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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1877
Page
2
James Russell Lowell’s temperance poem urges readers to choose truth over falsehood in the struggle against intemperance and slavery. It calls for steadfast courage, moral steadfastness, and alignment with justice, likening freedom to a guiding light through darkness.
An account of a Berkeley Street Church gathering where Moody questioned if twenty four pledged youths were converted. Mr Story, once the worst drunkard in New York, testified of his year without wine and the transformative power of Christ, urging abstinence and conversion over mere reform.
The Chicago National Reform Convention met in Farwell Hall on April 10 and 11 with over a hundred delegates from Illinois Wisconsin and Iowa. Jonathan Edwards was chosen chairman and Dr Casnon of Wisconsin secretary. Resolutions urged Christian influence in government Bible in schools and a constitutional amendment aligning law with religious principles. A Dublin petition seeks Sunday closing of whisky shops and anti exemption protests from large towns were noted.
A drunken man collapsed on the track as a switch engine loomed, but a night watchman found him and roused him. The man awoke sober and, if not discovered, could have died under the moving gears. The incident raises questions of responsibility over the near-tragic lapse.
In Springfield the revenue bill dominated week long sessions as senators struggled over taxing capital stock and railroads. Hanna urged reform while Whiting argued the law already favored compliance. a five member committee was formed to resolve the standoff. Penitentiary questions drew executive action amid Senate hesitation. The southern penitentiary bill passed the house amid disputes over funding. Military code advances, appropriations delays, and farmer activism followed as senators navigate railroad influence and grain inspection repeal. Senators Oglesby and Davis visited, with Davis asserting GOP support from Hayes.
Report details membership totals for the Grand Encampment of Minors and finances. Includes year gain, withdrawals, expulsions, deaths, total net gain, and relief payments for Pillar merchants. notes next annual session to be held in Belleville on Oct 0, 1877.
A Detroit lawyer quips about legal rights in a curbside dispute over a neighbor placing a structure two feet from a house. The client argues symmetry, the lawyer counters with a blunt analogy about placing a barrier on the other side, underscoring that law favors the speaker in theory.
The San Francisco press reports a harsh farming year across California with one third of wheat and barley acreage beyond threshing viability and another third in danger. Drought, rust, mildew, white rust, and crickets menace grain while potato rot hits San Mateo. Sheep losses exceed 300,000 due to scarce pasturage, likely reducing the state flock from eight to seven million.
A San Antonio resident spots a tramp in the backyard trying to steal. The man confronts him at the back, the tramp replies he wanted the front door, and the owner returns with a shotgun. Mrs Partington recalls prewar skies and comic tales, while a boy mourning a pet goldfish recalls a joke that went too far.
Symptoms describe right side rib edge pain and shoulder apex pain, appetite loss, general sickness, poor memory, fatigue, cold feet, and moodiness. Mentions ague and fever, and recommends Dr C M Lang’s Liver Pints with Quinine, claiming strong results and urging authentic product be bought from Fleming Bros Pittsburgh.
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