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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1922
Page
7
The article urges calm, disciplined thinking to overcome anxiety and perform tasks efficiently. It likens composure to a key that unlocks success, noting that a masterful mind arises from self mastery after steady effort and trial.
The piece argues memory alone isn’t proof of ability and that practical performance matters more. It notes Edison tests would exclude many great minds, praising selective knowledge and its application to one’s business over sheer volume of facts.
A motivational verse urges readers to keep moving despite gloom. It emphasizes optimism, hard work, and resilience with calls to wipe tears, seek brighter days, and tackle life’s challenges with a cheerful song and duty. The piece frames success as the result of steady effort.
Read history and languages to build general knowledge while focusing on special information that wins the race. The message urges balancing broad learning with targeted facts to gain an edge.
Instructional excerpt detailing recipes and kitchen tips including chocolate wafers made from molasses brown sugar and chocolate, endive prune salad with olive oil dressing, and cherry bread using cherries sugar butter and cornmeal. It emphasizes practical cooking steps and ingredient quantities.
A 1922 note explains baldness stems from poor scalp care and restricted blood flow. Men’s tight hats around the forehead and crown hinder circulation. women's hats fit loosely allowing air to reach the scalp, linking hat design to gender differences in baldness.
An elderly woman visits a wallpaper shop where the clerk touts rolls as artistic. She distrusts gimmicks and asserts she must hang it herself, asking if the paper is too hard to apply for her. The anecdote ends with a humorous clash over practicality.
Captain Swensen recounts the 60,000 mile voyage of Albert Gowens Speejacks, towed 4,000 miles from Panama to Teokea, then onward to Tahiti and Pago Pago. They left New York last September and kept in contact from Teokea to Sydney while Mrs Gowen oversaw operations aboard the 98 foot yacht.
Helen May Martin of Olathe Kansas who is deaf, dumb, and blind since birth plans a self supporting career as a professional pianist. She has studied four years and mastered thirty pieces by touch alone. Her proposed world tour spans about 50 000 miles and 18 months aboard a specially built ship funded by Gowen.
A Tacoma ostrich choked on pine cones and after a post mortem was found to contain a pint of polished agates and white pebbles in its proventriculus. The agates, used in digestion grinding, were rounded into spheres about marble size. The bird, left by an amusement company last fall, had eaten valuable stones rather than ordinary gravel.
William Huskey of Smelterville aged 100 shares three rules for longevity slow aging habits, hard work, and minding one’s own business. He recently celebrated his birthday in his farm home with wife of 84, and is father to 18 children though he cannot read or write he follows current events.
Madison residents received thousands of inquiries after University of Wisconsin horticultural experts announced a new dandelion control method using iron sulphate or green vitriol. The spray mixes two pounds of iron sulphate per gallon of water, covering about 860 square feet per gallon. Application seasons are May June and fall with three sprays yearly.
Parkersburg West Virginia state police report a river packet boat found on the Ohio River contains a complete moonshine outfit. Troopers captured the boat while investigating a mash source found in the water along the river.
In Waco Texas a 23 year old Black man was shot by the father of Miss Margaret Hayes after she identified him as her assailant. Seven bullets struck the man and his head was battered. Separately Rev Frank B Hollett of Lisbon ND is noted as the first Methodist circuit rider to cover his territory by airplane.
John Moses, a farm hand on the Ralph Fiero mountain ranch, shot and killed Mrs. Fiero after she refused his elopement proposal, then killed himself. Witness C N Parks, father of Lirs Fiero and two children, saw the tragedy. Moses is believed to have left for the East due to his mother’s illness.
Voters in Quimby approve a $90,000 school bond as Iowa reports multiple drownings including a nine year old in South English and two Swea City youths in a dredge ditch near Algona. The Ackley Journal editor resigns as postmaster, while state leaders advance exams, conventions, and notable appointments across Cedar Rapids Des Moines and beyond.
The text discusses the necessity of being born again through faith in Christ and the transformative work of the Word and Holy Spirit. It explains the parable of the sower as the heart receiving the seed, leading to the creation of a renewed divine image in the believer. It compares this spiritual rebirth to a brick with a dog footprint, illustrating sin’s lasting mark and the divine method of salvation as a new creation in Christ.
The verse notes Jesus as the great high priest who entered heaven for humanity. It emphasizes his empathy toward human weakness, being tempted yet without sin, and urges steadfast adherence to faith.
A short biblical verse urges keeping commandments and law close to heart. The passage emphasizes writing them on tablets of the heart as a personal guiding principle. It highlights wisdom, careful living, and internalizing divine instruction.
A reflective note on human bias and the influence of admiration on behavior. The quote contrasts follower counts with reason and suggests generous thought shapes actions beyond measurable metrics.
A reflective note attributed to Humboldt argues that happiness hinges on our response to life’s events rather than the events themselves, urging mindfulness in facing daily challenges.
A biblical verse from Ecclesiastes chapter 5 emphasizes the seriousness of vows to God. It warns against making oaths lightly and urges fulfillment of vowed commitments. The passage highlights prudence in promising and the value of paying what is pledged.
A quotation on toil and perseverance frames struggle as training for greatness. It likens God to a gymnast trainer and positions hardship as the path to becoming an Olympic conqueror, echoed with ancient wisdom.
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