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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1922
Page
6
Mrs Lula Vann Fulton Arkansas shares a testimonial praising Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for monthly side pain and backache that prevented work. She reports relief and urges others with painful periods and nervous symptoms to try the product.
A Chicago Journal item recalls a morning call to a business man interrupted by a cheerful helper who asks for Mr James. The caller learns she has reached the morgue and abandons a call to write a letter instead.
A young girl Mamie overhears talk about boot leggers and asks her mother if two girls with galoshes are among them. The scene unfolds as they stroll in spring, highlighting a child’s curiosity about adult discussions.
William A Radford explains hog housing to maximize piglet survival and profits. He details two roof designs saw-tooth and gable, sunlit pens, concrete foundations, and ventilation to keep pigs warm and healthy, with market timing and double production as key benefits. He notes breeding sows and litters align with winter to spring, and emphasizes weather-tight, raised floors and sanitary pens.
After Transylvania shifts, Romanian men resist modern attire and keep hand-embroidered shirtwaists and lace-trimmed petticoats, deeming trousers unsightly and unsanitary. In the Balkans some women wear garments of solid gold coins as heirlooms, a striking social custom.
A child asks if Adam was made first and learns Eve followed. He then muses that it seems ladies were always first. A reflection on date and time. The boss is described as the man who arrives too early when late and too late when early, a Life observation.
A fragment notes the extent of wearer's luxury and the constant lure it holds for nearby swains to pursue marriage, reflecting social expectations and romantic incentives in the region.
Julius Pla highlights creation of a public institute for ice age research led by Dr. T Bayer of Vienna's natural history museum. The project seeks correspondence from interested researchers. The work focuses on prehistoric man and glaciation influences on land and sea, with Vienna's geography ideal for observing ancient environments and Lower Austria's abundant stone tools.
In California the novelist EHnor Glyn is praised by the Los Angeles social set as a guide and friend. A society woman laments her looks and youth, and Glyn replies you needn't be ugly or stupid and you needn't be thirty until you're classy enough for forty.
A devotional piece on Jesus weeping over Lazarus and Israel. It links tears to divine love and mercy, noting Jesus wept for sorrow, guilt, and blindness, and that His sorrow mirrors the length depth height and breadth of God’s love.
An Ecclesiastes verse warns against rash speech and empty talk. It urges reverence for God and cautions that excessive words reveal vanities and may invite divine anger.
A reflective aphorism notes that wealth earned through hard effort tends to be kept longer, while inherited riches are less diligently guarded. The idea contrasts the behaviors of those who acquire wealth themselves with those who receive it by inheritance.
A farmer balks at buying a bicycle for $35 while a hardware clerk pushes the deal claiming it a fair carry. The farmer counters with a joke about milking a bicycle and riding a cow, highlighting humor over practicality.
A fragmentary tale features actors and relationships with a bold line about Rantington Ronrer the tragedian and a young widow. Dialog hints at clever escape and impossible love while domestic scenes unfold between Miss Bright and Burleigh as the night deepens.
An advertisement extols Tantie as an effective relief for indigestion dyspepsia and allied stomach troubles claiming many users regain health after other remedies fail. Testimonial from Mrs. W. H. Hocker cites dramatic relief and improved vitality. An onlooker notes Zeke Dawdle’s new work role as a superintendent in a humorous Birmingham Age-Herald exchange.
Experts in medieval woodwork reveal a wash that lifts dirt from Gothic and Norman stalls without damage and reveals original colors. A Winnipeg produced coating will whiten exterior stone, restoring gray stone to its original appearance as parts remain black.
A Louisville editor cites Henry Wharton as a gourmet who despised gluttony and warned that talk of food distracts the mind. He recalls a lord's hunting party where trophies, including antlers and animal skins, fill the room, prompting a quip about ownership of the displayed game.
A Cleveland traveler arriving in New York gives a porter her last dime to cover a bus fare. The porter accepts the coin as a tip and is moved by her honesty, saying he will take the fare. She declines the bus, choosing to walk two miles to her hotel instead.
Fragmentary OCR text recounts a teacher finding a student’s copy of Sir Walter Scott passage with a miscopied line about horses, stream, and wrists. The piece questions a poets corner and ends with a caution about handling a trigger.
A joke recounts a car with engine trouble that is taken to a drug store for diagnosis, only to be met with confusion as the pharmacists cannot determine the issue. The punchline hinges on the absurdity of treating mechanical failure as a medical ailment.
