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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1881
Page
2
A poetic fragment describes a child with blue eyes at a cottage door. The scene includes a lingering whorelike figure, a companion named Ani, and an old man dreaming of days past. A robin sings overhead as sunset colors the sky.
Abijah, a naive shop clerk, pursues fashion and romance in New York. Uncle Bunkle urges him to mind the shop as a wealthy heiress enters and flirts, buying blue satin ribbon and net while Abijah recites poems hoping for love and a future.
Abijah tries to collect money from Miss Smith after a late delivery but is duped. He flees a threatening uncle, finds the woman vanished and the rooming-house reveal a scheming, painted innkeeper. A final rebuke from Uncle Bunkle leaves him humbled and back to his father.
In Justice Cary's court a juror hears anecdotes from Soderberr and Lutrell about Minnesota pigeons, Alabama alligators, and Nebraska lumber, as the judge recalls a dog that herded cottonwood boards. A mischief of warped boards then inspires a man to retell a frontier lumbering tale amid a jury.
Summary of diverse items: an oleomargarine plant set up in New Orleans, Pittsburgh capitalists planning glass works in Wyoming Territory, and beeswax preservation for fish by Russians. Public debt per head figures across nations, critique of screw-jack versus hydraulic jack, Bully tree rubber, Hotchkiss gun orders, lumber demand risks, Canada’s dairy frauds, phylloxera in California, and wine prospects for France and California.
A collage of humorous quotes and extracts from several papers including the Cambridge Tribune and the Norristown Herald. Contains light anecdotes, wry sayings on ignorance and knowledge, jokes about fashion and overcoats, and a cliffhanger ending from a serialized tale.
A Detroit grocer displays old maple sugar and explains it is adulterated and warmed. A citizen questions its health value and finally buys two pounds, paying and leaving with a wary look, as the street scene hints at a local concern over quality.
A collection of household instructions including molasses cake and walnut cake recipes, cream cheese preparation, sheep and horse care advice, storage of sausages, remedies for chilblains, fodder guidance for peas and oats, and methods to calm horses with a rope technique for halter breaking.
At a Vermont Dairymen’s Association meeting Mr. St D Curtis decried constant farmer restlessness. He warned that quitting a farm for new locations or lines destroys stock quality and dairies. The piece likens such “piratical” farming to decay in the South and West and urges farming as a life pursuit.
A disaster report describes widespread casualties on the island with 6,000 to 7,000 killed and 26 percent of survivors wounded. Thousands homeless, Chesmo and Scio faces ruin as foreign gun vessels aid relief. Corroborating dispatches detail collapsed roofs, terrified residents, and a tentative recovery amid ongoing aftershocks and fear.
The trial of Nihilists implicated in the Czar’s assassination ends with all defendants found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. Sophia Pleotsky’s sentence awaits the Czar’s confirmation due to noble birth. Meyramod condemns revolutionary doctrines. defense counsel speak. verdicts delivered after lengthy deliberations.
The Meriden Record says Mr. W H Augur aided three Sirginis sisters in distress during his Army days giving them 100 dollars each. The sisters later left a will directing their wealth be kept in trust for missing heirs for a term of years after which it would pass to Augur. The period ends soon and he is said to be preparing to claim a wealth of about 100000 on a southern expedition.
A cow on fire caused by kerosene applied to vermin in Auburn led to chaos as the animal burned along the neck and back, toppled its handler Jeremiah Fin, shattered a shanty, and bolted through streets until bystanders and Menan boys extinguished the blaze with blankets.
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