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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1879
Page
4
A poem by Mary B C Wyeth recalls the fiddler man who travels weary streets with a cracked fiddle and cheery song. Despite poverty and hardship he is welcomed everywhere, singing of gods rule over all and feeding souls with hope as children listen.
A nostalgic verse recounts playful childhood quarrels between you and I with garden scenes and mischief. The speaker recalls “lad and Iris” and similar garbled phrases while describing petty slights and a sting from an eye during gameful days.
In Vermont, Dorothea Schenck defies a lover's yearned obedience while Grace Hamilton schemes. A cliffside ascent ends with a rattlesnake scare and a life changing moment as Mr Horton rescues Dorothea. He confronts duty and desire, choosing a gentler path.
Dora and her husband joke about trust and happiness as they discuss change and abdication. The exchange reveals mutual uncertainty and a playful dispute over who can alter a course of life. Harper's Bazaar.
A digest of statistics notes 200000 Negroes joining the Methodist Church, large timber finds in Georgia, crime data efforts in Massachusetts, Siberian exile trends, and canal schemes. It cites health, population shifts, Australian pest control, and financials for a European principality with a projected revenue of 4.51 million and a 0.3 million surplus.
The first bill approved provides for judicial expenses for the year ending June 30, 1880, including payments to district attorneys clerks marshals jurors and related costs. The second bill, vetoed, would fund fees of U S marshals and deputies for five years but bars use for election day deputy pay. contains penalties and reporting provisions. A Philadelphia drowning case of John G. McCabe and a later identified body is noted, with Mrs. McCabe burying both as related. President Hayes is unlikely to veto mosquito related bills this session.
A critical examination of Louisiana and Mississippi penal laws and their role in labor coercion, prisoner labor, and the negro exodus. The piece links mortgage-like liens, prison contracts, and political influence to re enslavement risks and northern flight, citing the Vicksburg Convention and contemporary congressional actions.
A political analysis notes how Democrats in Congress have pared back their initial program to repeal troop use authority and the U S Supervisor and Election law. It recalls violent pledges and repeated vetoes as they tied political riders to funding and caucused intensely.
The article argues that Western farmers must adopt better fertilizing and soil-restoring practices to preserve fertility. It urges using manure from stockyards, saving litter, and applying nutrients to soil, noting the long-term cost of exhaustion and the duty to future generations. It warns against private gossip and cites religious law to discourage private talks. It ends with a recipe for hominy muffins and a light line about Naomi’s age when she married.
A collage of recipe instructions and farming notes from various papers. Includes a cabbage worm remedy with lime water, cabbage and Lima bean dishes, frying fish method, sensible horse training tips, grass and hay curing practices, and agricultural observations on hay production and dairy feeding.
Late cutting reduces feeding value despite weight gain and harms aftergrowth for a second harvest. The article praises early plowed and well fertilized fields sown with orchard grass and clover, noting three tons per acre potential and a second cutting, with premium hay when cut early and cured carefully.
The piece muses on global population estimates and grid figures, then promotes Dr Pierce family medicines. It touts Golden Medical Discovery for scrofula throat and lung disease, Sage's Catarrh Remedy for catarrh, and Favorite Prescription for women's ailments. It lists The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser and ad copy for Dr. Pierce, F Wilhoft's Anti-Periodic Fever Tonic, and Wheelock & Co distribution.
The text extols Gil bert Starches as universally recognized and the best starches in the market. It asserts prompt recognition worldwide and claims there is no equal to the product.
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