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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1921
Page
3
A 1921 Western Newspaper Union feature compiles home cooking guidance. It includes a foreign pie recipe called French Meat Pie with veal and pork in a pastry, a Cincinnati Chicken stuffed pork tenderloin prepared with bread crumb filling, butter and capers, and a macaroons custard dessert with jelly and meringue. It also provides a decorative apricot can dessert method and notes on tempering flavors.
An old English tale explains how the name Dun, a 19th century constable John Dun who enforced debts, gave rise to phrases like Dun for your money. He would rouse debtors by two ordinary visits and a startling costume before a final bell to compel payment.
Coleridge penned a seaweed sonnet while Tennyson drafted In Memoriam on a butcher's ledger, illustrating literary pieces born from unlikely surfaces and everyday objects.
A humorous dialogue contrasts age as a number with the duration of being that age. The banter pivots on perspective, suggesting character and experience matter more than the count itself.
A lyrical piece contrasts sunrise and sunset as preferred times, reflecting on time, sorrow, and hope. It ends with a quirky note that alligators grow slowly, estimating a 20 footer at about seventy five years old.
The piece reflects on silent judgment over outspoken rebuke and emphasizes actions over talk. It notes the value of those quietly doing better, contrasted with public criticism, and mentions American pipelines once linking wells to storage and refineries around the globe.
A meandering essay urges budgeting beyond money to time and mind. It argues allocate earnings and hours to essentials and growth, stressing that knowledge and reading enrich life more than possessions. It cites Lord Brougham and a million plus words per year as examples of disciplined, thoughtful living.
A federation affiliated club boosts women in business and professions by offering contact with peers in similar fields and broader ties to other industries. It urges women to form local clubs, connect with the federation, and advance opportunities for earners while strengthening the community.
George T. Clark, Stanford librarian, returns from a world tour with about 11 000 volumes added to the library. In Tokyo and London he secured rare items including Morrison Asiatic Library holdings, Rowe Shakespeare 1709 10 edition, Halliwell Shakespeare 18th-19th centuries, and Royal Society translations. He also found maps, Pacific-era reports, and a rare Paris set Tarbe’s Poetes Champenoigs Anterieurs au XVII Siecle.
Awakened at 7 15 am by heavy tread in her bedroom Mrs Julia Wilhelm 1804 St Ferdinand asked if anyone was there A voice replied Yes there is and you better keep quiet The intruder finished ransacking the room and left leaving the woman terrified and still in bed at dawn
A bill introduced by Republican T. B. Beck would make snoring, talking in sleep, or disturbances after 1 am unlawful in Oklahoma. Penalties escalate from loss of breakfast for the first offense to living with a mother-in-law for a set days, and fines from 100 to 1000 dollars for later offenses.
London reports Russia plans to receive 5000 German specialists for metal industry health and land roles 4000 300 500 with 150 emigrants already arrived and 4000 ready premises prepared groups for motor industry including ex Ford workers Swanzey NH deer hunting: hunter finds buck and doe killed by a single bullet
St Louis Rudolph Bowman a former soldier wounded in the Argonne has regained his ability to speak. Specialists at the Central Institute for the Deaf report his case the only one known where voice was restored with false vocal cords acting as true cords. Through systematic vocal exercises the ventricular bands now function like cords producing a normal sounding voice with mild hoarseness.
In Raleigh area a bold milk thief met his Waterloo when a farmer named A. Johnson confronted the intruder at night. A farm mule charged during the milking chaos, leaving a shattered milking stool, a milk pall, and a hat, but no thief.
English dancing authority BP J. Richardson predicts no new dances will rise this year while the fox trot one step and tango gain standardization. He notes teachers in London have agreed on a common framework to unify steps without erasing individual variation. Eccentric jazz shapes are fading.
Dr. H M Warren of the Save-a-Life League states 1920 saw 6171 suicides in the country including 707 children. Women’s suicides rose with more entering commerce and politics. Youngest death was five, oldest 103, and over 400 soldiers killed themselves since World War I.
Jud Tunkins claims his car suddenly quits work and acts with human like intelligence asking for higher payment. The Washington Star reports his claim and its implications for automotive behavior and consumer rights.
In Paris the Seine department council orders a tax on bachelors to fund baby bonuses. Mothers giving birth to a third child receive 350 francs for the fourth child and 450 francs for all beyond the fourth.
A wide set of reports shows local tragedies and legal shifts. Includes a Boone physician's death after heartbreak, Grand Junction livery barn fire, and a council manager form vote in Fort Dodge. Also notes alcohol raids, a railroad town hangings, and a Tama boy in Casper hospital after an amputation.
Mrs. George Tegarden of Moundsville West Virginia reports two years of irregular periods and severe pain. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound her cycle became regular with no pain. She urges other young women to seek advice and try the remedy, promising confidentiality for letters to the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co.
Alyrical quip from Mr H J Jennings, once editor of the Birmingham Mail, claimed to write the shortest drama critique about Pure as Snow at the Blank theater. Critics dispute the boast with a droll American attribution about Ulysses Ss.
A quoted exchange from the Boston Globe features June recalling a proposal by Besss suitor who allegedly knelt in damp moss, wearing new white flannel trousers, asking for her love. The fragment centers on certainty of affection and a humorous courtship image.
Quoted wits contrast two heads with six in lectures debating how many minds best drive a discourse. The lighthearted exchange riffs on collaboration and solo effort in academic talk.
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