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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1915
Page
3
A fragmented item notes a 1915 copyright by W. G. Chapman. The readable text signals a period poem or literary snippet with unclear framing or attribution. It preserves the copyright line and a partial title fragment without full context.
Lucinda Barrett, a plain young stenographer, pursues Mr. Dixon the office manager while resisting Tom Smith’s faithful suitor role. Her Paris gown and rising status fuel vanity until Dixon promotes her, revealing his true intentions and leaving Lucinda to confront her folly and eventual resignation to marry.
The Siberian city of Omsk is described as a gateway for a large annual migration into Mongolia and China, with a comfortable ten day Irtysh river voyage by steamboat. The piece compares this migration to the American West settlement, noting luxurious pioneering and intermarriage with natives, along with rich river scenery and abundant wildlife.
Yosemite installed large salt licks along roads and scenic viewpoints to let visitors observe deer and elk. Animals are accustomed to people and rarely harmed, so many hundreds are expected to gather at the salt licks despite wild creatures’ natural hiding instinct.
A boy explains he ties a tin can to a dog's tail to make noise and scare rabbits as a daily kind act. He says the dog chases rabbits anyway, so the noise serves as a warning to the rabbits.
A wry quip notes a man unable to marry due to ongoing alimony payments. He is described as patient yet financially stretched because he supports two former spouses. The line frames humor around economic strain and romance.
A British bombing school on a French farm trains soldiers to handle explosives. The article notes the subaltern instructor and a regular sergeant, their exchanges, and the variety of bombs, from jam-can makeshift devices to modern hand thrown types, used in trench warfare.
Seaman W. J. Downey of the U S supply ship Celtic presented a monkey to the Boston zoo after capturing it on a Vera Cruz beach following a lively chase. The photograph shows Downey with the animal.
Captain George Steunenberg of the U S A and Miss Florence Alexander of Boise married recently at the Idaho building in San Francisco Exposition Chaplain Arthur Osseward officiated in the presence of friends They had not met for seventeen years since meeting at the exposition before their paths diverged with Steunenbergs Army service and Alexanders stage career
Josef Henrich bought eight acres of school land twelve years ago and built a home and improved the area. N. W. Smith recently bought eighteen acres from the state and found Henrich living on land described as part of Smiths parcel. Henrich had taxed and improved a nearby tract instead.
Ashley T. Nutt sues Hazelle Nutt for divorce in Hennepin county district court. Hazelle, who wed at Everett Massachusetts on August 25 1910 at age fifteen, is accused of desertion on Thanksgiving Day 1913. They have a three year old son Vincent.
The feature catalogs carnivorous traits in plants and fungi describing moccasin flowers orchid traps Indian Pipe and Jack in the Pulpit as kidnapers robbers and murderers. It notes pitcher plants lure and digest prey while some orchids feed on decaying bodies and other flowers trap insects for sustenance.
Take up tuberoses that have not bloomed as they will bloom indoors. Lift and store bulbs such as Crinum oranta in moist sand until February or March. Keep agapanthus and other tub plants indoors as weather turns cold. Fall is ideal to plant irises and divide rose clumps. Mulch and store tender houseplants in a cool cellar or greenhouse bench for winter.
Aspidistras are easy to grow and ideal for home decoration. They suffer from too little water in summer and too much in winter, and pot size affects leaf cracking. Use four parts good loam to one six charcoal for best results and repot by removing soil and placing fresh drainage at the bottom.
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