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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
1
A fragmented domestic scene shows a family morning routine and concern for a child named Jem as adults discuss routines, meals, sleep, and worries about a caregiver role. The piece hints at family dynamics and small daily tensions within a home setting.
A stream of reader questions covers home cleaners and insecticides, poultry care, and comparing costs of added home cadrets. WPA historian A. C. Thompson reports Poweshiek County figures moving toward a market site after a fatal plane crash by Grinnell resident Oily Robinson, with calls for a memorial marker.
A letter discusses British purchasing of Danish bacon and potential pork exports shifting markets. It notes U.S. supply lines may feed Britain via Canada and that poultry prices firm due to pork trends. The author urges increased poultry and egg production to meet next fall demand.
Louis Spillman of Indianai received a curious letter recounting a past theft of gunny socks for 80 cents and a conversion then a long tale about a man named Laser of Woverly who helped build a panert and later, due to the war, two travelers drove 3000 miles to the Panama Canal but could not approach within 500 feet.
To celebrate doughnut day the Swea City Viking club mixed five sacks of flour and one case of eggs to form a doughnut weighing 515 pounds and 18 feet around with a center bole 1.5 feet in diameter. Two hundred gallons of lard aided the bake and two thousand smaller doughnuts were served to visitors.
A Wyoming farmer pays his neighbor 80 each day to release turkeys on his fields until the hoppers are cleared. The unusual pest control method aims to rid the land of the disruptive creatures.
A shabbily legible local page from Mammicilla presents mock dialogues and scattered phrases. It includes odd exchanges about a blonde smile, a reference to spring, and stray remarks on households, chores, and an unnamed “new cor to-boy mule fide roof” with hints of an estimate and obligation.
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