Monticello Express notes editor and proprietor
The Monticello Express editorial note lists Joan Blanchard as editor and proprietor, indicating leadership of the Monticello newspaper.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1881
Page
2
The Monticello Express editorial note lists Joan Blanchard as editor and proprietor, indicating leadership of the Monticello newspaper.
A ballad where the speaker wooes Doris amid pastoral imagery of flock and lambs. He pledges protection as they drive sheep home through blooming heather, seeking a lasting bond. The poem, attributed to Arthur J. Munby, blends rural toil with tender affection.
In a rain soaked swamp a carriage sinks and a young white stranger helps guide a troubled traveler to a North Carolina cabin. Loyd Stratton, driven by his brutal father to violence, is captured after a gun ordered by the old man. The mother and Loyd later seek a new life and church, with Loyd reading and changing for the better.
A Wednesday night event near Adams Street between Fourth and Fifth described as a five fall struck in Shepherd’s furniture yard. It resembled an electric light with a sky rocket-like hiss and ignited grass that burned to a wooden sidewalk. firefighters cooled the area and a Register reporter verified the scorched spot.
A collage of notes reports paper furniture trends Ohio eggs in New York supply chains Chicago brick production rises Little River Tennessee gold finds salt from Great Salt Lake vast tobacco acreage and output marble quarries Hawkins County leeches demand in Western states California raisin business and vineyard profits steam engine limits to economical motor sugar crop in Louisiana and vacuum pan gains rice yields show year over year growth
A collage of quips and extracts from various papers with jokes on wigs marriage gender roles and street manners. It includes satirical lines about Mormonism stage lines coins holes in silver and a long anecdote about a Chicago editor and a New York drunkard.
Readable fragments cover cooking dairy farming horse care rabbit dish and health ads. Tips range from lard for grouse cake-pans to onion vinegar and Carolina sweet potato bake. Also includes medical ads for Dr Pierce and Hall’s oil with patient anecdotes and a St Jacobs Oil testimonial.
Elijah Gould, with a black eye and torn shirt, claimed a four foot fish weighed thirty seven pounds after weighing on four scales. The judge joked the teller would be fined but let him go, noting such a fish story proves he is not in his right mind as spectators laughed and groaned.
A Kansas Farmer article explains soaking hard dry corn restores eating quality, speeds digestion, and accelerates hog growth. Soaked corn plus milk and green feed can yield 250 pound pigs by eight months, ready for market by December. Small setups use kerosene casks. larger operations tank systems. Also note Mendon Vermont reports a family selling dog fat as a consumption remedy.
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