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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1881
Page
2
Poetic vignette describes mountaintop huntsmen and herdsmen in Switzerland as they share a communal horn call and prayer before rest. Voices from peaks travel across alps, invoking peace, faith, and protection as night falls.
In Rocky Clif a ten year old girl, Clytie Havens, finds a new home with the Jennings after her father dies. She grows among miners and boys, then braves a deadly avalanche to fetch a doctor for injured hosts, succumbing to the snow while delivering aid. Her selfless act is honored by the community.
An editorial argues that keeping livestock improves soil and farm returns, citing England and Germany as success stories. It urges Western farmers to increase herd sizes, use stock to fertilize land, and avoid artificial fertilizers, warning against exporting home profits. A bald eagle and a dog clash near Wilmington are noted, followed by a joke about a new paint color.
A twenty ton blue stone, quarried in Barryville New York measuring fifteen by twenty five feet and seven inches thick, is sent to New York City for William H Vanderbilt’s new residence. The article also notes an imitation straw board, postal inefficiencies, and early electric boat propulsion experiments in Paris with Trouve’s motor system.
A collage of humorous quotes from various papers highlighting language quirks and satirical takes on science art and social mores. It notes Herschel the planet bearing the discoverer’s name, a Boston parent’s remark on waistlines, a Mrs Fogg on shall versus may, and a jab at identical cattle and horse portraits in magazines.
Preparations for a wire cable system to power street cars on State Street begin with grading and a brick power building at State and Twenty-first. The plan calls for four 250 horsepower engines, six strand Swedish iron cables, and cables moving at six miles per hour. Operations would run north and south from the building, with cars attached by grips and expected to be ready in about two months.
In Dukinfield Cheshire twelve year old Amelia Birch daughter of widow Eliza beth Birch is found dead after leaving for work at a mill. Authorities report she forged signatures on shop accounts to steal money from provision dealers and others, and her body was recovered from a mill lodge pond after she failed to return for breakfast.
The article argues farmers need capital and business discipline to improve profits and living standards. It warns against starting with debt and inferior tools, urges knowledge of costs, prompt payments, and investments like manure and drainage. It stresses patience, better methods, and tasteful homes as outcomes of disciplined farming.
The piece argues green corn fed to pigs yields rapid fattening and good show condition for fairs but may be expensive before fully ripe. An old farmer notes one ear eaten at table could feed more when ground into meal, illustrating cost and waste concerns. The excerpt also mentions divergent dialects spoken along Lake Yassa, about 350 miles apart.
A collection of agricultural and home hints including soil care for young fruit trees cucumber seed selection for variety outcomes, breaded eggs and frying, wood polish and rust prevention, warm weather breakfast cakes, horse feeding guidance, spiced cabbage pickling, tips to cure heaves with corn fodder, whipped cream desserts and dainty ham sandwiches with a mustard dressing.
A Springfield Republican excerpt extols buckwheat for table use and stock feed. It praises the silver hull variety for higher yields, lighter husk, and nutritive flour, notes soil-friendliness, wide soil adaptability, and early to mid July sowing for a fall harvest. It highlights weed suppression, usefulness for hogs and poultry, feeding value of straw, and regional production in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
The Pesti Naplo recounts Lajos Kossuth’s life at Baraccone near Turin. Though aged and grieving General Shasz, he works hard reads without spectacles on good days and avoids visitors except Americans. He pursues a third memoir volume while preserving sources. he plans to relinquish his Baraccone villa for a beneficent gesture from Hungary.
The snippet links nervousness to indigestion and stomach weakness, promoting Hop Bitters for stomach support and toxin elimination. It lists summer suits, jokes on wardrobe, Kidney-Wort promises a final dose, Yokohama Dispatch on files and mosquitoes, and various patent remedies with prices, urging sale of Dr Tana Thompson Eye Water and Reppine Russia Salve, plus Frazer's Axle Grease.
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