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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1916
Page
7
Des Moines reports Wesley Greene state horticulturist warns 1916 fruit yields will be short with strawberries the only promising crop. Cherries and peaches suffer from ice and zero weather. apples likely under 50 percent. Greene to issue April 1 report. strawberries protected may still yield normally.
The new electric interurban runs west to Montezuma and What Cheer with stops at Towa City Lone Tree Nichols Muscatine Rivers ide Kalona Wellman Webster South English Keswick Thornburg What Cheer and Montezuma. A cat saves Mr and Mrs G A Koonse and tenants in Clarinda by alerting them to fire. they escape after little time to gather belongings. Land values rise around Manilla with notable gains. three prisoners escape Webster City jail. Liscomb fire prompts bond discussion for water and fire protection. The news also notes Measles at Logan and a fatal kerosene explosion near Pella. several deaths and injuries accompany a string of local incidents.
The Twentieth Infantry officer Captain Smith is described as being ordered into Mexico in pursuit of Villa. The move marks a bold advance as authorities press the hunt for the rebel leader.
During the Civil War Thomas A. Edison printed and sold early editions of the Shiloh battle bulletin. He telegraphed a bulletin to news dealers along his route and sold hundreds of copies at a good price, achieving a notable early profit.
A pitcher of cold water placed on a table absorbs harmful gases from the surrounding air. In a short time the room air becomes pure while the water becomes unfit for use.
A diner quips about tipping with only taxi fare left and the waiter jokes that a postmeal walk is good for the health, preserving humor in a brief exchange.
The article notes Switzerland now owns the St Gothard tunnel and railway. It chronicles shifts in ownership and infrastructure control affecting European transport networks.
A meditation on cross days and crossness as natural responses to inevitable bad weather of life. The piece ponders whether cross moods stem from mind, nerves, or universal misfortune and suggests humor as a counterbalance to the strain of constant serenity.
A California inventor develops a system transmitting phonograph selections to neighboring homes with special rotating receivers. A central phonograph feeds two telephone transmitters through the horn, sending sound via wireless waves to multiple receiving stations connected to megaphone receivers for group listening.
The article notes zinc's wartime importance and price surge as copper also climbs. It explains zinc use in cartridge brass ghost fuses and barbed wire coverings, with 1913 production led by the United States, Belgium, and Germany. It details ore sources from Broken Hill, New South Wales, and ore deposits in Silesia, Hungary, Carinthia, and the Tyrol, plus Britain’s reliance on U.S. smelted zinc due to unsuitable smelting of Broken Hill concentrates.
Rats are bred for the Budapest pest zoo to spare horse meat for lions tigers and other predators. Eagles vultures and wild birds rely on rats while goats and inferior animals are sacrificed to feed the beasts. Seals die from lack of fish and two polar bears are shot one for refusing war food and the other for weakness. The bears’ shooting is auctioned to locals fetching 60 dollars.
A sweat drop fell into a nitric acid soaked cotton tank at Atlas Powder Co. Mount Carbon Pa, igniting a loud blast. Workmen escaped injury as massive smoke filled the building. Water droplets can trigger such explosives and sweating workers are linked to recent munition plant explosions. The plant ships large quantities of high explosives weekly for France.
A sermon explains that salvation is a free gift from God not earned by works. Eternal life means living in God's presence through faith in Jesus Christ, who atones for sins and enables rebirth by God's mercy, not human effort.
The text urges readers to avoid vain curiosity when studying the Scriptures. It warns that chasing difficult points with imperfect reason hinders benefit and advocates accepting divine faith with simple obedience rather than forcing intellectual standards.
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