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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1897
Page
8
A New York Journal note recounts a comically sharp confrontation between a landlady and a polite but frugal boarder. The boarder proposes to stay two more months to settle three months of bills, citing poor fare and rough lodging as leverage.
Mrs. Porter of the Ladies' Home Journal describes the empress as tall for a Japanese woman with a delicate waist, long pale face, and jet black hair. She notes the empress’s refined features, long eyes, and slender hands, and details her cherry blossom garden party gown in soft brocade and silk with a Parisian bonnet and a matching parasol.
The record details H A Grant’s early debating career at the Philo Mathean Debating Club in Mayville Kentucky during the 1837 season. He argued affirmatives on several timely issues, served on a committee, and appeared active through March 27 1837 before disappearing from later records, likely returning home to harvest crops.
A 15 year old Clem Wallis was kicked by a colt 45 years ago in Maine. The head injury left him mentally altered, wandering and mocked by locals. Recent brain surgery relieved pressure from a skull bruise, restoring reason. his first question on waking was whether the colt got away, leaving 45 years of memory missing.
The article describes a daily Egypt phenomenon where after sunset darkness lasts 20 to 30 minutes then hills and sands glow with golden purple orange and lilac hues. The skies brighten briefly as if the sun rises in the west before fading back to darkness.
Early explorers describe a transparent colorless glass filled with a liquid that held apparent fish when poured. The effect came from the glass itself, not the fluid. The Chinese said they did not manufacture the glass but possessed it as plunder from a distant conquest.
A remark asserts Switzerland is the only civilized country in the world that grants no patents for inventions. The statement contrasts Swiss policy with other nations and frames patent absence as a unique feature of Swiss progress.
An elderly southern lady, famed for wearing decollete gowns at eighty, enjoyed exceptional charm and flattery. Her peculiar ball-prep involved a brisk morning walk, controlled meals, hot perspiration tea, and a lengthy toilette, all treated as solemn rites by her household.
A son born Sunday November 15 in Oakland to Matsuko Yamagata daughter of Marquis Yamagata field marshal of Japan and wife of Yoshiro Funakoshi vice consul of Japan. Weight nine pounds mother and child reported well.
Government geologist W. Hallock reports well temperature readings from Wheeling deep wells. At 1 800 feet the thermometer reached 20.4 C, at 2 000 feet 32.2 C, and near the bottom at 4 550 feet the temperature rose to 43.4 C, illustrating a steep geothermal gradient in these deep boreholes.
Scientists Profs. Fischer and Tafel in the University of Wurzburg laboratory create a chemical sugar with all properties and appearances of natural sugar but lacking the ability to rotate polarized light.
Report notes that a first class Atlantic steamer requires one hundred twenty firemen to feed its furnaces, reflecting crew size standards for large ocean vessels.
A New York Tribune summary of the Palmer case. Trust deposits placed in savings banks belong to beneficiaries and must be paid to them on the trustee's death, despite the trustee drawing on them in life. Banks like Bowery Savings report many trust accounts, often restricted to family members, with motives ranging from child allowances to spousal provisions.
A massive red fir slab from Loop's Ranch Forks Whatcom county Washington is set on the sidewalk edge. The inscription details the tree as 465 feet tall 220 feet to the first limb 83 feet 11 inches around at the base and about 480 years old. If cut into lumber it would yield 96845 feet and could build eight two story cottages.
The proposed device uses a buoy on a long rope attached to the deck. if a ship sinks the buoy surfaces while the rope uncoils as the descent cage lowers. Critics warn rope entanglement with rigging could drag the buoy down amid swirling water, limiting usefulness. Also notes Don Quixote’s horse and Sancho Panza’s donkey as famous literary references.
A Philadelphia Telegraph summary notes Northwich England as a salt district with constant subsidence. Houses lean and streets warp as brine pumps lower the ground. Submerged mines create ponds and bridges where roads once ran, with wooden frames used to extend building life amid shifting earth.
In London society a daughter of Princess Beatrice and Prince Henry of Battenberg is named Victoria Eugenie and seen as a future heiress. Rumors say ex Empress Eugenie will leave much of her fortune to the child, and Queen Victoria may have bequeathed Osborne and Balmoral to Beatrice. Victoria Eugenie may share the fortune with her brothers.
A fragment from the Detroit Tribune opens with a pugilist speaking of fighting to protect his child, then shifts to a scientific note on snakes and jaw mechanics allowing them to swallow prey larger than their own girth. The tone mixes boxing bravado with natural history.
Paris police statistics on professional murderers over 30 years reveal average profit per crime at nine to ten shillings. Notable gains like £200 or £1,400 are rare and many killers end up with little or nothing, questioning the notion that assassins profit from their crimes.
From a clay nucleus the sculptor builds a full model using a strong iron frame. Wet clay is kept moist by hose and sprinkler to prevent cracking. A live model sits astride a dummy horse, then is dressed in the general’s uniform as the figure is finished with careful attention to the face and likeness.
A light exchange on sun exposure ends with Doris recalling her wax figure and a playful reference to melted wax. The dialogue shifts to a data curio noting 14 980 football clubs in the country from last year.
A confident notice promises access to pure drugs and medicines at proper prices. It claims the sellers are not modest about providing what customers want and emphasizes readiness to supply desired remedies.
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