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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1880
Page
2
Journal note from Monticello announces JOAW BuAronano as editor and proprietor for the fourth year, with the paper continuing its local reporting and community focus.
A lyric meditation on forgiveness and love as day fades to night. The speaker pleads for peace and mercy, urging acceptance of fate and a final kiss of reconciliation before death and night.
A young boy named Dave, rich and kind, loses his ability to walk after an accident. He asks his family to donate his six pairs of trousers to boys in need, starting a charity effort that inspires others, including a greedy uncle who learns the joy of giving.
A feeble millionaire named Dave inspires his Uncle to test a charitable gambit by drafting a large donation to bankers for distribution among institutions. The act brings him joy, improves his health, and rekindles family bonds as Dave heals and a new doctor promises recovery for Dave's paralyzed legs.
Practical tips emphasize staged cleaning, preplanning meals, and selective carpet care. Advice covers dusting wallpaper, wood-work, and furniture polish recipes, plus insect control and preserving fabrics. Specific methods include tea-leaf wash for wood, linseed oil polish, turpentine deterrents, and camphene options.
A humorous essay extols substantial vegetable soups over thin cheap broths. It argues for rich beef chunks, varied vegetables, proper preparation, and hearty accompaniments like old bread or crackers. It also mocks homeopathic and overprocessed soups while urging thoughtful, nourishing portions.
The article outlines general plowing principles for different soils and conditions. Light soils and coastal land favor spring plowing, while heavy clay benefits from winter cycles. Deep plowing suits river, limestone, and well-drained soils, with drainage needed before deep work in wetlands. Subsoiling and manuring boost poor soils.
A collage of quips and scenes appears from the era with Mrs Smiley guarding the window for Ichabod and a needy boy debating mischief. A countryman hides from a physician while jokes about collecting accounts and thoughts circulate, reflecting daily life and comic takes from the period.
President Mayes faces critique as Hayes' title is questioned yet one dollar buys a bottle of Dr Pierce's Garden Medical Discovery. Its use is praised for coughs colds incipient consumption and general debility with doctors of all schools endorsing and prescribing it in practice.
Column endorsement praises H J Warner & Co for Warner's Safe Remedies with extensive public notice. Elkhart Buggy and Harness Mfg Co of Elkhart Ind ships buggies and harness and offers examination before payment. Prices listed include bogey harnesses Oak stock $9 to $18, team harness $28, wagons from $75 to $85, catalogue sent free via W B Pratt secretary.
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