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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1921
Page
1
An agricultural bulletin argues the advantage of accurate scales for farmers in buying and selling. It explains that weighing by weight prevents losses from guesswork, promotes fair prices, and suggests portable small platform and pit scales kept dust free and tested annually.
Scrub bulls are banned on Sierra National Forest pastures as local stock associations enforce a rule requiring purebred Hereford Shorthorn or Aberdeen Angu s bulls. In 1620 season 105 Herefords 97 Shorthorns and six Aberdeen Angus bulls were purchased. By season end 1920 an estimated 200 registered bulls grazed the ranges improving steer quality. Permits are denied to nonconforming ranchers until they contribute to association bull purchases.
Advice urges covering tractors or engines to prevent ruin and using boards for protection. Also notes grit acts as teeth for hens in grinding feed, recommending coarse gravel or granite poultry grit from feed stores as essential.
Causes of hen troubles arise from improperly located and poorly constructed poultry houses.
Essential to health and grit influence fowl well being and feed economy. The note stresses grit's role in birds, linking health to productive feeding and broader economic impact.
A Washington commission firm received three cases or 90 dozen eggs with 18 percent condemned as unfit by the ro enti health department. Experts from the United States Department of Agriculture warn that even a few bad eggs raise prices and harm consumer trust, while dealers avoid spotted eggs to protect reputation and market fairness.
Feed plans for average work horses propose two options. Option one uses fifteen pounds mixed hay ten pounds oats and four pounds wheat bran per day. Alternative uses twelve pounds timothy hay seven pounds oats seven pounds corn per day, with timothy hay instead of clover for cows.
Under favorable conditions cowpeas cut for hay sprout again from the base. Pasturage or a second crop of hay or seed may be produced, especially along the Gulf coast if moisture follows the first cutting. Ordinarily only a single cutting is obtained.
The article compares broadcasting soybeans for hay with drill sowing 28 inches apart. It notes thicker sowing reduces coarseness and suggests drilling for better yield. It adds that poultry specialists from the United States Department of Agriculture recommend using lime from old mortar and fine gravel.
Investigators assert grit is a necessary feed component for flocks providing strong bones and bright plumage. The claim emphasizes grit as essential for poultry vitality and appearance.
Market advice urges buyers to consider Purebrective stock as a favorable entry point. Analysts highlight low price levels and potential for growth, suggesting investors monitor forthcoming earnings and sector trends to time purchases.
The piece traces boxing as the oldest sport from ancient times through classic authors. It cites Homer Virgil Dr Samuel Johnson and Lord Byron noting prize fighting’s cultural stature and references famous modern boxers like Dempsey Carpentier Leonard Tendler Lynch and Wilde as today’s earners.
A roundup of signings trades and rumors from major and minor leagues. Arthur B. Riviere joins the Cardinals while Samuel G. Post signs with Brooklyn and Ty Cobb makes roster adjustments. Harry Lunte and Walter Mails trade talks surface amid Western league moves and college links. Urban Shocker and other figures stay active in winter duties shaping the 1921 season plans.
Drake University football players formed a glee club last fall to boost esprit de corps. The group united players as singers in response to encouragement to sing together and build team spirit.
The article praises Buddy Ensor as a miracle jockey with exceptional skill and courage likened to Tod Sloan. It notes his consistent success on horses other riders deem inferior, his measured use of the whip, and his careful study of past performances and trials to forecast racing outcomes.
Washington and Jefferson schedule spring practice while Philadelphia eyes this year’s national rowing races. C B Wingate sets a new five mile amateur car record at Daytona. Miss Fanny Durack retires as Australia’s swimming champion. University of Toronto may send a crew to the American regatta in Philadelphia May 23. Roy Moore, bantamweight, is favored after defeating Jack Sharkey. University of Pennsylvania invites University of Paris to relay carnival in April. The St Augustine golf course is famed in the South as golfers’ paradise. Harvard and Yale discuss a joint track meet with Oxford-Cambridge. Milton Rommey, 20, enters University of Chicago. Pennsylvania state game commission spends 544069.46 last year with 125184 for bounties. Carnegie Tech invited to box Navy. West Virginia seeks wrestling meet. Willie Ritchie to be matchmaker for American Legion boxing in San Francisco. Charles Weber helps coach Cincinnati football. Rutgers seeks game with Stevens. Crescent A C of Brooklyn offers annual championship cup in lacrosse. B C Quigtes to referee Harvard-Indiana and Vanderbilt-Texas games. Charley Grimm tops George Kelley as NL first basemen. Michigan claims football the only paid sport. Amateur Bicycle League of America launches in the East with about 2500 enthusiasts. Jack Moakley hopes javelin and discus aid athletic development.
Jeff Tesreau, former New York Giants pitcher, signs for a third year to continue as Dartmouth baseball coach after two seasons in command of the Green.
