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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1881
Page
2
A plowman halts his team to watch a distant train and reflect in a tranquil dawn. The scene blends misty fields, hopeful thoughts, and a longing for new roads as work pauses for a fleeting view.
Tom Leveret, promoted to foreman with a doubled wage, and his wife Sally splurge on furniture and finery on easy credit. When bills mount, they learn that credit is not cash and wealth must be earned, not borrowed. They return to frugal living, repay debts, and restore honest happiness with Martha Decker as a trusted friend.
The piece outlines Paris police structure under the director of a prefect, detailing nearly seven thousand uniformed officers, twenty one peace officers, detectives, and a central staff. It explains ward and quarter organization, the role and pay of ward captains, and the centralized reserve, comparing with London and noting republican guards and gendarmes.
A Detroit youth asks his father about war memories and a neighbor named Mr. Smith is called a liar. The piece links a colonelly talk at a drug store with a boast about a fast horse and a wartime record. It also notes agricultural advice about feeding swine with leached wood ashes and a quip about boys and girls in a bridal procession.
United States Treasurer Gilfillan reports for the year ended June 8 1881 receipts rose from all sources with customs 11 6 million internal revenue 11 3 million public lands 1 19 million and miscellaneous 3 177 72 thousand totaling 27 255 081. Net revenues reached 60 782 202 while net expenditures were 260 712 857. The treasury balance grew with gold and silver on hand and notes in circulation.
The article explains that volcanoes are not burning mountains but holes in the earth’s crust linking surface and interior. Eruptions are vents for molten material, with smoke being steam and vapor. mountains are not essential to volcanic activity and myths fade under scientific view.
An advertisement-like piece warns of venereal and tubercular diseases in India and promotes Dr. R V Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a sovereign remedy for scrofulous diseases, tuberculosis form, King's evil, tumors, white swelling, fever sores and other blood and skin ailments sold by druggists.
The article argues asthma is curable, citing lack of irreversible tissue damage and normal post attack function. It credits advances in blood analysis and targeted remedies, especially Cone's Asthma Conqueror, and notes substantial public and professional interest in a treatise and physician testimonials.
A collection of practical kitchen and farming notes offering frosting tips with hot water, a vinegar trick to tame onion odor, cake and pie recipes, a cheap layer cake formula, potato croquettes, a mush and milk ring dish, and a guide to hay volume and weight estimates.
A physician notes a case in Learned ville where a young woman suffered months of headaches. Moving the bed into the room’s center and improving airflow resolved the symptoms, suggesting breathing space around a bed may benefit health. comments on bedroom design follow.
The text describes cures such as Allen's Lung Balm and Simple Collair claimed to stop consumption and insomnia, advertising by medical dealers. It mentions a Nevada paper reporting a prominent citizen troubled with insomnia and an editor vowing to write in plain language. It also references the World's Dispensary Medical Association and a forthcoming town paper with a large subscriber base.
An 19th or early 20th century advertisement touts Henrys Carhotic Salve for skin ailments and Kruises Sores Ulcers Salt Rheum Tetter Chilblains and more. It also promotes Dr Green s Oxygenated Bitters for dyspepsia biliousness malaria indigestion and related disorders and mentions Dunvo s Catanin Sxure for nasal mucous membrane issues and Mort s Liven inns as vegetable cathartic regulators. The notice ends with a claim that a Chicago druggist sold 14000 of Tan sills Punch during September.
A reporter recounts a river voyage with dangers including 105 waterfalls on the Tagus crossing, a three rib injury from a shark encounter near Mesania, and a shooting from a starving huntsman on the Somane in France. He emphasizes endurance despite cold and cramped limbs during travel.
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