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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1922
Page
3
A reflective essay compares seekers of fame and success to using the wrong key. It argues many choose routine or wrong paths rather than applying wisdom and effort to reach true opportunity. The piece cautions that judgment, faithfulness, and virtue require proper choice of a key to life.
The passage argues that procrastination and pretending to be slower can let a boss take over complex tasks, leaving you with easy, low paid work. Over time this limits growth as opportunities in hard, demanding jobs disappear and your mental exercise suffers. It warns that a crucial task may suddenly become very difficult, increasing its importance.
The text urges workers to seize tough tasks to prove training and avoid being supplanted by superiors. It warns that avoiding hard work leads to a life of lower pay and dependence, labeling habitual assistance-seeking as cowardly and detrimental to growth, responsibility, and respect.
A quirky verse follows Willie Walters and William Watt-a-Bit as they dream of quick work then miss the moment and meet St. Peter at the gate. The tale ends with regret as fate overtakes the late planner.
A nostalgic home recipe column markets cinamiguon rolls or cinnamon buns with detailed steps. It includes yeast dough preparation, rising overnight, baking, and a sticky brown sugar syrup glaze, plus a raisin cake finish and pimento cheese roll idea.
A fragment discusses palm lines and mounts as indicators of acting talent including finger length, Venus mount, and Luna mount for imagination and eloquence. It limits by noting courage via Luna and also mentions a contrast between a singer and a ruby crowned bird with surprising song power in the American Forestry Magazine.
A single district in Colombia reports an average annual output near 30 000 troy ounces of platinum group metals. The figure suggests significant regional mining activity with potential impacts on local markets and national supply chains.
The article explains hunger as a craving not solely from the stomach but originating elsewhere in the body. It notes the stomach stores and prepares food for blood, while hunger ends when pre prepared food enters the blood without stomach digestion. It ends with a stray line about a profitless lote for women in Buenos Aires.
A collage of notes mentions ancient Chinese tribes, Greek political roots, and diverse curiosities from London bus speeds to dancing bans. It references a 1571 jeweled wristwatch gift to Elizabeth I, bees in a Cincinnati church, a detention house matron, and a tale of a Stockholm worker's box note leading to marriage.
Two New York boys named Eugene Fata and Ed Carlson built a hut on a treetop in a vacant lot surrounded by apartment houses.
The sculptor Daniel Chester French, just past seventy, works on his nearing completion bust of Edgar Allan Poe to be unveiled May 20 at the Hall of Fame.
Russell Hi Anderson of Bridgeboro New Jersey and Roy Davis of Monticello Arkansas Near East relief workers reached the summit of Mount Alugheus in the Cau- casus mountains, a 13,500 foot peak once baffling experts and climbers.
An in-house announcement urges all residents to help keep the home neat and tidy to ease the housewife and build community spirit. A contrast notes a housewife may neglect the place to show care is needed. Additionally Sun distance estimates shift to about 92,822,000 miles from Earth.
A San Francisco divorce filing claims the wife habitually screamed to make neighbors believe she was being beaten, alleging a pattern intended to frame the husband.
Samuel Murphy dies at home in Tonia after being struck by a passenger train. Darius Clayton of Hamburg begins planting ten acres of cotton. James Carter, 79, dies while riding in an automobile near Sioux Rapids. Henry Kiahr heads a new Mederville creamery project costing 6500 dollars with 73 shareholders. Byron Lake, 14, found by grandfather in Burlington after month long disappearance.
A New York Sun quip has a salesman press a seller for the motor number before accepting a used car as part payment. The owner peeks under the bonnet, answers eighteen sixty three, and the salesman clarifies he wants the engine number not the manufacture date.
An eminent physician prescribes a small dose of vinegar sweetened to treat hiccoughs. He claims one dose suffices and two cure even when hiccups threaten danger. The note ends with a moral about neighbors living blameless lives and not blaming others for one’s actions.
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