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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1905
Page
8
A bedraggled hobo pleads for a ride to Syracuse to die. The sergeant and conductor show him rare kindness, delaying punishment and arranging transit moments before he dies on the way, leaving a final dream of home and mother unfulfilled.
A drifting man explains how years on the tramp led him to abandon news and policies, then return in a moment of reading about his governor and a missing son. He recalls fleeing to Syracuse on a freight car roof, risking arrest for theft of a ride, urged by the urge to reconnect with family and face possible burial alongside kin.
In Parliament, Sheridan opposed bribery by the treasury secretary John Robinson. He denounced the system with a fiery impeachment plea, prompting the house to demand a specific name. His restraint, guided by propriety, kept him from naming the offending official.
A Southern Educational conference secretary pats a Mobile colored boy on the head after an exam joke about biblical commandments and the number of communions. The boy who failed recalls ten as the answer and jokes about the examiner’s hundred.
Washington D C The cabbage hair worm known as the cabbage snake is declared harmless by the bureau of entomology of the United States department of agriculture after extensive tests on animals and widespread rumors of poisoning and crop damage. While rumors reduced cabbage consumption, actual crop losses occurred across Tennessee Missouri Iowa West Virginia and Virginia with many growers affected. The circular urges public records and factual reporting to counter the scare and suggests soil humus building practices to restore crop health.
Bailey discusses garden crops with dainty stalks resembling beets and notes a single common beetlike variety in the country, while France and Germany grow several. The piece then explains sheep manure as a hot, rapidly fermenting fertilizer rich in minerals and prone to ammonia loss, contrasting with horse manure.
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