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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1897
Page
3
A Confederate agent in London miscommunicates via a heterophemist error, turning a planned successful message into a failed aid effort. Memminger explains the mix up after the agent’s return, noting that swapped place names and terms doomed the diplomacy and the Union survives.
The verse passage describes a trumpet's blast and a Cupid figure in a street theater of city and country. It contrasts youthful faces with merry wit and a whimsical journey from urban bustle to green hills and quail-filled dales. Arthur Grissom writes this in the New York Tribune.
Jim Berry, hunting in Maine about 40 miles north of Greenville, encountered a wounded lynx after a bear rested at a caribou carcass. With his buckshot gun failing to subdue the animal, Berry clubbed the cat, suffered a leg wound, and finally killed the lynx with a revolver bullet after a fierce exchange.
The piece argues that commercial ethics in Japan lag behind other nations. It cites Kobe editor Robert Young noting traders often act to outdo foreigners and break engagements for profit. He warns foreign buyers face unreliable goods unless public opinion shifts and a trader’s conscience awakens to enforce honest commerce.
Two coworkers at a luncheon discuss Mary resigning and getting married to a man who reportedly bought an engagement ring by selling his bicycle. They debate his commitment as one says he proved his love, while the other remains skeptical about appearances.
A father consoles his son over Latin lessons as he explains amo amas amat and the trouble of the verb to love. The dialogue, breezy and humorous, ends with the warning that difficulties lie ahead and studying now saves trouble later.
On the Himalayas slope, native women swaddle babies and place them under a rock ledge where water drips on their foreheads. The soothing dripping water lulls the infants to sleep while mothers work in the fields. They are later unwrapped, dried, and fed upon return.
The narrator describes a queer African ant species called bashikonay that forms a continuous forest marching line two inches wide, often miles long. Officers, depicted as large and fierce ants, maintain order along the column during the march.
A discussion of gender color favorites shows blue dominates masculine choice while red leads among women with blue violet and pink among other preferences. The piece notes men favor darker colors and women mix lighter shades, and cites Jastrow data from Popular Science Monthly. It also compares speeds: sound 12.5 miles per minute, rifle bullet 16.5, light circling the globe twice in a minute, and electricity traversing the earth 11.3 times in 60 seconds.
In the south of France a polite phrase about a young lady leaving a gentleman signals she tires of his company. An ordinary dry tablespoonful of common salt weighs nearly one ounce, illustrating curious everyday measurements.
A snippet from the Detroit Free Press includes a humorous exchange about a hat and age, followed by a zoological and technical aside. The text mentions a bluebottle fly as a meat fly and notes a brick weight of about four pounds, giving a mishmash of unrelated statements with no clear event.
Professor Mahaffy notes French could have been the world language if not for revolution and France’s decline. English and German rivalry pushed rivals up, eroding the idea that multilingual reading unlocked European learning. Now knowledge spreads in Italian Greek Dutch Russian and Hungarian sources, with Russian and Hungarian works shaping science and politics.
The Aluminum World claims aluminium plates may replace lithographic stones, with zinc found unreliable for consistent results. Aluminium absorbs fats like stone, enabling high quality printing. Aluminium is used for racing skates, toilet articles, razor handles, hairpins, and pens. Companies offer aluminium guitars, banjos, mandolins, and latinas made from a single sheet, satin finished for beauty and a robust tone.
The text frames capitalists as savers who discern public wants, noting that most business men fail due to lack of diligence. It argues only a tiny minority achieve fortune, labelling them explorers of the race, whose delicate, minute conditions of success are tested in hard times and unknown to most advisors.
Good health is the best endowment. Those who have it cannot be too careful to preserve it. Constipation is the worst enemy of good health. It causes nearly every disorder known to physicians. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are a sure, swift, safe and permanent cure for constipation. One little Pellet is a gentle laxative, and two a mild cathartic. They never gripe. Druggists sell them.
E L Godkin notes in Atlantic Monthly that many discuss how a business should be run rather than how to actually run it. He argues true happiness would follow if more could do rather than tell others how to act, highlighting the value of practical skill over armchair guidance.
A historical note traces the cocktail to medical remedies once applied as a gargle with a feathered cock’s tail tip. The gargle evolved into a bitters and vermouth mix, later becoming the cocktail beloved in American bars.
A Cleveland Leader passage reflects a child’s anxious home life as a parent’s absence at supper triggers tears and a late night refrain with a child slipping off to bed without prayers. The fragment hints at family tension and childlike ritual amid uncertainty.
A Detroit Free Press item quotes a caller praising an old master work as genuine and promising to return it for repainting and a new frame. The passage also notes symbolic value of corn tassels and a note on fencing wire efficiency, stating that 18 pounds of wire cover 100 feet of three line barbed fencing.
Bucklen Arnica Salve advertised as the best salve for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee if not satisfied. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by Emmert and Burrell.
A Yonkers Statesman item notes a teacher asking pupils to name a noise and a girl with older sisters replies a kiss. The anecdote highlights a child’s innocent interpretation of sounds and social cues in class.
Perry and Cameron, leading druggists of Flushing Michigan, state they have no hesitation recommending Chamberlain's Cough Remedy to customers as the best cough medicine they have ever sold and always satisfactory. For sale at 25 and 60 cents per bottle by Emmert and Burrell, druggists.
A humorous ad cites Chamberlains Pain Balm for chest and back pain tied to cold and pneumonia risk. It promotes prompt relief and notes Emmert and Burrell, druggists, sell the product.
James Manson, tax collector, announces new office in the rear of the First National Bank to collect town taxes for Freeport for the year 1896. Citizens urged to pay promptly.
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