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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1911
Page
3
John Henry recalls a Sunday buggy ride with Peaches that turns comic as Parsifal the horse battles automobiles and gas fumes. A liveryman and city neighbors offer humorous mishaps while Uncle Peter endures a plague of home remedies from Aunt Martha.
A 19th century column advises readers to curb a muddy complexion by supporting liver health with Epsom salts or castor oil. It recommends eating spinach and gathering dandelion greens, noting their medicinal value and rising popularity in city markets and hotel tables.
Wells England features a medieval clock from 1325. When it strikes the hour four knights ride about and a seated man kicks two small bells every quarter hour, a mechanism continuous for nearly six centuries. The clock was crafted by Peter Lightfoot a monk of Glastonbury.
An English exchange notes that Tipulidae or Daddy Long-legs were early North American inhabitants and Zirad Chlorado hosted vast numbers in the tertiary period. It adds that descendants of Colonial families protest this claimed infringement of their rights.
A wartime era piece arguing continued global demand for army horses. It highlights government spending on cavalry stock in the United States France and Germany, notes British shortages and breeding issues, and urges American breeders to supply high quality thoroughbred stallions and brood mares to meet remount needs for major powers and the U S army. It discusses war inevitability, the role of arming forces, and the potential of western ranches to breed suitable horses.
Norma Atwood ends the writing partnership with Graham Ford after realizing their growth requires separate paths. Ford seeks a life together, while Norma explains she has become a capable partner at home and cooks, learning domestic skills to support him.
The first official import of Guernseys occurred in 1883 when a sea captain bought a pair and sent them to New Hampshire. Since then the breed has grown in popularity and improved scientifically, centering in New England with clubs like the American Guernsey Cattle association safeguarding it. Notable cows include "Missy of the Mist" and "Dolly Dimple" with butter records of 1,058 and 1,100 pounds respectively.
Alfalfa should be cut as blossoms appear or earlier if leaves yellow. Do not pasture the field. Wilt green fodder before feeding. Dried hay, cut and cured at the right time, tops other forage crops and feeds cattle horses hogs and poultry. Ground alfalfa meal sells for poultry feeding at 40 to 50 dollars a ton in the east. Professor Davis urges farmers to keep a field of alfalfa, with persistence leading to success and a high paying crop.
The note advises farmers to limit male birds as they are unnecessary for breeders. Hens can lay sufficiently without many roosters, and eggs store longer for private customers. Recommendation focuses on using twenty hens, the best available.
The text discusses mating to two good males to ensure ample eggs for farmers, noting fanciers might gain by caporizing inferior cockerels rather than keeping them longer or selling at low prices.
German sausage is made from chopped meat and fat often with liver lung heart brain rind of bacon and spices salt saltpeter grits bread crumbs rice raisins filled in intestines stomachs and bladders. Most sausage uses pork though beef horse mule mutton goose game liver and sometimes fowls fish or crabs are used.
A milk pail cover should be sufficiently convex to view and prepare the entire inside for cleaning. It must lie flush with the top to avoid grooves that channel material from the top into the opening and milk.
The piece describes small miniture republics: Klein-Alp between Switzerland and France and Tyrol’s former microstate between Austria and Italy. Val di Ventino self-forms a Liliputian republic with about 2,000 inhabitants in six villages, lacking taxes officials or compulsory military service. Its sole industry beyond farming is charcoal burning.
In a crowded streetcar a small man of eightyn weight squeezed in beside a fat woman with a baby. He offered his seat and joked madam please take this seat. She thanked him and said it will fit the baby. The moment proved humorous and kind.
Mrs A notes her boy is unlike others, keeping his face spotless while Mrs B says he dislikes washing and avoids having it washed.
The six engineers of the battleship North Dakota receive medals after rescuing injured sailors during an oil fuel explosion amid deadly fumes. The piece honors stoke hole workers for risking life in extreme heat and danger, noting their mixed esteem but universal courage within the naval family.
The Houston Post notes a Kansas City hotel hosted five brides in one day. In Houston about 150 passenger trains arrive daily. brides traversing corridors create rice traditions, with sweepers collecting a bushel and a half of rice per sweep.
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