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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1880
Page
2
A lone figure recalls a past romance set against silent hills and the sea. Descriptions of landscape mingle with memories of a painter who spoke of love before departing, leaving the speaker to endure sorrow and contemplation of life and death.
Two brothers clean Maudie Warner's cottage to help her after a family message reveals relatives plan to return home. They enlist Bridget Malloy and Mary Flynn to clean, while a visiting old man posing as a wealthy “compete” becomes their unseen benefactor. A generous uncle arrives with funds, furniture, and a welcome home.
The Washoe Lake area mansion once owned by Sandy Bowers lies abandoned after years of lavish building and parties. The estate shows extensive decay with nailed doors, dry fountains, overgrown grounds, and a wild menagerie of wildlife inhabiting the ruins. Local lore describes its rise in glittering times and its fall into poverty and neglect.
A collage of wry lines from the era quotes about cider, coal, a journalist losing a railroad pass, holy unions, Cinderella, Bible revisions, Job quotations, and a depot minting a peppermint lozenge misread as a quarter.
The article notes Stuttgart Polytechnic with 72 professors and 506 students and 875000 in revenue, Italy's 278 secondary schools and 759 higher girls schools, and an iron directive ship to Hudson Bay that arrived recently. It also covers the Pope’s encyclical canonizing Cyril and Methody, a New York Episcopal Convention push to end pew rents, and Berlin pastors serving a million souls with large catechetical duties. It concludes with University College London admitting women to arts laws and science, women winning Latin and Greek prizes, and Oxford scholarships for women in Latin and political economy.
The record surveys freight yard lighting by electric light and notes oyster industry worth 2 million in Virginia with 6 538 white and 7 698 colored workers. It cites North Carolina cot ton mills 118 758 spindles, plantation costs 40 million to market cotton with 25 million to colored labor, railroad origins, sugar trade developments in San Francisco, wool production totals across regions, and a lint washing stand liner design.
A mixed collection of recipes and farming tips from Foote’s Health Monthly. It covers molasses crullers, sausage rolls, and bread omelet, plus guidance on fattening livestock, orchard labels, strawberry mulching, and timber preserving. It notes lighting on wheat depth and household decor ideas for protecting furniture and transferring cretonne designs.
Valparaiso figures W H Holabird owner of a leading kennel says Bt Jacobs Oil is preferred for family use and kennel care. The notice mentions a book titled How to Pay Church Debts and includes a remark on its potential sales. Also cited is Mrs General Sherman praising Due rang's Rheumatic Remedy, sold by druggists, with a request to write KR Helphenstine in Washington DC for a 40 cent pamphlet.
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