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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1896
Page
6
A somber poem fragment depicts the speaker hearing cries from a stricken field. It voices resolve to offer cheer and to follow a guiding hand toward a hopeful, eternal land beyond present failures.
In a small village Mahala endures gossip about her rain seeking gaze and a supposed madness. Two neighbors uncover her past love Reuben Davis, kept secret, as Mahala dies longing for his return and whispers of a concealed pledge at her grave.
A mournful scene at a grave where Mahala Goorenow lies. A former classmate recalls shared memories as rain threatens and a chipmunk nests near the fresh earth. The couple leaves quickly, the air heavy with unspoken loss and dreariness.
Chicago Inter Ocean reports on a variety of baby superstitions from Yorkshire to Manx, including laying the infant with a maiden, carrying upstairs, and gifts to ensure future wealth. Yorkshire rituals involve binding the right hand, lighting the child to heaven, and first-day offerings, while Manx lore warns against stepping over the baby and links early spoons and falls to luck and fortune.
A Philadelphia Record joke contrasts a man’s claim of love with a woman's sly rebuke about truth. The piece shifts to tea agriculture noting plants yield in three years and are harvested for eight to ten years before replacement. Heine notes that in this era newspapers are fortresses for ideas.
Rev T DeWitt Talmage delivers a Sunday sermon in Washington condemning the Turkish Armenian killings. He cites historic promises by Turkey, praises American missionaries, urges humanitarian action, and endorses Christian intervention against Mohammedan oppression.
The passage extols divine love as the source of chaos turning to order, shaping nations, cities, and cultures. It personifies love in nature and human achievement, from trees in a Garden to art and science, ending with a religious citation from Rev. W. R. Praiser in Youngstown Ohio.
The gospel is described as triumphant amid opposition, shaping human thought and literature. It is said to bring Heaven to earth, yielding joy, justice, and peace, and guiding believers through life, death, and eternity under the mission of Rev. J. A. Q. Henry, Baptist, Chicago.
A New York Tribune analysis accuses the Democratic administration of underhand tactics in bond bills. It questions the president’s motives, cites Carlisle’s opposition, and notes rapid House approval of a bond and temporary loan measure to calm finance markets.
Newspaper clippings critique treasury balance, bond issues, and credit by President Cleveland. The New York Tribune questions deficits, 1894 act effects, and possible surplus. the New York Mail and Express mocks Cleveland’s cures. the Chicago Inter Ocean predicts his retirement as prosperity looms in 1896.
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