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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1926
Page
8
Practical kitchen notes offer scrambled eggs with added rice for stretch, plus jelly molds with chicken and fowl, onion sandwiches, rice with bananas, and a French herb blend. Also includes Ever Lasting Yeast, olive oil pickles, mustard pickles, and oat meal boosted beef loaf optional tips.
A small chest proves very useful in the children's room as storage for toys and trinkets. It is low and easy for a child to use and can be moved about the room to the most convenient spot.
Fish Culture Plants America operates 500 establishments for artificial fish rearing yet reports that less than one tenth of their eggs reach maturity.
A small boy writes about the mule claiming it is a hardy bird with two legs for walking two for kicking and wings on its head. He adds the creature is stubbornly backward about coming forward and contrasts it with a goose or turkey.
Boston Globe notes the West Barnstable Congregational Church built 1717 on a hill overlooking Barnstable harbor. The bell bears the Revere name sold to the town in 1807. the cock on the steeple was made in England and placed in 1723. The piece recounts Rev Henry Jacob's 1616 church founding, Lothrop's 1632 raid imprisonment, and the 1639 move to Great Marshes in Barnstable with later arrivals in Scituate.
Lapland lies in Arctic northwestern Europe along the Arctic Ocean and endures two months of continuous daylight in summer and two months of unbroken darkness in winter. It is divided among Norway, Sweden, and Russia, spanning Nordland Tromso Finmarken Norrland Norrbotten and the Kota peninsula. About 25,000 inhabitants form Europe’s smallest racial group with average stature under five feet.
The article notes a colossal star called Sirius much larger than the sun, 80 light years away, with its rays taking over eight and a half years to reach Earth. It claims light from October 1917 would arrive this year and suggests a distant globe circling Sirius observed through large telescopes.
The South Australian director of chemistry said straw could fuel a power alcohol industry. In tests one ton yielded 50 gallons, with higher returns likely if a company formed to scale production. He argued enough straw exists in SA to replace all imported petrol.
Winthrop Ames at the Federal Council of Churches dinner told a joke about a great actor and a great preacher. The actor remarks that the preacher’s sermon was brief but he feared it might have been tedious. The preacher replies with humor about keeping it concise.
Arizona spans the widest altitude range in the western states from San Francisco Peak at 12 611 feet to the Colorado River at about 100 feet above sea level.
The human ear spans eleven octaves and can distinguish about 8 000 to 9 000 distinct notes within that range.
English Puritan preacher Hugh Peters served as minister at the First Church of Salem Massachusetts from 1636 to 1641. He later became a lieutenant of Oliver Cromwell and was executed for his role in King Charles I’s death.
Sir George Younghusband recalls Rudyard Kipling shaping modern soldier speech. He notes Kipling visited Simla and Lahore, spoke with troops, and wove captured words into durable soldier talk used in The Soldier's Memories in Peace and War.
The Palais des Papes in Avignon, once a barracks for a century, reopened as a museum following a 1906 restoration push. The initial collection features effigies of the popes and tomb-tribute copies, donated by M. Colomb, the French government, Czechoslovakia and ex premier M Theunis of Belgium.
Professor Frederick H. Seares of Mount Wilson Observatory estimates an immense number of worlds beyond Earth. He calculates 30 billion suns each with at least one world, and using Earth’s population as a baseline, reaches a total around sixty quintillion inhabited worlds. The figure is derived from mathematical reasoning, as most of them remain unseen even with powerful telescopes.
In Rome a man over eighty is hailed as Italy’s premier artist model. For six decades he has posed for painters and sculptors, delivering perfect stillness and demanding endurance. He stays in shape with daily dips in the Tiber as he embodies the immortal ideal of physical prowess.
In Saxony’s Oelsnitz the town tilts and sinks with no house remaining upright. Authorities fear all buildings will be abandoned as underground watercourses undermine blocks. Geologists survey to find drainage methods for the hidden streams to halt further subsidence.
A Swedish court imposes attire rules requiring skirts to be within six inches of the ground for Swedish associates. Official gowns for court ladies feature three yard trains and short white satin sleeves. Foreign women may wear any color, with ankle length gowns expected on official appearances.
