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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1923
Page
4
Local residents and visitors fill Monticello headlines with a flurry of travel and leisure. Absent relatives from Santa Ana to Manchester, plus Dr. Calkins kin and Pinafore preparations, sketch a community alive with house calls, excursions, and park festivities.
A Tama county farmer Adolph Kaverick near Tapia harvested ten loads of hay from alfalfa in a small plot. He used Grimm alfalfa seed with Iowa 103 oats sown last spring and applied well rotted manure. The crop neared a second cutting as neighbors, encouraged by a recent inspection, plan to start similar trials this fall or next spring.
All divisions of Iowa State College will be represented at the State fair this fall. Exhibits will be housed under the grandstand as in past years with pieces already being prepared and other displays planned.
Congregational Church announces that Sunday morning services will be the last until the pastor returns from vacation on September 1.
The Monroe Doctrine marks a century of influence as a well built milestone in American foreign policy and its enduring relevance is noted by scholars and historians.
Comic snippets from various papers include a cheeky note about meeting at an uncle's funeral and a barbershop vignette. Jests cover wedding days, travel misadventures, and domestic mishaps with light, playful tone and dated newspaper humor.
J B Davidson head of agricultural engineering at Iowa State College predicts labor to grow an acre of corn will be cut by half within ten years through better use of mechanical power. He notes current Iowa records of fifteen hours per acre and some fields needing five to six hours, while Ohio experiments under normal farm conditions reduced to 6.56 hours per acre.
Golf is described as a science and lifetime discipline that tests temper and character. It emphasizes skill, strategy, self-control, and gentlemanly conduct while providing outdoor recreation, fresh air, social interaction, and moral benefits.
Miss Florence RE Busse of Iowa State College suggests that radio fans who listen briefly after lunch may gain a needed rest and a healthier lifestyle. If the habit causes long listening sessions and sleep loss, the outcome could be negative.
The farmer labor party prank sparks discussion on eight hour days for hired farm workers. An earthquake rattles Southern California, felt from San Bernardino to Santa Barbara with fatalities and panic. Iowa’s Hinman warns against drinking contaminated water from lakes, springs, and wells after surface drainage pollution.
A curious fable-like excerpt discusses a pencock and crows in a garden. It includes remarks by Mr Garter and a printer, noting the bird’s feet and a line about waste verses. The piece critiques translation ease and contrasts appearances with truth.
In a past centuries tone piece a young woman Maybelle Bolton relentlessly pursues a spot at a town paper. Her bid triggers courtship by gossip columns and social pages, amid veiled pretensions and the editors’ pragmatic push for local names and events.
A prominent Virginia lawyer, arriving at court, cannot find his eyeglasses and writes to his wife to send them by bearer. In a rush he discovers the glasses in another pocket, then instructs a messenger to deliver the note to Mrs. Anderson and to await the package for Mr. Anderson at the door.
In the Birmingham Age Herald a dialogue hints at growing confidence in a broker amid rising oil expectations. The speaker questions a critic and notes that a two day window may unlock more learning about oil trends.
The undersigned, appointed by the district court of Jones county Iowa, as administrator of the estate of Robert J Taupert deceased, calls all creditors to present claims sworn to and filed with the court clerk within legal time. Anamosa Iowa dated July 13 1933. Co A Doxsee administrator. Doxsee and Doxsee Attorneys for Estate.
A banker's view states that a canceled check alone does not prove payment. Indorsed and canceled checks may show payment if no contrary evidence exists. If the recipient did not receive funds, the marked paid check is not valid evidence and the payer may be held responsible.
A belated report describes a Scotch preacher of the old school delivering an arcane brimstone sermon. He dramatized with awe filled gestures and pulpit pounding, warning sinners of fiery judgment and the final appeal to the Lord amid a thick local dialect.
Dialogue fragment from Bogton Herald shows a diner asking about portion size. Walter nonchalantly cites standard regulation measurements five and a half by two and a half inches for a trimmed chop.
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