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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1880
Page
2
The Atlanta Constitution extols Neighbor Jones as a steady, contented farmer with a modest home and a peaceful life on a forty acre farm. It contrasts wealth with happiness, praising simple faith, kindness, and diligent toil over desire for more land or riches.
On a voyage February 12 a narrator meets Nina Parke, a shy heiress under her father’s watch, after a chance encounter with a mysterious valentine. With Miss Parke and her father aboard, friendships form among passengers, a benevolent captain, and a budding romance that travels to the south of France and the Mediterranean.
The Herald calls for urgent aid to Ireland amid widespread famine and disease from scarce food. It publishes county by county counts of suffering, urges broad subscriptions starting at twenty five cents, and promises careful accounting and direct distribution through a committee.
A collage of rural tips from various sources includes advice on washing indoor plant leaves weekly, using guinea fowl to deter garden pests, and using wood ashes around fruit trees. It also covers fish-pond ideas, seed growth in dry soil, turnip varieties, feeding hens with bran and vinegar mix, and simple pudding and dessert recipes. It urges farmers to expand garden space to grow winter and summer vegetables and preserve produce at home.
A Detroit Free Press item narrates a man named Smith who seeks legal counsel about marrying a woman insisting he reform habits. He promises to quit drinking chawing and swearing only to face new demands to clean up and attend church. He balks at changing for a forty year old widow with a mole, ending plans for marriage.
The piece argues Western competition reshapes farming in Europe and the United States. It notes English and Eastern US farmers must diversify, focus on garden produce, and areas like fruits and flowers. It urges Eastern dairymen to grow a diversified dairy line and boost home consumption. The New York American Dairyman supports these dairy strategies.
The piece notes last summer the best factory cheese sold for five to six cents per pound for export while interior retailers paid six to eight shillings per pound for imported Neufchatel. Dairymen are blamed for allowing their market to be overwhelmed as grocery stores report strong demand for good small cheese, yet factories rarely produce it as export runs dictate.
An American visitor with a pastor calls on a Armenian family and is hosted for supper. The wife Lucia sits but does not eat while the men and children dine. The party tries to draw Lucia into conversation and even asks the mother-in-law to coax her to speak, exposing gender norms and family dynamics.
An old physician retired from practice offers a free recipe for a vegetable remedy claimed to cure Caras Reon bronchitis catarrh asthma and all throat and lung ailments and to radical cure nervous debility. He will mail the directions in German French or English to any requester with a stamped response and the stated name and address in New York.
James O Bellis of Foemington Hunterdon County New Jersey writes of healing after three months from large ulcers and sores on his body limbs and face. He credits Golden Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets from Dr ke Pierce Buffalo New York for his improved health and skin condition. He expresses gratitude and a glowing testimonial to the remedy.
Montreal resident R L Mosely reports severe dyspepsia ended after using Warner's Safe Bitters. He claims his appetite improved and meals no longer cause discomfort. Ad copy promotes Bitters as a cure for skin diseases and endorses various elixirs and products including Piso's Cure, Frazer Axle Grease, and Gilbert's Corn Starch.
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