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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1921
Page
6
A fashion writer notes large shifts in dress as knickered outdoor suits gain favor in the West while soft flowing gowns and chiffons replace rigid silhouettes. Daywear favors draped layers, satin and crepe textures, and intricate wrap linings, as designers promote feminine lines across streets and restaurants.
William A. Radford extols a nine room farm house designed for comfort with running water and electric lights, suitable for city streets, featuring sun parlor, multiple bedrooms, and efficient layout to attract workers, while praising female emancipation and farm prosperity.
Exquisite fall nightgowns for brides feature drawn thread patterns and hand embroidery with hand hem stitching. Luxurious handkercales fabrics, Empire yoke effects, and high quality ribbons define the period style and exclusivity for trousseaux.
Spanish comb makers report a rebound as hats and gowns recalling Spain boost interest in studded combs. After a strong fall sale, dealers faced oversupply, but producers are now dusting off stock and adding more elaborately designed samples to meet renewed demand.
Fort Newton contrasts English church service serenity with American worships free air. He says English aims to educate and edify in faith while Americans focus on applying religion to current affairs. The English pulpit seeks calm and background to face future problems, while the American pulpit emphasizes vitality.
Dialogue from the Boston Transcript recalling a clerk offering registration for 10 cents and a receipt. Old Si Hawkin speaks of wanting a receipt to placate his wife and avoid accusations, choosing to skip registration to save the cost. The excerpt highlights everyday skepticism and social friction over small bureaucratic acts.
A quotation cites the business axiom that only constant advertising guarantees customer attention. It argues that stores must advertise to attract patronage, comparing merchants to a hen that keeps producing results while others fail without public notice.
The term fiasco originates from Italian use describing a botched glass bulb turned into a plain flask. Venetian glassblowers repurposed flawed bulbs into fiascos, and the word evolved to signify a failure.
The quote notes that public opinion is unpredictable in politics. Senator Sorghum compares human races to horses, suggesting both are hard to forecast. The dialogue frames political guessing as a challenging game of interpretation.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports barberry eradication efforts expanding since 2018 to curb grain losses from black-stem rust. Surveys found hundreds of thousands of bushes on city and farm properties, with birds dispersing seeds to woodlands, pastures, streams and fence rows. By 1920 the campaign logged 5.44 million bushes located and 4.28 million removed across multiple states. Work in 1921 focuses on expanding farm-to-farm surveys near completed counties.
The United States Department of Agriculture warns that partly filled silos are deadly. Entering before venting deadly carbon monoxide often causes fatalities. The bureau urges turning on blowers for at least two minutes to clear gases before anyone enters.
An incident at a farm highlights deadly silo gases formed after silage. A workman entered a half filled 50 foot silo and was overcome, two others suffocated. Experts urge never entering partly filled silos until a blower has run two minutes to dilute gases and doors are not wedged to ensure air flow.
The article advises housing turkeys in straw barns during winter as they are not heavily used then. Such shelters provide a good place for turkeys to lay and brood, preventing theft of nests in spring with some forethought.
Save hay for your animals as roughage for winter, even if only small patches can be cut. Hay feeding is costly, nutrients are rich, and the season is not busy with crops. To Recognize Wild Licorice, note seed pods that resemble cockleburs. the plant is a legume, not related to cocklebur.
In Pennsylvanian farms tractors were virtually unknown before 1917. The present number is 6. S23. There is no one best breed of hens for all purposes, but the Highweight breeds lay best.
American scientists discover a new blackberry species in Colombia named Colomba berry after its origin. Dr. Frank J. Chipman of the American Museum of Natural History identified it, and Wilson Popenoe of the Agriculture Department brought samples for study and potential distribution to Colombian farmers.
The piece stresses cover crops as essential for gardeners and truck growers. It notes they supply humus, improve soil condition, and are inexpensive compared with manure. It urges sowing rye, vetch, or clover in vacant plots and using crop rotations to keep the garden green every two to three years.
Selection advice notes choose a herd bull with good breadth between the eyes a large nose and short distance between the eyes and nose plus strong bone and overall quality for strong herd lineage.
A small increase in cattle feed during autumn can avert dry cows in winter and support a steadier, more profitable milk flow for dairy herds.
Beekeepers praise sweet clover as a premier plant for bees noting its nectar yields produce light flavored honey and the plant's value is widely recognized by those in the trade.
The note describes kerosene use on roosts and nests, with processes every couple of weeks. It mentions granaries being net ready for the new crop and hints at a steady daily job.
The Bulletin from Sydney quotes Minda declaring a daring decision to stay home and George-T asserting readiness to go out. The brief exchange captures a contrast in social plans and personal resolve.
Red rough skin on baby soothed by hot baths with Cuticura Soap and treated with Cuticura Ointment. Occasional use of scented Dusting Powder recommended. Advertisements highlight Cuticura Toilet Trio as indispensable.
The article recounts hunter Gilbertson who found a large gold bearing ore near the Wapshe river during a canoe trip sixty years ago. He kept the location secret after his discovery and later went insane before dying without revealing it. A renewed, systematic search this season aims to rediscover the Gilbertgon lode and stake claims along the Wapshe.
A conversation notes a congressman being titled duce tor his wife remarks on doctors writing prescriptions under the Volstead Inn. An agreeable person is defined as one who talks about themselves.
London Punch notes the sultan of Zanzibar and his wives landed at Durban. The captain reportedly requested a careful count, but an error could not be corrected after departure from the ship.
Important reminder urges mothers to examine every bottle of Castoria the famous infant remedy to ensure it bears the In Use for Over 80 Years signature. Children cry for Mother's Castoria.
A new plywood material claims to be sewn together with waterproof cement and paralleled rows to create a rigid resilient sheet. It is said to be strongest per weight, usable in sizes up to eight feet wide by sixty feet long and thicknesses from one eighth to five eighths of an inch, reducing waste in conversion.
The United States tops cattle numbers with 66,692,000 head, followed by Australia at 11,819,000. Texas stands as the leading cattle-raising state in the United States, with production roughly equal to Australia.
A damaged OCR snippet shows dialog about origin and flow, with unclear attribution to Starvard Lames poon. The readable bits suggest a typographical error and a question about Chicago origin. The context remains unspecified and no concrete event is evident.
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