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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1922
Page
3
A self help piece urges effort to seek happiness despite adversity. It counsels turning from gloom, using willpower to keep faith burning, and finding joy in nature and daily duties. Readers are urged to open their hearts to heaven’s happiness and meet it with proactive spirit.
Poem contrasts self reliance with social bonds. It warns independence can corrode the soul and urges giving to others. The speaker urges personal effort yet acknowledges collective human ties and future roses born from shared sowing. Copyright note included.
A series of observations on reading character from hand gestures and posture. It notes slyness, hypocrisy, and self dignity in different poses. The piece also cites a fragment about a banker's son and a widow seeking comfort after loss.
Recipes and tips from a historical cookbook section include Pound Cake half-pound version bake time one hour and directions for Ginger Bread Cornflake Macaroons and Cream of Spinach Soup with molasses ginger cinnamon and standard pantry ingredients. Copyright Western Newspaper Union.
In historic practice barbers served as surgeons performing bloodletting while shaving. The barber pole's brass basin signified lather, the pole held patrons, and ribbons represented bandages. Over time medical professionals took over surgery, yet the pole endures as a reminder of the barber’s former duties.
The owner described a burglary at three o clock in the morning before returning from a club. The burglar reportedly injured or hospitalized the intruder. A wife suspected she mistook the culprit for her husband in the incident.
A plea to parents teachers and officials to nurture children with kindness and sound education. It argues avoiding fear tactics like giants or bogeymen and stresses responsible guidance to foster happiness welfare and courage in youth for a better future.
Architectural sketch shows a planned 800 foot Crocker National Bank building in San Francisco rising 31 stories with a seven floor tower. It would house over 1,000 offices, clad in dull gray stone modeled after Spain’s Giraldan tower, occupying the Post Market and Montgomery triangle.
Worth knowing item lists facts about women in medicine and public life. It mentions five women surgeons in English hospitals, the Boston Women’s Municipal League starting a training school for women to hold civil service roles, and other varied notes on notable women and statistics from the era.
A confidential secretary rebuffs her employer’s marriage proposal after years of service. The exchange reveals power imbalance and risk of personal entanglement within the workplace.
A novelty bike-sled from Switzerland proves more fun than a toboggan or double-ripper. Gravity powers movement while handlebars and saddles mimic a real bicycle for an unusual winter ride popular with local enthusiasts.
In London Answers a judge questions a defendant about a futile search for an umbrella. The prisoner jokes that a man with hair loss once suggested catching it in a basket, prompting a lighthearted discharge.
In Tit-Bita style, a playful item suggests testing a cranky person by arranging four pennies to form a so called square. The trick shows the need to align edges to create a true square and then hints at correcting the date markings on the coins. The gag ends with a wink about adjusting the dates on the pennies.
Dialog mimics a city newspaper exchange about finances with Debbs and DeBroke arguing over ebb and flow. The Boston Transcript tone shows a witty fiscal debate.
A Life magazine quip notes the race track has value but warns that the all knowing often leaves humbled. The exchange hints at humility and learning beyond confidence.
Iowa towns report fires destroying businesses and records in Corydon Farnhamville and Corydon while property losses run high. Strikes and wage disputes include Sioux City carpenters and brick masons and packing houses returning to near normal. Crime and accidents include a Masonville still case a man found dead from suspected gas fumes and a woman who shot herself near Argue. Financial distress surfaces as bankruptcies and a sheriff’s recall of tax rolls appear in Sac and Polk counties.
A fragment captions a medical exchange about overwork and stress with a punch line about a congressman patient. An advertisement for Cuticura promotes scalp relief and skin care. The clipping ends with a humorous quip from a Baptist clergyman and a teasing exchange.
In a folksy remark Uncle Eten says a person’s woes are self created and offering sympathy only worsens worry, a simple ethic that cuts to practical self reliance.
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