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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1881
Page
2
A lyrical meditation on the arrival of spring with birdsong, budding trees, and warming sunshine. The verse celebrates renewal and nature’s colors, contrasting winter’s chill with violets, clover fields, and blooming orchards, as if voiced by Margaret Eytinge.
A walker recounts a six mile trek from Eythorne to Deal where a towering white figure seemed to appear and threaten his resolve. He discovers the apparition was a magnified country girl seen under moonbeams and haze, proving the supernatural claim requires testing.
A narrator and doctor debunk a haunting as wind and a hidden stick in ivy. They uncover a thick club of wood tapping the window, attribute taps to wind, and urge patience and inquiry over fear. The piece adds anecdotes of skeptical guests and a churchyard ghost story with a practical punchline.
Report lists experiments with electric motors replacing horses in St Petersburg streetcars, patent for iron desulfurization, steel rail wear conclusions, inoxydizing rust protection, plant preservation without soil, and Germany's new plastic material for artistic and decorative use.
A collage of brief humorous lines and anecdotes from various papers, including jokes about strawberries, a typo remark, fashion caps, and light quips about musicians, children, bishops, and time. It echoes a bygone era of witty clippings stitched into a single column.
A French lawyer seeks duel training from a fencing master and learns that stillness and misread aggression can end a duel. The scene satirizes polite shortcomings and reveals the comic outcome as bystanders react to a staged standoff. Also features an Irish car driver’s quip on absenteeism and a streetcar incident.
Practical tips from the period cover feeding horses with sweet corn and dandeline leaves, treating mane hair loss, tanning furs, and making chocolate pudding. Also advice on cooling water in canteens, tar water for sheep, and a roly poly pudding with fruit fillings and old country memories.
A Prairie Farmer note explains that water needs vary by activity, season, and individual horses. Do not drink before meals or after galloping. if watering on a journey, limit to half fill, then urge to a gentle trot. Watering preferences affect daily intake, and sun exposure can improve water quality.
A reflected story on Prince Bismarck's birth day anniversary recalls a Swedish nobleman student at Berlin University who posed as a cousin to escort a female relative through the city. The ruse exposed, the young man was actually acting for a friend, and the incident amused Bismarck who cited the museum visit as time well spent.
An Italian writer notes animal behaviors observed before the Ischia earthquake shocks. Cattle bellowed and livestock panicked while dogs howled, birds rose, fish left the sea, and hyena ants and reptiles abandoned burrows hours early. Some dogs awoke owners to warn them, aiding escape.
The excerpt extols the Ganges as sacred to natives, noting its source in the Himalayas and a length of about fifteen hundred miles to the Bay of Bengal. It describes its vast delta, navigability differences, and legends tying the river to the god Siva, emphasizing the river’s world altering yearly sediment. It also mentions other items from the period, including a case in St. Louis about church bells and various notes on rail costs and temperatures.
An elderly Naples resident, famed for a long marriage record, died after a storied life in matrimony. He reportedly wed seven times under King Bombs, siring seventy six children who survive, then six marriages under the Savoy dynasty producing forty seven offspring, with only two deaths. A separate town notice: in Newburyport Massachusetts a dog saved occupants from a fire but perished from smoke.
A composite of testimonial fragments promotes St Jacobs Oil for back injuries and neuralgia, praises Dr. WM Hang's Balsam for the lungs, and advertises watches and cheap guns. The clumsy clippings cite local papers and merchants from Philadelphia and Boston, with generic exhortations to buy and try the products.
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