The University of Pennsylvania polo team gains permission to practice at Bryn Mawr Polo Club allowing development of a strong squad under the university polo manager.
American players have never defeated Australia on the Australians home soil and will seek a breakthrough on their courts with the new matchup.
The league announces a rule limiting future games to 12 players per team. This change affects roster strategies and game play dynamics across all member institutions.
Harvard re elects Fr G Bemis 22 of Chestnut Hill Massachusetts to lead the 1921 cross country squad. Bemis previously starred for Harvard and is again named captain of the team for the upcoming season.
Jockey Buddy Ensor has signed a second call contract to ride for trainer John Sanford in the upcoming racing season.
A bill to legalize boxing has been introduced in the West Virginia legislature, seeking to establish legal boxing activity within the state.
A hotel manager and a guest clash over gas use. The guest insists on using the gas to its full value, claiming entitlement while expressing intent to sit and smell it rather than cause harm. The exchange highlights a contentious confrontation over facility access.
In Crimson Gulch Cactus Joe recalls advising a tenderfoot to carry a gun. The speaker notes the man is unpopular and warned there is little chance he won’t get hurt within twenty four hours, as the others join in the grim assessment.
A humorous dialogue about divorce grounds and political loyalties with jokes on a candidate defeated in an election. A melancholy citizen notes misplaced job promises and worries about national direction.
Jack and Muriel trade lines about love and money in a playful exchange. He jokes about a balance in the bank shrinking as engagement nears, while she teases that love makes the world go round and speeds life up beyond expectations.
After a third collision with other couples he fears her disapproval of his dancing. She replies she would rather dance with him alone than be bumped into all evening.
A brusque merchant refuses a suitor calling him for permission to marry his daughter. The persistent young man remains unfazed and offers to relay any message for the merchant while declining the union.
For years druggists note the record of Dr Kilmer's Swamp-Root a kidney liver and bladder medicine. It is marketed as a physician prescription and strengthens the kidneys liver and bladder. It has many friends and sells on its merit. A sample bottle offer is made with ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. Binghamton NY.
An old advertisement fragment promotes Garfield Tea as beneficial for digestion and ongoing health, ending with a courteous sign off about well being as a consumer note.
In Flatbush a wife loses her temper and the question of where it goes is posed. In Bensonhurst a man replies that he usually gets it. The snippet hints at comic regional banter from a neighborhood exchange.
Women urged to use Diamond Dyes with clear directions for dyeing wool silk cotton and linen. Warns of streaks spots fades and ruined fabrics from poor dye jobs and advises buying Diamond Dyes only, with a druggist color card.
A Kentucky visitor meets an elderly Black man named Uncle Jim who humorously explains he avoids marriage to avoid risking his judgment. The exchange reveals curiosity about singleness and a playful defense of personal choice in a dated southern setting.
A fragmented verse remarks on a celebrated worker who excels at tasks. It references Uncle Sam selling ships and a 48th Amendment erasing schooners, with characters Dusty Dick and Ralph noting changes. The piece blends satire and social commentary through clipped dialogue and persona lines.
A dialogue recounts a humorous exchange about titles and military service. One character objects to being called colonel, citing no army experience or public speaking, and explains he does not drink, feeling he has no claim to the title.
A playful exchange shows a wife boasting careful planning to guard anniversary memory while praising her husband’s forgetfulness as accidental. The light banter highlights domestic humor and married life.
In a heated exchange the senator admits faith in the plain people wavered as returns suggested another man might win. Madge and Marjorie gossip about the costly secret and telephone tolls, highlighting the rumors surrounding the race.
A Ti-Bits fragment shows a humorous dialogue about a late hour, a turtle accident involving Jack, and a spoilt veal claim. The mother and daughter exchange wry remarks on miscommunication and odd culinary explanations.
A woman recalls a house party where Mrs. H. caused a nuisance with her passion for souvenirs. The friend reveals she once hosted Mrs. H. and jokes that the missed item was the husband, not the china.
A compact note observes that individuals with malevolent intent assess others using their own distorted benchmarks, implying a projection of cruelty and bias in social judgments.
Mrs Dora Williams recalls ten months bedridden due to stomach trouble and credits Eatonic for relief. She urges others with indigestion sourness heartburn belching or repeated meals to take Anatonic after each meal. The ad notes a big box costs a trifling sum with druggist guarantee.
Junk articles gain utility value and resist disposal as owners store them or display them. Pragmatic family members face lectures on sentimental value, while collectors’ habits create uglier, more comfortless homes and heightened expectations as they age.
The Observer of Events and Things cautions that while sympathy for the underdog is fine it is foolish to bet on him in a fight. The remark reflects a wary stance on backing unlikely winners.
A concise moral note urges youth to seek joys that leave pleasant memories and avoid uncanny or disturbing thrills. It promotes reflection and restraint, urging careful choice in what entertains and influences the mind.
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