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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1916
Page
3
A former railroad car rider recounts life on the rails as a special officer earning eighty five dollars a month. He recalls guarding a valuable freight car, rescuing a mysterious woman on a perilous night journey, and ending with love and a vow to abandon the dangerous work.
A toastmaster debates nicknames for an audacious airman Von Soar. After a string of flippant ideas the secretary learns the airman’s trick is upside down flying and figure eights. He is finally dubbed the Flying Pretzel.
A busy dual day routine described by Hartselle Enterprise and Montgomery Advertiser. A worker rises, dresses, shaves, brings coal, cares for a baby, rushes to town, labors from morning to 6:30, returns home for meals, continues baby care, coal tending, and night chores, with late hours finishing tasks.
The best violin makers use wood seasoned for years or centuries, sometimes from ancient beams. Grain changes from shrinkage or weathering alter tone materially. Italian varnish creases were thought to preserve timber and tone. If wood is well seasoned and varnished, tone remains stable.
Schoolchildren uncovered ninth century Viking artifacts at Valtos in Lewis including two large oval brooches a small annular brooch a disk ornament with interlaced loops a buckle part of a bronze chain likely for the brooches and a large amber bead discovered by Londdy Globe report.
The article explains silkworm silk secretion from two glands ending at a spinning wart. Silk color varies from colorless to straw yellow or greenish, debated causes include larval color, impurities, or mulberry leaf pigments. Levrat and Conte fed worms colored mulberry leaves with aniline dyes, turning both larvae and silk red or blue, suggesting leaf dyeing may color silk in the leaf.
A haberdasher proves a novel labor saver by using the sound of a coin to identify a half dollar dropped on a counter. The customer asks for two collars and the shopkeeper, hearing the coin hit the counter, instantly gives the correct change, illustrating how sound guides efficient service.
The piece argues that life insurance records reveal imperfect risk assessment by actuaries and medical examiners. It notes cases where supposed poor risks survived decades while perfect risks died soon, illustrating that divinity shapes outcomes and observers cannot predict life and death with certainty.
The piece discusses ancient engineering challenges in raising heavy stones for pyramids and other monuments. It argues that builders used unknown mechanical contrivances or exceptional patience, noting these methods were lost during the intervening dark ages.
The text suggests soap may have been discovered by Celts from the word sebon. It speculates that nomads with wood fires could accidentally produce soap when mineral-rich wood ash dissolved in rain formed lye, combining with grease from broth. It notes a curious woman could spot its cleansing powers.
Rev. Jonathan Gable of Philadelphia, an American minister, is credited with inventing the jinrikisha. He reportedly accompanied Commodore Perry to Japan in 1853 and, by 1859, was asked by Prince I to design a vehicle for Yokohama’s imperial park, adapting a London bath chair by moving the front wheel.
A practical guide for busy gardeners detailing hardy roses and border plants. It lists cultivars such as Anne de Diesbach and Frau Karl Druschki, with planting distances and soil needs. Emphasizes sun and open ground, plus year round bloom from phlox, iris, larkspur, and hollyhocks. Encourages starting small and planning before planting.
Delphinium, the perennial larkspur, has benefited from scientific grower attention. A bed of delphiniums can bloom for about three months and endure through bad weather, providing a grateful shaded blue in the garden.
The article catalogs fragrant plants and flowers led by roses. It names helitrope wallflower lily of the valley alyssum auricula iris mignonette scilla stock jasmine evening primrose sweet pea sweet william aquileg ia carnation fuchsia hamero callus hesperis lilium scabiosa verbena and violet. It also includes honeysuckle azalea syringa daphne and forsythia as scented vines and shrubs.
Plans for a new women’s reformatory at Rockwell City are nearing completion. Bids for construction may be let by June 10 with completion expected around March 1, 1917. The project includes three cottages, a heating plant, storehouse and administration building, all to be fireproof.
Rural and grade teachers in Iowa will again receive help from Iowa State College to add agriculture home economics and manual training in public schools. Summer sessions at Ames will offer free courses for teachers to launch these subjects in September while some time may be spent on other certificates.
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