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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
7
A Boston lawyer recalls a Capitol hearing where two southern members discussed Gemal Blood’s plantation in coded terms. The anecdote centers on measuring the distance between the major’s plantation and the general’s, a riddle the speaker could not solve while debating the bill.
An experienced dealer notes sapphires come in many colors and classifications. In Ceylon finest gems span soft velvet to near white, with peacock blue, greens, and yellows. White sapphires often show blue tints at depth. Red sapphires, or Ceylon rubies, fetch top value. Montana finds yield light blue to pink American gems, but deep blue and red stones remain elusive.
A Rockland young man claims his rooster showed inherited game traits by attacking a parlor mirror placed in the hen pen. The bird shattered glass and slats, leaving the owner amid dust and feathers and puzzled about how he faced the wrecked brake mirror.
Four Santa Fe engineers in Topeka swap tales of speed. The fourth recalls a moonlit run from Topeka to Emporia with engines pushed to the limit. He notes a shadow race beside the train as it stopped at Emporia, describing the silhouette as the phantom shadow of the train.
She asks about superstition while planning a birthday present a pocket knife. He doubts any knife chosen by a woman would harm friendship. The exchange ends with playful rescue of the idea amid light banter.
A Chicago Tribune snippet shows an Athletic Applicant boasting he can adapt to a strong man act and shrink to a living skeleton within a month, while the manager counters with confidence in his current attraction. The dialogue highlights theatrical vaudeville ambitions and the era’s showbiz hustle.
Dicky argues that people should live to help one another while the father concedes aid would bring him more benefit. The exchange reveals a debate over generosity versus self interest within a Chicago setting.
The article notes an ancient practice where oriental monarchs, including Chinese emperors, rewarded messengers who delivered good news and punished those who delivered bad news. The custom reflects courtly incentives and control over information in imperial governance.
A wealthy but stubborn Detroit resident recounts his disdain for social life and admiration for his steel pen coat while detailing how a costly butler upended his plans. He recalls friction with family, a stiff backed servant, and the narrator’s clash with changing social expectations amid hospital bills and lumber camp days.
Mrs. Humphry Ward recalls Charlotte Bronte in a biographical intro to Vilette. In 1851 Bronte visited London after refusals, met Thackeray post lecture, and, though flattered, she was nearly offended by the unexpected attention and comments on self control.
A humorous dialogue shows Mrs Hohmboddie demanding payment for a milliner bill and fabric with six yards of love ly material while Mr Wohmboddie resists, noting a tonic renewal costs $1.50 and seems like throwing money away. The exchange blends budget woes with domestic tiffs and a tongue in cheek courtroom judge commentary.
In Maitland Leroy Osborne’s National Magazine piece, P T Barnum’s playful deception centers on a local court case. He offers to defend a financially strapped defendant and delivers a grand, misleading plea accusing him of various crimes, then retreats with an explanation that he prepared defenses for two clients and delivered the wrong plea for the case.
A Memphis Scimitar report notes a clerk miswrote a case label on a produce order. The card read Guaranteed but was changed to Quarantined, leading to a prompt call from a purchaser who distrusted the designation. The error stemmed from the clerk miswriting the term, prompting questions about disease containment.
A humor item recalls Yesterday Lo meeting George as a streetcar passenger got on and exchanged greetings. The reply flips as Today To meets him while getting off and jokes about putting his mother in law on the car, reflecting a light city anecdote from the Chicago Record.
In Nassau, capital of the Bahamas, a single vast silk cotton tree dominates the public square. Known as the hurricane tree, its buttressed trunk resists wind and its massive branches offer shade to crowds. Its age spans hundreds or thousands of years, with historical notes and a long memory among islanders.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt, John Brough ridicules Tom Corwin over a carriage claimed as a home industry symbol. Corwin, flustered, concedes the point and defends the heirloom as an English ancestor’s gift unused for seven years, joking about Brough’s knowledge of his closet.
The Cresta run at St. Moritz in the Swiss Alps is a one mile long winter slide prepared by a committee. Swiss toboggans are wood with iron runners, riders lie prone head forward, feet steer, and expert racers use foot work sparingly to gain speed. The run can be completed in 70 seconds and reaches a mile a minute at the steepest section.
An old fable narrates an ass cloaked in a lion skin fearing a tiger. He turns away to appear fierce, plans to surprise the tiger from behind, but the tiger’s predatory stance ends in the ass’s downfall. The moral warns that attacking the enemy from the rear is unsafe and highlights caution in deceit.
