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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1921
Page
3
Wartime labor shifts brought many women into railroad clerical jobs and bank offices. Salaries and treatment are favorable, with rest rooms and matrons ensuring comfort. Banks hire women as cashiers tellers and advisers to female clients, seen as capable and trustworthy, with potential growth to top positions.
A poetic piece by Douglas Malloch traces geese flying north and signaling home. The speaker notes south to north migration, skies filled with V formations, and nature awakening as rivers warm and vines shed their chill. The tone invokes renewal and seasonal change.
A late night scene shows a white mouse in a cage on a rotating disk, chasing a futile ascent. The observation prompts readers to audit their own efforts and measure progress by tangible results.
A recipe directs simmering one half cup rice in two cups water with a half teaspoon salt until tender. Scald one and a half cups milk then whisk in salt, three tablespoons cornstarch, and half cup cold milk. cook til thick. Remove from heat, beat two egg yolks, and add half cup sugar.
The passage notes that 266 billion silkworms produce 60 million pounds of raw silk annually. Taken together, the world’s silkworms spin threads at roughly 4,700 miles per second, totaling about 150 billion miles of silk length each year.
A recipe describes making Apricot Whip with cooked rice vanilla, folded egg whites baked in a buttered dish, served hot with cream. It also details Foamy Cream Sauce using gelatine, milk cream, sugar and vanilla, chilled and beaten until frothy.
In the fifteenth century Portuguese quince paste gave rise to marmalade. The term, derived from marmelo meaning quince, was later misapplied to orange preserves though true marmalade should denote quince-based preserves. Over time English and American producers popularized orange marmalade, obscuring the philological roots.
A humorous exchange records a customer accusing a grocer of underweight evaporated peaches, while the grocer deflects by noting no guarantee against evaporation. The dialogue mocks wage and sympathy relations amid commodity doubt.
The Shanghai fire department plans to equip trucks with wireless telephones to improve constant communication with headquarters and enhance response times across the city. The upgrade aims to keep the department in touch at all times.
Carl Hoop, a Roscoe Ohio youth aged eleven with ambitions to preach, delivers 30 minute sermons that have put his hometown on the map. He is not yet ordained and struggles with languages and spelling but remains determined in his preaching path.
The column surveys varied topics from Japanese toe stockings and English teacher strikes to New Orleans women professionals and British fisheries colleges. It mentions a New York machine making cigars, rail and mine accident statistics, Spanish Morocco cotton trials, and a Halifax fisheries college proposal with expanded seamanship and engine care.
London report states Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney widow of Terence MacSwiney Lord Mayor of Cork will wed Art O'Brien secretary of the Irish Self Determination league.
A Birmingham Age-Herald quip notes that no speeches are heard in Petrograd and Moscow as soap-box rhetoric would worsen the fuel shortage. The joke highlights Bolshevik oratory constrained by wartime energy pressures.
In a fragment from the Lyceum Circuit a remark about signing up a heroic balloonist appears alongside questions about whether the event will be a fight or a lecture. The text hints at a program debate.
A pitcher recently traded to Brooklyn asks for a two dollar daily bonus arguing higher living costs than Cincinnati. The New York Herald notes the query but questions whether cultural advantages offset the expense.
A gossip writer praises a small mistletoe piece while noting the Passing Show in London delivers enjoyment. The item highlights festive entertainment and public interest in stage productions during the season.
Local items report post office safe robbery at Ryan thwarted. Sioux City thefts of $30 and a watch involve Dahl and Grant Leveller. St Augustine Florida leader in Belkan talks meets Harding. Shannon City savings bank robbed of Liberty bonds. Mason City water outage after hydrant crash. Clinton Pearl Button factory resumes after five months.
Joseph A. York, a Portland businessman, says four bottles of Tanlac improved his health, gained sixteen pounds, and let him eat three square meals daily. He was weak, nervous, with indigestion, cramps, and insomnia before the remedy.
An advertisement extols Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root praising its kidney liver and bladder benefits and urges readers to request a sample by mail from Dr Kilmer and Co Binghamton NY. The notice claims widespread testimonials and urges purchase of larger bottles at drug stores while noting a cartoon duck gag about ducks not wearing tight skirts.
An old newspaper ad promotes Bly's Cream Balm to treat catarrh and nasal congestion. It claims relief in one minute by applying a small bottle in the nostrils, soothing inflamed mucous membranes and clearing air passages. The copy urges immediate purchase from a druggist.
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