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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1882
Page
2
A fragmentary poem passage depicts a lover's despair and a figure whose masked face unveils an angelic mercy. The speaker recounts passionate agitation and a vision of divine pity as love conquers torment, hinting at a transformative embrace and spiritual mercy in mortal purgation.
In a small southern town Miss Lydia Ludkins loses her cherished wedding gown to Berkshire pigs. Major Hawthorne, moved by devotion and a sense of duty, surprises her by presenting his mother’s wedding gown for a remarriage following Lydia’s betrothal to Rev. Nehemiah Applebloom. The tale ends with Lydia becoming Major Hawthorne’s wife.
A Maine oak yields a 240 year old hair lock tied to a bygone red haired girl and social scorn. The piece notes evolving attitudes toward red hair and nostalgia for past times. Separately, the Rhodes brothers faced an insurance policy dispute over their mother’s life, whose death followed a confrontation.
A collection of farming tips covers horse shoe calk adjustments using studs to protect hooves, welcoming frogs and lizards to curb garden pests, training cucumber vines for efficient growth, and using pennyroyal steep to deter lice on poultry and livestock. It also notes methods to test melon ripeness via rind blisters and discusses artichoke yields from hog-farming routines. Includes recipes for creamed cabbage and milk based preparations.
A Sun reporter held two small monkeys in a physician’s up town residence yesterday. The five monkeys weighed 9 ounces and resembled small rats, with long fur and bushy tails. Grosvenor and Bunthorne were named, one perched on the wife’s shoulder, the other venturesome and missing overnight before a safe return. They are dainty eaters, preferring flies they do not catch themselves.
The Spectator compares Dickens and Goldsmith, noting Dickens’s restless, dramatic prose and lack of lyrical poetry versus Goldsmith’s tranquil, poetic idyls. It highlights their differing vagabond sensibilities and contrasts in genius, from reflective to active, with vivid characterizations of both authors.
A renowned German writer, after depositing 320000 marks and his will at the German Imperial Deposit Bank in Berlin, tore the receipt into shreds arguing that a duplicate would take three years to obtain. He has a history of large fortunes gained and lost by speculation and now seeks safety for three years.
The editor of American Bee Journal explains bee vision, noting worker bees have two sets of eyes the compound ocelli and simple eyes. He cites Prof Cook suggesting eyes aid long range vision while scent guides at distance, and wonders if one eye set adapts to distant range and the other to dark hive activity. He recalls the nocturnal hive hum heard during honey abundance.
A ragged ad page extols Kidney-Wort as the best cure for constipation liver and kidney disorders, touts Hor Bitters with a $200 reward for fake imitations, and warns against fraudulent recipes. Also promotes Burdock Blood Bitters price $1 and Dr Pierce tonics for health and beauty with various testimonials and mail order offers.
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