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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1881
Page
2
Fragment from Chandler Moulton in Lippincott's Magazine laments loss and memory with tender lines. The speaker addresses a husband, recalling happy days by seas and fire, urging remembrance to avoid a second death through being forgotten.
A Mack family travels by sleeper toward Manaman Beach when the car overturns on a night run. Baby goes missing during the crash. brakeman Kit Dexter rescues the infant from a toppled upper berth, saving the child's life. Roger Mack praises railroad men and Kit's quick work.
A compilation of figures across commerce and life shows 101 Londoners starving in 1880, 70 000 maples tapped in Glover Vermont yielding 140 000 pounds of sugar valued at 11 200. Florida dealer Pillow nets 20 000 from 80 000 quarts of strawberries. France’s per head taxation and debt rates contrasted with England. A South Carolina cotton row measures 90 760 yards, about five miles, with 24 acres. Tobacco profits vary sharply by product. West Virginia and several Southern states show metal production gains. Oyster beds near Oyster Bay and Gig Harbor expand, with shipments to Portland and San Francisco and millions of oysters bred.
A collage of quips from the era cites jokes about cross eyed beauty at sleep, eye sociables in New York, drum majors, pianos with one hand, bees thinking, and a runner of ballads. Headlines remark on humorous misreads and misstatements in volumes from Philadelphia to Boston and beyond.
Practical guide for homemakers with modest incomes on improving unsightly plank floors. It covers caustic paint removal, filling cracks, staining with burnt umber, waxing with beeswax in turpentine, and polishing routine. Also suggests low cost rug options and border treatments for center spaces.
Dr. Hahn reports investigations of 1866 Hungarian meteoric stones. Microscope slides show coralline and sponge-like fossils with subaqueous animal forms, implying a water world in a primary formation stage rather than active cometary combustion. Source: London Telegraph.
A Bolinas man placed two clucking hens in a sack to avoid nuisance and hung it on a line. Days later his wife suspected life inside the sack. Recalling the incident, he opened it to find the hens alive but featherless, and nineteen eggs inside.
A historic home cook's guide outlines curing mutton with sugar saltpeter and pepper, then smoking for ten days or brining for three weeks. Instructions cover rubbing turning and washing, with notes on vinegar, charcoal preservation, and even salicylic acid ideas. Prairie Harmer comments on feasibility.
A soil is exhausted when it stops yielding paying crops despite favorable conditions. Removal of essential nutrients without add back depletes the soil, with Lawes and Gilbert showing clover and root crops exhaust more than cereals. A judicious crop rotation preserves fertility and suppresses weeds, according to American Agriculturist.
Useful shopping and home tips cover hog rings and wire use for Hill & Co, hoarseness remedies with eggs and sugar, hard water softening with wood ashes, fruit water ices and cordials, stair carpet lining from old bedlinen, glazed strawberries, and fruit drinks for fevers including rhubarb tea and apple water with caution on sugar.
An old article explains louse biology and spread, noting a female Pediculus lays about 50 to 60 eggs weekly, nits hatch in six days, and a pair could yield thousands in eight weeks. It warns against unsafe cures and proposes grease as the safe remedy for horses, cattle, hogs, and children with clear steps and durations.
A reader explains that keeping eggs fresh for six to eight months is unlikely. Methods include lime pickle, linseed oil coating, packing in straw or sawdust, sealing in stone jars with tallow, and wet lime layering. Proper lime pickle and oil coatings were cited as traditional preservation techniques.
A contemporary notes the census showing women outnumber men by nearly eight million and argues the imbalance will be permanent. The piece suggests women may leverage the surplus to demand terms in marriage and society, while suggesting foreign brides as a response. It cites Durango Mexico hosting an iron hill with vast ore, fueling hopes of industrial growth rivaling Pittsburgh or Birmingham.
William J. Coughlan of Somerville Maine recounts a 1876 lung hemorrhage and a hole in the left lung. He credits Dr War Hans Balsam for his recovery and urges consumption sufferers to try the remedy. The text also mentions a Christian conversion note and a child playing with a horse.
A rural exchange quotes Deacon Wilder claiming Hop Bitters kept his family well through a sick season and saved doctor bills. Advertisement text touts Kidney-Wort for cleansing and kidney health and promotes gun and watch catalogues along with pest remedies.
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