The first forks entered England in Queen Elizabeth I's reign but she dismissed them as finicky and unworthy of attention, casting aside the new eating implements.
Bituminous coal is mined in the north of Ireland but the quantity is not sufficient to affect the world coal trade.
A garbled clipping from the Atch igon Globe quotes a preacher warning that men who die before their wives will be helpless in heaven and unable to find what they need when it is necessary to put on a clean.
An article summarizes a British Medical Journal discussion on drunkenness and alcohol as a drug. It notes changing norms across eras and argues fitness for duty, observed by naval officers, as the true test of intoxication and safety. It adds that modern life demands clearer heads and steadier work, with varying effects by individual.
The article reviews common errors in recognizing tuberculosis from Dr Paul H Ringer of Asheville. It cautions against misattributing blood to the throat, notes pleurisy often links to TB, warns against relying on a single negative sputum test, and stresses that fever may be absent. It recounts a cook who died after a late TB diagnosis despite seeming well.
The average American eats 150 pounds of meat and 200 pounds of potatoes and 150 eggs yearly. He consumes less wheat than the Frenchman, according to recent statistics.
A brief Scotsman item notes a child eager for medicine at night as his mother consents, while Edin burgh residents recall a tense moment with the grandmother involved. The passage captures domestic weather and family care in a colonial era voice.
A leaking wine cask caused extensive fungi development in a cellar. The pressure raised the roof, jammed the cellar door, and forced removal of floor boards in the room above.
All over baseball, players, scouts and managers shift teams. Jess Petty excels in Brooklyn while Jimmy Lyle joins Birmingham on option. Yatt Corrigan, Thompson, and Mallett move between Syracuse, St. Joseph, Scranton, Macon, and Bridgeport. Henry Kormahlen heads to Bridgeport, Joe Prusback exits to New Jersey, and Dwyer lands in Newark. Connie Mack sticks with ten pitchers, Kit May to Reading, and Bob Ross to Philadelphia events. The Wembley stadium capacity rivals Yankee Stadium as Yankee hitters strike early in the season. Lefty Beck reportedly leaves the Toronto Leafs. Duffy Lewis remains a strong hitter.
Jon Vila notes the Queen's College Ontario squad drew New York crowds during a Princeton game. Legon, a fiery haired forward, captivated fans with his skating and scoring, earning repeated cheers of Come on Red and boos when penalized.
Two Macklan moundsmen, John Nabors and Thomas Sheehan, endured brutal 2010 seasons with Nabors dropping 19 straight decisions and Sheehan 16. The Athletics suffered 20 straight losses, a record low for the club in the era. The downturn followed earlier high success, as the Quaker town club slipped from glory to a seven‑season drought after a prior string of pennants.
Rickey of the St. Louis Cardinals faced a risky promise with recruit Bottomley. After sending him to the minors for three years, rumors grew, and Rickey paid a large sum to bring him back. Bottomley became a standout star for the Cardinals.
The text credits Sam Rice of Washington with stealing 62 bases in 1919, noting it as among the era's top efforts and his best base running year, averaging about 24 steals per season. It explains the nickname Man O War reflects his speed on the bases.
Robertson, ten year Penn track coach, signs for five additional years. Penn relays shift toward Olympic style prepare athletes for the Amsterdam 1928 games where Penn will compete.
Ilda Trnys a Dougherty high school sophomore born with one arm proves an insurmountable handicap to none. The 16 year old center excels in basketball while also shining as a swimmer dancer and equestrienne under coach Cromer.
Jim Thorpe, famed Indian athlete, announces retirement from athletics at age forty after a diverse 20 year career. He cites a desire to hunt and live with his people in Oklahoma, ending with a note on his Carlisle roots and last season with the New York Giants.
Ossie Solem signs a ten year contract to run Drake athletics. Susanne Lenglen’s poet-Jance earns a small weekly sum. Olympic women’s games set for Gothenburg August 27 to 2. Princesses and duchesses flock to see Helen Wills. Eva Morrison swims 387 minutes in 82 degree water and aims at English Channel.
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