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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1920
Page
8
A discussion of dream eating, contrasting schools of mystics on whether dreaming of meals predicts success or danger. It notes that eating at a banquet may signal profit or hidden enemies, with opinions split and guidance to observe outcomes to decide which view is right.
In a playful tone the column links dream foods to future events. Oysters signify friendship and success if eaten raw. dreaming of a banquet hints at journeys or changes in residence or business. Unmarried readers may wed their loved one and enjoy wealth and dutiful children.
A humorous piece mocks watermelons as a harmless beverage and notes seeds as the main nuisance. It lampoons attitudes toward race and class using exaggerated imagery of watermelons, clergy, professors, and Southern culture while satirically praising seed content.
A cryptic note describes a plan to market ladIe s footwear and to fashion chiffon toppers for rover shops. It hints that the finest races hold great value beyond gold.
The piece argues that a Second Wind is reserve power reached through deliberate effort. It asserts only those who endure failures and setbacks by continuing with initiative enthusiasm and determination gain true momentum and the ability to push on to success.
Edgar A. Guest recalls childhood pride in sitting by the driver and the continued pull of the front seat as adults and children alike seek the view ahead. He notes changes in cars and everyday life but says the urge to occupy the engineer’s seat remains universal.
A fragmented list of homemade preserves including Rhubarb Conserve Cherry Preserves and grape orange raisin mixes. Contains instructions like grinding fruit and boiling with sugar, plus stray lines about pride in blueberry pie and a copyright notice from Western Newspaper Union.
The text notes Canada balsam also called balsam fir as a beautiful evergreen tree. It describes the needles as deep green above and silver beneath, about three quarters of an inch long. It mentions Corfu paper money with sheets used to buy rice or hemp cloth.
A collection of brief items on inventions, science quirks, and global facts. Included are a battery powered chair for invalids, sugar cane farming in Peru, rubber balls to deter hens, a banked liner on the Imperator, Australian letter production, daylight imitation via a color reflector, Ashanti burial customs, Dev onshire material finds, UK railway electrification plans, school access in China, Kaffir marriage language rules, and Colombia parcel declarations.
Times B Evans has worked an elevator from base to top for 82 years. He has logged over 300000 trips in more than 801 days, riding 540 feet up and back each trip. The record also notes more than 50000 rifles maybe referenced in error.
In Samoa and nearby Fiji, tattooing serves social functions. Women receive marks on marriage and with each child's birth, the rites symbolically register family events on the mother’s hand.
An old French game tennis began in the twelfth century with a ball and bat on horseback. Horses were later removed and rackets introduced in England during the sixteenth century. The hand was used before bat and racket. Red gold from Australia is markedly redder than California and Ural deposits are the reddest.
The text presents a religious exhortation from Rev. George Guille of Moody Mile Institute Chicago. It reads as a devotional work focusing on spiritual dwelling and guidance for believers within a Protestant outreach context.
The Spirit marks dwelling places of the patrirehs and shows believers as children of promise. Abraham’s home in Canaan symbolizes spiritual inheritance in Christ with divine power granting new birth and life. The well named Lahairol represents God’s loving care and peace for the faithful, inviting daily realization of blessing.
The text argues that true judgment of spiritual progress requires long-term comparison, not daily changes. It emphasizes looking at the self over intervals of time and comparing this year’s self with last year’s self rather than yesterday.
A cryptic line from Judson hints at an unseen force guiding him toward an inevitable moment. The speaker admits no strong devotion yet suggests a distant, shaping event will emerge despite indifference.
The excerpt argues that to reach heaven the soul must have developed earthly means of escape from worldliness. It asserts that true joy comes from restrained excess and meaningful work, achieved through willful effort. It notes a paradox that happiness is desired by all but not all choose to pursue it.
Ad touts Freezone as a painless cure for hard and soft corns and toe calluses. A tiny bottle, sold by druggists for a few cents, allegedly removes all corn and callus between the toes without soreness.
An aged resident boasts the death rate as wonderfully steady while a health inquiry unfolds. A scene around a seaside test day highlights ads and a weary traveler seeking solitude among healthy hills, as a wary interviewer asks about Halebarty’s mortality figures.
Dispatch from Omak Biberia reports a committee formed to prepare for opening navigation in the Obt and You fs basing Tvomatertia. Valued at 75 million dollars, exports include 50,000,000 square pelts 360,000 pounds of bristles 2,700 tons of wool and other raw materials. First portion to be shipped at 10,000 tons with plans to increase the second and third.
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