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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1897
Page
8
An article in Table Talk traces changes in social visiting etiquette. It notes women should be properly dressed for at home visits, use polite refusals when engaged, and limit formal calls to afternoons. Cards decline in use and hosts regulate entry, while hospitality expands through teas and receptions with flexible menus and décor reflecting modern sense and sincerity.
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recounts an old Harvard football man who mocked golf as a women’s game. On Morristown links he struggled through the early holes, tiring quickly while opponents stayed fresh. He finished the round exhausted and conceded golf requires endurance.
Residents report only one death in a decade as questions arise about the cause. A village doctor is mentioned as the deceased. authorities seek answers to whether nourishment or neglect influenced the outcome.
The item highlights Judge Ira C. Parker of Fort Smith famed for sentencing many murderers to death yet described as gentle. It also notes Talleyrand's youthful love, W. Lewis Fraser’s Canadian beginnings and New York life, and a Canadian widow’s dramatic Beaver Lake plunge. Additional notes cover miniature painting promoter Hugh Nicholson, Russia’s multiple horse sets for the czar, and West Virginia’s Coveland G. W. Atkinson’s career path and views on Congress.
In Lutte a mining town, copper is recovered from emerald water from the Anaconda and St. Lawrence mines. The process, begun this year, yields about 30,000 dollars monthly at a cost around 1,000. Previous operators leased the water, with Thomas Tedford earning large royalties and the copper valued high. Now the company uses acres of vats to extract copper from discarded iron, achieving about 86 percent copper content and selling to smelters, while the iron residue acts as flux improving ore value.
A biiy city rider debates the term ustulate meaning to scorch noting it is a less slangy option than scorch as printed in the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph dialogue.
The narrator recalls a fox hunt through Virginia pine lands in November. Dogs named for famous figures bay in a trail as riders press forward with riders tightening reins and bending low, eager as a cavalry unit about to charge. The scene blends hunting ritual with vivid, kinetic detail.
An elderly London former member of parliament, famed for opposing new science, dies preserving his stance as telegraph poles rise before his house. Asked to weigh in, he asserts telegraphs are fit only for letters and small bundles and will never move a cotton bale.
A Scotch writer argues Wales lies near London yet remains little known to outsiders. Despite proximity and a rich culture, Wales is rarely visited or written about, preserving its traditional language and customs and offering a unique, refreshing flavor.
In Cuba a network of caverns in marble rocks fills over time as land snails gather inside during dry seasons. Water dripping from cave ceilings deposits carbonate of lime, cementing shells into layers that gradually close the caves.
A confined eagle reportedly survived three weeks without food when keepers forgot to feed it. The bird later recovered strength and showed no signs of suffering from the abstinence.
A massive glacial bowlder, among the largest above ground in Pennsylvania, sits on Enos Stump’s Bucks County farm near Quakertown. It measures 56 feet long 46 feet wide and 14 feet thick signaling a relic from the ice age.
A Philadelphia Times discussion uses statistical tables to show that about one third of women who kill themselves are under 25. It notes that women more often use poison while men shoot themselves, and that poverty illness and desertion factor into the distress. A doctor cites cases of young strong women driven to despair by monotony and suffering, sometimes labeled by various terms but amounting to the same act.
An English journal notes the Chesapeake once famed for a 1813 clash with the British ship Shannon is now a working flour mill in Wickham Hampshire. Timbers from the ship, used to rebuild a local mill, still bear evidence of cannon shot and show how war materiel became civil infrastructure.
Washington Star notes talk of trusts and vast profits in capital markets. A cautious investor jokes that no matter gains, satisfaction eludes him while a friend touts government obligations as a new good thing, referencing a two cent stamp yielding a five dollar dividend.
In Cuba caves, land snails gather in vast numbers during the dry season. Water drips from ceilings, leaving carbonate of lime as it evaporates. The lime cements shell layers, creating stacked deposits that build up year after year.
A summary notes that medieval writers described three unicorn types. The magnificent white unicorn had a purple face blue eyes and a horn a yard long. The eglisserion resembled a large deer with a central sharp horn. The monoceror or common unicorn bore horns about 18 inches long and believed to kill an elephant.
The article explains the heavy costs tied to Archbishop appointments in England, with installation fees, courtly and royal expenses, and lavish gifts totaling around 10 000 dollars. It notes archbishops receive 75 000 dollars yearly and York 50 000 dollars, while family precedence and court etiquette stir further tensions among wives and daughters of peers.
A Washington Star reader column recalls comic barber shop episodes. A patron mislaid a diamond scarf pin and later found it in his trunk. A tailor’s son wrongly claimed a coat, then admitted the garment was his father’s. A mix up over coats ends with a police intervention and a tense escape.
In a humorous exchange the young doctor claims success from advice given to a patient. The old practitioner praises the diagnosis amid a running joke about diagnosing liver, stomach, heart, lung and brain trouble.
A promotional note asserts everyone will at some time benefit from drugs or medicine and emphasizes accessible pure products at fair prices. It urges readers to seek the right remedies without modesty about their needs.
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