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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1896
Page
8
An excerpt praising outdoor camping as the rare leisure of sportsmen. It depicts mornings in Arcadian hills, a frugal diet, skill with rod and gun, and a campfire scene that leads to songs, stories, and natural rest. The verse is attributed to Frank C. Riehl in Outing.
Miriam Brooks marries Tom and the couple are set up with comforts but face quiet drift as Miriam longs for companionship and music. Aunt Cecilia hints at a distant past tool of social influence, while Tom’s den and local gossip widen the emotional distance between marriage and home.
Miriam learns from Aunt Cecilia that tone and breath shape character and harmony in the home. She resolves to train Baby Miriam’s voice after realizing her own harsh speech harmed her husband and children.
The article recalls Revolutionary era clashes when Rev Jonathan Boucher supported the crown wearing pistols on his pulpit in Annapolis and defied rebels with God save the king. It parallels a Kentucky Presbyterians gun bluff against abolitionists and notes mosquito eggs hatch in four to seven days with warmth.
A Jersey City Evening Journal excerpt notes that bad roads forced four horse wagons to carry 55 bushels near Philadelphia. After $40,000 in bonds funded road upgrades, two horse wagons now haul 90 to 125 bushels. Fewer loads per trip but more trips daily, increasing efficiency and market access.
The article describes a plan by Charles Hallock and Western Field and Stream to divide the United States along the 40th parallel into two regions with uniform game laws and close seasons. It calls for national enforcement via the National Association for the Protection of Game and Fish, with distinct northern and southern close times and general inland fishing seasons, plus exceptions for certain birds and trout. It argues the plan aligns with fauna life cycles and favors prompt, broad adoption through legislative enactment.
In Arkansas near Little Week lies Silver City a small settlement famed for the muddiest road in the world. Col Jimmy Wood recalls a seven hour trip in a springless farm wagon where horses sank to their flanks yet riders cheered as hubs surfaced signaling progress.
The article argues poultry raising is a legitimate profitable farm activity for women and suggests farmers should share housework or hire help to allow wives time to manage poultry, noting many could earn more profit than the farmer from other farm work.
A National Stockman moralizes on thrift and prudence from a parable of a man who digs a shallow well and buys a cheap cow, losing valuable resources. He warns that insufficient labor, material, or care wastes profits and leaves the family with no money for essential needs. The tale emphasizes doing with might what the hand finds to do.
George Bedford alias Charles Verkins and John Clare dies at Long Island College Hospital after a wound from an attempted robbery of Walker B Adams store and post office at Bedford Station New York. Edgur Brigg of Des Moines sentenced to six years for burglary and marries Mary A Cooney a 21 year old fellow convict. Brigg has prior reform school and prison terms and multiple indictments.
J. W. Jones assistant postmaster at Carbonado was jailed in Des Moines on federal charges of robbing the government. Stamp cancellations at Carbonado were found to be raised by about 400 dollars. Shepherd the postmaster and Jones were arrested. Jones confessed and cleared Shepherd. Both remained in custody with Shepherd posting a 3,000 dollar bond while Jones remained jailed.
William Haniwalt of Chelsea found the body of Mrs. Joseph Varnek floating in the river while crossing to his pasture. Her night clothes snagged on a log after she left home sometime after 1 30 am to go to the river and end her life. She leaves five daughters, oldest ten, youngest five months. Domestic trouble was cited as the cause.
An American Agriculturist description details a six by six foot milk house under a grape arbor near a kitchen pump. It features a milk tank with screen cover, wire side screening, shelves for milk and butter, and piping to a well tank for water adjustment.
Des Moines pioneer James Callahan and Waverly philanthropist Abraham Slimmer propose a permanent endowment of 100000 dollars for the home for the aged in Des Moines with a condition to raise 50000 more by July 1 1897. The offer is accepted and efforts will pursue the additional funds to complete a state institution.
September reports to the national Department of Agriculture show Iowa wheat acreage at 725,000 acres including winter and spring wheat with an estimated yield of 8,831,000 bushels, down from 13,054,778 bushels in 1895. Towns’ corn acreage in 1806 is 8,249,000 with an estimated yield of 302,635,000 bushels, up from 208,502,650 bushels in 1895.
Rev. T. W. Russell of the Second Presbyterian church in Ottumwa died within hours after swallowing a set of false teeth at breakfast. The apoplexy and stomach hemorrhage were attributed to the teeth. Russell was 35, a recent college graduate, and Ottumwa marked his first charge.
The Illinois board of health requires daily cleaning of dairy cows. Late fall calves lead to winter dairying with fresh cows and high butter prices. Oleomargarine prohibitions across 32 states. Salt in butter unpopular due to suspected defects. The separator improves butter yield and milk for calves. Aerate milk with pure air and water for cows. Pure breed bulls are common and cheap. avoid teasing them. Jerseys suit cream and butter while Holsteins favored for cheese and milk.
Connecticut authorities advance dairy herd health with tuberculin testing. In Washington town 106 cows were tested and 13 condemned. Ten cows in one herd showed excellent condition yet were confirmed as tuberculosis cases. Over 500 cows tested in Litchfield with 400 more applications filed, plus about 1 000 more in other areas. The main effort targets districts supplying New York City and Brooklyn.
Traces of Phoenician road networks stretch from the seacoast through Syria to the Armenian plateau, underscoring their skill as ancient road builders still visible in the landscape today.
Charles Mayor was killed by a horse in Clinton. John O Neal of Lyons dies at 74 after forty years as a coal dealer. Cedar Rapids receives 6000 from President Marshall’s will for Coe College where he led nine years. Attacks, fires, wrecks, and unusual finds fill the wider roundup across towns like Dubuque Albia and Burlington.
Magnificent mountain surroundings and curative baths lure travelers from Chicago St Louis and all points tributary to Springs Virginia. The Big Four route offers through vestibuled trains daily to Cincinnati with buffet parlor and dining cars and Wagner sleeping cars. Direct connection at Central Union Station Cincinnati with Chesapeake & Ohio Railway trains.
The Monon Line offers a rapid Chicago Dearborn to Indianapolis and Cincinnati schedule. Depart 11:50 A M from Dearborn, arrive Indianapolis 4 8, arrive Cincinnati 7 P M. Travel from Chicago to Indianapolis in four hours forty seven minutes and to Cincinnati in seven hours fifty five minutes.
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