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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1921
Page
4
A handwritten plea asks for help to regain faith. The response argues faith is the foundation of life, linking faith to hope and daily reliance on people, nature, and truth. It warns against abandoning faith, urges turning back to God, and cites Voltaire and Paul to ground the claim.
A wanderer enters a quiet chapel where a sparing moment of grace unfolds. A town swallow soars into the choir and the outcast finds renewal as he joins with others in simple worship. The poem marks transformation from sin to renewal.
A fragmentary diary style item mentions a husband, a valy vamp and a judge reacting to a hygiene lecture. The passage notes pendulum extremes and warns of risks from kissing with a reference to a poor ishomy sister in Cornell Widow.
A legend traces the origin of a pasta term to a Sicilian chef and a nobleman in Paltertie. The chef blends wheat flour and water forming tubes with grated cheese, pleasing the patron who exclaims Cari and Ma Caront in praise.
A distorted quotation discusses pursuing happiness and observing others. The writer appears to critique superficial living and social norms with a cryptic aside about personal identity.
A terse cooking note describes pepper and repeat steps. It instructs to pour over a heavy oar brown sauce bake in a moderate oven for one hour. It ends with removing the hot and brown before serving.
A quirky recipe reads like a vintage salad and drink idea. It lists ingredients such as seeded raisins apples pears lettuce mayonnaise whipped cream and a grape juice punch with lemon juice sugar water and shaved ice served immediately. The method mentions washing drying line lettuce fill with fruit and top with mayo and cream then a molded dessert with eggs mush orange sugar and raisins.
Readable text describes slicing six large potatoes into one quarter inch slices and cutting one pound of round steak. It instructs browning steak on both sides remove from pan and use juices to make a thin gravy. It mentions a casserole with onions and layering steak, salt, and garlic.
A Seattle visitor from Magland brings a battered chest with a fragment of Mayflower timber. The artifact, donated by the British Society of Friends, will be placed at the Peace Portal near Blaine to mark the Canada United States boundary.
A historical discussion advocates for women in medicine, arguing that female physicians will become common and respected as preventive care expands. It notes wartime lessons and calls for women to pursue medical training, asserting many will find the field open and rewarding. A student interjects about Julius Caesar era education.
A survey of varied topics notes women in Mexican clubs and English pharma work, a London officer’s marriage rule, Algeria’s size, Brahmin jewel beliefs, Persian drink laws, an electric device revealing emotions, a Toledo painting prize, U S sheep growth, a solar event in 1927, London war shrine plans, Eskimo diet, a solar eclipse, Lagos royal imagery, coin production methods and counterfeit risks.
Jud Dunkins argues the sport damages a bettor's confidence after initial losses, leaving him doubtful of his own judgment about races and bets.
Miss Dagmar Perkins presides over the National Association for the Improvement of Speech. The group aims to fund an institute in New York to uphold American speech standards as the French academy does for French. Perkins lectures at Harvard and teaches at Universite Normale in Paris. her studio is in New York.
Two giant geese named Joe and Billy have become official pets at the British Royal Corps of Signals training center at Muare fled Park Camp in Sussex. They were initially considered for Christmas dinner last year, but the soldiers grew fond of them and chose to keep them.
Report of multiple lightning induced shaving incidents. The noted case involves the renowned doctor Gaul Tier of Clanbry whose beard was removed as if shaved and never regrew.
China has a greater variety of trees than North America and Wuung handsome specimens are seen there. Many of them could be grown in this country with profit.
The piece portrays a grouch who refuses to conform yet finds himself alone in his stance. It suggests the communal pull toward conformity while noting the futility of forcing others to align with an individual’s pace.
A relic describes Egyptian shears that included a detachable sharpened edge held by two cloths in a T shaped arrangement. The tool could be detached for maintenance in a secondary action.
Mrs. Sheldon Jackson of Creston becomes Union County’s first woman juror. The report also lists multiple local incidents including burns from a lantern explosion, a 18-year-old arrest in Iowa City, heart disease death in Iowa City, a Sioux City theater fire, a Moreland Amusement receiver appointment, railroad crash injuries, and various local legal actions and accidents across Iowa.
Mrs Elizabeth Smart of Lowell Massachusetts reports anemia since sixteen with fainting and weakness. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash she gained strength and had a natural eight pound birth. She credits the remedy for improved health and work capacity.
The presiding elder urges action on church acoustics while a local resident named Gap Johnson from Rumpus Ridge Ark dismisses religious belief as a toyaw-w-wo. The Kansas City Star quotes the exchange reflecting mixed attitudes toward preaching and faith.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root for kidney liver and bladder ailments claiming broad customer testimony and offer of a sample bottle by mail. A brief history notes Bel temple at Nippur dated 6000 B C and the Akkadian-Sumerian kingdoms ending around 239 B C.
Aunty tucks Amy into bed and reminds her to say prayers. Amy plans to skip one night and say two prayers later when she is less sleepy, a small domestic moment reflecting bedtime routines.
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