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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1881
Page
8
A vivid collage of snippets shows comic observations on language, manners, and mischief. It notes an Indianapolis tramp with almanacs, an Avon profanity fine, a theater warning, and a tense exchange with a Marseilles judge. The piece blends humor with small-town justice.
A New York correspondent notes red-headed women are rising in fashion while blondes recede. Bleaching and dyeing are required, but true red tones resist imitation. Hair styles shift from high, voluminous purls to flat, elaborate coiffures and carefully chosen colors enhance red hair.
In Bohemia the weavers suffer severe poverty while in Upper Silesia Prussia peasantry shows improvement. The summary notes no grain no potatoes no fodder and no seed for sowing with cold and hunger inside. Soup houses and public kitchens open in seventeen villages.
A white pine in Crystal Spring Yates County New York was felled recently. The tree was sound and vigorous thirteen feet in circumference at the base and about 200 feet tall. The rings indicate 315 years of age and about 4000 feet of lumber are expected from the trunk.
A Country Gentleman correspondent argues that turkeys should not be confined in buildings and outlines a two story poultry house 12 by 9 feet with an underground lower room for laying hens and an airy upper coop for chicks. It emphasizes sun exposure warmth and simple management to raise many eggs and chicks with reduced labor and cost.
A western minister issues a sarcastic price list for marriage services with fees like two dollars for a plain ceremony and extra charges for kissing the bride and attendants. The piece ridicules fees and conditions before quoting a Massachusetts Supreme Court ruling on a country surgeon, noting it limits expectations of extraordinary skill.
Duluth loses city charter after failing to pay debts, becoming a village. The Advance notes a sharp social axiom about early risers while reflecting on bondholders left in the lurch as the town shifts to village status.
Hon. Robert M. Cutter, long-time Nova Scotia Legislator, in his 97th year, travelled nearly 200 miles to the Legislative Chamber. He served in the House of Assembly sixty-two years ago and has sat on the Legislative Council for forty-three years.
A collection of plain housewifely tips and recipes including a delicate white sponge cake recipe using egg whites and cream of tartar a kerosene furniture cleaner a mustard dressing for pickles and table mustard sewing apron design and ideas homemade candy caramel and vanilla flavoring a side dish of steamed oatmeal sliced and fried codfish preparations mackerel serving ideas and simple kitchen experiments attributed to household writers.
A nameless, homeless man wandered into the Third District station in St Louis and claimed he would commit murder. He taunted the sergeant and warned of “gore in a graveyard” while promising to return with a double death by his own action, but disappeared before any action was taken.
The London Lancet extols Spring Blossom as a cure for bilious fever indigestion and liver complaints. It claims moral courage by sufferers saves lives and offers the remedy at 50 cents with trial bottles at 10 cents.
Jones who frequents the lodge says Mrs J could give the nihilists several points on blowing up. The remark appears in a clipped report noting the speaker’s controversial stance and associations.
A letter exchanges claim that Mr Godfrey was entirely cured in ten days using Hop Bitters after doctors gave him up. The Salem Post reports a Minnesota family surviving thirteen days on frozen apples and popcorn with no weight loss. Also noted are wasted leather scraps and a London suburb celery garden of forty six acres yielding about half a million plants annually.
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