23 Apr 1859
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Newspaper
Tipton Advertiser
Location
Tipton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1859
Page
1
Local ad rates for Tipton Advertiser include par in advance for six months to one year with prices for 1 square, column, and half column ads. Legal and professional cards priced at five dollars yearly, with yearly and quarterly advances required. Paragraph emphasizes ads continue until ordered and charged accordingly.
Law cards list several lawyers and land agents including Burbridge Turner in Tipton Iowa James W. Daglehn James Piner and others offering real estate, land warrants, tax payments, title investigations, and conveyancing services. Also notes notary public services and collection attention with offices in Tipton Cedar and Muscatine Counties.
The notice identifies J M Long a physician and surgeon serving Cedar Bluffs and Gowers Ferry with a March 19 1859 date on file. The short entry marks his professional listing and regional associations in the Cedar Bluffs area.
A long excerpt from Tipton Advertiser features a dated missive to Lavinia by Kitty Carroll, then a prose reminiscence of romance, marriage, and memory dated April 1, 1849, interspersed with narrative reflections and letters from Sharpe's London Magazine.
The text notes 56 000 plant species on display in Paris's Museum of Natural History. It asserts earth and sea species total four to five hundred thousand, ranging from near invisible forests to mould, to Malibar trees and banyans with vast shoots, illustrating scale of plant life.
Blackwoods Magazine describes blood as the life river endlessly circulating through vessels. It notes the vast volume moved annually, the capillary network, nutrient exchange, and the cycle from heart to lungs. It cites cell turnover and even mentions metal traces and soap in blood.
The Sacramento Standard reports a remarkable natural eruption on Wet Hill four miles east of Grass Valley on a Saturday morning February 26. Michael Cullen and Joseph McChesney were working to drain the hill when a sudden water and sand surge widened a 35 foot open cut into a five to six acre crater. Trees were undermined and tumbled into the boiling vortex as waters descended toward Buona.
The article praises refined borax for cleaning, softening hard water, and boosting laundry results in Holland and Belgium. It describes using a large handful of borax per ten gallons of boiling water, saving soap, and applying extra powder for lace or stiff crinoline. It also notes borax as a safe multiuse product for dentifrice, cooling beverage, and tea flavoring with currant leaves.
The State of Ohio allocates about 882000 for school libraries funded by a one tenth of a mill tax on property. Anson Swith, State Commissioner of Schools, contracted last September with Appleton of this city to supply the state with library books for 1859. Appleton’s immense salesroom overflows with books stacked like bricks weighing seventy eight tons and spanning two miles if shelved end to end. Appleton plans to ship the entire lot by a special freight train from Columbus to Columbus. The building is uniform and sturdy, each volume labeled with title, author, and the Ohio State Library mark from 1839.
A New York letter writer observes Fanny Fern and her husband James Parton leaving the N Y Ledger office. He notes her unglamorous appearance yet striking eye and firm resolve, and describes Parton as a neat, thoughtful man. Also described is a lavish butcher shop on Rue Trouetet and Rue Neuve des Mathurine with marble decor, a fountain, and tickets offering monthly profit shares to buyers. The piece closes with a moral couplet urging honesty and virtue.
A brief quirky line notes a young lady’s remark that if a cart wheel has nine fellows it is a pity if a woman cannot have one, reflecting playful social wit.
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