12 Apr 1871
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1871
Page
1
For the Farmer announces a department inviting Stephenson County farmers to submit articles on farming topics. Readers are urged to write plainly and use only one side of the paper, with content connected to local farming concerns for publication.
A collection of kitchen instructions and food preparation tips describing beverages and baked goods such as cherry juice cordial, hominy cakes, English biscuits, and doughnuts, plus methods for early vegetables and improvised growing in tubs and raised beds. Includes process steps, ingredients, and cooking times.
A Cincinnati reader pens a comically vivid field note about a notorious creature nicknamed The Ant Hater. He describes a cussed snub-sided top-eared bearded hog that haunts cornfields, climbs fences, burglarizes in winter, and has suffered injuries from dogs and bullets. The writer asks agricultural columnist Korron-Dear for guidance on whether this beast might be a Thin-Rind variety.
Deep ploughing rewards labor while shallow furrows yield little. Farmers in civilized lands increasingly use deep plows and subsoil work to air the soil, drain water, and spread roots. Horace Greeley noted drainage in Europe, and Lombardy’s irrigation inspired proverbs on damming to avoid farm ruin.
United States crops show sufficient overall yield with large corn stock and export surplus. Wheat slightly down but quality improves. rice and sugar crops favorable. potato harvest deficient from Mississippi to Atlantic. apple crop exceeds expectations in New England while Southern sugar gains steady. Fat cattle supply rises in the West aided by Texas receipts.
A fable about a farmer who helps a treacherous serpent and learns harsh rewards. An old horse and a hunting dog blame their fates, while a fox cunningly seizes the chance to escape. A wife’s interference seals the fox’s fate as the farmer keeps his word. A separate note describes a Washington pneumonia case with a telegraph diagnosed treatment from New York to the patient.
A fragmented, satirical list of slogans and jokes on life, money, manners, and society. References include references to Quaker coats, sun and snow, chloroform, rent collection, Baez, Paris, pig iron whistles, Bridget jokes, religion, and a mix of puns and pointed lines. The piece reads like a column of quick one liners, with occasional political and social nods. The item presents as a playful, irreverent clipping from a newspaper page.
A survey of girdles and rings from ancient to medieval times. Necklaces gifted by royalty, belts worn as status symbols, and rings with symbolic or magical associations. Notable figures include Agnes Sorrel, Charles VII, Elizabeth I, Queen Isabella II, and papal rings.
A sprawling, satirical piece catalogs jokes and wry anecdotes from a period newspaper. It touches on marriage, gossip, and social stereotypes, including a long passage about squaws and Injun life, punctuated by humor and quips about lawyers and a courtroom scene.
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