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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1922
Page
3
Secretary Mellon declares that the four point one three five billion dollar British debt to the United States is not tied to U S war loans to other governments or reparations. He explains the advances were to cover purchases by each government and not guaranteed by Britain for others.
The Department of Agriculture endorses canvas waterproofing and lightproofing by adding earth pigments to formulas. Pigment choices include yellow ochre, raw sienna, burnt sienna, raw umber, and burnt umber with one pound pigment per gallon of solution. A petroleum wax and solvent mix also proves effective for light and water protection.
The Post Office disclaims responsibility for marriages arranged through newspaper ads and mail court ships. Solicitor Edwards notes the Postal Service handles only mail movement, not the persuasive language in letters. The piece contemplates censorship and its impact on liberty and breach of promise proceedings.
Secretary Mellon explains government thrift policy in a letter to the American Banker addressing a Kansas bankers association appeal to halt savings certificate sales. He says the program does not compete with banks and will benefit farmers laborers industries and bankers, while aiding debt maturities due in 1923 and promoting saving nationwide.
The forestry service plans to map Alaska by serial aerial photographs to locate undiscovered lakes in the Inside Passage region and other remote headlands. Early flights have already sighted lakes missing from current maps, guiding potential water power development. Pending congressional action may shift Alaska affairs to the Interior Department.
Iowa citizens face a flood of incidents from accidents and crime to fires and court actions. Reports include a pastor’s arrest, a fatal scaffold collapse, a car train collision killing Mrs. Gries, a Mason City embezzlement probe, a twin birth note, and a Davenport architect’s death. Fire, theft, rescues, and agricultural updates fill a broad panorama of events across towns.
The essay traces Port Tobacco Bladensburg Piscataway and Yorktown as once thriving colonial ports erased by soil erosion shifting river channels and silting. It notes how farming and trade fed growth then decline as streams filled in and water routes vanished.
Sydney reports Prof. MacMillen Brown, Polynesian expert, traveled to Easter Island. He studies 100 stone statues on stone platforms with bone chambers beneath and suggests a Pacific empire built by thousands of workers. Brown notes abrupt abandonment likely due to a cataclysm cutting off supplies.
State prison officials searched for Lucy Dominick a seventeen year old Indian girl who escaped early today by sawing through her cell bars. She had been transferred from Skowhegan Reformatory for Women. this marks the first escape in the prison's history.
Berlin reports the German government will withdraw all postage stamps bearing the Germania design by October 31. Adopted in 1900, the image inspired militarist sentiment. the likeness of Fraulein Anna Fuhring, praised by the Kaiser, will disappear as a new industrial stamp series is issued.
President Harding rejected the soldier bonus measure citing lack of funding and his proposal for a general sales tax as impractical. He warned the bill would burden public finances with a four to five billion obligation and urged soldiers to consider a better country. He noted a current deficit of 650 million and pledged to curb indebtedness, offering no future bonus promise.
Ford Motor Company has purchased a large tract on the city outskirts of Antwerp where an assembling plant will be built. The facility is scheduled to be ready for operation early next year.
Berne Sept 20 Prof Frederick Power of the bureau of chemistry has been awarded the Flueckiger gold medal by the Society of Swiss Chemists for invaluable works on alkaloids and ethers.
Arthur Hill man and Victor Malucha German citizens were hurried aboard the Resolute by armed deportation officers just before the vessel sailed as they were wanted by German police.
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that in the November election the state will vote on a constitutional amendment to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and light wines, affecting the beverage industry and voters statewide.
Portland Ore Sept 20 Licensing of women as lay readers in the Protestant Episcopal church was approved by the house of deputies. The deputies voted 208 to 123 to adopt a canon amendment.
Vancouver Sept 20 William H Cundey general passenger agent of the Denver and Rio Grande Mirand is elected president of the American Association of Passenger Agents. The announcement highlights his leadership role and the association's aims.
A devotional on spiritual normalcy defining salvation as normalcy through faith in Christ. It argues that true life excludes judgment for believers, requires prayer, yields spiritual delights, and shows prosperity in grace. The text compares spiritual vitality with worldly normalcy and urges yielded obedience to God.
The Christian Century cites a man who found lodges far more empty than churches. A lodge with 700 members had 35 present, while a church of 1,200 members drew 445 in morning and 206 in evening services, with prayer meetings drawing higher averages than the lodges.
A reflective line notes men honor the God of their fathers yet withhold full devotion when God calls. They do not reject Him outright but deny themselves to Him when his demands seem excessive or inconvenient.
The text quotes Arabic inscription on a mosque gateway describing the world as a bridge to cross without dwelling. It contrasts worldly pursuits with lasting achievement grounded in Christian conduct as articulated by Henry M. Field.
A dated quatrain-like reflection cites Sleep as death’s sibling and urges vigilance with prayers. The passage frames a call to reveal and revere “God's true character” in the present moment.
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