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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1869
Page
7
A long verse reflecting Iowa farm life with John the farmer and his wife, praising honest labor and nature. The speaker contrasts rural virtue with urban wealth, urging education for both farmer and artisan while celebrating the farmer’s family and moral resilience.
A historical reminder links early death and illness to cold exposure and sudden rewarming after exercise. The piece cites cases from Douglas to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, warning that chills after exertion or outdoor exposure can trigger consumption and related diseases, and advises gradual warming after returning indoors.
A long extract cites numerous cases of people buried alive from 18th and 19th century Europe and America. It mentions a Paris woman mistaken for dead awakened by a taper fire, a street porter in Paris reviving in his grave, an abbé Prevot misdiagnosed as dead, a St. Come Hospital maid twice buried, and a Lyon lawyer’s wife who recovered upon hearing cymbals. The piece warns physicians to be cautious issuing death certificates and calls for thorough postmortem examination.
The author argues constitutional temperament can predispose to intemperance and highlights excitable natures as more prone to drink. War era excitement, public festivities, sedentary trades, cold weather, fatigue, overwork, and occupational atmospheres foster craving. Tobacco use and physician reliance on alcohol as remedy are cited as fueling habits and harming digestion and vigor.
A collage of numerical notes covers costs populations births and projects across nations and cities. It cites Isthmus Canal cost estimates, railroad and bank figures, hotel takings during inaugurations, and church mission baptism totals alongside curious trivia on animals coins and odd jobs.
In a rainy afternoon plan, seven boys stage a makeshift theatre in a stable loft. Pepper Whitcomb is accidentally struck by an arrow during William Tell, causing embarrassment and a lasting memory in a tale of youth theatricals and mishaps.
The Norwich bulletin reports Isaac Pickering of Brooklyn Connecticut had long joked about digging his own grave. A neighbor offered help, they dug at his wife's grave plot, and after signaling his plan he shot himself in the temple beside the cemetery. Local boys witnessed parts of the scene.
A prank advertisement allegedly from a chief clerk lured many into offering a wood wanted for a project. The victim faced visits from dozens of cat-wielding suitors and letters over a week while seeking the imagined bid. He seeks the perpetrator as the affair ends in a costly bother. Mrs Joone wins $10,000 for her husband’s railroad death damages from Toulsville and Rattice Railroad.
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