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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1879
Page
4
On the street a hurried married man forgets the bread while his wife calls him back. He nods, fretful, and shields his hat as his sister scolds him to bring a hat. A boy shouts for theater tickets, startling the crowd gathered outside.
A traveler recalls a June night in a Philadelphia stage coach tale where a refined stranger with a carpet bag hides a homicidal mania. After a tense confrontation at a nearby inn, two asylum keepers arrive by mail coach to arrest the would‑be killer, saving the narrator from a fatal confrontation.
The late detective William H Russell observes a cockney thief at Third and Dock streets and trails him to Adams Express. The treasure trove includes jewelry and papers from hotel robberies, leading to Mount Vernon Hotel and a pawn broker check. Information uncovered triggers arrests and confessions.
The Loston Transcript notes a spelling controversy at a Massachusetts normal school where a gendered term was taught and tested. Students were asked to spell cucharist or cuchreist, with the majority submitting the latter variant.
A stark verse fragment presents a Confederate canticle for Decoration Day with anti Union and racist rhetoric. It portrays veterans and victory as theft, mocks emancipation, and blames Black voters while praising the Confederacy and loyalty to white supremacy, referencing the press in New York.
The President’s veto argues against combining legislation with Appropriation bills and against repealing National Election laws. He cites constitutional authority, prior vetoes, and safeguards against fraud and violence, asserting Democrats aim to starve the Executive and erode national election protections.
Editorial notes the election as a test of the Democratic Party and disputes over governance. It argues Democrats must decide whether to admit failure or continue hostile tactics that threaten government stability.
The piece argues that sixteen Southern states plus Maryland Missouri Kentucky Tennessee and West Virginia form a Solid South with 138 electoral votes and 106 House members. It warns Democrats must win the 1880 election to preserve power or face congressional reapportionment shifting influence to the West and Republicans.
A Detroit photographer recalls a humorous scene where a muscular man with a rough look sat for a tin type. He hid one eye and distorted his face for effect to mislead his fiancée, hoping she would see the photo and reconsider an earlier marriage plan in Allegan County.
A compilation of rural hints on plants, livestock, and home crafts. Advice covers winter flowering pots, lamp-wick fixes, lime mixtures, dairy salt use, rust removal, horse terminology, cement recipes, animal feeding economics, butter cooling methods, chick and pea concerns, and weevil infestations with experimental notes.
A Farm and Fireside correspondent warns against repeated plowing of the same land, recommending a three year limit before seeding. He describes a rotation plan involving barley and grass clover, manure top-dressings, and gradual reseeding to restore productivity. He urges careful soil work and ample seeding rather than sparing plantings.
The May Bug or large white grub devastates strawberry plant roots and roses in France. At Paris central horticultural talks the head gardener of Chantilly noted 187 days of work yielding nearly a million grubs destroyed on an acre, with plans to wage war on the pest using milky cans and boiling-water traps.
The May bug appears in late spring and early summer, feeding on leaves and roots. After breeding its eggs, larvae torment plants for two summers before emerging as adults again. Remedies include destroying beetles and grubs, shaking trees to drop pests, and using sulfur or salt as deterrents per Vick's Illustrated Monthly.
A commentary notes nihilism gains no mass appeal among the people while scaring government acts to punish many for few. It argues noble and student recruits grow from oppression and calls Czarist tyranny corrosive, echoing Tacitus on emperors.
A letter from Alfred Broxson D D praises a Prairie du Chien Wisconsin institution run by Dr John Courant noting cures of deafness catarrh and rheumatism through Turkish and Russian baths and artesian water. He cites his daughter Ella once deaf, cured in weeks, and claims many others benefited. Further note refers to Elder Brunson and a circular contact for full details.
An OCR fragment lists mixed names and products including a poetic reference to Forgetfulness of Poopliee, warnings about wind, Dr Vierce’s Pleasant urgentative Pellete, Tur Burrao Stancw Factory starches, Dr. F. Wilhog’s Ant Periodic or Fever and Ague Tonic, National Yeast, and Een Jackson’s Best Sweet Navy Tobacco, suggesting a dime-store page with medical, household, and tobacco adverts.
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