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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1907
Page
7
Glenarm and Larry uncover a brick wall behind a wall under a doorway in a rural manor. They pry through to a hidden passage and a padlocked door, revealing potential treasures and a looming confrontation with Sheriff Pickering over the Glenarm estate.
A dialogue unfolds as two meet and bond over literature. He seeks Sir Walter Scott and her enthusiasm grows from Lady of the Lake to Marmion, with a sly hint about his Emulsion. The exchange highlights shared taste for Scott and the playful misdirection around a book title.
A compact religious item previews a sermon by the highway and byway preacher citing 2 Samuel 11 6 27. The piece notes moral failures and scripture authority as guidance for readers seeking spiritual reflection.
In this dramatic scene King David orders Uriah to take a letter to Joab and delay no. David battles inner guilt over his sin while Uriah remains loyal, unaware of the plot against him. The narrative traces the king’s moral collapse and the fatal outcome at Rabbah.
Sermonette warns that idle indulgence begins with a small sin and progressively pulls a person away from God. It traces steps from a first misdeed to coverups, debt, and betrayal, stressing that sin hides from people but not from God and will eventually be exposed.
The article emphasizes a small set of staple foods that form two thirds of global intake, including a few grains, dairy from a handful of animals, fish, eggs, and several root crops and fruits. It notes the limited variety yet wide reliance on beef, mutton, pork, potatoes, manioc, and other staples.
If you are disappointed in your husband after marriage, remember he may be disappointed in you too. Human nature is faulty and blame is often on both sides. The goal is to make the best of one another as we are rather than lament perfection.
The Women's Corner notes autumn headwear runs large with shells of color, lots of trimming, and no small hats. Big mushroom shapes dominate, some reaching 26 inches across, while trims range from bird of paradise plumes to marabou and cock plumes. Home sewers need long ribbons and many yards of bias tafetta to finish the bows properly.
Readers request fifteenth wedding anniversary suggestions. Department notes past anniversaries published and plans to repeat. Send self addressed stamped envelope to receive the required information.
Suggest serving a luncheon as a scattered tabletop event across multiple rooms. Recommend small tables placed in lounges and hallways to accommodate 24 guests, with elaborate but compact refreshments, elegant decor, and coordinated service to create a refined, intimate sendoff. Include tasting stations and a light centerpiece plan.
In a friendly note from Philadelphia, a reader seeks alternative wording for a kitchen shower as the word shower has become inseparable from brides to be. The writer laments the lack of a fitting substitute and asks for creative, tasteful suggestions.
The message requests ideas for a luncheon menu and decor using autumn leaves to entertain twelve ladies. It asks for pretty, specific ways to incorporate leaves into tables, centerpieces, place cards, and color schemes for an elegant autumn event.
The text suggests using real leaves as decorations and scattering them on a table cloth. Place cards can be leaf shaped and colored with paint or autumn leaf patterned crepe paper. Cutouts can be suspended over the table with invisible thread for a delicate display.
An advertisement describes a silk attachable flounce for petticoats. It is wide and craggwise gathered in a plain band with buttonholes, featuring three gathered frills, overlap, vandyked ribbon straps, and small bows.
A dated guide discusses inviting a male guest to a smoker with no ladies present. It covers choosing games like bridge or five hundred, simple decorations with nasturtiums and carnations, and a menu featuring hors d oeuvres, fish, potato salad, sandwiches, coffee, and chocolate ice cream, with the host choosing drinks.
Inquiries seek a book on different entertaining methods for a non federated book club. The writer asks where to obtain such a book and requests a stamped self addressed envelope to receive the needed material. Names of books authors and publishers are not permissible in this department.
A reader asks for an inexpensive white wool wedding dress suitable for winter and spring, with sewing instructions for a 16 year old. Madame Merri suggests white wool, brilliante, serge, taffeta, and recommends a lingerie gown if sewing.
The text notes that flounces lie across with no pattern, predicting a deep flounce of about eleven inches and smaller flounces ranging from two and a half to three inches.
A fashion note outlines stocking trends favoring plain mesh over lace this year. It highlights gauze like threads in fine plain stockings, mentions embroidered designs in delicate flowers or bold flat color spots, and advises matching hosiery to shoes with bright lapis blue silk stockings pairing with black pumps.
The passage notes oversized hats crafted from aak and velvet, described as so heavy they promise headaches as a fashion statement. It emphasizes the impractical yet stylishly elaborate headwear and its extravagant adornments.
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