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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1882
Page
2
A faded reminiscence on bells cast by Van den Gheyn of Louvain. The speaker laments that the famed sweetness and fiery carillons have waned with time, while tones still echo yet fail to captivate listeners as in old days.
Miss Imogene De Forest becomes the center of a love triangle between Jefferson Duval and Captain Milton Fontaine. A mysterious confidant John Winthrop urges restraint as both men threaten a duel. A sudden rider and a rope-wielding governor intervene, ending the feud before it erupts.
In a Harper's Weekly excerpt Fontaine and Duval lay aside their weapons and, by lamplight, the narrator recalls Tam opposed to duda and a bride hoping kindness for both. They plan to return to the hotel for supper, ending the heated moment.
Describes tea firing rooms where workers endure 212 degree heat for long shifts. Five pounds of leaves are repeatedly stirred with soapstone and bark powder, then dried and screened. The piece cites US Japan tea trade figures and notes intensive noise and aroma surrounding the godowns.
The note recalls Berthold Auerbach in 1815 wooing and marrying a Breslin lottery broker's daughter. He dreamed the number 17,586 and chose it but did not win. A related lottery tale shows 17,585 drawing the main prize, costing him 150,090 Prussian dollars he believed he held. The later writer recalls warning against temptation.
In this St. Nicholas excerpt, O Stoddard describes circus schools run by leading showmen. Young learners endure rigorous winter training with gymnastics, ropes, and devices to prepare for public performances. The trainer, a stern master, mirrors audience and manager expectations, shaping first-rate performers.
A nurse at Michigan College of Medicine tends a German boy badly hurt in an accident. She cares daily for his mangled arm, and he thanks her in broken English, "shust like my matter." He dies of gangrene, while his mother arrives too late to comfort him, a moving moment described as the one touch of nature that makes the world akin.
A Dutchman thirty one years old, known for alias use and pretending to be a Catholic priest, swindled across countries and was arrested in Chicago then sent to a Missouri penitentiary. He spoke five languages, boasted both charm and criminal skill, and claimed moral insanity drives such crime among the highly educated. This reflects on the idea that clever criminals may be guided by vice rather than degraded will. Another report from Louisville describes Fannie Duncan claiming the engineer and fireman of a New Orleans lightning train intended to kill her after she allegedly killed a man in Elizabethtown, leading to a hospital transfer in a frightened scene with her dog Arabella.
An early 20th century advertisement page touts Dr. Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as a general health strengthener and blood purifier. It cites testimonials, urges trial, and includes other patent cure claims for consumption and nervous disorders, with multiple brand mentions and patient anecdotes.
The explorer recounts shooting 105 waterfalls on River Tagua in Spain and a Straits crossing with sharks injuring his ribs. He mentions a French Somanca river clash with a Huntsman, calling the journeys dangerous yet thrilling and noting his limbs remain free and uncramped.
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