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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1872
Page
1
A poem urging workers to unite mind and labor. It extols thinking as fuel for health, dignity, and progress, linking thought to freedom and social responsibility. The piece contrasts toil without thought with labor powered by intellect to sustain virtue and resist oppression.
Poem fragment invites the spring breeze to cross seas and bays and blow over the land with a fragrant, heady mouth of warmth and travel. The speaker contrasts southern lemon groves with distant seas and palm plumes.
In Appleton's Journal recounting near Genes region a hunter and his son visit a town in antebellum times. They confront Bully Bob's barroom guards. a pistol is fired, a knife drawn, and both Gregorys are killed alongside Bully Bob, with the elder vanishing afterward.
Report from Smoky Valley Oregon describes residents cooking with water from a boiling spring. Kettles hang in the spring to boil coffee bread and meat with a thin crust on baked bread. A Dayton Ohio incident warns of concentrated venom and a boy died after drinking it.
In a dramatic animal tale Straddle shows General Bradley a rattlesnake in the country. The veteran notes the snake coils tail first and warns before striking, while several soldiers fire at the creature but only remove the rattles after nearly severing the body.
A humorous reminiscence of a man suffering a toothache yesterday. He describes unbearable pain, contemplating drastic acts, the misadventure with whiskey, and finally the dentist extracting the tooth by forceps, leaving him paying the bill and boasting of his remaining strength.
A farmer opposed rail depot placement fearing tax blow and land value rise. A Dominion MP recently spoke in Parliament opposing proposed lines, arguing locomotives would frighten cows and spoil milk quality.
A quirky essay extols sidewalk seats as unexpected joys likened to good jokes. It praises their ease of use, warmth on cold nights, solace after late nights, and the casual rise to a feeling of superiority, urging more of these simple urban oases.
The Telegraph reports that light exposure alters skin sensitivity and affects small pox progression. Dr We ber notes increased skin responsiveness in sunlit areas, while Dr Waters claims darkness arrests the disease at the papular or vesicular stage. Darkness may reduce pain itching and odor, and light absence may aid medicine excretion.
A. Abell of the Baltimore Sun purchased the York road estate near Baltimore for 475000, a palatial property with hundreds of acres and fine buildings. He also acquired the old Almshouse property for over 200000 and owns multiple outlying farms, country seats, and coal lands in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, totaling vast holdings.
An arson fire at a Jeffersonville Kentucky car works caused fatal injuries to a perpetrator who crawled through a small vent under the building and perished in smoke. Authorities note threats from Martin Pine, a former firefighter, but Pine was jailed for disorderly conduct at the time. the investigation centers on whether Pine or another dismissed worker planned the blaze.
A grand wolf hunt is planned at Beaver Lake Indiana. Men will form a complete circle surrounding the area and drive the country toward a central platform where nine or ten experienced marksmen will shoot the game using horns cow bells and other noise to direct the wolves to the shooters.
The New York World notes Sumner believes Grant is demoralized and fleeing, a view echoed by World’s Southern friends who insist Grant is on the run but always takes the wrong route.
explorers report Yukon River findings showing vast fossil elephant remains across western Alaska. bones and ivory fill valleys along streams and low grounds, suggesting a long lasting supply and potential greater Alaskan value than previously imagined.
Analyzed as silent tutors shaping children's education and moral development through daily reading. Argues newspapers fuel breakfast-table discussion, expose youths to public measures and epic questions, and foster intelligence while cautioning against temptations within home life.
The Commercial Advertiser of Honolulu notes a whale captured far north with a harpoon traced to a vessel in northern waters. The find suggests open Polar sea allows whale passage from one ocean to another, though not automatically implying ships can use the same route.
The State Register lists an itemized cost for the Town Capitol including excavation 6500, concrete 2465 cubic yards, heavy masonry 64220 yards, brick work 2700, cut stone 225,887 cubic feet, labor 25718, marble 35000, plumbing 15800, plastering 42000, painting 42750, heating 67000, total 1 888 057 60. Also notes Lieut James Wasson from Town, Warren county, head of class at West Point, to Osaka then Yokohama for a three year gold salary professorship in mathematics and natural philosophy, after a trip to Japan with Gen Capron.
The passage estimates Mr Abell wealth at about ten million dollars citing his income from the Baltimore Sun and other sources. It notes he could buy an estate like the McDonald yearly and still have surplus to make a correspondent independent rich. It adds he began life as a poor journeyman printer forty years ago and that no one better deserves such fortune.
The article argues California’s slow growth is due to few large landholders. It cites two men in the San Joaquin valley owning nearly 8,000,000 acres and a traveler riding 45 miles along a fenced pasture for 65 miles, while another man holds 50,000 acres.
A French chemist La voisier notes the human body emits about 3.5 pounds of water daily. The observation extends to plants with a large cabbage exhaling twenty ounces of water from its surface.
A new railway line is proposed from Grinnell to Montezuma with expansion aims toward Burlington to the southeast, signaling regional transport growth and potential economic impact for southern routes and connected towns.
In Muscatine burlington and Keokuk reports of civic actions. County plans 8000 acres of flax and railroads to Webster City. Vibrant items include vaccinations in Keokuk, a Burlington prisoner freed for wood, and a double egg in Black Hills speculation.
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