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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1915
Page
7
President Wilson urged rapid military buildup in a Manhattan Club address, proposing a 400000 citizen soldiers trained over three years, expanded regular army, stronger National Guard, and a strengthened navy with mobilization readiness, while urging unity and warning against alien sympathies and sectarianism.
New York and New York City rejected woman suffrage by large margins while Massachusetts voted against it by about 2 to 1. Ohio and Illinois echoed dry wins, with Cleveland choosing a Republican mayor and Boston restoring McCall as governor. Tammany's gains in New York buoy GOP prospects for 1916.
The 1915 census shows Mason City leading in percent gain at 62 during a statewide rise in population. Des Moines up 22 percent to 105,538, Sioux City up 29 percent to 61,787, and Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, and others posting sizable gains as the 101 cities over 2,000 inhabitants total 853,191.
Johnson argues that charging hypocrisy at someone who advocates virtue while neglecting it in practice is unjust. A person may sincerely value virtue and advocate self improvement yet lack courage or industry to pursue the journey themselves.
Every particle of earth and stone is in constant motion and change. Nature abhors stagnation and vacuums as all elements rearrange continually. Each atom shifts position daily, ensuring continual transformation across the universe.
The quote states enthusiasm ties to the senses while virtue rests on serenity and firm resolve to follow laws. It contrasts feverish, brilliant enthusiasm with lasting moral health, cautioning that zeal without steadiness leads to exhaustion.
The Kangag City Star reports Brother Bogus confessing a prejudiced attitude and admitting he hit his wife with a neck yoke. He insists she has exaggerated the incident with persistent howling, comparing it to a far worse act.
Brief comic line from a Chicago Tribune entry recounts a family dinner quip as the father is asked to pass the jelly, sparking a humorous moment about whether the request was for jelly or scenery.
To hang pictures fix the wire by turning the frame around after it is hung face to the wall. This single turn near the hook prevents slipping and keeps the picture level.
St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome will hold 64 000 people, highlighting its vast capacity and historic status in ecclesiastical architecture.
A witty exchange from Fliegende Blaetter contrasts a polite refusal to attend a charity concert with a cheerful seating offer. The responder lists ticket prices five dollars two dollars fifty and one, illustrating a playful exchange over attendance and seating.
A compact reflection on daily life values. Small acts of kindness and habitual courtesy, not grand sacrifices, shape character and bring comfort.
A rainy day memory recounts a mother’s remark as her daughter brings home a wet kitten. The child defends the animal with a nostalgic line about her mother once being “a little cold cat.” The anecdote captures family warmth and wit from a bygone era.
A reflection on treating people with the same courtesy as portraits, valuing kindness and fair treatment in all interactions. The quote emphasizes giving everyone, including a man, the benefit of good light and fair consideration.
The piece notes a generation change in human nature seen as tiny and then large. It observes Indians trading away valuable lands for a bright red second hand automobile, a twentieth century bead reflecting modern values.
The search for an elixir of life and philosopher's stone is abandoned, but the effort to find a tax that causes no objection continues, as noted by the Washington Star.
Epictetus argues that true education is learning to wish reality as it is and to distinguish what is truly ours. He asserts that only our will is fully our own and that God endowed us with an unconstrained will that cannot be forced or thwarted. being conquered is a result of our own willing.
A meditation on sin as barrier to divine aims. Each wrongdoing blocks God’s vast purposes on earth and halts creation’s mechanism, turning personal failure into a grand, universe altering hindrance. The author frames indolence as a threat to cosmic ends and individual meaning.
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