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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1880
Page
2
A speaker recalls a late encounter with John, a moment of restraint and tenderness. The scene hints at aging, fear of visible emotion, and a sobbing confession kept hidden behind clasped hands as a long-awaited reunion unfolds with restrained warmth.
Two gentlemen in masque and dress pursue a masked Swiss maid at a grand ball. The scene unfolds under moonlit domes and chrome lanterns as they weave through the crowd, the artist entranced by color and motion while an ingénue’s escort distracts an elderly companion.
A mountain maid in a ballroom captivates a cavalier with music and wit. He pleads to see her face but she refuses, mask tight and alluring, until the reveal shocks him with an unusual nose and prompts his abrupt departure.
A cavalier in a carnival tale attends a supper, meets a masked couple including a seemingly old maid with a grotesque artificial nose. The nose is removed revealing a young husband. the scene ends with a graceful exit and the cavalier left confounded.
Miss McGraw and Professor Willard Fiske wed in Berlin with both civil and religious ceremonies amid grinding formalities. Minister White noted extensive interviews and paperwork to secure dispensations and publish bans, ending in a thoroughly documented marriage. Auerbach calls the union exceedingly beautiful and the couple may be labeled much married by friends.
Polk County boards report ex Clerk Keys owes 11495.15 with bondsmen liable for needed sum. River bar near Dubuque worsens ferry path. Iowa Republican Convention at Des Moines names Kirkwood chair and picks state officers and electors. Local accidents, court updates, and oddities follow from Davenport, Muscatine, Mount Sterling, and beyond.
A mixed set of domestic and agricultural hints covers kitchen chores, cooking methods, sickroom care, fruit tree grafting, seed saving, saddle sores in horses, and anecdotal medical cures. Includes recipes for quaking pudding and corn fritters, advice on covering the sick, transplanting trees, saving flower seeds, and a note on Hamburg Drops for dyspepsia. Also mentions steam cooking for livestock and a pain relief product from Frazer Lubricator Co.
An 1879 advertisement touts Dr Pierce remedies with a London branch and wide U S sales. It promotes Golden Medical Discovery for blood purification, fever prevention, skin and scrofulous diseases, liver stimulation, biliousness relief, and consumption cure claims. Testimonial from Jesus P McGrath endorses its use for lung illness after other doctors failed.
A historical note extols Vunasar College at Ouckhkepsle New York as a symbol of executive leadership and liberal philanthropy comparable to Yale and Harvard for women’s higher education. It highlights campus features including laboratories, libraries, a natural history museum and an observatory and lauds the founders and current contributors. A Springfield Mass. quote claims Warner’s Safe Remedies live up to the proprietors’ promises.
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