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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1880
Page
2
A distraught farmer loots his own property for Christmas meals while neighbors debate snow and a sick sister May. A bootblack hears carols and a passerby vows to provide gifts and a tree, hoping for a kinder Christmas despite hardship.
In a vast New York department store on Christmas Eve a bustling crowd gathers around glittering windows and toy displays while the staff, led by a striking dark eyed clerk, wrap sweets and pass out gifts. A shy sister Posie, awaiting news from absent lover Mark, discovers a handmade card hidden in a candy box and, after a series of chance meetings, reunites with Mark who reveals a long quest and a happy Christmas ending.
The Cambridge Observatory clock beats can be heard via earth ground connections between Cambridge and Boston. Trowbridge proposes cross Atlantic grounding could let observers in the United States hear telegraph signals via a long ground line. Also note: 120000 acres were bought in Canada's Southwest Provinces for an English colony.
A collage of quips on anatomy sleep and infants, courtroom tales, and social wit. Jena Professor studies baby sounds, a Derby hat scene amuses Baltimore News readers, a Galveston lawyer taunts a colored defendant, and a Mississippi dog suit features a jailer dog's verdict.
A caricature from Carson Nevada mocks Congressman Daggett for shipping free railroad freight of his Congressional documents to himself. Voters on the Utah Division organized in Nevada and defeated him, causing the Union Pacific and Central Pacific lines to suffer morale decline. A Scientific American note ponders iron baskets for cotton harvests to replace yearly wooden ones.
The page lists recipes for Vanity Cakes Cracker Pie and Mold of Cold Meat plus Christmas Plum Pudding and chilblain care. It cites farm advice from American Agriculturist on furniture care poultry house floors and uses peat and ash for manure, urging weekly cleanups and earth floors for comfort and odor control.
Farmers can greatly ease hog butchering by investing in dedicated scalding vessels, gambrels, scaffolds, and sharp knives. The article details a heavy wooden scalding box with a fire chamber, a rear chimney, and ramped platforms to raise and lower carcasses, plus alternatives like ground pits or hogsheads for water temperature control.
A compact collage of patent medicine pitches and rural remedy advice from the Cleveland Herald clippings. References to St Jacobs Oil Day's Kidney Pills Hop Bitters and various tonics appear beside notes on sailors ropes and a general admonition to trust advertised cures. The tone mimics a breezy reader column promoting assorted remedies with minimal context.
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