Two cowboys with dynamite on a trek across the territory found the Hualipi mine seven miles north of Kingman Virginia. An accidental explosion scattered the dynamite, yielding an unexpected veld mine worth as much as 825000 a ton.
The passage asserts that glassmaking ranks among the oldest technical industries and credits it with much of human comfort and progress. It notes Egypt as the earliest home of glassmaking, highlighting its long history and foundational role in material culture.
The famed Versailles gardens are reported to have cost eight million pounds, reflecting a historic expenditure on landscape work and related royal project assets.
A Washington Times reminiscence recalls a southern family’s postwar encounter with a former slave named Eph. The old man stayed on the land after emancipation, arguing the three and four plan allowed him four loads of corn for every three grown while the master kept three. Eph produced two loads in harvest, prompting the master to question the arrangement. Eph’s reply clarifies the terms as per their bargain.
A selection of anecdotes about the English wit Douglas Jerrold shows humor and wit at a dinner where a man praises sheep's head prompting Jerrold to quip egotism. Another tale has Jerrold in a drive with a spendthrift and his grays, as Jerrold remarks he thinks of the debtor rather than the horses.
Question Answered. Yes, August Flower has the largest sale of any medicine in the civilized world. It claims to cure indigestion, nervous prostration, and other ailments by cleansing the system and regulating liver function. Sample bottles are available at Joseph Emmert's.
The Century accepted Thomas Nelson Page's short story Marie Chan but six years passed before publication. It became a hit, easing his entry into literature after a discouraging early phase reported by the New York World.
Lewis Ackerman of Goshen Indiana praises DeWitt’s Little Early Risers as relief for headaches and gentle bowel cleansing. Eugene J Hall credits Foley’s Honey and Tar with restoring his voice amid hoarseness for a Chicago lecture. Tsou-Hsi, empress dowager of China, is described as a mysterious figure sometimes called Agrippina or Maria Theresa.
An old clipping notes claims about kidney disease treatment by Woley's Kidney Cure and a testimonial praising Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatism. It mentions a petition from Italian hotel proprietors seeking protection for foreign travelers and lists local merchants and doctors including Emmert, Rideout, and others. The tone is a fragmentary advertorial collage typical of early 20th century notices.
The old council rooms in the Fry block are being remodeled by carpenters for Drs Caldwell Stealy and Firestone. They will relocate around April 1 and gain more space and modern conveniences in their new quarters.
Hair work advertisement notes offerings by Mrs. A C Thomas at 255 Galena, listing many styles and services. The short notice presents a local tradesperson advertising custom hair pieces and related styling.
The Chicago Tribune highlights Old Weber Ricks as the patriarch of perhaps the largest Mormon family. At 77 he leads 12 wives, 66 children, and 218 grandchildren from Snake Valley near the Wyoming border. He speaks with Mormon leaders on religion and business and is linked to descendants in Alberta Canada and Chihuahua Mexico.
People with kidney diseases suffer a gradual loss of vitality and should seek Foley's Kidney Cure promptly. The ad guarantees results and is promoted by H. J. Moogk, Wm F. Jungkunz & Co.
Mexico city reports 411 artesian wells and Toronto lists a population near 250000 in a new directory. English collieries employ over 885000, Brooklyn has 31000 apartment houses and 500000 tenement dwellers, and postwar Negro education has cost the south about 100000000. An Edinburgh professor cites the morning dram as a national curse while a Michigan company proposes 40000 volt electric service over ninety miles. Mexico sold the U S oranges worth about 50000 last October vs 16000 in 1898 October.
An advertisement touts Banner Salve as the best salve in the world made from a prescription by a renowned skin specialist. It claims to heal piles burns scalds ulcers running sores and all skin diseases with names H J Moogh and Wm F. presented.
A notorious poor shot invited friends to dine and showed a barn door with a bullseye and a shot hole. He claimed a 1000 yard shot and bet an oyster supper. Two witnesses confirmed the feat, then he revealed the trick: he fired at the door and painted the target around the hole.
Try Grain O a new food drink that replaces coffee for all ages. It resembles the rich color of Mocha and Java but is made from pure grains and gentle on the stomach. Priced 15c and 25c per package. sold by all grocers.
Poem fragment recalls the sea coast and nature as the speaker longs for the returning charm of the east wind. The piece blends personal memory with longing and imagery of spray, trees, and whistling wind.
An ad urges using Allen's Foot Ease to cool and soothe hot swollen feet, ease tiredness, blisters, and bunions, and to relieve painful coins. It notes a 25-cent price with a free trial package, and provides the seller address in Le Roy New York. Also mentions Banner Salve by H J Moogh W F Jungkunz Co for burns cuts and sores.
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