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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1920
Page
1
A humorous satirical piece describes a cage exhibit comparing a vest pocket edition of man with the real article. It mocks various apes and primates, noting features from a bearded man to a chimpanzee, with tongue in cheek commentary on the spectacle and its observers.
A 1920 Western Newspaper Union recipe excerpt outlines a Cream Jelly Roll with cream and fruit jelly and a lemon rind flavor. It also provides a frosting method with marshmallows and a ginger scented ginger loaf and a muffin batter yielding a dozen muffins.
Yale cleared about 130000 from football last season with Harvard and Princeton gate receipts around 61000 and 50000 respectively. Brown and other home games yielded smaller sums, while overhead costs reduced the net by about 80000.
The Yale News reports T. A. 10. Jones returns as head football coach, praising his role in Captain Black's 1916 team and Exeter teams of 1914 1915 1918. The change also allows Doctor Sharpe to focus on directing Yale's athletic policy and broad participation in sports.
The piece notes rare dream olfactory experiences and their interpretations. It cites folklore that perfumes promise good fortune, rosemary foretells mourning, and a wife’s perfume signals a dominant wife. Freud’s puzzlement over smell dreams is mentioned alongside Monroe experiments with cloves and the rarity of smell dreams in test subjects.
The text extols the law of success through organization. It frames organization as the key to results and triumphs, asserting the mind and body possess elements ready to form a powerful system. It encourages readers to adopt disciplined, structured effort to overcome failure.
In a fey exchange, G Whillikens and B Gosh discuss Everbroke and Multivox girl as a source of money and romance. Miss Smith listens intently to Jones and stays silent. A gag about a doctor not taking ill gotten gains hints at satire on ethics and finances.
A nostalgic reflection by Edgar A. Guest on past days when families used a single wooden tub for weekly baths. The piece contrasts cold winters, water heated on a stove, and shared baths with modern luxury homes and busy routines. It closes with motivational guidance on organizing talents and turning abilities into productive effort.
A vain girl seeks validation from a barometer she cannot mirror. The device responds with a single affirmative verdict, reading Fair and feeding her vanity. The scene plays on the need for external approval and the barometer’s simplistic judgment.
Mike Gibbons announces plans to establish a boxing college at his home in St Paul and to develop a correspondence school of boxing. He envisions a high quality course offered at a modest price for young men and business men seeking exercise.
Tacoma fans mourn as two ex Tacoma Tigers Fred McMullin and Ira Flagstead head to the major leagues. McMullin joins the White Sox and Flagstead with Detroit, both slated for utility roles this season.
Gustavus Kirby president of the Olympic committee calls for a fund of at least 150000 to cover expenses of 150 to 200 athletes for the Antwerp games. N W Rubin estimates about 1000 per man, urging sportsmen and patriots to donate to support America in international competition.
Dartmouth pitcher Cuddy Murphy seeks a big league job while the Phillies pursue trades. Giants lead in RBIs as Benny Whauff slumps in hitting. Tris Speaker signs budding pitchers, Fred Graff retires, and James C. Garten joins from Tulsa. Cincinnati's 1919 champions receive gold lapel pins as Herb Hall retires from KC Blues. Joe Gedeon aims for a bigger season with the Browns. Manuel Cueto moves to Sacramento. Seattle awaits promised major league players. Cards visit Wichita for spring play. Detroit writers urge added pitching for the pennant. Fred Brainard sold to Columbus from Milwaukee. Joe Jackson leads White Sox in RBIs. Athletics linger in cellar. Shibe and Mack mark 20 years. Jourdan to be White Sox first baseman. Giants buy Jim Garten from Tulsa. Cornell to play four southern colleges. Horace Milan to Western league. Pat Moran may move Joe Schultz. George Gray signs for Little Rock tryout.
Harvard fields eight veterans this season while Paul Chip joins the HiPSL boxing scene. Vanderhilt is re elected American horse shows president as baseball, golf and tennis loom. Eddie Shevlin teaches Dartmouth students boxing. Penn wrestlers duel Town State on April 2 in Ames Town. Queensberry bankruptcy trial provokes interest amid sport talk. California Stanford joint soccer tour hits Victoria and Vancouver. Woman referee emerges as a growing trend. USIL advances high school lacrosse in NY Boston Baltimore. Beaurepaire tops Ross for half mile swimming title in Melbourne. Toronto IL base training quarters set in Columbus Ga. Bob Martin reportedly earns 1680 dollars defeating Pesky in St Louis.
The Columbia varsity crew will depart for Poughkeepsie on June 7 to train for the intercollegiate regatta. Coach Jim Rice notes the three mile course does not shorten the training. Akron acquires Miles Main and Jimmy Viox from Salt Lake. Jimmy Burke signs to manage the Browns again. Fritz Coumbe moves to St. Paul in a deal sending Dick Nicholls to Cleveland. Ad Thomas signs with Louisville after leading a soldier team to 31 wins in 33 games.
Joe Berkett, England's former heavyweight title hopeful, is set to box in Atherton this spring under supervisor Harry Tuthill. Tuthill, trainer of the Detroit Tigers and West Point elev en, is named a state boxing referee by the Michigan boxing commission.
The Millers purchase outfielder Bob Murphy from the Washington Americans. St. Louis Cardinals sign a semi pro pitcher from Cleveland named George Cy. Miller Huggins plans to try Bobby Meusel at first base with Baheuth in the outfield.
The Pirates added catcher Fred Conkey to their roster, noting he hails from Winona Minnesota. The move expands Pittsburgh's backstop options as they reinforce depth behind the plate.
A clipped dialogue hints at despair over gambling and social rebuke. Garfield Tea is touted as a remedy available at drug stores while Adv. Alan resists giving up the spotlight. The scene suggests a moral tension and contemporary consumer reference.
A New York dinner quip and two humorous vignettes appear in this clip. A politician debates accusations against nonconformists and a Billy Grimes lamp joke underscores community danger. A kitchen joke features Mrs Grogan a golf fiend cook and her breakfast routine.
A 100 reward advertises Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a constitutional treatment that works through the blood to the mucous surfaces. It asserts it cures catarrh or offers a refund and notes testimonials and the Toledo Ohio address.
A veteran describes carrying lucky items from a bullet that grazed his ear to a nurse he married. Other fans keep money pockets, a half dollar, or a $10 bill in trouser fobs to ensure luck in changing clothes, while some blame lost umbrellas on encounters with owners.
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