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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1917
Page
6
The article argues for strong government support to shield children from wartime disruptions. It cites war-induced effects on families, rising juvenile delinquency, and the need for mothers’ pensions, minimum wage, and workers’ compensation. It calls for a compensation system so soldiers’ families receive home life and parental care.
Veteran third basemen dominate the two major leagues with long careers. Mike Mowrey Heinie Zimmerman Heinie Groh J Smith lead a seasoned group, while Stock Gardner Baker and others form a strong veteran cohort, challenging newcomers for top honors at third base.
The article provides practical guidance for incubator use including setup, avoiding drafts and heat, using fertile eggs, keeping lamps, tubes, and conduct clean, balancing eggs, not overfilling trays, turning eggs every third day, cooling mornings, and testing eggs on days seven eleven and fifteen while noting learning progresses and avoiding disturbance after day eighteen.
The article argues about relative dangers in thunderstorms. It notes open fields may be riskier than under trees, forests safer than single trees, and coastal areas safer than rural areas. It warns to avoid areas near water and mentions lightning rods as safe conductors when properly connected. It credits Franklin’s early public guidance.
An article explains the suggested use of lightning rods and how they would function to protect buildings during storms, outlining placement and expected effects on safety and property.
A miscellany notes that adding sugar or lead to water fixes blue textile dyes. It mentions a new cigar holder operated by a spring. France is the top foreign patron of the US patent office with Britain close behind. Norway’s water power lowers electricity costs. Rapid cooling yields fine crystals in liquids. An English inventor outlines a nitric acid coloring process for wool khaki and orange shades.
Instructions from a mother’s cookbook outline preserving vegetables for winter stock. Recipes include tomato okra corn pepper onion blend and spinach carrot celery jars with blanching, cooking times, salt, and sealing steps for pint or quart jars.
A York's Companion article notes ROE coal dealers ship over 1,156 varieties on the seaboard, while national committees have pared recognized classes to 41. The piece contrasts common coal terms with lesser known varieties and highlights evolving classification.
A sweeping portrait of General Gorgaz lauded as the world’s foremost benefactor of sanitation. He aided health across zones including Téona, Pong, and South America, extended to South Africa, fought pneumonia in mines of Johannesburg, and conducted a notable clean-up in Serbia.
Revered by natives in torrid lands and sought by many governments, this army surgeon has given his skill without pay. He would be a millionaire if he charged, yet he works for humanity. His care keeps soldiers healthy when taps might ring.
The term potters field refers to a public expense graveyard. In England and on the continent clay trenches left open were later used for burying paupers. Public care for the poor led to these unfilled trenches becoming interment grounds.
Jane A. Delano urges caution for girls entering nursing training and offers guidance for those at advanced schools. She recommends chemistry and arithmetic, physiology and anatomy, Latin for medical terms, and voice training to improve reading aloud to patients.
Instructions advise not tightening lids fully but firmly enough to lift by the tops. Pint jars require five minutes less cooking, while two quart jars need ten minutes longer than the two hours of sterilization.
Eight quarts of unripe plums with mint are boiled, then strained overnight to make jelly. Green grapes, windfall apples, and dried apples also yield jelly marmalade and marmalade from bag pulp. Drying apples in salt solution prevents browning.
Nerece Marweil notes that many date palm trees have been brought from Africa to California where dates are now raised successfully. Iron embedded in concrete in Germany is found to be free from corrosion after more than forty five years. In the United States there are 111 distinct snake species with 17 dangerous to humans. A patent proposes a tape through collar button holes with an ornamental clasp to replace collar buttons.
The article refutes the idea that one can become obese without eating excess daily. It explains a small daily surplus, such as a third of an ounce of butter, adds up to nine pounds in a year and ninety pounds in ten years. It notes that tiny daily shortfalls consume body fat, reducing weight over time.
The report notes educational advertising could create a strong market for safe cabinets and steel office furniture in New Zealand. It highlights potential demand among institutions and offices seeking durable storage and modern furniture solutions.
The article offers home gardening tips for propagation and care of roses and other plants. It covers leaf slashing propagation, potting primroses and cineraria, sowing seeds for mignonette, using leaf mulch for beds, storing leaves near the chicken yard, and avoiding overwatering and pot-bound conditions. It also notes trimming climbers like nasturtiums and ivy for winter displays.
The crimson winter rhubarb is described as sweeter and less acid than common varieties. It is praised as ever-bearing and reaching its best late in fall when other fruits and vegetables are scarce.
Tomatoes may be trained to stakes or trellises to good advantage. Keep the branches thinned to just the number needed for fruit.
Instructional note by L. M. Bennington on treating cottony pests. Melt soap then add coal oil in a ratio of one half, mix while hot, store sealed, and dilute one part soap oil emulsion to ten parts water for spraying. For scale on palms and elders apply a slightly stronger wash and wipe leaves and stems with a brush or rag to remove loosened scale.
Keep chrysanthemums growing vigorously through summer. Pinch shoots to promote branching and ensure consistent watering. Expose plants to sun while shielding pots to prevent rapid soil drying. Feed with manure water weekly. Stop pinching when you want buck to form.
Lily planting guidance outlines early September bulb delivery and bed preparation with six inches of litter. It describes soil needs and sand around bulbs, then highlights lilies for small gardens including Madonna, Canada, coral, longiflorum, speciosum, and golden banded Japanese varieties with bloom months May to August.
Miss Ann Welby of the Women’s Defense League pushes house visits to enlist men, faces resistance and threats, and endures an hour of argument with a confident stranger, John Farson. Her campaign yields mixed results as Townley enlists and love blooms between Ann and Farson while Cupid appears at the edges of patriotism.
Henry Dwight Sedgwick argues in the Yale Review that breakfast reveals temperament and mood. He contrasts sociable meals with solitary breakfasts noting how sleep, insects, water, clothing, and early temper can affect the group mood. He concludes solitary breakfast offers steadier, safer enjoyment.
The piece traces New Mexico's religious heritage from ancient Aztec and Toltec pyramids where victims were sacrificed to the later Spanish Catholic missions. It notes four century old temples still used in Taos valley and cites Tipá as an active worship site.
Marquis Okuma urges greater activity by the Japanese Red Cross in the present war. The society, the wealthiest of its kind, claims nearly two million members and 12 hospitals in 1913 with a medical corps of 8,785. Its capital fund reached 12 million dollars and it has supplied bandages and medical supplies to England France and Russia.
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