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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1896
Page
8
A London Sketch appraisal contrasts the Australian girl with English and American peers. It praises her charm and sociability while noting a lack of refined culture yet highlights her practicality, independence, and potential in social life abroad.
A recipe describes soaking and blanching sweetbreads then cutting them, removing skins. Three dozen oysters are rinsed and the sweetbreads simmered in their liquor with veal gravy and butter. After cooking, oysters are added and heated five minutes, then cream is stirred in and served hot.
A fine fabric for wide belts features mauve and pink ground, black scrollwork on DPuce velvet, turquoise and amethyst embroidery with pink and blue beads, long fringe, ready to trim gown fronts, with a white satin square bodice trim in turquoise and opal.
A table centerpiece uses a hollowed ice square filled with crackled ice and smilax to create a glittering green tracery. The piece sits beneath crescent bonnets with velvet texture and wide ribbons, designed to wrap around an English bun coiffure and tie in a large bow.
In a plainspoken street exchange, Famished Flaherty offers to chop wood at each house in return for meals, stating he begs for vittles across the Indiana gas country as Ravenous Reardon questions the claim. The odd barter scene captures local hardship amid a rural setting.
Brooklyn Eagle advises on simple embroidery for girls with weak eyes. Begin outlines at stem end, use reversed stitches on leaves, and apply French knots for centers. The article explains long forward and short backward stitches and winding thread to form the knot.
The article previews fashionable writing paper with plaided and brocaded designs in pale tints and mourning gray. It covers monograms, long envelopes for invitations, and step by step wax sealing tips with safety warning referencing Mrs. Longfellow.
A New York Herald item notes a dainty silver lamp to replace the wax seal for envelopes. The colonial shaped lamp resembles Roman forms and is expected to become a popular Christmas gift and writing desk adornment.
A Allegheny iron mill reborer earning $1.10 a day receives telegrams from relatives in Ireland and England claiming large fortunes. He quits, travels to Ireland, then returns for his old job, later lamenting another telegram promising $20,000. He mutters a bitter расходов about spoiling a decent worker.
The article describes a central Pennsylvania style bank barn with east facing design and adjustable orientation. It details a 100 acre farm layout by George G Groff, including stone basement stables for ten horses and sixteen cows, large ventilation, two 17 by 50 plus foot thrashing floors, two 16 by 50 foot haymows, a straw shed, granary, and ample storage for manure, potatoes, and grain.
The Augusta Chronicle notes that southern economies have highlighted grasses as profitable. Hilyard, a northern-born resident, demonstrated through experiments that the South excels in grass and forage crops, surpassing the North in cultivation and nutrition of Bermuda grass versus timothy.
Farmers should pay more attention to ducks saysParm and Fireside. Ducks such as Pekin Rouen and Aylesbury can be kept easily with clean quarters and no water baths required besides a drinking tub. Eggs sell higher per dozen than hens and ducks mature well on coarse feed.
Prof Milton Whitney chief of the division of soils in the agricultural department introduces an electric soil tester. The device uses carbon plate electrodes sunk in ground to measure soil moisture by resistance in ohms. A moisture table helps regulate irrigation and cultivation for crops, with drought risk noted when pasture moisture dips below one third percent.
An Orange Judd Farmer tip describes a shallow hinged box with slatted cover to keep soft poultry feed clean while allowing birds to reach it. A smaller water box with a similar slatted cover prevents fouling. A high box with slats on one side lets birds drink through while keeping the dish dry.
The piece notes that potash is essential for soils used in tobacco farming and for stone fruits like peaches, especially on sandy land. It claims potash sources such as hardwood ashes and salts help keep trees healthy and less susceptible to yellow disease and similar afflictions.
A Farmers Voice column urges liberal feeding of live stock yet careful use of corn to maintain value of manure. It notes warm water for cows and warns against overly cold water for horses in the morning. Farmers discuss marketing honey with clean crates and uniform packaging, stressing honesty and quality to attract buyers despite prices.
Pullman Sleeping cars on the Burlington Route offer personally conducted California trips leaving Chicago weekly with through cars via Denver and Salt Lake. Pamphlet by A Grady Excursion Manager 11 Clark St Chicago. A Boston pupil jokes about six Arctic animals naming three polar bears and three seals.
The Corn Belt monthly, published by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad Passenger Department, offers reliable western farm land guidance. It covers crops suited to western soils and farmer experiences. Subscriptions are 25 cents yearly, postage stamps accepted, address The Corn Belt 209 Adams St Chicago.
On the first Tuesday of each month the railroad offers greatly reduced one way fares to all southern points. The fast route from Chicago leaves at 8 25 PM and runs through to Nashville, with connections to the South and Southeast. City ticket office is 280 Clark St Chicago.
In a garbled sales pitch an unnamed narrator touts Halo's Honey of Horohound and Piko's Toothache Drops as quick cures. The dialogue hints at moral rebuke while marketing patent medicines.
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