28 Oct 1920
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1920
Page
1
A pampered princess grows weary of luxury and ventures outside her crystal palace. She discovers poverty and hardship and chooses to share in others’ lives. The realm is turned into a village of care, and she finds lasting joy through helping others.
Edna Kent Forbes describes a beauty routine to preserve a youthful look. She stresses gentle neck massages using flesh building cream as natural oils diminish with age. The method includes crosswise strokes from ears to shoulders and techniques to firm throat muscles and close pores.
A chaotic scene at a football game ends with a large crowd, blows and a broken ball. Bystanders clash as people push and pull, many shouting and scattering as security moves in. A friend notes the disturbance overshadows the match and hints at a long-running feud.
The so called turtle serum once touted as a tuberculosis cure by Professor Friedmann is now under review by a committee of eminent German doctors including Kraus of Berlin Kruse of Leipzig and Braun. A feature of Japanese weddings is the building of a venture made from the bride s toys.
A garbled page offers sketches of mood and humor with lines about poets, a railway tour, pocket locks, and a gag about a garbageman poet. The snippets hint at absent mindedness, a Chinese schoolmaster, and fleeting reflections on fame and mood without a clear narrative.
The piece reports Audubon Society backers led by I Gilbert Pearson push to suspend the 50 cent eagle bounty as Alaska studies bald eagle impacts. Officials cite 12 000 eagles killed since the law and note deer and other wildlife may be harmed.
Jacob H. Sheperd, once of Los Angeles now exploring Sonora mining properties, reports Yaqui Indians have signed a peace treaty with the Mexican government and are returning to peaceful life. He says it is safe to travel Yaqui river country with Indian aid for the first time since 1902.
A cinnamon cat named Brownie escaped from his home in Lafayette Indiana and crawled into a Plaza hotel as a refrigerator door was opened. A wagon was used to retrieve the cat and return it to a pub. The note mentions Benedictine liqueur dating to ancient times.
In Paducah Kentucky a theater has a cigar check system at the entrance. Patrons place spent butts in numbered jars and present a receipt when entering. After shows end the butts are collected and a small coin is saved, reducing cleanup costs. Geneva uses glass block paving made from factory refuse for durable streets.
In Whistler Mobile's largest suburb women entering polling places found powder puffs mirrors and other dressing table items at each booth reflecting comforts of home during the school election.
A whimsical fragment recalls a mother searching every room for Willie with verses about aspirin packaging and a prankish dog. The Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegram note adds a late night wander with a latchkey joke as a clock tolls three.
A couple in a Boston Globe style vignette debates past romance during a warm summer night. The woman seeks truth about a girl in France as the engaged pair confront a laundress debt of 12 francs.
Billy claims a garter snake a yard and a half long was seen wrapped around a tree limb. Paul disputes the length, insisting garter snakes do not grow that long.
In a strike of modernity sculptors increasingly use photography to document and verify chisel work. The playful exchange recalls high lofty talk as the camera stands in for the measure of altitude.
Alfred Westfall of Colorado Agricultural College notes the United States holds four-fifths of global telephones and has the most advanced exchange system. He argues American service speeds business, supports industry, and shapes social life, contrasting with Europe’s slower connections and the absence of a robust rural system.
A lament questions lasting love and compares it to lip service, asking how devotion endures when true feeling dwindles and words replace actions in intimate bonds.
A terse public debate notes hygienic experts opposing kissing while a counter view asks who would resist. The discussion hints at social tensions and concerns over behavior during a period of health vigilance.
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