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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1923
Page
6
The farmers of Iowa grow twice as many hogs as the two nearest states and produce leading corn, cattle, horses, and dairy products. Despite wartime price drops, diversification in livestock and crops has kept farms resilient, with a gradual return to normal markets and increased frugality across classes.
Col Daly gains broad newspaper notice on the chautauqua lecture circuit. He cites newspapers as a great asset and urges farmers to adopt modern advertising and cooperative approaches. Separately, anthracite miners demand $2 daily wage hikes, raising fears of coal reaching 17.4 dollars per ton and prompting stockpile operators to anticipate price boosts.
A rural economic note links sharp potash price rises to Congress moving potash to the free list. Critics warned that domestic producers would falter and foreign prices would spike after wartime boosts faded. A June radiogram from Germany cites a 60 percent price increase effective immediately.
The Chicago Tribune outlines an alleged swindle involving conspiracies to graft the school district. Fred Lundin, once a top adviser to ex mayor Thompson, is named among those linked to the case as sixteen conspirators face trial and a verdict looms after a month-long proceeding.
The House of Commons passed Lady Astor's bill banning sales of intoxicants to under 18 by 257 to 10. The piece argues England’s slow reform and recalls London youths carrying beer from pubs, contrasting with past claims there were no saloons. The commentary criticizes Brookhart’s Russia praise and Minnesota's radical swing to Magnus Johnson, linking wheat prices to political shifts.
Philadelphia reports about 10 500 Negro newcomers in the past year, roughly one third of new arrivals citywide, creating housing and care challenges. The piece notes the South loses skilled Black labor and questions access to education for working students like William I Taylor, a Negro senior law student who paid his way through Iowa University.
Rumor centers on former President Woodrow Wilson negotiating to buy the Edmonson home in Fairfax County Virginia with 259 acres accompanying the estate. Both Wilson and his wife are Virginia natives and local sentiment favors his ownership and occupancy of the fine house and property in the old commonwealth.
W R Boyd of Cedar Rapids, head of the state education finance committee, told Iowa State College summer session students that intelligence should guide economic views. He argued accumulated capital funds roads, schools, hospitals, and universities, and said industries are owned by all the people, not a few, urging voters to study issues deeply.
The New York treasury warns broad circulation of a new dangerous counterfeit of the $1,000 note. Tradesmen and laborers including plumbers and plasterers are urged to inspect weekly envelopes closely. The prose hints at poet types failing to detect the fraud in their usual careless way.
Philadelphia Public Ledger notes McAdoo leads early polls as a dry Horatio with backing from labor and AFL chiefs. He avoids public focus while building delegate strength from the West, seen as steady and able to attract farm bloc and anti saloon sentiment.
The Hampton Chronicle reports Brookhart’s letters from Russia and Europe praising conditions while calling for American aid to the hungry. It contrasts this with Alexander Schwartz’s chautauqua talk predicting Brookhart’s misrepresentation and warns against socialist propaganda urging farmers to ally with labor for higher wages.
Persistent complaints prompted Sheriff Barclay Deputy Hawkins and Constable Carey to raid several Durant sites. The Belter poor hall yielded 23 quarts of whiskey, a five gallon jug, and 255 pints of home brew. Paustian’s soft drink shop produced one quart of whiskey while Haas’s home yielded two stills six gallons of hootch and 120 gallons of corn and rye mash. Sentences: Belter $1000 fine and $26 county attorney fee or ten months. Paustian $600 fine or six months. Haas $600 fine or six months. Injunctions issued against each building. Clerk ordered mintimus. Total fines and costs $2200 to be paid to school fund.
A motorist reports serious cracks in new concrete paving in Buchanan county less than a year old. Engineers attribute the issue to paving on freshly filled ground before settlement. Delaware county plans to pave its primary roads with graded drained gravel beds to avoid similar trouble.
The Omaha Bee notes that Count Boni de Castel Lane, ex husband of Ann Gould, faced trouble with France after selling his friends oil stocks as worthless. It recalls public doubt about his potential Americanization.
A mosaic of items notes the Anamosa district fair August 7 to 10 and a Delaware County farm bureau picnic July 26. Obituaries report deaths from poisoning, accidents, and illness. a plant move bid and faculty hires mix with local marriages, drownings, and a blind piano tuner’s marriage in Ames.
The Cedar Rapids Republican extols midsummer beauty and abundant crops. It celebrates bountiful hay, oats, corn, apples, plums, berries, and orchard produce. Farm birds and evening sounds accompany a landscape where corn grows nightly and fields glow with ripe fruit and foliage.
In Bridgeport on July 3 experts told the coroner that static discharge from gasoline flowing into a tank likely sparked the blaze. Mrs. Anna Gray of Norwalk died as the car burned with the tank being filled. The coroner urged occupants to leave closed cars during fueling and recommended grounding devices on tanks. On the same day in Frederick Maryland two Watertown New York party members died and three were injured when a gasoline tank exploded during refueling.
The Kanegas City Journal derides a so called farmer conference with radicals calling themselves pinks and reds. It mocks agitators claiming farmers are oppressed and unpaid, insisting real farmers work long hours and reject inflated wage demands.
The article states President Harding supported a bonus when funded properly but urged Congress to pass a bill with its own funding. He vetoed an inadequately financed measure and reminded lawmakers that he would sign a fully financed bonus bill. He argues Congress must raise the money per the Constitution.
The Press notes that three years ago warned of gravel road futility as autos and trucks buffet the Hawkeye highway from Manchester to Dyersville and on to Dubuque. It argues maintenance costs reach 813 dollars per mile annually, urging permanent paving for taxpayer relief.
A terse editorial comment suggests Germany paying half the indemnity would allow a rapid Ruhr withdrawal, while Shelby citizens failing to raise a prize purse foiled the plan and could influence postwar recovery.
Washington Star notes the ice industry outmaneuvered coal by pressuring consumers to worry over a seasonal supply, a tactic that ties worry to only part of the year.
The Monticello Iowa city council adopted an oiling assessment schedule for street improvements and authorized notice and collection. It also approved borrowing $600 from Monticello State Bank for the general fund and authorized a Peter Pirsch triple combination fire engine purchase, with mayor and clerk empowered to finalize contracts.
A collage of quips and captions drawn from various papers. A salesman taunts a customer over ties, a dentist offers credit, bootlegger talk of counterfeit whisky surfaces, and witty exchanges about fashion and death add a sharp street humor tone.
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