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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1919
Page
8
The American Legion chapters push Rep. Dick Morgan’s draft for a government loan program. Honorable veterans could borrow up to 4000 dollars to buy or build homes with 60 year terms and 8 percent interest, funded by a 100 million dollar government capital and guaranteed bond support.
A man from Hagerstown Maryland enters the army recruiting office seeking enlistment if he can be taught to play the contrabass sarrusophone. The incident prompts officers to verify that the instrument is taught in army bands and resembles the bassoon.
Reports from Paris show designers seeking to please French buyers first with knee length skirts for American girls facing resistance from American buyers and profiteers. Designers blame wartime shifts and want Americans to accept the new style while warning against excessive handling of goods. Paris fashions now aim at French tastes, potentially sidelining American preferences in the fall line.
The federal Board of Vocational Education has 546 schools and colleges aiding disabled World War I veterans across the Midwest and Illinois. In Chicago there are 30 such institutions with eight commercial and industrial sites training men. The board prefers using existing schools near veterans. A total of 23 courses are offered from bee culture to boilermaking, farm management, photography, concrete construction, auto mechanics, salesmanship, theology, medicine, and dramatic art. Educational institutions in Chicago sent 81 disabled men, with emphasis on home proximity.
A disabled Marine with five dollars and no clear skills meets a vocational adviser. He reveals a handmade silver ring he hammered and engraved, which leads the board to place him in engraving lessons. Months later he becomes a top jewelry-store worker, treating his job as fun.
A compilation of varied wartime notes: tungsten finds in Korea and new mines opening. Birmingham England reports 724 unemployed per ten thousand. US gasoline output dips from 85 to 70 million barrels yearly since 1914. Guatemala’s salt output near two million pounds annually. rising French women union activity. many Australian soldiers wed British partners. New Zealand eyes patriotic locomotive names. ear massage restores hearing in many cases. anti freeze pipe innovation for tanks. Philippine lighthouse count rises from 29 to 151 since US control. a Frenchman’s gun mount aids aiming. a vacuumeter tracks car fuel use. textiles and cordage from water hyacinth. Manchuria bean oil boom. Shantung Japanese residents 25,104 in 1918 vs few hundred in 1914. dual control driving system for learners. Japanese marine and fire insurance boom, 26 insurers by end 1918 with five more since 1919. some marine insurers controlled by shipowners.
Aviatrix Fanchon becomes the first woman to act as an aerial mail carrier in San Francisco as she receives mail sacks from her airplane in a historic aviation moment.
A nine year old in Virginia earns a lesson in pricing by offering to sell strawberries to her aunt mother and grandmother. She initially plans ten cents a quart but then proposes a five cent war tax on each box to boost revenue and cover costs.
The text extols the housewife as Jill of all trades and explains a home method to repair a worn bucket. Coat the bottom with enamel while wet, lay a smooth layer over it, and let it dry in the sun, applying a second coat for a leak free outcome.
In 1914 on August 15 the Panama Canal opened, nine years in the making. Construction cost about 357 million dollars not counting fortifications civil government or payments to Panama. The first passage after opening was by the steamship Ancon with Colonel Goethals aboard, Cristobal to Balboa taking nine hours.
Verona recalls her first night in a sleeper berth saying the flats were so small they could not all stay together. She explains that she slept with her mother in the first flat while her father slept in the second, during the journey.
A brief, fragmentary quotation discusses Eve’s choice and suggests she might have avoided temptation if a movie had been her distraction. The line appears in a Dallas News item.
A sensational tale links ex Cossack colonel Gol Mohammed Beck Hadjetincho and Dagmar de Qysser a Russian general's seventeen year old daughter in a web of bolshevist royalist intrigue. Police allege murder robbery and espionage across exile networks with American Reginald Lehr and other foreigners aligned with Moscow factions in a deadly conspiracy.
The body of Lady Jessel is recovered after a sea search. Police also recover two more bodies identified as wrestler Katya and a Polish man named Lae witald. Suspects in the case include Lowstakl and Dagmar Hehts with conflicting confessions and evasive replies.
In New York courts offenders faced fines linked to war savings programs. Syracuse invested $6,000 in war bonds last year. At Niagara Falls Davide Brodertel, placed on probation, was ordered to pay $12 weekly toward war savings stamps and ultimately received $280,650 in stamps, pledging $10 weekly thereafter.
Edward Haynes, aged eighty three, broke into the home of Mrs. A. M. McNeill to steal a white and two jars of plum jelly. He pawned the watch for six dollars at Larimer Street, was caught by Detectives Mc Cabe and Armstrong, and confessed after officers uncovered the jelly hidden in his room.
In Throoklyn New York a skinny young man wearing a waistline causes a scene inside an altar shop. Patrolman Walsh and Jerry McMahon pursue the suspect through a cellar door. A large bundle of navy cloth and other goods valued around $1,000 is found. the man, Joseph Riches, is arrested on burglary charges.
Eleven Koreans attempted suicide by tying themselves together on a ferry between Chemulpo and a nearby island. The vessel halted, twenty five miles southwest of Seoul, and rescuers saved eight while three died. Authorities suspect Buddhist superstition inspired the act.
The court hears a replevin action over a rug valued at about $2,000. Parties include Willis, Tris, and Davis with claims of ownership and security interests. The case alleges transfer of the rug from the Davis mansion to a holder and then to Shilow while ownership is unsettled.
A burglar broke into the East Side barber shop in Fairmont West Virginia. He entered and used the sink to bathe and polished his shoes before leaving without stealing anything. No damage or items were disturbed. The incident drew curiosity but no arrests reported.
German measures tighten frontier controls to halt carload smuggling of luxury imports including chocolate cigarettes and soap into occupied Germany. Decrees signed by President Ebert create an indemnity enforcement commission and dissolve the imperial navy office with duties moved to a defense ministry bureau. Also notes a Missouri murder trial with a landmark all female jury.
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