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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1919
Page
8
A collection of light humorous vignettes from a Grand Rapids businessman, a hospital tale about Sam based on a misheard exchange, a boy Freddie learning to dodge school with a noseful of red ink, a druggist and plumber joke, and a cautious suitor’s marriage plea with a pocketful twist.
A Massachusetts state game warden posing as a liar chats with a fisherman on a smoking New England car. A political meeting features a farmer candidate and a heckler asking if he can lay an egg. A boy mourns his father’s hammer mishap as a clock joke ends the snippets.
Mrs Nabor asks editor's son Jack about his twins. He replies the names are Thunder and Lightning because that's what their father was told by the doctor. The brief joke reflects a playful family moment in a small town setting.
The text notes Palestine lacks a precise land boundary beyond the sea and estimates its extent around 710000 miles. It highlights the region as largely arid and rocky, with areas unsuitable for tillage and insufficient pasture for cattle or sheep.
The passage ponders if daily actions driven by a subconscious aim of fitting ourselves for the next trench would reveal foes of slackness and incompetence. It questions whether steady self-assessment could rout enemies of delay and dullness.
The term taboo stems from a Polynesian and New Zealand practice where certain things are set apart or prohibited due to sacred or cursed associations. It reflects a belief in invisible spiritual powers governing behavior and consequences.
A commentary on American vs foreign trade ethics by a National Association of Manufacturers member. It contrasts losses from credit and honesty in domestic versus Far East trade and recounts a New York hotel incident illustrating intercultural insult during a business meeting with a Bombay agent.
The first white settlers led by James Oglethorpe landed at Yamacraw bluffs near Savannah 186 years ago to found the city. The voyage aboard the Ann included 35 families and Rev Thomas Bosomworth with interpreter Mary Musgrave aiding Creek permission. Hebrews and 40 Jews joined the early colony, trustees banned rum in 1738, and Saxon and Bavarian arrivals occurred shortly after.
The Llanero Paez leads 800 horsemen across the Apure to seize the Spanish flotilla, rescuing Bolivar’s crossing in a dramatic river assault. Also explains the proper meaning of yeoman as a freehold farmer, not a mere agriculturist, and its old English sense and dignity.
Reba declines marriage to Tommy Hedworth to safeguard her family from poverty as he faces pressure from his grandmother to wed for a fortune. A river misadventure involving Cousin Clarissa triggers a turning point as Reba quietly plans a future with Tommy without the inheritance.
Seek to Improve Crops reports plans to establish an agricultural botany institute at Cambridge England devoted to breeding and distributing improved crop varieties. Modeled after Sweden’s plant breeding station at Svalef its scientists will develop pure cultures of new varieties for large scale cultivation.
The New York Hyena Telegraph asserts that in the last century the finest women resided in New England and Virginia. They were quiet, pure, noble, and true, titled as Lady by courtesy. Raised to a high station, they believed they must fit themselves and ennoble that station through noble conduct.
The eminent tragedian refused to perform Julius Caesar tonight unless granted an adequate crowd. He defined adequate as large enough to convince the audience Rome was populous and its streets frequented by more than three people at once.
A Milwaukee man who has since died designed two to three and a half foot aluminum collapsible chessmen packed in a special trunk. The set was given to the University of Wisconsin library to boost public interest in chess for use on large indoor or outdoor boards.
A lifelong habit of doing disliked tasks and denying oneself daily leads to self mastery. The process is not a short term exercise but a continuous life work.
Give plants air and light. If potted plants are set in jardinières, be sure the water does not stand in them and that the jardiniere is large enough to permit air circulation around it. Plants require light, pure air, and cleanliness as much as people do.
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