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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1882
Page
2
A excerpted sentimental scene where a speaker and lover study an opal to symbolize love truth and unity. The opal shifts through colors from blue to emerald to orange, representing fidelity jealousy hope and wedlock as the two vow eternal union in a tender private moment.
A humorous Detroit Post piece frames a mock 19th century baseball game where a catapult pitches the ball. Derby rides a bicycle to score the only run as police, gardeners, and uproarious crowds collide with vintage sports myth. It cites quirky notes, a hung gardener, and spoof league penalties.
A satirical survey through voices of workers and dreamers in New Haven as they imagine a million dollars. Lamenting vanity and gagging over flashy wealth the piece contrasts hopeful plans with warnings about folly and prudent finance.
A Detroit Free Press note recalls a smoking car exchange on the New York Central about duels and cowardice and a calm reply to a challenger's query. The tale contrasts bravado with restraint as the talk turns to national prosperity. Plus a Chesapeake fisherman saves his boat after a gill net haul of 784 shad and a note on printing becoming a San Jose high school study.
A London school meeting sees Dr. Gladstone oppose free elementary schools as retrogressive. A Chicago Chinaman dies of consumption yet prays at his laundry altar facing east. Syracuse University endows a William Penn Abbott professorship with $40,000. Harvard Medical School’s Anatomy chair has had three incumbents in a century. Cincinnati’s Wesleyan Female College faces sale over $890,000 debt. Rev. Dr. Leardman completes a long New Testament lecture series. A Loledo minister remarks on God’s love amid sleeping congregants. Brooklyn Board of Education payroll increases raise principal pay. total city teaching payroll nears $839,742. Bishop Moore reports bright prospects for colored Methodism. Harvard President Eliot recalls students on a fence with a witty remark about the Yule custom.
A machinist, David Calder of the L and N shops in Louisville, suddenly loses the use of speech on Tuesday. Doctors find no paralysis and no clear cause, while a similar case twelve years earlier involved a girl cured by psychological means after a frightening battery scare.
An examination of cattle markets reveals excess supply to producers yet high retail beef prices. The piece cites grain scarcity and a suspected corner influencing costs, with consumer demand falling and retailers reducing slaughter. It condemns speculation and calls for fair distribution of profits between producers and consumers.
Advice on manure and artificial fertilizers for crops. It recommends mixing through the soil rather than surface application, placing some manure below root zones, and drilling nutrients with or near seeds to encourage deep, extensive root growth and better moisture access.
A New York gentleman shows one acre can yield asparagus corn and other vegetables for a family of seven plus two cows hay feed and mangle wuzzles with prudent use of manure and water. Suburban farms near cities may grow popular.
The Curculio pest threatens plums cherries and other stone fruit. Various methods are tried yet none reduce numbers. The advised method emphasizes jarring trees daily to dislodge larvae and then burning the fallen insects, followed by stomping or striking twigs to shake off adults. This jarring process is said by plum raisers to yield sound fruit.
A downtown Columbus Georgia neighborhood was alarmed by Katie Morrison who claimed a conjuring spell by an Indian doctor named Charlie. Police arrested Charlie after she fell into a trance with a red flannel charm, while fifty onlookers watched. The account blends superstition with a police response in a tense urban scene.
A jumble of product pitches and odd anecdotes appears including Kidney-Wort claims for liver and kidney cure, Dr Benson skin cure, Hop Bitters gratitude, Lydia Pinkham remedies, a misfit fish club joke, Diamond Dyes, and various notices about belts, salves, and axe grease.
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