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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1879
Page
4
The speaker recalls scented garland weaving with joy and sorrow. Family hands braid a fading crown upon the narrator and ponder if kinship and birth grant exceptional beauty, a sacred, mournful prize amid reflections on light and creation.
A husband recalls the night he lent twenty pounds to help workers after Hardinge Brothers failure. Suspicion falls on Marian over a missing box of cash hidden in sideboard and later in a piano. A detective is hired, a rift grows, and a note from Marian reveals motives before a final reckoning. In the end the real thief is revealed as the narrator, and the couple reconcile while uncovering the truth about the money.
A Mississippi dispute over independent candidacy in Yazoo City escalates into a confrontation with Democratic party intimidation. The piece condemns violence by the party, quotes local letters, and notes mass protests urging Dixon to leave the county while affirming equal rights before the law for all citizens.
A Chicago Inter-Ocean reflection condemns Yazoo style intimidation by large mobs as undermining Republicanism. It argues that Democratic strength must be voted down to prevent noncompetitive control and political violence across Southern states.
A Confederate veteran and Democratic supporter, Captain Henry M. Dixon, Independent candidate for Yazoo County Sheriff, was shot in Yazoo City and died that afternoon. The piece portrays Dixon as a martyr for political liberty amid Southern Democratic intolerance and accuses the Democracy of orchestrating his withdrawal and murder to preserve party control, urging Northern scrutiny.
The item cautions that peach kernels contain hydrocyanic acid and are dangerous for children. Christian Union advises ammonia as an antidote if poisoning occurs, with instructions to inhale fumes and take diluted drops of ammonia solution to sodium water.
The article warns farmers about swindlers selling patents or low price carriages and hay rakes through schemes. It describes a portable two part note used to defraud, and a chattel mortgage ploy on bought buggies. The piece notes such tricks spread from cities to country and urges farm common sense and legal protections.
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