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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1920
Page
8
A humorous critique of sleeping porches as vanity additions to houses. The piece notes their high cost, limited use, and tendency to become dusty after idle seasons, with colorful anecdotes about owners enduring hot nights and impractical comfort measures. It ends with a quip about Vancouver Island.
Interpreting a dream of a shroud, writers say it signals wealth and health benefits. The omen may foretell an inheritance and rising business fortunes, though it could warn of minor health risks if neglectful. A removed shroud suggests only a brief quarrel, then smooth days ahead.
A light verse on the return of domestic calm when Nellie the servant quits and then resumes work. The speaker praises the warmth of home and meals under Nellie, while noting the odd, gentle selfishness of enjoying a servantless spell before another hire arrives. The poem ends with fond tribute to the motherly care of the house.
The passage urges maintaining mental youth to slow aging. It cites William E Gladstone, over eighty, chopping wood, translating classics, and solving mysteries as an example of mental vigor sustaining activity. Interest fuels youth in the brain, drives effort, loyalty, and enthusiasm.
A promotional piece on May Riley Smith's Summer Salads discusses queenly influence and noble motherhood. It highlights garden lettuce varieties head and leaf, peas, onions, and other crisp vegetables as plentiful salad material.
A 1920 Western Newspaper Union piece offers practical salad ideas including crisp lettuce with various dressings, a mustard bed as a salad plant, and serving tips. Also includes cherry conserve and tomato cucumber salad preparations with garnish suggestions. The snippet ends with a light joke about Mr and Mrs Dubb in an unrelated marriage quip.
Inez Sprague Sitness of New York demands an ante-nuptial contract before marrying the marquis of Cellani. The condition requires installation of modern bathrooms in his twelfth century mansion where she will live. A facetious note adds a quip about a mule.
A 1918-era report from New York discusses the flotation process for ore concentration. Bubbles and reagents separate valuable sulfide minerals from gangue, enabling higher copper yields and transforming mining practice. The piece highlights Columbia University’s role, the need for ore dressing specialists, and the shift to finer grinding and colloid chemistry to optimize froth flotation.
The passage outlines a college program for ore concentration experts, stressing core sciences plus language, economics, mining, and metallurgy. It emphasizes a practical capstone project and optional chemistry or physics electives to deepen problem solving in ore dressing.
A one reel motion picture called Explosive Dusts from the U S department of agriculture and United States Grain Corporation demonstrates dust dangers. It follows a longer two reel grain dust explosions film used in mills and elevators nationwide. The new film targets schools colleges and industry and explains prevention with loans and prints available through the department or direct purchase.
After a two story frame building toppled, John Pettibone a New York laborer was rescued by Sampson whose warning shout saved lives. Police and two fire companies aided as Pettibone walked home disdainfully, while the ambulance and patrol motor crews marveled at the escape.
A gray timber wolf weighing over 60 pounds was killed by James Kees east of Richmond, Indiana, in woods beside the Richmond Country Club golf links after it had preyed on poultry for several days. He shot the animal with a rifle following several shots.
In the Spavernaugh hills near Murphy Oklahoma a Cherokee watch fire has burned for fifty years as a covenant symbol with God. Attendant George Potato maintains the still glowing ashes three feet high by adding tree sap gum during stomp dances where braves gather and renew covenants with a ceremonial pipe.
Ivy Howard of Newport caught an octopus on a local dock measuring about six feet in diameter. They note that devil fish have been rare in the area due to cold water. The largest previously known here was a 15 foot diameter specimen caught in 1918 by Mrs. Hanson, wife of the Meceta Blend light keeper, which fought fiercely.
The first journalism school in the Far East begins in Manila at the University of the Philippines with Walter Wilgus as director. The program admits third and fourth year students, both genders, with about fifty enrolled, and emphasizes strong English skills.
A short quotation attributed to Thomas Carlyle emphasizes the need for a guiding purpose in life. It argues that without purpose a person is aimless and ineffective, while with purpose one should devote mind and effort to worthy work.
A reflective note contends that among earthly desires only death can be perfectly attained. It suggests various circumstances leave us without guidance on whether that attainment is worth pursuing.
The speaker credits the Bible with a singular wonder that defies earthly limits and convinces man of love's reality, calling this essence the core of the Gospel as expressed by John Kelman, D. D.
Quote attributed to Thackeray contrasts snobbery and pride in poverty and wealth, highlighting social vanity and self regard. The remark cautions against judging others by fortune or lineage and emphasizes humility.
An advertisement appeals to women warning that kidney or bladder trouble often goes undetected. It claims Swamp Root restores kidney health and cites sample bottle offers via ten cent postage to Dr Kilmer and Co. and availability in drug stores.
Historical notes describe using cold surface water to thaw frozen soil in mining areas of Alaska. Experiments show water at 82 degrees warming ground from 28 degrees, with 20 gallons per minute producing an 8 foot thaw in 86 hours, explained by heat retention in underground soil.
An old ad advises using Guticura Ointment for pimples and redness, then bathing with Cuticura Soap and hot water. After rinsing and drying, dust Cuticura Talcum for a fragrant finish.
A local photographer’s display draws two girls, Mary and Lucy, to a picture of Annie Smith in a school procession. Mary exclaims a resemblance, triggering curiosity about the girl in the third row as friends discuss the image.
A fragment suggests a family discussion about summer travel. Ta seeks a place to play golf and Ava explores rolling graphics, hinting at unfamiliar golf venues. The text intertwines romance and a disease metaphor about exposure and risk.
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