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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1926
Page
6
An advertisement urges readers to test Tanlac claiming it restores strength and vigor within a week. It touts nature based ingredients gathered from distant roots and herbs and cites numerous praise letters as proof of efficacy.
A preacher frames Esther’s dilemma as a missionary parable for modern Christians. It contrasts a blessed Western life with heathen suffering and urges readers to use youth talent and wealth for God's service and the salvation of dying souls.
Mark Rendle and Old Man Negley visit Blankacre collie kennels to choose a pet for Mark. Negley guides selection by observing behavior conformation and temperament, discarding a sulky leftmost pup and a prick-eared pup, narrowing to two promising pups based on play and health.
A noted journal aphorism on spiritual order urges personal readiness and entrusting fate to divine wisdom. The reflection emphasizes inner discipline and turning life’s complexities over to God.
A brief reflection on how tact is seen as both gift and grace in Christina Rossetti's lines. The sentiment links generosity and obligation, noting that tact may be given or earned and that grace entails possession or attainment.
A reflective aphorism attributed to Horace notes that greater self denial leads to greater heavenly reward. The line contrasts earthly restraint with spiritual gain, emphasizing ascetic discipline as a path to divine favor.
A pithy note reflects on the phrase He was subject unto them from the Gospel, framing it as thirty years of quiet obedience and hidden labor in Jesus's early life. The reflection ties spiritual discipline to everyday obedience within family and faith.
Samuel Johnson lauds Shakespeare for mirroring life and human sentiment through drama. He warns that readers misled by other writers' phantoms can be cured of delirious ecstasies by engaging with Shakespeare's accessible depictions of worldly transactions and passions.
Quotation highlights a manuscript critique labeling a romance novel as gaudy with color imagery. The narrator questions publication while the critic notes the first chapter uses bold hues to express emotion, including a count aflame with anger and a chauffeur colored blue with cold.
The Jersey Journal notes a trend of fewer homes being mortgaged as some citizens pursue their natural bent, while others warn that such impulses may lead to crooked outcomes.
The piece traces how the poke or pocket began in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries with the side pouch. Henry VIII carried a red satin purse embroidered in gold, and Catherine de Medici popularized perfumed leather purses, which could cost up to $30.
Franklin states that a Bible and a newspaper in each home, plus a good school in every district, are principal supports of virtue, morality and civil liberty, and urges their study and appreciation.
A collage of 17th to early 20th century facts notes public baths in Constantinople numbered 180, Franklin as a late-born son, Berlin towers, a duchess in slippers, Lippershey’s telescope, Queen Maud’s literary output, rising college attendance, and Europe avoiding umbrellas until the 1700s.
In Austria and southern Germany Christmas begins with Nikolo on December 6, featuring St Nicholas and the Grampus bogey. The Christmas Eve dinner is fish heavy, with a noon roast goose on Christmas Day, and Steffan’s Day offers venison or hare. New Year’s Eve centers on wine and luck symbols like a pinkey pie and the chimney sweep, with festivities lasting through Lent.
An amateur performance faltered as the hero Mr Smithson rushes the heroine Miss Matthews and proclaims a shared future causing the audience to laugh. The moment reveals his overzealous attempt to begin sharing and leaves the crowd amused at the mishap.
A Brockton Massachusetts high school story telling club provides upperclass girls with self expression through monthly library meetings. Programs feature season appropriate tales learned verbatim or told in their own words after faculty supervision.
The Post Office will supply 6 185 000 pen points to 52 000 stations and 480 000 holders for nibs. Over the period a minimum 900 000 quarts of writing fluid and 600 000 large sheets of writing paper will be used.
A professor of astronomy from the University of Chicago explains in Popular Science Monthly that planetary growth by dust accumulation will increase gravitational pull among planets. Over about 500 billion years Jupiter may capture Earth and become a star.
A brief quote exchanges debate over a phrase and its application. The discussion clarifies that the term was directed at the wearer, not the subject as a whole.
The Lucayans were the Bahamas' original inhabitants and the first Americans Columbus met. He described them as mild and gentle, noting their foreheads were artificially flattened.
A wry line from the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette questions the kind of blue sky sold by deceptive salesmen. The note hints at weather or mood contrasts and critiques sales pitches.
The article notes a unique Chinese campaign discouraging rice consumption, contrasting it with familiar American campaigns promoting foods. It cites the Progressive Grocer claiming heavy rice use often leads to famine at year’s end.
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