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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1880
Page
3
The piece recounts Mercy Jones and Darius in Vermont, a patient, resourceful wife whose calm amidst hardship contrasts with a troublemaking dog Rover. Neighborhood feuds over hens, stray wood and a muzzle culminate in comic misfortune and a fatal shot from a neighbor.
In a brisk town scene, Ephraim Tucker agrees to get a yellow dog to guard his family’s chickens as Hepsy pushes for a pet. He returns with a half grown, scruffy yellow hound that matches the household’s wary, practical mood.
The article contrasts high and low vitality linking it to digestion, toxin elimination, recovery from injury, and mental vigor. It notes extreme vitality enables calm emergency readiness, while low vitality leads to chronic illness, and emphasizes heredity, lifestyle, and early education in shaping vitality. The piece cites The Youth's Companion and New York News.
A reflection on success in farming and life. Wealth alone does not define achievement. true success blends prudent labor with cultivation of mind, integrity, and kindness. The piece urges readers to improve faculties, share knowledge, and nurture community bonds.
The article argues most meadow seed is contaminated with weeds and praises farmers who seed their own pure grass, timothy, red top, and clover. It notes foul seed raises costs for years, urges removal of weeds from fields, and warns wholesale dealers lack conscience while endorsing self sourcing as safest and cheapest.
Josiah Hoopes addressed the Pennsylvania Fruit Growers Association with guidance on fruit tree health. He warned against deep planting and burying delicate young roots, and against placing manure near roots, advocating surface application and thorough decomposition to prevent fungal attacks. He also noted enriching soil at transplanting.
A collection of old recipe hints and agricultural notes. Includes rusk batter, hoof care for horses, crop rotation admonitions, salt curing versus saltpeter in hams, and several dessert and game pie recipes with detailed ingredients and steps.
An English author notes Bedouin practice of pickling infants in brine to harden skin and deter cleansing while they grow among wandering tribes. He adds a London anecdote about nine tailors funding a homeless boy who later prospered, inspiring the proverb's origin.
A Des Moines State Register excerpt notes Hon. H. Yoder of Globe Mills Pa touts Bt Jacobs Oil as a superior remedy for rheumatic pains burns sores and related afflictions. Industrial voices from Messrs Estabrook Sons Boston cite quick healing for burns with the product and a general endorsement by workers. The piece closes with a humorous aside on home comforts and a pitch for Hop Bitters to prevent spring sickness.
The Omaha Weekly Bee touts $15,000 in pre miums for subscribers including a 40 acre farm over $4,000 in farm machinery and $3,000 in household goods watches silverware books and more. It also runs multiple medical and consumer product ads claiming cures and benefits for rheumatism kidney disease coughs asthma and bronchitis with various patent medicines and household items advertised.
The Weekly edition offers market reports railroad rates and farm information. It includes sections on the farm and garden horticulture veterinary topics and home department fashions and literary pieces for family readers.
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