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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1897
Page
6
A cigar dealer defends a Christmas joke about wives buying cigars for husbands. He says the tale has no real basis, noting many wives pick cigars well and that tobacconists recommend the right brands. The Chicago Times-Herald is cited on women giving cigars as gifts and husbands’ varying tastes.
A Mountaineer on a C&O train berates a quiet Louisville man in a comic exchange. The tall, tobacco chewing passenger questions the other’s origin, name, home, marriage, and children as the encounter grows tense before ending with a blunt remark about civility.
A visiting young minister endures a chilling welcome as a Boston Traveler tale recounts a village woman’s room full of sacred relics. She warns of deceased kin, spiritualist father, a doctor son, two skulls, bones in a cupboard, and hidden skeletons in the closet before bidding him good night.
The text explains heat measured as the energy to raise the temperature of water by one degree. It states that boiling a pound of water into steam requires 967 units of heat, meaning the same energy would raise 967 pounds of water by one degree.
A clever Yale student once outwitted exam surveillance by hiring a printer to wear white trousers and sit on the examination form at noon. The ink from the trousers stained the pages, exposing the stolen questions and sparing the cheating circle from punishment.
A New Jersey exploration describes how large artillery firings at Sandy Hook echo across Monmouth and beyond. The article notes distant booms heard 25 miles away, sea tremors felt at Red Bank, and the peculiar bouncy silt under Sandy Hook that transmits these vibrations. It links the phenomenon to flat land and underwater seabed history.
The article notes 600 monkeys arrive yearly mostly from Africa and India via Europe. Monkeys are sold to sailors, vessel captains, or European dealers. many are shipped in slatted boxes or roped on decks. The trade feeds showmen and organ grinders, with captive life varying from one to 15 years indoors, and breeding being rare.
The St Louis Globe Democrat reports that plains Indians often wed by a tribal ceremony with a chief approving and a dance determining divorce. Divorces can be rapid and informal, without courts or custody disputes, while later citizenship and land grants in severalty render tribal unions legally binding under court rulings.
Dr. D Sharp reports remarkable jumping cocoons from South Africa that can spring from small vessels. The pupae are enclosed in hard cocoons with a head chisel and hooks enabling forward ejection and repeated strikes to carve exits. The insect’s classification remains uncertain, likely an anomalous lepidopterous insect near Trichoptera and Adela.
A collage of light humor and quips from 19th and early 20th century papers. Jests about woolen cloth, misplaced objects, chic fads, apple brains, and social banter mix with brief tales and punny exchanges. Includes titbits from Harlem Life Chicago Record Brooklyn Life Detroit Free Press and Tit-Bits.
Dr. Suard reports a new fish species named Clarias Lazera from the Nioro district in French Soudan about 500 miles from the coast. It spends ten months on dry land, hides in ground holes during heat, and feeds mainly on millet seed each night.
A N Y Truth quips that Askins and Petty are of trifling importance. Grimshaw notes the joke turns on a character asking a question to elicit the point, likening it to a humor paragraph’s setup.
A dialogue from Household Words notes that oxygen is vital to life and was only identified about a century ago. A student asks what people did before its discovery, prompting the professor to explain the historical context and significance.
Switzerland relies on numerous small power plants fed by melting snow and mountain streams. Trams in Montreux and the Vevey-Chillon area are powered by local water, with long distance transmission enabling widespread light. The piece notes the potential for high head streams to supply energy and mentions a cure for grippe and a local drugstore advert.
Early reference traces nails from animal bone teeth and flint fragments to metal bronze. It notes Jael’s nail used to kill Sisera was a wooden pin likely iron tipped, and mentions bronze nails found in Swiss lake dwellings, sites in France, and the Nile valley.
For chest pain a dampened flannel with Chamberlain's Pain Balm bound over the pain and another on the back will give prompt relief. Useful when pain stems from a cold with pneumonia tendency. Sold by Emmett and Burrell druggists. Dr. W D Scott will visit Brewster house Mondays 2 to 8 pm.
The North Western Line arranges a personally conducted tour through Mexico led by Mr J J Grafton ex excursion manager. The party departs Chicago February 2 1897 aboard a vestibuled Palace car train for thirty days visiting major cities and sights with options to extend tickets. Pamphlets and rate information available from Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
Rural rail schedule data lists arrival and departure times for the Illinois Central trains from the west and east, noting daily stop patterns at Lena Warren and Galena, and Sunday exceptions. It includes morning and evening departures, overnight arrivals, and special services to Freeport and other points with notes on daily or weekly operation.
Passenger service operates on the Madison and Dodgeville lines with several trains daily. Freight trains run with limited passenger service on Sundays. connections exist to Milwaukee, Chicago, and other hubs. Through coaches link Rock Island, Milwaukee, and broader western routes with baggage checked to final destinations.
Gen P Pass and Tk Agi are listed in Chicago, with no additional readable context or details available from the fragment.
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