This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 26 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
1
Fashion notes describe the shift to longer skirts, loose lines, and draped sleeves among smart women, with flappers sticking to shorter hems. Silk dominates midsummer dress, capes rise in popularity, and Chinese embroidery adds bright accents to gowns.
Agricultural notes describe a reinforced concrete trough construction with a 1:2:3 mix for water tightness. Steps cover outside and inside forms, U shaped reinforcement, digging ground drainage, and a cement wash for a smooth interior surface.
The Clover region offers profitable beekeeping with proper management according to USDA Farmers Bulletin 1215 by J I Phillips and George S Demuth. It covers northeastern US into Minnesota and Ohio river area with parts in Washington Oregon and extends to Canada. Italian bees help combat European foulbrood and improve yields. Copies are available free from the Department of Agriculture Washington DC.
The article highlights rising popularity of pantaloon dresses and two piece outfits like an allover jumper under a cross belt, noting white dominates spring fashion. It stresses lower prices, enhanced sport wear, and advises sweaters with slipovers, pink silk elastic undergarments, crepe de chine and georgette for breakfast jackets, organdie florals for camisole work, lavender underwear, and matching garters with hosiery.
Gingham remains a favored trimming for blouses providing striped and checked effects when paired with light fabrics. The style emphasizes the fabric’s versatility in enhancing delicate garments.
Frilly neckwear such as wloffy and gulmipes are waning in fashion while tailored pieces remain dominant in current trends and outfits.
The University of Illinois dairy farm reports success with a corn silage and alfalfa hay rotation. Wheat follows corn, with early plowing and seedbed prep, alfalfa seeded after rains, and wheat drilled around September twenty eighth. Fresh water is essential for a successful poultry operation.
Eggplants continue to produce until frost, and when properly prepared no other vegetable is more palatable.
Cleanliness is essential in dairy farming to produce high quality milk or cream. The article stresses careful hygiene as a priority in milking and farm operations to ensure purity and value of dairy products.
Early-hatched pullets laying in the fall yield more eggs than late hatchers who won’t lay until spring. Winter eggs are most profitable. Cleanliness in the stable and in handling dairy products is the key safeguard against infection.
William A. Radford explains a practical home design that blends exterior appeal with interior comfort. The feature emphasizes a story and a half model with six rooms, a spacious dining and living area, a bright breakfast porch, and a full basement, designed for easy construction and resale appeal.
The soil for fall sown oats should be fertile and moisture retaining as oats require much water. Best results occur on heavier loams, with risk of lodging reduced on rich soil. Drainage is crucial to avoid winter kill and disease pressure, particularly on poorly drained, low areas.
Farmers test balancing barnyard manure with rock or acid phosphate on a small plot. Apply about forty to fifty pounds of acid phosphate per ton of manure or 400 to 500 pounds per acre to gauge benefits before treating the whole field. Spread phosphate evenly on top of each manure load for uniform application.
The passage asserts beauty as essential to art, condemns ugliness as untrue to art, and argues art blends concrete and abstract to elevate the soul. It states beauty endures beyond obscurity and that pursuit of beauty drives existence toward greater experience and cultural advancement.
A notice from the Boston Transcript seeks the return of a lost gray and white cat nicknamed Kitty. The ad promises payment to the finder who locates the cat and notifies the owners.
Dairymen farmers and livestock raisers urged to employ intelligent effectual means during the fly season to protect stock from heavy loss caused by the pest.
Inspecting tile drain outlets and cleaning those in need helps prevent future problems. The piece notes this as a practical maintenance task. It also mentions an unrelated remark about the goat as an emblem of impurity in Christian art.
An excerpt from The Friend in London reflects on education as the calling forth of human qualities. It posits proficiency in living as the core of true education and notes a senior years satisfaction coming from displaying virtues in life and service to the community.
J. P. Dabney explores how ideals form in the mind and how their inspiration is externalized into verse. The work analyzes the relationship between inner notions and outward expression in poetry.
The article describes sponge fisheries along Greece and Adriatic coasts with notable reefs in Tripolis and Tunis and the finest sponges from Syria. Divers use cork jackets or diving belts, sometimes pulling sponges from boats, while long tridents can tear them. hand picking is common. Sponges are beaten, washed, bleached, graded, packed, and shipped globally.
A moral exhortation by Henry More urging persistent self denial to strengthen inward faculties and raise spirit for all good uses. It promises increased mental powers and lasting cheerfulness through disciplined restraint.
A terse dialogue hints at tension as a wife proposes a pleasanter evening and a husband responds with anger implying resistance. The exchange, labeled in quotes, suggests a domestic dispute or strained relation dynamics.
A Terre Haute captain Ed Thomas drills his K of P team in view of visitors including an elderly country couple. The farmer jokes to his wife that someone named Martha could not beat her mind changes. The scene unfolds with light humor about contest theatrics.
A family quip on flies and the cyclone, fire and horse flight is exchanged at home. The speaker jokes about how people make things fly and notes a line about children making the butterfly. A Montaigne quote about impossible tasks closes the passage.
Important to Mothers urges careful examination of CASTORIA bottles for infants and children. The message emphasizes the remedy’s long history and notes that children cry for Fletcher's Castoria, highlighting familiarity and trust in the product.
A seven year old named Margaret mocks her mother by turning a warning about naughty children back on her. The exchange showcases playful wit and a child's clever retort in Harter's Magazine.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.