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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1881
Page
2
An elegiac verse laments a life ended and a beloved who lies alone. A mound marks her sleep while mourners send their lives to the ground. Lovers fade, bats circle, a glow remains to honor her memory beneath cooling shade and hanging branches. The city grows hushed as she rests peacefully.
Mr Fluke, a self confident admirer, comforts a richly dressed young woman named Ellina Gawley after she breaks down at a theater. He offers to help get her home and escorts her by carriage though she resists final departure to her own door. He leaves a card with his address and promises future contact.
Mr Fluke awakens to a glittering diamond watch found in the carriage and is accused of theft. Spiles and Paps arrest him but a theater maid Elina Cawley confesses she borrowed mistresses clothes and the watch. The magistrate releases Fluke after witnesses vouch for his character.
A Detroit reader recalls a vow among Woodward Avenue car riders to avoid weather talk. After a stranger flouts the gag by mentioning rain and heat, he is killed by vigilantes. Officials refuse inquests, condemning weather chat as a deadly nuisance. a lamp-post gallows is proposed.
An eighteen year old German American girl near Highteenth and Cass Avenue seeks arsenic at a drug store for self harm after lovers’ disapproval. The pharmacist fools her with a laxative labeled arsenic, she falls ill, learns the truth, and abandons the attempt.
The Burlington Hawkeye argues Republicans face internal strife but will not dissolve. It compares past party fractures under Lincoln Grant and Hayes to current divisions, warning Bourbon allies not to overestimate gains and predicting eventual unity against a common foe.
A late Olive Branch Society lecture includes Mrs Garfield’s letter to her husband revealing thoughts on labor and bread making as empowerment. The piece contrasts women’s education, suffrage critique, and the era’s political commentary with references to Hiram College and Tammany Hall.
A collection of kitchen notes includes lemonade for sleep, eggless cakes with sour milk, fat light cakes and frying oil tips. It covers propagating honeysuckles, pound seed cake, dragonflies as pests, kerosene in poultry houses, blackleg disease prevention, greens with bacon, and salt rising bread directions.
A New Yorker piece explains a dual crop plan where corn aids young trees and later clover nourishes mature orchards. Pigs rototill, glean corn, eat artichokes, destroy pests, and manure soil, with worms controlled by consuming dropped fruit.
The article recounts strong endorsements from Rev. D. W. Bartine and other church leaders for Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. It notes claimed remedies for Brights disease and kidney liver trouble with testimonials from professors and pastors, praising the remedy and its maker Mr. AH Wagner for personal recovery and public benefactions.
The article details a thick woolen suit waxed inside and ocher surfaced with sulphur, a glass-faced helmet with a trunk hose feeding moist sponge air, and a perforated air intake with a sponge filter. It explains cooling, moisture loss management, waterproof outer layers, and the need to renew outer coverings after use.
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