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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1922
Page
6
Clark Hodder Massachusetts junior champion will be eligible for varsity at Harvard. Bobby Jones of Atlanta will attend Harvard to pursue a bachelor of arts degree.
In Kansas City two sisters recall a plan among girls to wear knickerbockers at the tennis club on a Sunday to show solidarity. Georgette and Cora discuss Mabel who backed out and wore hers a day early, highlighting social nerves and fashion daring at the local club.
The Cuticura Toilet Trio. Having cleared your skin, keep it clear by making Cuticura your everyday toilet preparations. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal, the Talcum to powder and perfume. No toilet table is complete without them.
Geneva age three ran away to visit her aunt across the street. The aunt warned of dangers and planned to keep the child as punishment. Geneva cried to return home but saw her father leaving and said I must hurry back in her farewell exchange.
The Patriarch Ferney was a name given to Voltaire the French philosopher born 1694 died 1778. Thomas Carlyle called Voltaire the Eighteenth century for his retreat to the village of Ferney near Geneva where he produced much of his work.
A colored man tells a police sergeant he plans suicide due to life and lack of joy at home. He seeks a river jump but is warned of legal trouble and wet consequences. He later reports failing to die by his own action after finding an empty house and a landlord demanding 75 dollars monthly with 10 dollars for inquest hold.
An Italian engineer has designed a poppet valve gear to replace standard link-motion gears on locomotives. Trials show marked coal and water savings for the power produced. The system uses poppet valves to avoid faults of flat slide and piston valves, preventing steam strangulation and improving use of steam expansion.
Dialogue pits Old Man against John as he urges steadier relations while the son jokes that none are particularly suitable. The piece, from a Richmond Times-Dispatch excerpt, ends with a fragmented aside about an ascending ladder.
Manager Connie Mack recalls three years of watching and practice before Eddie Collins blossomed into a great player as he reorganizes the Athletic nine.
Jack Miller manager of the Seals runs a daily baseball school at the San Francisco ball park practicing hitting and fielding with bushers. He aims to develop future players, saying one prospect out of twenty is a good return for the effort and training brings enjoyment.
George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns turned a remarkable double play on a squeeze with runners at first and third. He fielded a bunt, tagged the batter, and fired to catcher Hank Severnd to retire the runner from third, a feat praised as unmatched in major league lore.
Jersey City sells pitcher George Metevier to the Cleveland Indians while Justin Fitzgerald exits Coast League ball after Sacramento release. Enid promotes Johnny Mann from Oklahoma City in a trade for Wayne Windle as Clyde Williams jumps to an independent squad.
Kenneth Williams of the Browns hit two homers in the sixth inning at St. Louis tying a rare club. The feat of two homers in one inning had only three prior instances in major league history by Jones of the Nationals in 1880 Lowe in 1884 and Bleierbauer in 1900.
Chicago pitcher Tony Kaufmann rose from local youth baseball in Ravenswood to join Winnipeg and, after early minor league trials, broke into the major leagues with the Cubs. His first trials included a winning exhibition in Wisconsin and a reputation as a promising young twirler.
The piece surveys various sports topics including a USLTA treasury balance of 22605.41 dollars, a Spokane golfer playing 144 holes in one day, concerns about golf club handle padding, rising popularity of whippet racing and plans to race greyhounds in Kentucky near Cincinnati, Leneglen considering a comeback with more photos, large crowds at a Tendler fight, Donoghue’s continued dominance, a Saratoga auction result for a Finn-Kate Adams colt, Naval Academy football players to be selected, Jack Britton’s eighteen-year boxing career, and boxing plans in Mexico City amid Willard and Munro discussions for future bouts.
Narrative recalls a Delaware accused of murder in 1823 among the Saginaw Chippewa. The defendant offered restitution under tribal law, walking with folded arms before kin, but chief Kishkawhke killed him amid a dispute claim that the law had changed.
The Ruastin trade delegation cites first four months this year yielding over 16 poods of gold in Siberia. At Gould price about $10,800 per pood, value nears $172,800, annualized to just over $600,000. Output revival follows years of decline since 1916, with mines restarted at Wilasteynak Aleyandrovak Ivanovak and Youzhnatalginsk aiming at least three poods monthly.
A boy visiting his ailing grandmother tries to be polite as he leaves. His father interrupts with a jab, prompting Michael to announce his own apology as bigger than his father’s remark. The vignette preserves a humorous exchange about manners and family tease.
On the Pacific island of Nauru the sun rises at 6 and sets at 6 with no daylight saving. The rainy season brings violent tropical showers driven by westerlies. In the year after three years of drought there was 150 inches of rain, including a single night with 10 inches.
A compact exchange shows a child debating appetite and effort, as a mother presses for determination while the child expresses simple hunger. The dialogue evokes themes of drive versus necessity in a stark, plain tone.
A Frenchman invented a water pipe scale to weigh ship cargoes. The device measures draft by water in a pipe extending into the sea, with the water level indicating weight.
Fragmentary dialogue shows a painter comparing a new small litre to a steam engine, a worker acknowledgment, and a quip about a wife and income. The sketched lines include references to Blackstone and Webster in a rustic, colloquial exchange.
A wedding event note praises the bride who plays the harp with angelic skill and speaks with a twang during prayers of thanks. The groom and guests follow the customs, with the bride promising to obey as part of the ceremony.
An editor argues about a poem described as an ef fusion and ridicules its quality. The dialogue mocks phrasing and structure, noting twenty four attempts across twelve lines and two sentences that show some thought. The exchange reflects a blunt literary critique in a colonial era newspaper tone.
A New Jersey boy, age eleven, offers blunt yet insightful thoughts on gender as he corrects a reporter and reflects on manners. His humorous yet pointed exchange reveals early awareness of social labels between woman and lady.
A Boston Trangleville page quotes a sensitive exchange where a man explains he could not refuse an engagement proposal and cites the line Silence gives consent. The fragment hints at complicity and social pressure in a troubling domestic context.
Water is pumped into bogs to form muds for turbine pumps while hydraulic mining is used in Walind. A man on Cary Street is away from home frequently. The piece reflects on understanding people of our own time in a real job.
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