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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1922
Page
1
A fashion column argues trimming vanishes from modern gowns with emphasis on draping and self colored details. It highlights straight chiffon and plaited designs, picoted edges, and the rise of untrimmed silhouettes in summer colors blonde and wheat with notable outfits and accessories.
A farm building column by William A Radford outlines a modern hog house design with guard rails raised floors and bedding to keep sows and pigs dry. It explains feeding via a concrete trough, outdoor access as temperatures rise, and how proper housing reduces pig losses and improves profitability.
A Deer Park Union note explains gable-roof hog barns reduce piglet mortality. Warm dry housing with sunlit pens and bedding keeps sows comfortable, lowers losses, and supports earlier spring farrowing for better fall and winter pork prices.
White crepe three piece suits trimmed in black or bright color are recommended for warm weather. The outfit may include a straight simple dress with a silk vest and girdle, a trim coat, and wide sleeve detail. Sport models favor lighter wool looks and ribbon hats with navy embroidery.
The text highlights ML Gladly’s interval of 30 years yielding 750 volumes with daily work as he translated the Bible. Melancthon, Cicero, Raleigh, Burney, Burritt are cited for exploiting brief periods of time to study, travel, and learn languages.
A Fifth Avenue shop window shows a large purple iris crafted from paper with a small electric light, appearing as an incandescent lily. The text notes that on rare dark summer nights a firefly briefly illuminates a silken iris, creating a delicate glow.
Mrs. Carveth Wells recalls Malay peninsula experiences where native servants steal from hosts to please their masters. She notes hosts counting missing silk stockings and kerchiefs to recover them before leaving. Also mentions chinchilla as a prized fur from the Andean rodent used in textiles and cloth imitation.
The report estimates about 3 064 languages exist worldwide and more than 1 000 distinct religious sects. It notes linguistic variety spans continents and cultural groups.
USDA notes a material spring lamb shortage across the western states with Montana and neighboring areas producing about 70 percent of normal. Wool prices rise to 85 to 88 cents per pound as lambs and wool tighten, with large Western operators seeking new crop lambs at 9 to 10 cents per pound amid scarce ewes and cold weather losses.
The piece notes late range movement from western states likely starting in July or August. Lambs had poor start due to ewes wintering badly and a backward spring. The April lamb crop is short, cold weather caused losses, and breeding flocks are aged with few young stock available. Demand for young ewes is high but bids fail to attract flocks to market.
Sudan grass rapidly spreads across the United States as an emergency hay and summer pasture crop. Introduced in 1900 via GO V Piper, its 2018 US value nears 10 million dollars, with strong use in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas and adaptation across semi tropical regions though limited by altitude and northern latitude. Seed production is currently unprofitable with high care needed to avoid sorghum hybridization.
Cutworms feeding on tender tomato and other vegetables threaten young plants. They can be destroyed by placing boards or flat stones for daytime hiding spots, which when turned over reveal the worms. A better method is to use poison bait.
To keep seed grain free from weevils or other insects inspect carefully before storage. If infested, use carbon bisulphide per directions and clean bins thoroughly. Remove refuse material and dust, store compactly to reduce surface area, ventilate to prevent overheating, and keep windows screened and open in good weather.
A 1 to 20 weight mix of powdered calcium arsenate and gypsum or land plaster is dusted onto cucumber plants and surrounding ground with a metal duster. Apply shortly after dawn to thoroughly coat leaves and soil around the plants.
The article notes angleworms in soil are harmless and signal rich conditions. Their burrowing aids soil quality by aerating and mixing nutrients, providing real agricultural value.
The article touts quail as a farmer’s ally aiding pest control. It lists prey including chinch bugs, potato beetles, striped cucumber beetles, wireworms, cutworms, armyworms, grasshoppers, clover weevils, and other insects, showcasing the bird’s broad ecological benefits.
A farm note urges planting a crop for poultry to provide feed during dry hot spells. It warns that early and midsummer are trying times for chickens and stresses preparedness to help flocks survive heat and drought.
Much of the loss in vegetables due to insects can be prevented by applying proper control measures. Effective pest management helps farmers protect yields and reduce crop damage.
Advice on preserving soil moisture and reducing weeds by regular cultivation. Emphasizes labor efficiency and practical timing for farm work. Focuses on gardener techniques to maintain a productive vegetable bed.
Soy beans cure more readily than cowpeas because they grow erect with less tangling. They have firmer stems and leaves and dry faster, making hay production simpler and more efficient.
Farmers advised to prevent white scours by treating the calf's navel with iodine and applying a disinfectant powder to ward off infection in newborn calves.
A cheap solution uses one pound of lye mixed with 40 gallons of water to create a potent disinfectant for cleaning hog houses and hen houses.
A statement highlights land condition as crucial for planting, arguing soil health outweighs lunar phase considerations for agricultural success.
Spray tomatoes with Bordeaux mix twice a month to control leaf disease.
The article notes the Duke of Albuquerque owning vast silver and gold tableware left by his father. Inventory took two hours daily for six weeks, totaling 1,400 dozens of dinner plates 500 large platters 700 smaller ones and 40 silver step ladders. The Duke of Alba also inherited 600 dozens of dinner plates and 800 wrought silver platters.
Dr. Wellington Koo at a New York dinner cites a Peking merchant tale to illustrate misperceptions of Chinese people. The story: a foreigner rooms for six months at $20 weekly yet never pays, prompting the host to cut the rate to $10 to avoid loss.
Opinion notes governments should sustain peace as capably as war pursuits. It also reflects on memory and the weight of unspoken words in public discourse.
A Walton Georgia News column Playfully extols persimmon beer and rustic Southern fare. It evokes ginger cakes possum and water feasts, yellow yams, and brown gravy as a hearty, communal harvest mood.
Lettonia called the Singing Nation for seven centuries the Letts endured German noble subjugation and caste barriers. Despite oppression serfdom abolition in Russia in 1860 spurred Lett advancement in education and economics with a growing wealthy cultured middle class.
The old moose shed its large shovel antlers in January, with younger racks coming weeks later. By mid May new horn growth extends less than an inch from the skull. In three months the 70 pound shovel's development completes, often reaching six feet across.
A fragmented dialogue appears to show a person asked what they did after an accident and replies with a clipped phrase about scraping up an acquaintance. The readable text hints at a social reaction following a traumatic event.
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