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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1922
Page
3
A reflective meditation by F A Walker urges silent restraint in joys and sorrows. It advises cool patience, controlled speech, and loyalty to the right path while facing criticism, highlighting how quiet integrity fosters reason and personal growth.
Will M Maupin discusses a literary piece exploring race death by own action. The essay examines digest preservation and the broad scope from digestion to big game pursuit in a cheery, honest tone.
The piece argues that true success includes fun and fair play. It contrasts winning at all costs with good sportsmanship and personal happiness, citing John Burroughs and the value of independence, health, and doing good in the world.
The piece argues personal responsibility in choosing life directions. It warns against following mobs or external guidance without using one's own brain. It stresses self reliance, warns against blaming others for misfortune, and notes wise people learn to doubt they know it all.
A historic view argues that Alpine groups such as Turkoman Turkish Tartars Armenians and Levantines originate in Asia. It notes living Homo Sapiens Alpinus types in Afghanistan and Samarkand, suggesting ancestral migration patterns differ from present distributions.
The raisin’s value as food extends beyond carbohydrates as ash analysis shows rich calcium magnesium potassium sodium phosphorus chlorine sulfur and iron in readily assimilable form. Raisins are a dietary staple in leading health institutes and are recommended in certain cases. They are the richest among dried fruits in iron and phosphorus, with many fruits and vegetables lacking in organic iron.
Evening service at 7 30 pm. A message invites participation with a cautionary note about following a perilous path. Boston Tran script mentions a warning tone and a call to attend.
A quoted proverb from the Mother's Cook Book extols the duty of a host who personally supervises the repast for guests, contrasting it with those who fail to attend to the meal they offer and thus lack true hospitality.
The article praises fresh fish use with ice kept until cooking and suggests methods for various species like bass pickerel and perch. It includes recipes such as banana filling for cakes and a tomato mushroom sauce to pour over boiled fish, with step by step flavoring details.
The fragment shows a wife asking about the chief cause of divorce and the husband answering with a provocative claim that wives are to blame. The exchange hints at gendered blame and marital tensions typical of period diary or comic panel dialogue.
A chicken with a wooden leg tours with the Passamaquoddy Indians. The bird lays eggs fights and scratches like a two legged hen after an infection rendered the right leg unusable. Owner Dr. M. H. Ross of Los Angeles oversees the bird.
A collection of quirky notes including Shagreen hides from fish, 12 sacred Indian rivers, King Ferdinand of Romania’s car use, early blue rose experiments, Shoshone caverns exploration limits, elephant tusk weights, Montgomery Illinois sheep shelter, ancient Egyptian cork coffins, Africa exploration since 1788, Mississippi origin in 1882, earth eating, Australian desert wells at night, France minting franc tokens, birds as weather prophets, rain bird woodpecker and storm cock missel thrush, weather-forecast birds referenced.
Doroty Bough starred in a Philadelphia athletic meet where she cleared hurdles and ran the 75 yard dash in ten seconds, tying the women's record.
A skeptical ship captain aboard a trans Atlantic liner questioned Signor Marconi about wireless telegraphy. The captain sent a telegram to his wife from Poland and received a reply while in mid Atlantic, convincing him that wireless communication worked.
In a chatty exchange, Mr. Chuggins suggests experiments to save motor fuel. The speaker notes gasoline grows more odorous and less inflammable, joking that makers want to compel the city to abandon gas by making it repellent.
Quotation from Dickens asserts that dishonesty cannot hide. honesty may be challenged but will endure. The speaker argues against the belief that vice avoids direct eye contact, claiming moral character remains visible under scrutiny.
A playful note from the Boston Transcript highlights the unusual headline Hogs Decline, framing it as noteworthy because hogs typically resist decline and stressing the humorous or ironic tone of early journalism.
Farmer Corntessel argues language study helps farmers adapt to different tasks. He notes you cannot use the same language with mules as with oxen, implying varied communication aids for agricultural work.
A brief exchange notes satisfaction with a practically noiseless invention. The Life quotation hints at user approval and interest in quiet operation as a key benefit.
A compilation of直 Iowa items reports drownings at the reservoir and Des Moines river, a hydro plant referendum in Oskaloosa, court actions in Clinton, traffic injuries in Atlantic, and political primary results. Other notes include a Des Moines banker embezzlement plea, a poison-related death, a dance hall licensing move in Atlantic, and local military encampment plans in Iowa City.
Rev John L. Moody Bible Institute emphasizes that Christian doctrine fuels spiritual power moral incentive and understanding. It explains Christ as the firstfruits of the resurrection and believers as the harvest linking faith confessing Jesus to salvation and future glory.
A brief moral fragment urges readers to work with their own hands and mind their own business as a path to honesty and self sufficiency. It contrasts biblical exhortation with a critique of focusing on others faults to overlook strengths.
A biblical excerpt notes that King Solomon had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines, including Pharaoh's daughter, which led his heart astray and away from faith.
A reflective line by Phillips Brooks notes that when a hand closes weaker things fall away and a grasp at strength leaves the fragile parts behind. The image contrasts effort with loss as focus tightens on the main target.
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