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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1879
Page
3
The poem portrays a dreary rural autumn scene as birds fall silent and nature sinks into stillness. A white haired matron, who has known sorrow, tends her spinning wheel while memories of war and sacrifice surface. The closing moment shows life yielding as the thread breaks and neighbors comfort her.
Deacon Brown and Mr. Quimby discuss Elder Wakeman and his doctrine in a tense church conversation. Quimby hints at doubts while praising duty and warns against unguarded opinion, revealing unease over recent sermons and old doctrines.
In a village, Deacon Brown returns to confront rumors he accused Elder Wakeman of stealing his sermon. A church meeting reveals Brown's claim rests on a dictionary containing Wakeman's words, prompting laughter and reconciliation as Brown admits the word for word text was not stolen.
A family of four on a Williamsport Pennsylvania train experiences a trickster moment when a father hides his son’s hat to scare him into behaving. The boy cries, then happily signals for the hat to be whistled back. The moral is never deceive children, and a postscript notes Mr. S Angier Chace’s career shift from defaulter to hat box maker.
A collage of statistics and observations covers science, demographics, industry, and geography. Topics include human body composition, French farming, California mineral output since 1848, population projections, egg trade value, unsound mind statistics in France, cholera risks, English savings deposits, Chicago vital statistics for 1878, Atlantic depths, Rhode Island school data, European nobility, university enrollments, Berlin street cleaning, trees’ humidity, and Pacific Coast whaling gear and methods.
A Reading Pennsylvania report recounts a December murder tied to life insurance for about 15 000 dollars. Five men are under arrest for murder and conspiracy with two hired for 1500 dollars. three others were policy beneficiaries.
The article notes that hundreds of boys work in the American District messenger system in modern cities. It describes their around the clock service, the lack of older workers, and the demand during peak seasons such as theatre seating needs.
A Philadelphia Record feature recounts messenger boys serving at box offices guiding the blind, delivering meals, guarding parties, aiding at hospitals, and shadowing suspects. It notes their ubiquity in theaters, social events, and even by doctors and hotel guests, highlighting their versatile, often demanding work.
A writer in Land and Water describes a tame heron kept since last summer. The bird fed on fish and offal, hunted rats at dusk, and even swallowed a peppered mutton chop. It displays playful feeding, omnivorous appetite, and independent behavior.
Readable excerpts offer home remedies and handy tips such as soaking potatoes before cooking, avoiding lumping sauces, wiping raisins dry, salting eggs to aid frothing, and avoiding eye irritation with tepid milk. The piece also covers cramp remedies, moth control with benzine, and using old fruit cans to irrigation for strawberries and tomatoes.
Practical advice on seed selection and soil management for corn yields. Emphasizes selecting ears per stalk, avoiding excessive manure, using a sod or stubble land wisely, and early cultivation. Recommends mixed poultry manure with lime and strategic external fertilizer and notes plowing aids for large crops.
George E. Waring Jr. describes Tyrol countryside where steep alpine pastures demand careful labor. Villagers haul hay by hand, wear spike shoes on clifflike slopes, and live amid rugged farms with limited mechanization. The hardy Alpine dairy life blends danger with resilience and contentment.
A Western Farmer explains that removing suckers helps grain yield, while late dressing with dissolved bone or Peruvian guano at last working can boost ear formation. Costing $3 to $4.50 per acre, it may yield six to ten extra bushels, with the potential for 100 bushels per acre as corn cultivation advances.
The Fortnightly Review discusses Japanese chivalry as similar to martial respect toward women and notes casual divorce by husbands, with polygamy absent. It cites two strangers rebuking a man for ill treating a woman and describes a staged assault on a woman as considered brutal.
A Boston area contractor used a high coal bid and low wood rate to win a city contract for 400 cords of wood and 1,000 tons of coal. A city official countered by ordering wood for paupers to defeat the deceit, causing contract disputes and a plan to price wood higher next time.
An English newspaper reports a Salvation Army muster under Commander-in-Chief. Seventeenth Hammersmith Corps to attack the Devil's Kingdom on Sunday with firing at ten o'clock on Broadway. Captain Bould will address members at six, explaining benefits of enlistment.
A Providence, Rhode Island woman over seventy says neuralgia and general ill health plagued her for years until three months of Hop Bitters restored her strength and vitality. She asserts no other medicine helped and recommends Hop Bitters for families.
The article argues that catarrh cannot be cured by local applications alone and must come from cleansing the blood. It recommends using Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery to remove vitiated blood and heal inflamed tissues for a permanent cure.
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