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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1879
Page
6
Fragmented excerpt discusses horse breeding, training harms, and prices, then shifts to coffee processing and polishing methods. Mentions mare and roadster horses, training injury, and later describes machinery used to clean and polish coffee beans.
The Iron King of Wales, Mr Robert Crawshay, head of the Cyfarthfa Iron Works, died reputedly leaving an estate of five to ten million pounds. His family ran the vast works for generations, employing about five thousand men and impacting twenty thousand dependents. He loved horticulture, photography, and music, maintained a brass band, and produced acclaimed landscape photographs despite being stone deaf.
A London gentleman dies after delirium tremens induces madness and a fit of destruction. His wife gathers torn will fragments scattered on the floor and, after medical proof of delirium, the will is admitted to probate. The report notes Alabama has over 4,000,000 acres open to homestead or entry.
A. H. Wise, once a merchant, has added eighty acres near Freeport and pursues health and breeding of top cattle, sheep, and swine. His short horns, South Down sheep, and Berkshire pigs are highlighted as premier stock. Visitors are invited to view the celebrated glen and animals. Wise is praised for integrity and successful venture. The August Atlantic features Mrs. E R Lee's poem The Deserted Cabin.
A San Francisco saloon keeper records how different nationalities handle a beer with a fly on the froth in hot weather. An American tilts and blows it away, an Irishman uses fingers, a Frenchman asks for 41 spoons, a Spaniard pays and leaves, a Dutchman swallows it, and a Russian seizes the fly and drinks.
Directory lists multiple church congregations with service times and locations, plus city offices and officials including mayor Cronkrite, city clerk Trembor, treasurer Ratz, city attorney Kean, marshal Rogers, street commissioner, surveyor Josel, and aldersmen by ward.
Listing of county officers with names and titles including Clerk KLECKNER Treasurer HUTCHISON Recorder BREWSTER Sheriff LEIGH and Board of Education with President BARTLETT and Superintendent SNYDER. Offices are in the Court House and High School building with hours from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.
A Western Union time card lists eastbound trains with morning and afternoon departures from Freeport Racine Milwaukee and Chicago routes. Freight and livestock moves appear with fare and arrival times. Chicago and Illinois Central timetables show additional south and east passenger departures and close times for each line.
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