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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1925
Page
10
Newspaper compiles a witty exchange in which a speaker responds to a question about a quarrel with his wife by saying he had words but no opportunity to use them. The remark echoes a dry humor style of the era.
Old Maun Negley dispenses advice to local dog owners on hot weather care, brushing, feeding, and safe practices. He urges daily brushing to remove shed hair, bread and milk diet for puppies and grown dogs, castor oil as a quick cure, cod liver oil as a tonic, and cedar shavings in winter bedding with no bedding in summer.
Rage laments love as a curse, recalling sleepless nights and unwanted outings. He recounts wasting money and writing letters, then admits a moment of luxury when an unnamed woman drove a Rolls. The speaker frames love as a period of temporary insanity.
In a landmark career shift, the Englishwoman ascends as a professional stenographer to Lady Constance Howard, sister of the Carlisle countess, after returning to work post blindness. She previously worked as a baseball umpire and is now at a prominent London firm, signaling a new era for women in skilled clerical roles.
The Rio Grande forms the U S Mexico border at ten bridges. In El Paso foot and passenger bridges serve Santa Fe and Stanton Streets with a streetcar line to Juarez. Mexican rail bridges lie at Del Rio and other border towns with various foot vehicle and railroad crosses.
A quoted line from Dornford Yates’s As Other Men Are reflects on a vehicle’s lasting change after a notable incident. The narrator recalls how one event altered perceptions and the car’s fate.
A playful note from Loulaville Courier Journal describes a sheikish nephew telling his doll to save five thousand kisses and deliver the concentrated token at the depot upon his return, foreign flavor and whimsy in a lighthearted column.
A couple recently wed in a radio ceremony, illustrating how far some people will go to mark their union. The humorous broadcast shows creative vows and a quirky approach to marriage customs.
Last spring Massachusetts residents and groups completed a state wide effort planting more than four million trees across cities and towns. The campaign mobilized volunteers and local organizations to reforest urban areas and restore woodlands statewide.
A Duluth Herald item reflects on evolving preoccupations at different ages noting thoughts on women at twenty, tariffs at forty, and golf in Duluth.
A Paris fashion commentary traces how fashion swings from the sport vogue to formalism, noting the rise of structured lines over casual dress. Designers like Lanvin Chanel and Drecoll are cited as shaping a new elegance with fur trim, swinging silhouettes, and restrained, dignified gowns advancing over last season's informal looks.
The Illinois College of Agriculture reviews fall plowing advantages and drawbacks. It notes that benefits include better soil conditioning on heavy soils, deeper plowing, and pest control, while disadvantages involve high wash risk on hilly or low organic matter soils and potential nitrate loss from early fall digging.
The piece advises mourning dress for women, noting the need for age-appropriate, flattering designs. It suggests avoiding heavy crepe as out of fashion, allowing touches of white to brighten outfits, and recommends lusterless silks or wools. Fabrics like georgette crepe roma and crepe Elizabeth are preferred over lower quality crepe de chine.
Fashions favor vivid winter hues with rose to orange tones called geranium petal. Velvet gowns feature gold lace and brown tulle. A model showcases a simple bodice and semicircular skirt with brown tulle trim to emphasize the natural waist.
State College of Agriculture New Brunswick recommends controlled ventilation for barns. Install intake and out take flues with dampers, about one fourth square foot openings each, two layer board construction, and ridge vents to ensure steady air flow and moisture removal.
Kansas State Agricultural College specialists warn wheat bins may harbor meal worms and weevils now. Inspections before cold weather help find worms near bin edges and top. as temperatures drop worms move to the center. Infested wheat best treated before temps fall below 70 degrees.
The article advises coating masonry silos to prevent leaks from faulty joints. It recommends treating vertical mortar joints with hot asphalt tar roofing paints and applying asphalt or paraffin inside the silo every three to four years, noting this maintenance is worthwhile.
A rule instructs that pallets should not be brought from the range into laying houses without thorough cleaning and disinfection. Following this practice would prevent infections such as internal and external parasites, colds, canker, and chicken pox in fowl.
The article argues there is no ideal season for culling and suggests monthly culling would remove loafers. Practically, people set regular times for culling, mainly in fall and again at mating to breed pens. Culling profits by removing non productive hens.
Rye proves valuable as an emergency hog and cattle pasture. Fall or early spring sowing yields usable pasture, with August through mid September being optimal for late fall grazing. If plowed under in June, land can grow sudan grass or soybeans afterward.
Poultrymen from Ohio State University urge that culling alone cannot solve nonproducer problems. Preventing culls requires healthy, vigorous birds and good management to avoid poor health, weak stamina, and production declines.
Specialists at Kansas State Agricultural College tie many cases of postfarrowing problems in young pigs to improper feeding and sow overfeeding. A sow shows hunger after farrowing but should get little feed for 24 hours. provide abundant water. Begin with light feeds in thick slop and avoid full feed for six to ten days after farrowing.
University of Illinois swine chief W. E. Carroll says oats play a key role in hog rations when cheap relative to corn. Oats suit breeding stock and pastured pigs, best when ground, and should not dominate sows’ milking or fattening rations.
Soil building through legumes and manure management reduces losses from pests. Do not expose stable manure to rain and apply manure promptly to retain fertility. Control gophers effectively and use plant foods like bran mush for workers near alfalfa. Volunteer wheat thrives in ideal seasons. Hessian fly protection protects crops. Maintain roadside weeds as thrift signals on the farm.
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