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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1915
Page
5
Sioux City Journal argues the movie theater serves as a substitute for the saloon. It notes a nickel or dime buys an hour of entertainment and that cinema can lift spirits or amuse, diverting people from real life and impacting saloon business and vacant buildings.
Waterloo Courier discusses England’s wartime ban on treating as a drastic step to curb saloon evils. It argues treating fuels drunkenness, noting men stay to buy drinks, and many become intoxicated to be social with peers. Abolishing this practice would reduce saloon harms substantially.
Chicago Evening Post notes a spate of high level marriages in Washington. Secretary McAdoo wed one Wilson sister, the President announced engagement to Mrs. Galt, Isabella Haguer the social secretary is engaged, and a Wilson appointee to the Supreme Court plans to marry.
A Cedar Rapids Republican editorial calls Cummins boosters to mobilize support beyond Iowa noting the state lacks opposition but may need external backing to feel secure. It warns that Iowa voting alone risks repeating past conventions with weak outside influence. The Omaha Bee questions whether the president's suffrage stance aids or harms the cause.
The article notes how waste once deemed worthless, like coal tar byproducts, becomes valuable. In Lancashire, cotton waste yields about £15,000,000 yearly, with women sorting it for various uses including papermaking and shoddy. Soap byproducts were cleaned and refined into glycerin, illustrating waste to wealth.
Basil ta Koomar Roy profiles Rabindranath Tagore noting simple living in Bolpur. Tagore rises with the morning bell, meditates on the roof, cooks his meals in an economical cooker, eats little, walks, gardens, teaches twice weekly, and inspires children with a gentle smile as he writes.
A Philadelphia Ledger excerpt has Rollo asking what leisure is and the elder replies that leisure is the few minutes when mother forgets his tasks. The brief reflects a domestic humor style from the era.
For sale two tracts of 265 to 200 acres or more in Jones county plus Monticello residential property. Also Cedar Grove herd of Poland China swine with a few good pigs available. Contact W D Magee 1011 and P O'Shea Cascade Iowa. First farmhouse east of brick schoolhouse on military road. 17ws
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