the quaintness of old rural newspapers

From the Jackson Criterion (Nebraska), Apr 13, 1899:

Estrayed on to my premises, about three miles west of Goodwin on or about March 15th, one iron gray mare about five years old, weighing about 1050 pounds. Owner will please prove property, pay charges and take same away. Cost of advertising this notice to be paid at the Criterion office. J.S. Clauson.
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Andrew Anderson has completed his new dwelling house and has the most beautiful and comfortable home in the precinct.

Miss Hannah Casey who has been visiting friends here the past week, returned to her home at Waterbury, Wednesday.

Sarah Casey, Mamie Curran, Julia Manau and Mary Nichols have returned to Sioux City after spending Easter here.

While Geo. Monger was shooting at some geese the gun bursted, but lucky did no harm, only a few bruises on George's hand.

Mrs. Thos. Curran and sister, Mrs. Jno. O'Neill, visited their mother Mrs. Casey of Waterbury a few days the forepart of the week.

John H. Martin of Pender visited here a few days ago. Mr. Martin said his son W.C. was at his home in Pender at present, and feeling very good, but will have to undergo an operation in two weeks for appendicitis.

Milton McTaggard who has purchased the James Crohen farm has moved here from Iowa onto it. Mr. McTaggard four years ago was a resident of this place, and we feel happy to have him back again.

Every potato will slyly wink its eye, every beet will get red in the face, every onion will feel stronger, every oat field will be shocked, the rye will stroke its beard, the corn will stick up its ear and every foot of land will kick over the out come of the new school district.

I wondered if that last bit was from a poem. It seems to have been a newspaper meme.

The Dalles weekly chronicle, Oregon
Oct. 16, 1891
https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2003260222/1891-10-16/ed-1/seq-4.pdf

In Kansas mile after mile of side track is filled with cars loaded with wheat awaiting a chance to get into the markets. This fact seems to quiet the prating of those fellow who have been telling about the mortgages which these farmers couldn't pay. The Kansas papers seem to be having a picnic over these reports. It has gone thus far up to date:

When alliance orators talk about Kansas starving to death, every individual potato winks its eye. -State Journal.
And every stalk of corn pricks up its ears. -Wichita Eagle.
And every cabbage nods its head. -Lawrence Journal.
And every beet gets red in the face. -Clay Center Times.
And every squash crooks its neck. -Clyde Argus.
And every onion grows stronger. -Clifton Review.
And every fruit tree groans under its load. -Minneapolis Commercial.
And every field of wheat is shocked. -Leavenworth Times

Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, Volume 16, 1892
https://books.google.com/books?id=kyEqAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13

And the rye strokes its beard. -Philadelphia Press.
And every corn aches. -Millstone.
And every foot of land kicks. -Chicago Tribune.
And railroad stock bellows for more water.

The Rural New-Yorker, Volume 51, 1892
https://books.google.com/books?id=OjhHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA485&lpg=PA485

And the rye strokes is beard. -Farm Journal
And the egg plant gets purple with rage, the celery turns pale -- the cucumber only keeps cool.

blockquote italics

When I use the HTML "blockquote" tag in a post (as in my previous entry), the quoted section is not only indented, but also italicized. (For some reason, this has never bothered me until today.) This doesn't happen on non-DW pages, so must be due to the journal styling. Do any of you know a simple way to change my journal style to prevent the italicization, without totally changing the style?

Update:
I figured out how to fix it!
Under "Settings - Journal Style - Customize Your Theme - Custom CSS - Use embedded CSS", I added this:

blockquote
{
font-style: normal;
}

But now after having played around with the other links, I'm tempted to switch to a different journal style anyway, for a change.