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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1913
Page
8
The article details opium production around Shiraz and Isfahan, describing cultivation, harvesting, processing, and packaging for export. It notes the opium’s morphia content, long-standing market issues, and widespread domestic use fueling social and political concerns in Persia.
The article notes Germany plans to spend about 25 million dollars in five years on dirigible balloons and aircraft, while the navy funds run at half that. It reports 2 million American farmers using telephones at home, over 100 thousand with installed instruments in a year, and a Rome to Tripoli wireless telephone link of 600 miles. It mentions a new bayonet rifle feature, ferro silicon and potash production from hydro plants in Sweden, an auto theft deterrent, a pivoting French window, and Washington horticulturists pursuing a Rosa attar for distillation.
A university professor of natural phenomena warned students of a coming era when tires sag and puncture inner layers until the earth suffers a cataclysmatic blowout. He claimed such a crash could shake stars from the sky and topple the heavens into a distant kingdom.
A historical aphorism urges enjoying life through honest work and paying before wearing or consuming. It emphasizes prudence in expenditure and a clear conscience for peaceful rest.
A clever party idea for children features a doll hunt game. Each girl receives a cord end with her doll’s name, collects a doll at the end, dresses it on a clothes line, and enjoys refreshments. Gingerbread dolls serve as keepsake favors.
The New York Sun reports two visiting Indians Otis Half Moon and Edward Kash Kash from the Nez Perce reservation in Lapwai Idaho drove to Pendleton in 11 hours and sparked an autoitis craze among Umatilla Indians who had seen white men in cars.
A brief dialogue notes two people debating mortality among great men and beautiful women. One character asserts the vanity of legacies while the other remarks on living beauties, ending with a playful admission of contrariness rather than belief.
Gibbs quips on social entry as a rich man explains he was injected rather than introduced, provoking a sharp exchange with the judge over manners and status.
Old advice suggests dissolving stubborn gum with gasoline to remove it from shoes hair or fabric. The tip claims gasoline dissolves gum completely and rapidly for easy cleanup.
Lustration shows popular designs with small hats, fan tailed shapes, and bold trimmings. Hats emphasize color contrasts, varied crown and brim colors, and dramatic feathers and ribbons to lift height atop a compact crown.
simple small decorative pincushion cut from cardboard and padded with cotton, covered in scarlet velvet, and edged with a gold silk cord. hangs by a ribbon loop and can be made in various colors or embroidered for sale, serving as an economical decorative stall item.
The article surveys how hotels and restaurants showcase afternoon tea accessories with specialties like cheese sprinkled graham toast and nut wafers such as Hickoreeques and Pecanesques. It also offers a homemaker’s tip to convert an old skirt into a practical apron by adding roomy pockets for tools and fasteners.
The article advises that for housework the older clothing is preferable since good clothes stain easily. An old skirt that “doesn’t matter” should be set aside for such work to protect better garments.
Many women wear silk stockings and find small rips and runs. The damage often comes from running fingers inside the stockings while wearing rings. Rings and their stones snag the threads and cause breaks.
Sewing note describes a baby bonnet styled with white Ince all over, fullness at the back gathered by a ribbon threaded through a narrow hem, edged with a lace ruffle, and long 3 inch wide Ince insertion strings.
How to craft lace frilled garters from a silk rubber strip and shadow lace. Instructions outline cutting lace into four parts, stitching to form a casing, threading elastic, and finishing with a chiffon rosebud wreath. Suggestions include color options like pink and violet with lavender.
Corks mounted in silver are shown in many fashions. Some have little champagne bottles in silver pails filled with glass cubes to look tice tce. Some are surmounted with small silver chanticlery.
Practical guidance on keeping sheep healthy and productive. Emphasizes clean housing, dry pastures, regular dipping, careful crossbreeding, and attentive supervision. Recommends a sheep dog for larger flocks and warns against poor stock from unreliable breeders. Notes coughing signals disease and the need for preventive feeding and timely care.
In many areas barn-yard flocks resist improvements from pure breeds. Buy a full-blooded cock or at least keep the best pullets from crossbreeds, and cull the rest. A thoroughbred hen yields about fifty percent more eggs, and higher prices during shortages justify the cost. Farmers should promote pure breeding, use new methods, and avoid repeating old practices to boost progress and profits.
A guide explains the correct method to uncoil rope from a coil. It stresses pulling from the inside end, uncoiling toward the left to avoid twisting, and turning the coil if it initially uncoils to the right to ensure smooth extraction.
The author stresses cool water twice daily and constant access, shading hogs from sun to protect gains. Emphasizes focusing on flesh production over corn feeding, using clover and alfalfa, preferring short-nosed hogs, and balancing sow boar body types. Rooting is discussed as optional and not harmful.
A warning advises careful cleaning of milk pallets with a penknife along internal seams to remove hidden crusted bacteria. The tip suggests the surprising amount of bacteria may be exposed during this process.
A strong brine with a little soft soap makes a good application for sores on cows and calves. Keep the animals indoors or under shade for a time after applying it.
Experts say feeding order should end with hay rather than grain to keep the horse calm. Most feeders water first then hay then concentrates, but professionals deem hay last essential to avoid nervousness before grain.
A design promising to ease lifting live hogs from ground to wagon for three dollars. The crate aims to replace hard manual labor with a simple device, reducing effort and improving efficiency in handling hogs.
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