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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1880
Page
2
A nautical tale recalls Don the dog aboard a brig named Custor bound for Cadiz. The crew, lively and carefree, share joys and dances as a stormy breeze and twilight crowd the deck. A sudden dash ends with the young boy slipping into the sea amid swelling waves.
A stranger hears the tale of Hiram Goldby and a wrecked child found on Monkton rocks. A widow clings to hope though her husband lies beneath the waves for ten years, while the tale echoes a Pearl of Monkton and a village haunted by loss and memory.
Pearl, once a delicate wife of Hiram who vanished at sea, endures years of sorrow while a French nobleman claims her as the long-lost daughter. A stranger helps reveal Pearl’s fate as Hiram returns, breaking the vigil with a simple supper for two in the modest Nine White Cottage.
Two happy lovers spend a quiet month at Monkton's white cottage and listen to Davy's tale about cutting Hiram Goldby's tombstone. The tale ends with Pearl's assurance that Goldby was alive, returning to her steadfast love, while others were wrong.
The Farm and Friend article extols buckwheat as a profitable crop with low cultivation effort, highlighting its suitability for poor soils, winter use in poultry and swine, and the two main varieties, black brown and silver hull. It covers sowing dates 1st to 15th July, yields 15 to 25 bushels per acre, and notes straw value when fed with meal as mash for stock.
Collen Rule explains a method for boiling and stewing vegetables and meat. Begin in boiling water, return to boil for about five minutes, then simmer gently with pot covered to preserve juices and nutrients. Do not boil hard as it toughens meat and wastes flavor or fuel.
A London Truth account describes the Queen's Drawing Room showing magnificent dresses. The Princess of Wales wore gold brocade over satin, Indian brides in white muslin with gold, and various duchesses wore striking gowns with rich trimmings and colors. A turkey hatched on Sonoma Mountain is oddly noted alongside a hen adopting seven kittens.
A long OCR fragment lists home remedies and recipes including zinc cleaning, hat cleaning, vinegar flavors, aloes as lice deterrent, furniture polish, maple syrup in Vermont, Danish butter prices, hair cutting myths, ginger snaps, egg storage, cucumber mix, fat for hen feed, bun loaf, lime-washing, washing fluid, tomato salad dressing, strawberry custard, marble cake recipes, and a railway lantern invention verdict with a $3,000 offer.
The piece urges strict sanitary rules to prevent summer diseases like diphtheria, citing polluted ponds and poor drainage in New Lots and malarial fevers at Princeton College. It notes how neglect leads to outbreaks, urging cleanliness to avert plague and pestilence with references to authorities and newspapers.
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