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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1915
Page
3
A frank critique reveals a predatory mail order credit system using fake letters and legal threats. It describes hidden loans, coercive contracts, aggressive collectors, and misleading catalogs that push customers to buy low quality goods at inflated prices.
English physician Dr J T Nash reports that common house flies tend to stay in homes offering protection warmth and food. Proximity to garbage stables or fires breeds higher fly infestations and slows spread, with fewer houses allowing broader dispersal.
The passage argues character is judged by its weakest flaw. A fortress falls where its foundation is weakest and walls are defectively built. People endure long until a selfish temptation arises triggering ruin through unchecked evil habits.
Forest service laboratory calculations show two pounds of wood roughly equal one pound of coal in heat value. Some hardwoods such as hickory oak beech birch hard maple ash elm locust longleaf pine and cherry need only one cord of seasoned wood to match a ton of good coal.
The Sphere praises a mani cure firm offering high terms to a woman with long nails for advertisement photos. The plan is simple and bold, securing the model first and then proving the product’s effect through her pictures. The frank tactic is described as laying the cards on the table.
The passage notes honey as the sole common sweet used for centuries. Greeks cherished it, Romans fought for it, Egyptians cultivated it, and Persians favored it in distant lands. Even savage peoples likely relied on fruits and vegetables with natural sugars.
A reflective line from Schiller urges readers to note the hour before it slips away, stressing that truly fateful moments are rare and worth attention. The quotation frames time as a decisive, almost sacred window.
Washington reports that Corregidor guarding Manila Bay rivals Gibraltar and Helgoland in strength. Fortifications around Chesapeake and Cape Henry enhance protection for Washington and nearby rivers, with modern guns and crews ready for extended defense.
The article explains a French hand grenade roughly baseball sized. A wrist tether pulls a plug from the ball, releasing a spring that sets the fuse. The fuse timing can be adjusted from one to three seconds to explode in the enemy trench.
Alsatian caricaturist M. Waitz known as Hansi receives Legion of Honor in Paris. Earlier he faced a one year Leipzig prison sentence for anti German cartoons, escaped, joined French army as interpreter, and has been cited for courage and leadership.
An engineer officer of the British army in France crawled to a German trench and destroyed a machine gun with three homemade bombs. He killed at least 15 Germans and then moved through connected trench compartments, dropping two more bombs to blast apart three sections in about three minutes.
Reported thousands of lunatics fled Belgian towns as German advances forced evacuations. Belgian patients traveled five days to Perray Vaucluse with nurses, amid bombardments and turmoil on main lines toward Bordeaux.
Refugees from the invaded region report Kaiserberg is the new name for the historic city of Czenstochowa. Germans demand Polish speakers use Kaiserberg under threat of penalties, a move seen as policy to win over Poles while erasing national pride.
In Camner Berlin, the German crown princess was handed gifts when a landsturm soldier, unaware of her identity, told her she was kind and said he would marry her after the war. No injury reported.
An officer finished his assignment and wriggled back to his lines unharmed, reporting no injuries. The event underscores routine patrol duties and the dangers faced in frontline duties.
Flight Commander Claude Graham-White chats with British army officers and a French aviator in France. Censored name unclear. Image shows him on the right in discussion mode during wartime air operations.
A Paris woman servant, earning about ten cents an hour, donated $60 for French wounded. Her employer pressed her to confess, and she explained she kept savings by showing certificates for $2,000 in additional funds, despite Red Cross agents advising thrift for a rainy day.
Prince Cantacuzene husband of Julia Dent Grant was decorated by the czar for heroism in the Galician campaign. Wilhelm von Rath received the iron cross for distinguished service on the French and Russian frontiers. Von Rath, engaged to Cecilia May, has been invalided to his home in Frankfort where Miss May is a guest. He was formerly attached to the German embassy.
A dispatch reports 998 houses in Lite Paris destroyed by bombardment revealing widespread destruction. The pearls are still living in cellars amid ongoing danger and unsettled conditions.
John Dunton serves a prison sentence for embezzlement while Lola, his wife, faces the costs of ruined trust. On release a promise to reunite collides with his longing to see their dead son in Taunton. The lawyer father and Lola’s memory bind them to a future together, united by shared grief.
A verdant reminder that life began in the seas and now fills oceans from the floor to the surface. The text likens the entire ocean to a living carpet of countless species, both hidden and visible, with life flourishing far beyond fishes and seaweed.
Gobang buys a cheap little car and is proud until friends mock it. A friend hints the model will be redesigned to shrink two feet so the smaller car can run on the sidewalk and avoid motor traffic.
A doctor observes a remarkable foreign growth on a patient’s chest and declares immediate operation is necessary. The exchange includes a humorous aside about a cat and a judge’s remark.
A humorous quip contrasts a woman described as a clinging vine with a man urging the morning glory as a metaphor for timely silence. The exchange plays on gendered adjectives to create a witty comparison.
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