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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1879
Page
3
A poetical meditation on the House-Hunter as he climbs ruins and carts away damaged goods. He confronts dust and decay, finds forsaken furniture and torn curtains, and faces the choice of purchasing replacements amid worn rooms and rough conditions.
Poem urging guidance for youth development and charitable deeds. Calls for teaching gentleness, courage, and leadership, urging mentors to shape young hearts with kindness and praise. Emphasizes service to the weak and old, and guiding youths toward noble deeds.
A woman recounts past choices with Roxie revealing her quiet strength. She explains how she aided Robert to reform, waited through hardship, and now longs for reunion while facing illness and lingering hope of his return.
The Chicago Tribune analyzes the presidents veto of the Army bill attached to an appropriation measure. It argues the veto rests on the merits of political provisions and civil authority to protect federal elections rather than methods of passage.
A collage of home tips covers baking cocoanut jumbl es bedding cows with sand, stuttering cure via stamping, mint sauce for lamb, potato pudding, apple rice dessert, water proof calico treatment, and chicken cholera prevention through clean runs, shade, fresh water, green food and dry roosting areas.
A Germantown Telegraph correspondent argues that fruit trees require training and pruning to grow soundly. He contends nature alone does not ensure longevity or quality, and proper trimming guides formation, vitality, and fruit production while excessive pruning harms trees. The piece closes noting Jonah was the first man to fish.
In a detailed message dated April 20 Wasumartox, the President returns the army funding bill with objections. He warns Sec 6 would strip civil authorities of power to keep peace at elections and defend Congress as the proper body to regulate federal elections under the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt reports a reporter tracing a season’s baby carriage through crowds. The woman leads the stroller into every busy crossing, colliding with pedestrians, curbstones, boxes and a streetcar, proving carriages rule sidewalks and test every passerby’s nerve.
Malarial fevers and related ailments yield to Hop Bitters described as a great conqueror that repairs ravaged health by converting food into rich blood and renewing vigor for the aged and infirm. See Truths in another column.
Advertisement extols Dr. Pierces Favorite Prescription as a cure for female debility and dyspepsia claiming it restores beauty and strength. It also promotes Dr Williams Anti-Perindie Fever and Ague Tonic from Wheelock Finlay & Co as a physician approved remedy available through druggists.
National Life is a 72 page pamphlet featuring biographies of 19 U.S. presidents from Washington to Hayes with portraits engraved for the work and 12 Canadian notables. It offers mail delivery on receipt of one stamp from H. R. Stevens, Boston, and mentions Burrato Stancu Factory, Gilbert, as a successful starch producer with growing demand both domestically and abroad.
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