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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1882
Page
2
Monticello Iowa article notes Jonnx BeANcham as editor and primary publisher for the Monticello Express. The snippet identifies the local paper and city without additional events or dates.
A poem from Harper's Weekly features two birds in a garden symbolizing temptation and contentment. One bird named I have embodies tame cheerful desire while the other mocks with dreams of beauty gold and status, provoking longing and discontent as the speaker resolves to heed simple contentment.
Pinkie Pendleton and Tom Carroll feud over a city guest while Pinkie baits fate with pumpkin pies. A note on the pumpkin promises forgiveness as Tom returns with a rival for Pinkie’s heart, leading to a supper reunion after a playful chase and jealous stir among family.
Mark Twain quips about Henry Ward Beecher's thirty six acre farm on the Hudson using strict bookish methods. He mocks crop miscalls from seeds to pumpkins and dried apples while noting Beecher's persistence grows wealth to poverty. Also mentions Baroness Ulrike von Lewitzel living in Prussia near Goethe.
The report catalogs large outputs from various states including eleven miles of candles a day in Cincinnati and sleeping car blankets for Italian railways. It notes Louisiana lumber vastness, Grant estate transfer, Utica’s growth, Sweden match exports, and Brooklyn school funding growth. It also covers cereal crop values, church property moves, self supporting New York state departments, and Maine’s booming packing industry with numerous canneries and diverse products.
A scrambled collection notes jokes and squibs from various papers. Items include a French inventor’s cat caressing machine, mothers feeding phosphorus for matches, a New York fire-escape trial with no deaths, and quips on truth and derision. It also mentions a Syracuse returnee, Gough medicine joke, and a Washington girl’s marriage letter prize.
A Lansing Michigan Republican letter argues against sweeping condemnations of farm tool ownership. It praises improved machinery for productivity and youth retention in farming while warning that costly clubbed ownership would hinder independent farms and cause disputes. It stresses proper tool care and shelter to extend life.
Mr Filson of Beaver Creek no longer seeks oats by night as a blizzard drives his wagon up Woolfolk hill. Stranded by deep snow he crawled toward town after losing his team and nearly freezing. A nearby vision and fatigue nearly felled him before two passersby aided his return to a hotel where he recovered. He is seventy four and plans no repeat of the ordeal.
A collection of mid 19th century quotes and advertisements. The pieces urge patience, self-control, and certainty in aims, warn against haste, and tout remedies and sensational editorials from various papers. It mentions patent shoe-buttoners, St Jacobs Oil, and Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla as health tonics. It includes a humorous Storm Lake piece about a young editor and short horn cattle satire.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt outlines an interview with a prominent physician now in New York who discusses overcoming prejudices, adopting new remedies, and treating patients with methods outside traditional ethics. He recounts personal illness, recovery, and calls for openness about medical progress.
A correspondent recounts a long illness linked to a torpid liver and stomach issues, detailing trials with various treatments until trying Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. The letter extols kidney and liver benefits, urges physicians to adopt the remedy, and notes favorable reactions from doctors and patients, including mentions of other tonics and cures in period ads.
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