22 Dec 1881
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1881
Page
1
The Express reports the Guiteau trial paused for a juror’s wife death and notes Prohibition debates in Topeka. It highlights Iowa and Wisconsin political moves, cabinet age trends, and state census swine and livestock standings.
Davenport Gazette argues against replacing District Attorney Hondas T. Lane with Jno J. Runnelis. It labels the move as a premeditated machine ideology, praising Lane’s legal learning, integrity, and court experience while condemning political patronage shaping state offices.
A humorous missive from an Iowa writer in California mocks hair obsessions and obituary culture. The piece weaves satire about baldness, pedestals with hair displays, and the mismatch of rural values with urban California life, ending with a plea for a suitable obituary pen.
A wandering correspondent imagines birth notices rivaling obituaries in tone and danger and muses on a hypothetical California birth specimen. The rambling letter mentions Oakdale, Stanislaus County, California, Monticello, Low Mass and Iowa, with jokes about taxation and travel for birth.
Professor E N Fishblatt intends to visit Monticello on March 29 to arrange a new Cedar Rapids branch. He has been in the city days seeking a suitable building, with the Brown building suggested as a price. His arrival is expected to aid Cedar Rapids amid widespread deformities and hip diseases.
Dr. Fishblatt offers lifelong specialization in chronic diseases including liver kidney and bladder disorders throat lung conditions and heart issues. He notes vast female complaints such as womb displacement and associated back leg and abdominal pains with general debility and digestive troubles.
A Paris physician endorses a home recipe claimed to prevent or cure small pox and scarlet fever. The mix includes zinc sulfate, foxglove, sugar, and water, to be taken hourly, with smaller doses for children. The physician asserts disappearance in twelve hours and urges widespread physician use to avoid pest houses.
The Monticello Mill Company starts business in the Coyle block opposite the post office selling Flour Feed Meal Bran Shorts and more. They will stock top winter wheat flour brands and foreign options made in the Northwest. The firm promises purity and pledges to avoid adulteration while delivering promptly with local wagon service.
The medical profession highly endorses Dr. Fishblatt with testimonies of effective cures in multiple cities. Read two letters from Burlington Iowa and Fairfax Iowa praising his treatment and declaring patients free from pain and improved, after supposed hopeless conditions.
A letter from Cedar township in Mitchell county Iowa dated September 10 1881 thanks Dr Fishblatt Dear for a treatment. The writer says his wife was down to sixty seven pounds two months ago and has since gained thirty pounds to ninety seven pounds and is still improving.
A letter from G. Luther of Floyd County Iowa dated October 8, 1881 credits Deer Sire Your medicine with curing catarrh and dyspepsia. Luther reports weight gain from 140 to 175 pounds after three months of treatment and says he plans to refer several patients.
A collection of testimonials praising Prof. N. Fishblatt and ozone therapy for catarrh bronchial issues skin tumors and cancer of the face. Reports claim weight gain and rapid bowel kidney effects and a dramatic facial cancer recovery after treatment in Burlington Iowa and related cities.
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