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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1873
Page
6
On a rainy Saturday John cheers ailing Peter by promising weekly lessons at home. John crafts a small boat with Peter and teaches him to read, earning family pride as the boat named Happy Hours is launched on the pond.
A collection of humorous disguise suggestions from several papers for a man to wear at a masquerade, including chalking the head as a billiard cue and wrapping in an American flag. The item notes a Pittsburg freight train carrying 1200 hogs and 200 cattle smothered in a recent accident, urging the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to address car crowding and animal deaths.
A poverty stricken clerk applies for a post at a big employer but is told no vacancy exists. He quotes Scripture on leaving, prompting a retort about not quoting Shakespeare and asking what he cannot provide.
In Lawrence Kansas a Sunday school teacher notices a boy’s smile and presses him about it. The boy finally blurts out that he’s glimpsed her newspapers sticking out. The teacher, startled, sits down to collect herself and continues the lesson.
A Nashville clergyman, frustrated by dogmas and church restraints, considers starting a church enterprise on his own account. He laments the cramped ministerial functions and restricted liberty, describing his experience as painful and constraining.
A speaker jokes about a man named Gaudam in Lock Haven and suggests the name would be fitting for a church deacon. The preacher calls for respect and mockingly notes how Gaudam could have his name altered to sound more reverent.
Willian HW Crawford a clerk at New Haven married the daughter of his boarding mistress. After six months the couple lived with the elder couple until one morning the wife awoke to find her husband gone along with a diamond ring a gold watch and 230 dollars.
An Englishman tells his steward he will host a clerical company for dinner. He notes high church men demand more wine while low church men require more food, and the steward asks what difference it makes.
A Utica youth conducted an unusual test involving a cat while noting the missing owner of the animal. The incident centers on the experimental aim and the cat's condition during the ordeal.
The Orator Daniel Daugherty argues that the printing press has surpassed oratory in influence. He claims oratory's era is ending as the press reaches vast audiences daily, shaping nations and future leaders, while urging honest press duty for national honor and public welfare.
A Memphis gro cer representative named Mahan lunched with and stayed at the McRea mansion near Turonga Cross county Arkansas. After a night of hospitality he awoke to McRea wielding a bludgeon and fired two shots. Mahan escaped to Memphis, though wounded. A second humorous anecdote about a Virginia enslaved cook and a Norfolk hotel visit follows.
The New York Sun reports a growing English agitation over criminal negligence by shipowners who send overloaded unsafe vessels to sea. MP Plimsoll pushes for an official inquiry and warned of resigning his seat if blocked. he secured a royal commission into commercial marine practices.
A troublesome ghost in Savannah appears as a man and terrifies tenants by moving objects and slamming doors. The specter reveals a gash on its throat before decapitating itself, sending the mother of a group of children into a faint. The family plans to move as the mystery remains unsolved.
A San Francisco schoolmaster named Mr True is charged with crude dining conduct. The article questions whether a man who clasps his meal with a pocket knife and fingers is fit for polite company or the standards of his profession.
Postal records show deliveries to Freeport Pontomea with times noted as 900 pm 125 pt 180 pm and 2 pm. The garbled entry records multiple mail arrivals and stamps during the day.
A Master in Chancery named P Stadtei oversees a sale in a Chancery matter titled aunt Atkins and thuvching with Compit's sulelttore named as the successor party. The notice implies a legal foreclosure or equity sale under court authority.
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