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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1919
Page
6
New seed treatment improves potato storage and reduces rots by using hot formaldehyde dipping for two minutes at 118 to 122 degrees F. The method replaces soaking and is feasible for small and large operations. Also urges timely grape pruning and spraying. contact county agent for guidance and exchanges for seed corn or oats.
Anamosa Iowa March 25 1919 county auditor calls a convention of Jones county school district presidents to elect a county board of education. The meeting set for April 7 1919 at 2 pm at the courthouse, terms begin May 1 1919 and run until successors are elected.
The Presbyterian Church announces a morning sermon by Rev Frank L McKean pastor of Bayfield Wisconsin and eldest son of local residents. He spent boyhood on a Scotch Grove farm and is a Lenox college and McCormack Seminary graduate. Special music by the choir. Evening service features Mr Crane leading a 15 minute song service inviting broad congregational participation.
The quote suggests adding imagery of young men in uniform in the background to appeal to modern young girls, implying decorative rhetoric should reflect contemporary preferences rather than nature alone. It frames cultural tastes as shifting toward romantic military associations.
The Stillwater Gazette notes that Taft and Wilson show agreement on the league of nations but claims no record of Taft ever starting a sentence with May I not. The remark hints at historical persona and rhetoric rather than formal policy alignment.
The Minneapolis Journal notes an aged Luther Burbank turning 70 with brakes on and sparks flying from every wheel. The Chicago Daily News discusses America as a shining example of a league of states that avoided independence by forming a union. The Omaha World-Herald reports farmers favor daylight through daylight saving law.
Jim Buckley of Bear Lake praises a rotten egg as good for something. He baited a trap with the egg and caught the biggest silver fox he had seen, selling the pelt in Peace River for 346 dollars.
Scientific American notes the cocone nut, once hard to crack and unused, gains value as government funded cracking machinery opens new markets. Its oil serves cooking and lighting, shells fuel gas production, and the crop expands commerce in the Southern Americas as a hedge against autocracy.
The piece notes that European nobles and Russian aristocrats have long been seen in lowly jobs such as cab drivers street peddlers and innkeepers. It cites examples from England France and Russia including Plantagenets descendants Bourbon street hawkers and Napoleonic kin imprisoned for petty crimes, illustrating a pattern of noble decline.
Scientific American reports a new antimony deposit near the Komati river in the Stengsdorp district of Transvaal. A mining company operates smelting on site with three shafts reaching 50 feet and open workings. One shaft runs continuously as a furnace capable of processing ten tons daily is active and ore remains ample to sustain operations during development.
The article recalls Lord Roberts speaking in Canada ten years earlier at the Plains of Abraham dedication. He warned of a coming frightful European war, saying Britain and France would endure the hardest trials, and that a French general named Ferdinand Foch would ultimately secure victory.
The text notes Dr. van Dyke remains loyal to "little rivers" in his war ode and book Little Rivers. It likens small rivers to the tiny drops that birth the vast ocean and asserts freedom begins at the source.
The Christian Science Monitor notes Petrarch may have never met Laura, yet his devotion inspired lasting love poetry and set literary standards. Some doubt the heart passion, while others claim Laura appeared as the ideal woman in his writings.
FOR SALE One runabout with Bosch magneto good as new Miner Modern Cleaners phone 280 also EARLY Ohio seed and eating potatoes for sale very cheap A Bhrisman 34 8 pd LOST Gold triangle watch charm engraved C D Charles A Coxsee EGGS FOR HATCHING Silver Laced Wyandotts 4 cents each A G Bohlken R R 2 Phone 80 F 6 FOR SALE American wringer 3 flat irons iron kettle center table commode bed bureau FOR SALE 6 hole Malleable steel range lightly used sale at a bargain Also ver Center Junction LOST Delta Gamma sorority pin with Bloise Brainerd T 14 on the back Finder please return to Mrs Colin G Thomas
For sale description includes a six room house with summer kitchen coal and vegetable cellars well and cistern under roof sidewalk curb and gutter paid four lots 60 by 150 feet good orchard and all kinds of fruit two blocks north of Proctors store plus 12 acres of land Lovell township north of city park inquire of G Stambaugh. Also notice Prairie Hill cemetery association annual meeting March 29 1915 German schoolhouse 10 oclock a m elect one trustee one treasurer and one secretary Harm Rickels secretary
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