Humorous exchange notes Peck’s boastful self praise in a pub setting while contrasting with his prior role as a quiet second fiddle at home. The dialogue hints at social behavior and character contrasts in a casual public moment.
A fragment from London Tit-Bits portrays a playful dialogue about an anarchist patient and light humor on bombs. The characters dodge serious issues with wit, while a doctor prescribes rest and asks for the patient’s occupation.
Two weeks before his murder the German statesman Rathenau spoke of Saturdays as his unlucky day. He recalled two near fatal events on Saturdays in childhood and later in a stairway fall. He was assassinated on a Saturday.
An ac quaintance jokes about Hamp Smather’s funeral day after tomorrow. Gap Johnson questions if he’s dead as Doc Smith notes he cannot “just another any.” Dee hints Anamp’s fate, while Kuan from City Star suggests spiritualism and wealthy mediums amid curious speculation.
A dialogue contrasts birthright and effort with a joke about chances. The speaker notes frequent consultations from his wife on clothing and purchases, and adds that his wife also defers to him for money decisions.
The passage recounts Solomon turning from the Lord, building high places to Chemosh for his wives. The Lord grows angry as Solomon lapsed from his faithful path, unlike David his father.
A biblical line declares praise to the Lord for righteousness across past, present, and future. The speaker notes the angel of the waters proclaiming, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shall be.
A welfare worker argues education includes public service in a patrol wagon. The reply notes the grim faces of detainees suggest a harsh starting point for dialogue, highlighting tensions between welfare aims and law enforcement imagery.
Eugene G. Grave of Rathehem Steel plays a first clash with Charles My Schwab in a lighthearted tale of a golf match. The exchange centers on Schwab's claim of shots while Grave reports his own score, illustrating a humorous steel trade friendship and a noted anecdote from the Wall Street Journal.
A railway employee injured in a street car crash is rushed to hospital in an unconscious condition. After surgery he, dazed from anesthesia, asks the surgeon about recovery and compensation, and is told he will recover. Report appears in the Pittburgh Dispatch.
A fragment notes Anne Boleyn choosing to bob her hair and a grim quoted warning about beheading, suggesting a dramatic sequence in the Henry VII era. The text blends rumor with royal fate and features a terse, ominous tone.
In a curdled sentiment the Louisville Courier Journal quips that telling most people not to work too hard in hot weather is unnecessary, reflecting a blunt editorial voice on summer labor and practicality.
A four blade rotary cutter mounted in front of a tractor powers land clearing by turning stumps into chips. The passage links the tool to a metaphor about courage and statecraft.
A garbled local excerpt references Thon folks in It eville and a landlord at the Gigorn site amid playful allusions to Shakespeare. The dialogue hints at a “nem eholy phice” and a spectneled guest, suggesting a quirky, satirical tone from Kanens City Star.
The Richmond Times Dispatch reports a wedding with three notable figures. The father passed the coin of one daughter to a stranger, the preacher's wife received the wedding fee, and the best man had been rejected by the bride for the last time.
A fragment from Life quotes a foreign communist named Bocuse and a respectable citizen debating liberty to leave a free country. The exchange touches on freedom and hypocrisy with remarks about youth and stockings as a sharp aside.
A fragmentary dialogue presents a mother asking about the American eagle and a judge’s terse reply that a man’s knowledge of his defects leads to least restraint. The piece hints that diplomacy may cost, yet prison of truth pries.
Samuel identifies Saul as the chosen one to lead Israel. The Lord directs Samuel to anoint the young Benjaminite who will rule the people. The scene marks Saul’s anointing and subsequent authority over Israel.
A fragmentary exchange reveals a discussion of personal support promises. One person reports offering support in the accustomed style, while the other says the offer was deemed insufficient and seeks something better.
A biblical verse from II Samuel 22 21 proclaims that with clean hands and righteousness the Lord repays the faithful. The text emphasizes divine reward tied to personal purity and steadfast piety.
A weather expert jokes that when he predicts fine weather it rains and when he forecasts rain it stays dry. A colleague recommends sticking to local showers, noting the exchange during a passing show.
A brief aphorism notes that judgment is compelled by experience, attributed to Johnson. The line hints at the certainty of learning through lived trials and the consequential authority of experience.
Mr Nay bor says he sent a live chicken to the Newedd home. Mrs Newedd replies she placed it in their new fee bos to keep it fresh until it is KIMed tomorrow.
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