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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
4
A rag shop girl Floribel finds a diamond ring and hope when Arlo Willis lodges a plan to place her with his sister Mrs. Ivan Neal. Willis seeks a document hidden among old goods tied with a ribbon marked W keeping Floribel hopeful of a brighter home.
A poor rag warehouse ward named Floribel discovers a hidden paper worth a fortune. She overhears a blackmail plot by the Willis guardians, escapes hardship, and is guided to a luxurious mansion where Arlo Willis falls in love. Floribel becomes the beloved bride and bright society star of the season.
The United States Department of Agriculture conducts seed fumigation to destroy harmful insects. Infected seeds are placed in a vacuum chamber and exposed to hydrocyanic acid, which penetrates seeds quickly. Carbon bisulfide will also be used in similar experiments, and handling hydrocyanic acid requires expert familiarity.
A quotation notes that feeding a thousand unemployed men in New York on one meal a day of soup bread and coffee can leave them well nourished. It claims eggs milk cereals fats fruits and fresh vegetables supply all body needs, with a year round plan based on age occupation and season from Eugene Christian in National Magazine.
A quotation extols productive labor, linking effort with pleasure from the act of working, the satisfaction in the produced value, and the livelihood gained. it asserts all diligent workers, by hand or mind, derive threefold satisfaction from effort, product, and its rewards.
A nostalgic reflection on how time and distance heighten the allure of the old homestead. The piece notes that separation often deepens longing for familiar places and past comforts.
Amiens front page profile of a French captain living in a clay dugout near Albert. He guides battery fire from a cave shelter, tends men morale, and plans small social moments while warding off shelling and guarding sentinels. The piece notes frontline hardship and a skeptical view of the 75 mm gun.
An interview explains why artillery pieces differ in barrel length and charge. Marine guns fire at max speed requiring full powder combustion in the barrel, while howitzers and mortars use shorter barrels for higher elevation aims. The piece notes powerful future mortar designs and ends with a light note about radishes on the trench parapet.
Scarcity of Circassian walnut prompts Britain to test quarter-sawed red gum for gun stocks. Memphis timber firms report English agents seeking estimates of supply in two to two and a half inch stock sizes with hopes to buy the majority if tests succeed.
Glasgow trials begin with women conductors wearing a blue skirt and gold braided coat. If efficient, many will be hired. Current fare collectors work four hours daily between University and Dumbreck earning $6.25 to $9 a week.
Defective teeth threaten health by impairing mastication and digestion. Poor grinding slows digestion, and lack of proper saliva mixing with food worsens starch digestion. An old saying warns that people dig their graves with their teeth. take care of teeth to save health and lengthen life.
A Baltimore mansion tale features a promiment marine corps officer’s wife recounting how a missing diamond brooch was recovered. A trusted servant, a mulatto girl, suspected the Baltimore house and foretold by a fortune teller that the brooch would surface with the death of its thief, which it did that night.
The British army pay department now runs about 700 officers and 7000 clerks vastly outsized for peace. The London office has moved twice since the war began and often operates day and night since August. Soldiers receive pay in the field with the warrant officer issuing cash in French notes and accrue pay through their paybooks weekly.
A Belgian soldier in the Nieuwe Rotterdammer Courant recounts King Albert of Belgium fighting in the trenches beside his men. An armed officer without arms steadies the line until a shell wounds the soldier, and the king calmly continues firing before leaving the trench saying C etait le Roi.
Penn urges frugality and self sufficiency living within means and providing for children. He cautions against excessive kindness to friends and urges voluntary giving to the poor for the common good, noting that giving to the poor is a service to the Lord.
Miss Gaby Deslys criticizes Sir James Barrie amid his Paris burlesque debut dilemma. She calls him a strange author and says his mood guides her performance. Deslys also complains he may dislike her dresses and suggests hair with a small round bump at the back.
An Alsace trench tale describes a soldier waking with a thigh cramp and refusing to move. A doctor discovers a bullet had pierced the roof of his shelter and lodged in his thigh without waking him, a remarkable unnoticed injury.
A sermon-style piece argues that the leading question for students is their relation to Jesus Christ. It asserts education should expand knowledge of God, shape morals, and guide action, warning that academic success without spiritual life yields a hollow, unwhole person. It cites Kepler and a military professor to illustrate influence, temptation, and doubt facing students.
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