urges individuals to self tabulate using a chart with 25 traits totaling 10000 points. It highlights traits like responsibility, honesty, reliability, cooperation, initiative, health, fundamentals, courtesy, loyalty, and choosing good associates. It suggests self assessment, improvement work, and even playful use with friends.
A reader letters notes a burglar entered the house long ago and caused fear amid a couple's dispute. The wife claims she screamed while the husband feared she was slanging, reflecting domestic tension in the Florida Union diary record.
The former employer calls the applicant's character beyond reproach while noting uncertainty about the direction of virtue. The boss emphasizes strong ethics but the exact interpretation remains unclear.
Sacks of the season s rice crop are piled before a Tokyo Shinto temple as offerings to the gods. The display showcases the finest first crop grain in a traditional ritual reflecting agricultural reverence.
Donna Beatrice Marconi wife of Guglielmo Marconi inventor of wireless telegraphy appears with her young daughter. Once Lady Inchiquin she belonged to one of Ireland's oldest aristocratic families.
A photograph shows a bath later used as a coffin found during British School of Archaeology excavations at the House of Atreus in Mycenae. The bath is linked to the legend of Agamemnon and may be the site of his murder by Clytemnestra and her lover upon Troy’s fall.
The article asserts Marcus Tullius Tivo as the earliest stenographer for Cicero, recording a speech by Cato in 68 B.C., refuting the belief that Isaac Pitman was the first. It includes a dialog about a wife’s voice, mentioning Mr. Menpeeck.
A compendium notes women workers in Japan farms and railway jobs, Holland brickyards, and Austrian elections showing higher female turnout. It cites Roman tunnel dimensions, Cuban barbers, Chinese dye control, Philippine wood, and a Missouri battle flag donated by Columbia women. Also mentions coconut shell charcoal, Bombay allowing women municipal councilors, and rising living costs under Social Democrats.
Louisville Courier-Journal notes a humorous exchange about selling an encyclopedia to Slivver. The bid hints at his scrutiny for errors, implying cautious yet confident purchase prospects.
A playful exchange features a doctor prescribing a bread poultice and a druggist advising consultation with a caterer. The quip pivots on cross professional roles, delivering a light, period-appropriate humor clue.
Canada dominated the Chicago International Live Stock show with top wins by Clydesdales and American bred mares. Saskatchewan exhibited strong entries earning money in multiple classes while University of Saskatchewan's Lady Bruce placed second among 24 in a Clydesdale class. American and Canadian exhibitors, including Conyngham Bros, Jarves, and Chiett, contributed notable entries with grand championships in Clydesdale and Durum wheat.
Veterans note a French bride mastering English with humorous misunderstandings. She jests that English offers many acts under one name, keeps a daily list of new deeds, and comments on the rich abundance of synonyms. She also humorously calls a simple supper "bungalow cheese."
Thousands of women suffer kidney and bladder troubles without realizing the cause. Symptoms include back pain headaches loss of ambition and nervousness. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is recommended and buyers are urged to obtain a sample by sending ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. and to mention the paper.
Mr Smith discovers a false death notice in a newspaper and calls his friend Brown asking where he is, prompting a surreal exchange. The anecdote appears in Everybody's Magazine.
An advertisement touts Garfield Tea as purifying the blood to eradicate rheumatism and many chronic ailments. The Sunny South notes the health claims while The Birmingham Age-Herald quips about a magazine artist failing a Christmas cover, preferring winter scenes over roses in December.
An advertisement cites Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a remedy for women suffering from nervous breakdowns and headaches. It includes a testimonial from Mrs. KoTen praising its effects during middle age, noting relief from heat flashes and dizziness and overall improved strength.
An assortment of advertising items promotes home growing of bulbs, direct factory goods from Ul. Trunk & Bag Factory, and an offer to save on middlemen. Includes notes on work for disabled soldiers and various job training in England. Also features a humor panel and a field on electric power usage in U S industry.
Hall’s Catarrh Medicine is promoted as a tonic and blood purifier aiding mucous surfaces to reduce inflammation. An article on the white headed eagle laments extinction threats due to hunting and bounty in Alaska, citing 5600 eagles killed in two years for prey and perceived wrongs against the emblem.
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