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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1881
Page
2
The Monticello Express listing shows Joan Brancna Anun as editor and printer in Monticello Iowa. It records the local newspaper's masthead and civic ties reflecting small town press naming conventions.
A bachelor narrator at a window recalls neighbors and changing life as curtains drop. He reflects on youth, romance, and later solitude while contrasting past glamour with current quiet and domestic clashes next door.
Susan, Debby, and Jane discover a famished boy hiding under a hay-stack after Towser’s frantic barking. They nurse him back to health, share meals, and care for him as a Providence brings them Willie Brent, a fisherman's son, who speaks of his drowned mother and lost father. The trio forms a motherly bond with him, naming Susan as Mother Susan, and Willie grows attached before joining them at home on the hillside.
A humorous meditation on the common fly describing its relentless persistence and alleged immortality. The piece notes the insect’s daylight work, stubborn targets, and the puzzling pattern of disappearances and seasonal returns. It ends with a quip from Josh Billings.
A European woman has assembled 700 teapots of diverse varieties in Japan. The item list reflects a wide range of porcelain and metal designs across cultures.
A collage of humorous lines from multiple papers notes wry observations on fame patience and social mores. Items include a piano anecdote from Flint a playful exchange about an infant and a landlord’s playground idea. The quips showcase light satire and cross city flavor.
An old clergyman story recalls Brown who took a fat Cornwall living and lived fifty years without visiting his benefice after a Duke of York backed his ordination. The anecdote, used to lampoon bishops who rarely visit, contrasts with more active parish duties and mocks absenteeism.
A northeastern city case details Louisa Fuerst a nineteen year old orphan whose long illness combines hysteria and epilepsy. After weeks of depression and sensory loss she receives liquid feed via a dental tube while remaining largely unresponsive to sight hearing and touch yet talks through clenched teeth about deceased parents. Her condition briefly improved around Friday two days ago and Dr. Abraham Arnold notes such cases are rare though not without parallel.
In Clarendon a new oil town three men were fatally burned last Monday while cleaning a well known as the Grover well. A bridging over of loosened sand trapped oil and flame, igniting the crew as they rushed to the boiler. Stephen and Edward Sterner and Henry Grover died after hours of agony. they were Fryburg residents. Stephen Grover left a wife and newborn son.
A potpourri of kitchen and garden tips including frying squash as a fried oyster substitute, soaking plants during droughts, onion stew methods, pickling hardening with alum, removing rusted bolts with petroleum, treating lampas swelling, and a tomato soup recipe. It also covers barn cleaning, cream fillings for cakes, and permanent pasture grass varieties with seed rates and soil considerations.
Virginia farmers push cotton as a staple crop beyond tobacco. The crop has spread from a few counties to thousands of bales last season, with planters saying tobacco profits do not cover production costs and exhaust the soil.
Farmers should plow under lush crops like red clover rye and buckwheat for fertilizing value. Green manuring cycles allow soil nourishment, faster decay, and multiple dressings in six months, per Chicago Times guidance.
In English experiments the Swan lamp shines in collieries using a carbon filament enclosed in an exhausted glass bulb and lanterns to prevent any fracture from causing external flame. The light proved far brighter than prior lamps, independent of position, and needed no maintenance.
Fred A. Gower formerly of the Providence Press and assistant to Prof. Bell in the telephone business patented improvements and introduced his system into France. He has made a fortune and is now elected member of the Conservative Royal Institution in Tandon.
An advertisement touts Hop Bitters as a cure for drinking with claims of a sober, steady life for over two years. A Boston Post quip about editor Tibbles and six wives adds a satirical note, while a Chicago official testimonial backs the product’s effects.
An 19th century advertisement extols SCOVILLS BARSAPARILLA AND STILLINE GIA and BLoop ANDY Liven Synup as cures for blood derangements and a wide range of ailments. It also mentions Baken's Pass PANACA cures pain and Dr Rocer's Vegetable Worm Syrup claims to destroy intestinal parasites by internal and external use.
A jumble of early 20th century medicine claims touts Kidney-Wort to treat kidney and liver diseases sold by druggists in dry or liquid form. Also advertised are fly and pest control products and skin disease remedies including Reppine’s Russia Save and Dr Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water priced 25 cents.
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