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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1879
Page
4
A partial poetic fragment describes a person moving through slush like a two-horse team and expressing pain in body and mind. The terse lines reference skill, purity, and unspent openness, with stray phrases such as Bo awells and heed.
A British naval officer recounts his leave at Lindley Hall where he falls for Reginald Thornton’s sister Bessie. Wyndham, a dangerous suitor, threatens to ruin their romance until a staged elopement turns fatal when Wyndham dies leaping a wall. The widowed mother’s son approves the marriage, and Tom wins his wife.
Chambers' Journal argues that learning foreign languages through natural immersion beats grammar heavy study. It cites children acquiring multiple tongues, Russian multilingual proficiency via nursemaids, and royal examples as evidence of the method’s effectiveness.
A North Carolina tale describes three sons of seafaring James Howard on Ocracoke Island who go blind at night and regain sight at sunrise. The report notes similar Russian peasant cases linked to fasting and fatty secretions, with local cases observed and blamed on dietary factors.
The Baltimore American discusses a Russian theory on night blindness and its possible impact on maritime disasters. It notes sailors’ visual limits after nightfall, the varied survivor testimony on lights, and suggests eyeSight tests for recruits, comparing night blindness to color blindness in seafaring safety.
The tale honors Edward Pope, keeper at Ellis Bay Light-House, who by manually flashing the lighthouse from August to December and April to June 1869 1870 kept the beacon working during typhoid illness and a broken automatic gear. He nursed his family through illness while ensuring ships avoided danger until relief came. Pope died in 1872, his sacrifice largely unrecorded.
A column discusses changes in English usage noting mispronounced words and vulgarisms while tracing shifts in favored terms such as factor, outcome, respectable, notable, tender, and delicate quotes from sources like Saturday Review and Peck's. It cites examples from school letters and editorial quips and ends with an ad for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup.
A mosaic of home remedies, baking formulas, and seasonal farming guidance. Items include confections and breads with step by step instructions, hair care tips, and wood and metal maintenance notes for spring. Practical farmer advises tool care, rust prevention, and gear cleaning for storage.
Farmers pay a hidden tax through careless tool upkeep. Dry warm upper areas protect wood and metal from moisture and rust. Storing in barns risks injury and dirt transfer. the attic or loft near the roof offers the best safe, dry storage for plows, harrows, reapers, and mowers.
The article argues sheep enhance farm profits by turning feed crops into wool and mutton, improve land use and soil quality, and help farmers along transport and market challenges. It notes sheep weed control and soil benefits, compares to goats, and urges broader adoption by farmers. It also includes a humor interlude from the Chicago Tribune about a tired store clerk.
Stop spending on clothes food and style and buy healthy food and cheaper clothing. Avoid quack doctors and vile medicines that harm and profit sellers. Put trust in Hop Bitters the simple remedy. Try it once and see better health and times. Read more in another column.
The physician urges fresh air and open windows for lung patients noting closed rooms breed poor air. He compares crowded rooms to bathers drinking bathwater and promotes Dr Pierce products and the Invalids' Hotel for treatment. Readers are urged to request a pamphlet detailing causes, diet, clothing, and exercise for consumptives.
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