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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1922
Page
12
In a forest a tale of Old Winter stripping color from the Great Trees and leaving evergreens proudly clothed in green. The naked trunks shivered as the green neighbors faced the cold winds, prompting a moment of shared shame and changing sight.
In a forest tale the Great Trees, mocked by evergreens, seek help from Forest Goblins and Bolves to survive winter. A fairy brings a promise from the Fairy Queen, yielding the Great Trees dazzlingly dressed by snow fairies and Jack Frost, while evergreens witness their transformation. The evergreen taunts fade as the Great Trees shine through the season.
A speaker describes a noisy upstairs neighbor who plays a fiddle and sings late at night. The music disrupts sleep, leading to thoughts of moving, paying for transport, and a potential lease dispute over a flat named by musical keys. The speaker compares tones to football games and doglike singing.
Mildred June of film fame, born December 23 1902 in St Louis, and living in Los Angeles for four years, will become a bride according to an announcement by her parents Mr and Mrs Maurice June of Los Angeles. She has been featured in many screen comedies.
An essay on RSVP basics and courtesy for invitations. It stresses timely replies matter for planning, notes when replies are required such as weddings and dinners, and contrasts RSVP with the English phrase the favor of an answer. A hotel anecdote ends with a humorous quip about keys and guests.
The name Violante emerged in Europe and later English usage split into Yolande, Yolette, and Joletta, with Violet spreading in Scotland and England. Viola remains the Italian form, famed through Shakespeare, and the violet flower symbolizes modesty. The bloodstone is listed as a talisman for health and fidelity, with Thursday and the number five as lucky.
A brief verse describes steadying on the road amid its hits misses sorrows and burdens with quiet resolve. The speaker favors travel and perseverance through unblisses and blisses while bearing a heavy load.
The article blends a meditation on eternity by Alexander Maclaren with a reader reflection on music and aging. It then reports United States forest service experiments showing seasoned air dried timber doubles strength over green timber and details weight loss during seasoning for Western pine.
A survey spans synthetic leather from yeast to tar and water, butterfly farms in England, thorny plant toxins from Indian turnip, 77 sweet potato varieties at Tuskegee, US water intake per citizen, historical library interpolation, satin shoe fashion in London, and American trade growth with Egypt. Victoria Drummond becomes first British woman with full engineering apprenticeship celebrated with a theater party for Dundee foundry workers.
Renee Durand an eighteen year old Parisian shop girl has been elected queen of the mid Lenten festival ceremonies amid the city celebrations.
Scientific American notes three years after the armistice that wartime medical needs crystallized new practices. Facial reconstruction led by Dr. Vilray P. Blair shows 2,600 American soldiers required reconstruction, with about 2,000 treated abroad and 600 sent home for care.
A reflective note on daily effort citing Abraham Lincoln and the idea of doing one s best each day. It comments on partnership vows and risk in relationships with a light admonitory tone. The piece uses pithy humor to frame personal duty and resilience.
A fragmentary reflection compares the hyacinth to an inverted balustrade and notes how a bed of hyacinths mirrors balustrades. Augusta Rodin’s quote highlights art as a ray of nature that needs human intellect to unfold its possibilities. A separate line mentions a married man preferring not to visit those who try to be hospitable.
A jocular patter exchange questions a vaudeville act with a quiet patron doubting if the performance is good. The stage talk suggests a girl performer is simply making the most of her natural gifts and the era’s modest blessings in entertainment.
A quirky mix of company records and personal life glimpses appears alongside street lamp chatter and a light jab at busy commuters. The fragment hints at disguise, marriage, and two sons while noting a street fight ending in a fractured skull.
A critic mocks a lack of originality in government ideas while Senator Sorghum asserts originality is less important than sound judgment. The dialogue emphasizes selecting the best existing concepts over inventing new ones in modern governance.
The false defendant shows in court with a sharp lawyer yet appears to be pursuing a drawn out process. The judge notes the discourse lets the jury ponder every detail of her attire before focusing on testimony.
A concise dialogue parodies rural life with Mr Cobbles and an ally. The exchange hints at themes of envy, social ideas, and a college educated son refusing work, while a hired man acts as a foil in a farm setting.
Sayde presides over the tinware counter as Tlora Bel and Yve discuss Harold Heartbreaze on screen. The exchange hints at curiosity and perception of a deceitful man, with characters debating trust and observation.
A hopeful dreamer wakes to unpaid bills and mounting collector attention, facing a harsh financial reality. The piece portrays looming debt as collectors close in on the once-optimistic dreamer.
A humorous dialogue fragment features characters North West Center Hoptond and Purchaser trading quips on thrift, truth, and wit. The piece plays on fortune telling, talking birds, and a tongue in a playful exchange.
A farmer chides a hired man for refusing to state past corn husk counts from a prize contest, insisting on a visual demonstration to reveal the number of bushels husked. The exchange is rendered in a rustic, humorous country tone.
A dialogue captures a friend’s plea to quit politics met with Senator Sorghum’s blunt reply that no one leaves politics and that everyone stars until they are left behind.
A Pennsylvanian physician who practiced medicine gained note as a medical consultant in many towns before moving to Buffalo to launch Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The product sold nationwide through druggists and promised relief from female health issues and general weakness.
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