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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1916
Page
5
Governor Peters resists Boss Lloyd's pressure over the Hood bill and a threatened jail stake involving Lloyd’s own son. The confrontation uncovers a shadowy political feud and a secret about the governor’s adopted son, who Lloyd claimed as leverage.
The versatile Scotch inventor John Foulls who built New Brunswick's first steam foghorn died blind and poor. A St John Historical Society talk by William Murdoch details Foullis as a Glasgow graduate, surveyor, artist, chemist, engineer, and founder of St John harbor steam craft. He devised a steam whistle for Partridge Island and the foghorn later became standard.
The text explains a state between life and death where insect fluids freeze at 41 degrees Fahrenheit and vital functions stop. In this suspended animation, no food is needed due to lack of activity, and gradual warming can restore the organism. It likens this to a clock pendulum stopped yet restartable by a small impulse.
A wry exchange notes Indians’ seemingly greater stoicism toward death due to a long history of hardship and fatalism. The remark suggests cultural resignation as a humorously sharp point about coping with risk and mortality.
The article notes Australia spans 1,419,820 square miles in the tropical zone and 1,825,261 in the temperate zone. It states a population of 5,000,000, almost all of British origin.
Garden expert L M Bennington offers practical tips to winterize beds and roses. The piece covers timing, mulching, earth mounding, and protective coverings for roses, lilacs, rhododendrons, and perennials, noting which plants need care and which endure cold with simple shelter.
Busy days in the garden outline bulb bed planning and planting before November to bloom next spring. Gather fallen leaves for mulch and compost to create leaf mold for potting soils. Cut back geraniums for overwintering or store dry in a cool cellar. Protect rhododendrons with branches and store caladium bulbs after frost. Dig up dahlias and canvas, store potatoes similarly.
Farmers Bulletin No. 745 from the Department of Agriculture discusses utilizing waste lands for farming. It urges action in winter to rake leaves into the mantre pile and remove rocks, and notes lime should be applied in early spring for field improvement.
A discussion on how dogs rely on their sense of smell rather than sight to identify strangers. The piece notes memory enables a dog to mark unfamiliar odors and distinguish master scents, shaping judgments more by scent than by appearance or voice.
The notice marks October 24 1852 as the day John Doe and Richard Roe ceased to exist in England. These fictitious names appeared in ejectment suits and criminal proceedings to represent real parties or witnesses. The practice traces to Edward III era and Magna Charta, later adopted in this country.
A 1916 column argues that mothers who spoil their sons create temperamental husbands who demand special treatment at home and on transit. It urges mothers to raise sons with consideration for all women and chivalry, not selfish wheedling.
The Grand Trunk road runs 1400 miles from Calcutta to Peshawar through the northern plain near the Himalayas. It is described as a stately three-lane highway with dust fringed by trees and hundreds of rest houses along its length. Historic rulers and empires, from Alexander the Great to Buddha, are linked to the road, which remains unchanged in the eye of time across centuries.
A humorous excerpt shows a flirtatious exchange between a youth and a maid. A five year old miss complains about missing Friday fish dinners during a country sojourn. Grandma explains Fridays occur there too, prompting a child’s humorous remark about scent.
An American manufacturer has introduced four new lines of electrical worker shoes rated to withstand up to 20 000 volts. The footwear is seamless, cement free, and vulcanized as a solid piece in aluminum molds. A white sole conceals a red rubber layer. exposed red signals it is time to replace the sole.
The article argues that dwellings and stables should be built to admit ample sunshine as a general sanitary principle. It stresses interior daylight as a key factor in health and well being.
A Freeh inventor received a gold medal for a shock absorber designed for ordinary wheelbarrows. The device reduces jolt and enhances material longevity, showcasing practical innovation in simple farm tools.
To remove a rusty screw heat the head briefly with a red hot iron then apply a screwdriver while the head is hot. The heat expands the metal reducing grip and aids turning the screw free. Use caution to avoid burns and keep a safe distance from flammable material.
An artificial horn is being manufactured in Germany using chemically treated hides to provide elasticity strength and insulating properties.
Guidance on improving egg output through new breeds and American stock. Emphasizes lean dry litter in scratching sheds, proper ventilation, ample roost space, and clean housing across seasons. Warns geese wings can injure, and stresses always providing fresh water as three quarters of an egg is water.
O L Hall of North Dakota longtime Fort Berthold missionary told the American Missionary Association that intermarriage will merge Indian and white races within 50 years. He said despite rising birth rates and falling death rates the Indian race will disappear. He cited white marriages to obtain tribal wealth as an objection but noted it accelerates amalgamation.
The Christian Herald describes land division since 1840 forcing families to share cropland with half the crop, leading to hardship as villages employ coercive labor, high taxes, and illiteracy leaving peasants with little to live on and little chance to emigrate.
Dr Edmund D Spear of Boston creates a curved megaphone inspired by the ram horn theory of sound reproduction. The device avoids obstructing vision and delivers clearer volume due to its curved horn construction.
A Topular Science Monthly note states only three Americans have mastered stilt skating with a nine part apparatus. The 24 inch skates feature steel plates at top and bottom and are deemed as safe as ordinary ice skates by users.
A collection of tidbits on global topics including Baltic wrecks higher than other seas, clergy and farm workers reporting low mortality, rapid sheep shearing by machine, Aso an crater size, France Roquefort cheese price rises, sparrow flight speeds, fast camels, Mexico exports, cocoa mats in German locomotives, fire damp detectors in mines, 1916 refinery output projections, and a molasses based dust laying prep for South African mines.
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