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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1879
Page
4
A speaker recalls a treasured gold watch gifted on a thirteenth birthday by a mother and sister. The watch represents memory and loss as parents die and a sister disappears to the sea. The narrator vows self improvement and reflects on past warmth while the watch keeps time and memory alive.
Eloise Bruce rejects Colonel Powell and falls for Harry Torrens, while Aunt Ethel’s past love with James Early echoes in a plan to test fidelity. The two lovers endure eleven months apart, reunite, and face financial and social pressures as family arrangements shift and a seaside wedding follows a long, winding moral tale.
In a Durham style onslaught, the piece attacks South Carolina Democrats and complains of alleged violence and ballot irregularities. It cites the Chisholm murder trial and the acquittal verdict, alleging white jurors enabled assassins and that Republican leaders were targeted. It also mentions a Swedish engineer seeking indemnity over an invention.
Practical notes on preserving peaches in jars, plus farming observations. Benefits of charring or salting fence posts, hedgerow practices, and cedar wood durability. Hyacinth propagation via leaves, old vs new methods, and guidance on growing bulbs in glasses or soil. Value of hazel brush land for soil fertility and the role of small trees in enriching the ground.
The article discusses barn design for northern and southern latitudes, stressing ventilation as essential and cost-free to warmth. It covers site choices on embankments, level ground plans, and placing stock under or beside the main floor, with temperature targets around 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit and the benefits of individual stalls for cattle during winter.
Western Rural cautions that cows should have comfortable quarters for daylong occupancy and warns that turning cattle out in all weather is unprofitable and harmful.
A man recalls a daughter judged incurable by a physician twenty years ago. After his wife boiled beans with pork and potatoes in the first water the child improved and later bore two children. The physician, astonished, asked for the method, and speculated the beans in the first water were key. The source notes the doctor is dead. Cor N Y Evening Post.
An 1879 advertisement touts the Gilt-Edge Butter Maker as effective in hot weather, cutting churning time by half and boosting production by 6 to 10 percent. Stores pay 8 to 10 cents more per pound for butter made with it, sold by druggists, grocers, and general stores.
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