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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1879
Page
4
A rustic Christmas tale describes Santa getting stuck in a narrow chimney on a snowy night. He contemplates a kinder path to spread cheer, abandoning rich homes for the poor, delivering gifts to children in need and planning to return next year with more generosity.
In a Michigan tale, Stephen Somerville, long feared for stinginess, bonds with Kate Lawrence through a perilous carriage crash that saves a child. His grim reputation softens as Mr. Somerville recovers with Kate and the Lawrences nursing him back to health, culminating in a hopeful confession of love on Christmas Day.
A hotel window view shows a dim southwest smoke plume believed to come from a boiling spring obscured by swamp. Informants recall it misleading blockade runners in the war and speculate illicit whisky distillation. a gray-haired reply suggests whisky traded for coins and hauled away.
A Florida correspondent from the Vallahasse Sun remarks on gambling liquor trade and the abundance of whiskey money in ties, while defending readers against stereotypes about Florida and praising natural springs and sunken lands creating lakes.
The data shows Nevada real and personal property values rising from 1878 to 1879 by about 540 thousand dollars against a total assessment of 828 million. U S crop estimates for 1879 include corn, beef, wheat, cotton, and hay, with notable increases in cotton and hay. Other notes cover fever mortality in Memphis, British peerage totals, North Pacific podfishing, Onondaga Salt Works yields, and Georgia gold field growth.
A digest of farming tips from various sources on animal feed, storage of produce, and poultry care. Topics include feeding pigs with soaked corn, preserving apples with proper storage, ivy dusting to remove pests, and winter horse care. Also discusses leaf ash value in compost, and a odd squash seed sprout observation.
Robert Jeffrey was robbed at the Bull's Head Hotel in New York of a gold watch and chain. John F. Cavanagh was arrested, confessed under police prompting, then acquitted after a two day trial in General Sessions. The defense argued the confession was illegally obtained.
The Prairie Farmer argues hay will be scarce before spring unless farmers save surplus. It notes Chicago hay at thirteen dollars per ton, compares corn and straw as cheaper feeding options, and suggests saving hay now to offset expected shortages and rising costs.
The article extols collecting leaves as essential for gardeners noting their value for protecting half hardy plants and tender seedlings. It describes using leaves as insulation over beds with brush or earth, for hot beds mixed with manure, and for forcing early blooms in frames. Leaves make clean, comfortable bedding and, when saturated with urine, enriches soil.
An old physician now retired claims to offer a simple vegetable remedy for consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and lung ailments and nervous complaints. He will mail the recipe free of charge in German French or English with full directions to any applicant at W. W. Sueran M. Lower's etc Rochester N.Y.
A stream of testimonials tout Warner’s Safe Pills and Safe Bitters curing biliousness and sleeplessness, with other claims for Safe Pills and Kidney and Liver Cure. Includes remarks on Dr. Pierce’s Extract and Vegetine as tonics and blood purifiers, plus ads for Appleton’s magazine lists and a Rockford paper offer at $1.34 yearly.
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