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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1882
Page
2
Poem lines contrasting hardship with hope and victory, praising toil truth and love. The speaker notes harsh weather, rivers, pain, and storms, yet asserts peace, joy, and steadfast banners. Attributed to Thomas S. Collier from a Boston newspaper page fragment.
A Philadelphia Times letter recalls a snowbound night in McKean County Pennsylvania. A young Philadelphia woman awaiting a lover forced to endure four days aboard a stranded Bradford Bordell and Kinzua Railroad car with oil men and a brave judge guarding her. A rabbit meal saved them as rescuers finally broke through to bring her to reunion.
The Philadelphia Record reports Millie Christine, a two headed hotel guest, billed as two persons at the Great Western Hotel. The agent and staff confirm two heads two mouths and two meals, while one meal was consumed by curiosity from an adjoining room. A PRR conductor also faced two fares for the same monstrosity.
The piece argues that enlarged U S territory breeds ignorance between regions, citing Davis and the Lost Cause as still influential in the South. It contrasts Northern views, notes Southern sentiment, and recalls political maneuvers around Tammany’s power and Albany leadership amid New York factional struggles.
Hendricks tells a Pittsburgh reporter the Arthur administration seals the Republicans fate by partisan appointments and denial of Independent Republicans. He foresees the Independent movement splitting the party within two years and a Democratic victory in the next national election. He repeats he is done with politics and will not seek office again.
The piece recalls Tammany Hall's influence in New York politics with Senators Trainor, Boyd, Grady and Assemblymen Bogan, Costello, Maher, Patten, Sheehy ready to block Republican organization. It contrasts prior era clashes led by John Kelly and the Tilden faction over Governor Robinson, hinting at political maneuvering and nominating struggles.
A collection of sharp political quips discussing the Democratic nomination, figures like Hendricks English and Tilden, party divides, and Southern attitudes. Mentions Hancock meeting with Democrats, Davis in the South, and a comical note on a Virginia peacock and a San Juan bonfire verdict.
Mr J Harris Stone reports in Nature his observation in Husum Norway of red Lychnis viscaria stems with strong glutinous secretions trapping ants. Ninety five percent of the insects found were dead or dying, some suspended or arched, others simply stuck. The sticky nodes lay beneath the flower stems, indicating a plant ant-trapping adaptation.
A witty doggerel from the Boston Transcript portrays the schoolmaster as a curious mix of disciplinarian and misfit. It lampoons his use of rule of three and one, his monitor, and the constant corrections of pupils while jesting at his love of calling and classification.
The New York based Tony Pastor, famed as a leading character vocalist and showman, tours major cities with a premier Broadway theater company. After a stint at Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia they return to Pastor’s New York venue. Pastor credits St Jacobs Oil for keeping his troupe in top form amid travel and labor, praising the remedy for rheumatic pains and overall health.
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