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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1915
Page
5
Harley Blake narrates his struggles after rejection and poverty, leaving his old life to pursue farming success. He finds work, builds a modest fortune with lime and phosphate investment, gains self respect, and reconnects with Helen Wendell after years apart.
The Kaiser’s envoy Prince Buelow tells a tale of a Rome ambassadorship fading to a chancellor role. His cook, loyal in hardship, vows to stay by the master’s side, prompting the emperor to reward him with a gold watch inscribed Misery.
The article recalls a wartime proposal to tax umbrellas in England during the Napoleonic wars. Pitt sought new revenue as every item seemed taxed, and a Somersetshire friend quipped to tax umbrellas and have bishops require prayers for rain in churches until the war ends.
A motorist asks a farmer if the road leads to Patchogue. The farmer confirms, but the driver speeds off without thanks. The farmer quips that politeness might have prompted a faster route if he had been more courteous.
During the agitation over inmate comfort and happiness some outside voices gain respite from those who dictate how to live, as noted by the Washington Herald.
Paris correspondents describe a shift in Parisian society as women from Faubourg St Germain join shop workers and nurses. They embrace social service, open workshops for the unemployed, and gain new outlooks on life while maintaining daily routines of work and tea at five. The piece emphasizes lasting impact on social reform and women’s clubs after the war.
A photo shows Princess Euxodia and Princess Nadejda of Sofia, with their royal family context. An homage to Henry Beach Needham recalls his death while pursuing a Night Paris flight story and the wartime role of French censors and allied aviators, including Warneford.
Atlanta report notes Dr. L G Wardman supervising excavation of an historic Nacoochee Valley mound. Archeologists from a New York museum will study relics including utensils weaponry and human remains to learn about the area's ancient inhabitants.
Peter Coughlin, 91, continues harvesting in Wichita area fields after moving to Great Bend for a promised job. He hid his identity as Joseph Munson to shield relatives from humiliation and traveled by Missouri Pacific freight car. His son lives in Tonkawa Oklahoma, but he declines aid.
The article notes the mound will be restored exactly as it appears today, preserving its current form and location for the future. It emphasizes careful reconstruction to maintain the original design and significance.
William Corcoran a local market gardener hired a tramp to cut weeds around his plot. The worker, in zeal, cut down the grain and weeds and also destroyed the potato crop by cutting the plants.
H. H. Shepard urges improving home grounds with an acre or more, stressing beauty, drainage, and proper upkeep. He advocates massed flowers, trees grouped away from the dwelling, pergolas, shaded play areas, concrete walks, neat barns, and sturdy fences as essentials for health, character, and farm life.
Instructions on choosing perennials and seeds, applying Bordeaux mixture for mildew, using tobacco water against aphids, and managing rhubarb flowers. Tips cover slug control, rose care with wash water, sowing annuals, pruning lilac seed clusters, July August sowing, shading seedlings, creating outdoor living spaces, and pruning fruiting canes and roots in berry plantings.
The narrative notes Isabeau of Bavaria wife of Charles VI of France sought creature comforts in medieval times. She reportedly ordered a portable bath tub and even had iron carriages filled with hot ashes rolled through her vast palace barracks to warm them.
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