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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1920
Page
10
George Matthew Adams argues that enemies reveal a person’s character and that choosing one's own enemies empowers strategic study. By staying bigger than foes and not lowering to their level, a forceful figure can transform opponents into eventual friends through continued effort.
A satirical piece on pills and medicine, mocking overuse of medications. It contrasts allopath and homeopath approaches and notes doctors preferring operations over patients’ costs, while jesting about pills failing to revive unlikely energy and the social habits around pill consumption.
Fragmentary talk about a pupil or teacher routine. The readable lines suggest a casual note or classroom moment with emphasis on doing something in a proper way and a cautious tone about how to proceed. The text mentions Nellie and Iiant with a light, uncertain tone.
A nostalgic verse expresses longing for spring and leisure. The speaker yearns to escape toil and costs to enjoy idle days with nature, birds, and streams. The poem reflects a playful rebirth of self and joy in May.
Willis Sr proclaims himself a self made man citing hard work. Willis Jr retorts that wealth comes from graft luck or marriage, framing a sharp exchange on how money is acquired. The quip highlights a generational clash over finance and merit.
A period cookbook excerpt offers Spaghetti Par Excellence with a rich sauce of bacon, tomato soup, and cranberry gelatine layered with pasta, plus a Sherry dressing for lettuce involving olive oil, peppers, onion, parsley, sugar, and vinegar. The text also includes a Dickensian lifestyle aside about domestic labor and appreciation.
Heat butter until bubbling then mix in flour until smooth. Stir in milk and cook until thickened. Add canned salmon with bones and skin removed, one beaten egg, salt, and cayenne. Serve on toasted crackers or thin toast. Merete Mag west. Copyrig hts 1920 Western Newspaper Union.
A column summarizes Freud like theories that dreams reflect the latest day experiences and early memories. It notes how dream content can be distorted on awakening and offers folk interpretations of fish dreams and swimming fish as portents of fortune and romance, with warnings about deception and disappointment.
A Birmingham Age Herald cartoonish note recalls Allied troops in occupied Germany seeking a printing office to start a newspaper. The quip jokes about solemn clerks and a dead letter office while hinting at postwar press activity and housing worries.
Commissioner Cato Sells asserts federal supervision remains vital as Indians grow in education wealth and self reliance. He cites 225000 allotments and 10956 fee simple patents in recent years, notes rising school enrollment and English use, and highlights $20 million in individual deposits and $98 million livestock value as Indians advance toward independence.
Two young men delivered income tax blanks claiming Annanglo Marches owed $64 to bogus federal agents. The wife paid the demand at home, while her husband pursues action against the impostors.
New York vendor Joseph Passini was fined $2 in Jefferson Market court for attempting to sell seven puppies without a peddler license. During arrest he offered the pups to the magistrate and joked about keeping the dogs as payment. The dogs caused playful chaos in the cell before all were released.
Bert Lofton used a needle from the shirt factory to cut through a steel drain cover and escape the Wyoming state prison. William Smith was caught attempting to scale the wall after Lofton slipped away. They had been held in the death house for their violent record.
A seventy year old negro admitted taking a heavy safe from a pool room. The safe was later found in a nearby Baptist church in Cincinnati.
In Chillicothe Ohio a daylight saving style mixup emerges as stores report varying clocks. County commissioners resist adjusting town clocks, causing some workers to arrive before breakfast while others shift with the old time.
In Indianapolis on May 28 Judge A W Anderson quashed indictments against 125 coal operators and owners on 18 counts while over ruling 5. He voided amended section four of the Lever act and deemed it insufficient, and voided section 20. The ruling ends a lengthy controversy tied to the nationwide miners strike last November.
A historic Senate hearing revealed a $1,000,000 fund alleged to back Major General Wood's presidential bid. Col William Cooper and others testified to substantial expenditures in Ohio and Michigan with additional sums linked to Attorney General Palmer’s campaign.
Edith Gould daughter of George J. Gould eloped with Garrell I. Wilowright a Yale undergraduate and descendant of Peter Stuyvesant. After a Philadelphia license refusal they married by Rev John McKi miogle in Kikton Maryland and received parental good wishes via telegram.
A federal grand jury indicted the American Woolen company of New York and Boston and William M. Wood on 12 counts for violating the Lever act charging sale of cloth at unjust prices. The firm reported 2019 net profits of 15,018,115 with a tax reserve.
Dublin May 28 The destruction of property by fires in Ireland continues Kilbritain castle near Brandon County Cork an ancient landmark was destroyed The estimated damage is 500000 dollars
Two men died when a boiler exploded on a Michigan Central local passenger locomotive near here. Victims Smith and Frank Sehmetop, residents of Detroit, were among the casualties in the fatal incident.
In New York on May 28 the estate of John Willam O Ban non reportedly increased by about 2 million dollars while he was ordered to remain an inmate of a sanitarium after being adjudged mentally incompetent by the court.
In Montpelier Vermont on May 28 a convention adopted a resolution in favor of suffrage and a platform calling for a peace treaty with reservations and nonwiocratic government.
London May 28 reports additional troops ordered to Ireland to curb property destruction. Unexpedted orders sent the Campbell Highlanders from Aldershot to depart for Ireland.
Wheeling West Virginia on May 28 reports the total vote in the statewide primary with Senator Sutherland ahead of General Wood in the Wheeling Ohio County tally.
A state roundup notes 25 county farm transfers since March 1 with a median price of 311 dollars per acre and county surveys planned to map oil types. Story county will install 32 voting machines across 27 precincts for the upcoming primary. The piece also covers a lawsuit over property with Catherine Wombacher, a derailment injuring 20 in Lamars, medical notes on Perry Arthur, and local civic plans including a new water works bond and a Danish college move proposal.
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