07 Aug 1878
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1878
Page
1
A poem set under a maple tree in praise of a robin redbreast singing through bright hours. The speaker invites Bess and a child to hear the bird’s tale as blossoms, perfumes, and tropical air surround them at the window.
In 1778 near Boonesborough, Anne Medway and Jessie Moss are captured by Shawnee while crossing the Kentucky river. Major Henry Smith pursues with borderers, trailing through rough terrain. Smith ambushes the captors, frees the girls, and the party reaches Boonesborough after a deadly confrontation with five Indians three fall as the borderers close in.
Mary and Tommy exchange taunting pockets full of odds and ends from siblings. Tommy parades sister Marys trinkets back, while the tale wraps with a Christian Worker vignette about surrendering temper to Jesus and a transformed household atmosphere.
Long ago a bold ranger won his wife in a tale told by descendants. Though both are long dead, their history endures in shared memory and family lore.
Blackburn, England hosts the largest cotton mills in the country. The Throstle Nest is owned by Mr Turner M P The Physic a colossal concern named from its founder a physician. Other mills include Cat Hole Butter Tub Smut Twelve Apostles Glory Hallelujah. Twelve Apostles refers to a weaving shed once led by total abstainers. Lather Box owner was a barber who shaved for a halfpenny. now he runs seven mills and owns large estates from Lord De Tabley in the Ribble valley. Sand Hole lies next to the Lather Box, born from red sand excavations funding the mill.
W G Moody presented findings showing labor displacement in agriculture from improved machinery across sowing, plowing, and reaping, with ratios of one to three, one to twelve, and up to three hundred eighty four. The paper also notes footwear production rising about four hundred fifty percent in twenty years and thirteen hundred percent over fifty years of hand labor.
A writer in the London Magazine imagines New South Wales society 2,000 years ahead. He muses how ancestral thieves of early rulers might shape future prestige and how descendants could honor infamous forebears as a noble lineage.
An exchange describes a plan to destroy the taste for alcohol using large doses of calomel followed by ipecacuanha powder and finally the patient’s favorite stimulant. The treatment would be repeated for two to three days and is claimed to yield an immediate and lasting cure.
An agriculturist endorses a decoction of fresh blackberry root as effective against loose bowels. Dig green roots, wash, steep in water, boil down, and bottle with a proof agent. A tablespoonful, or less for a child, taken before meals three to four times daily. Roots, not berries, hold the remedy’s virtue.
Lord Rosebery chaired the Sunday Society annual meeting urging opening national museums and galleries on Sundays. He warned Puritans once allowed recreation after church but removed it for ethics, leaving cant as a lasting inheritance. He said the society fights against this and would not close pubs while promoting museums as the people’s property.
Prof. Leone Levi of the University of London says the total wages of Britain’s workers amount to about £400,000,000 with £300,000,000 taken as cash. He argues they should save £15,000,000 yearly but cannot show hoards exceeding £4,000,000. He questions where the remaining £11,000,000 goes, suggesting much is spent on drink.
Voelcker recommends applying farmyard manure to soil immediately rather than storing. Spreading on fields allows rain to wash soluble matters into soil, where they are retained until needed. On clay soils manure can be spread six months before plowing. on porous sandy soils apply shortly before crop use.
Reports claim over 1000 tons of dried beetroot leaves pass as tobacco annually in Thuringa and Magdeburg. Hickory and potato leaves are similarly used in the Palatinate, while South Germany favors Vevey cigars made from cabbage and beet leaves, treated to remove smell and taste before tobacco water soaking.
The report notes a potato vine growing wild at 11,400 feet on the Aumint of Quindio near Tolima, with purple blooms, found again at 6,200 feet in Cauca in May 1866, and widespread in North Lima and San Lorenzo. Andre disputes Humboldt’s claim the tuber did not exist in Chili, New Granada, or Peru.
A pupil recounts confusion over directions and eastern water boundaries in class. He misidentified left and right, then gave playful incorrect answers about the east, before declaring he now knows two correct responses: the direction of sunrise and Eurasian Africa, noting his father’s similar confusion.
An English inventor Prof D E Hughes unveils the microphone capable of converting faint sounds into loud, distant audio. A feather edge on the sounding board can produce a crash, and a camel hair brush can create a crackling noise. The faintest human whisper may be reproduced at high volume.
The Ohio Legislature passes a stringent law requiring the superintendent of insurance to annually examine every regular Ohio life company to verify last annual statements and ensure investments comply with law. Investments limited to government bonds, first mortgages on real estate worth double the loan, and loans on policies up to reserve value with a four percent reserve standard, the highest in the country.
A new $75,000 poultry complex at Cresskill-on-the Hudson by William C. Baker aims to hatch and rear a quarter of a million chickens annually for the New York market. Chickens are hatched by incubators and raised in a glass brooding house with a special forcing-house to fatten fowls for market in 15 to 18 days.
Huntsville lawyer Samuel Lowery has been raising silk worms for three years. He plans to sell 4 000 000 to 5 000 000 eggs this spring from mulberry trees. Eggs are worth about 6 1/2 dollars per ounce or 1 dollar per 100. He estimates silk culture cost per acre similar to cotton and potential yield 150 to 200 pounds per acre valued at 4 to 6 dollars per pound.
A large sale in London disposed of Cruikshank pictures drawings and sketches including about 180 works. The “Worship of Bacchus” with 1000 figures used for a National Gallery piece sold for 168 dollars. A table and chair fetched nineteen guineas. Overall the sale produced 3050 dollars, far below expectations.
A report from Manchester discusses cooperative farming near Aossington and near 1807 visits. John Gordon started a farm in 1930 with fifteen men on sixty acres at a set rent, receiving a 2000 loan. By 1867 shareholders rose to twenty, land to 130 acres, and annual rent of 1625 plus 6000 in stock. A second cooperative farm began in 1854 with seven acres expanding to 212 by 1867, backed by further loans. The Bishop praised the system as a stable element of the commonwealth. the Earl of Ripon endorsed the Farms.
A Massachusetts Union report describes workers who can detect water flow by biting a rod and blocking ears. In a Massasoit House scene a worker held one end, touched the stopcock with a metal rod in his teeth, and announced a small amount of water passing through the pipe.
A returning traveler Tom shares stories and is teased by a friend who asks why he seems struck by inspiration. The friend delivers a pun that a harp struck by lightning is a blasted lyre, ending the playful exchange.
A controversial and unsafe method suggests striking a chick with a sledge hammer to gauge age. If the hammer rebounds with enough force to injure, the bird is deemed more than one year old. The text mocks aging by wrinkles and teeth, using a dangerous, unreliable measure.
A lab note describes adding sulphuretted hydrogen to a water sample diluted in nitric acid. If the sample reacts, the liquid darkens, indicating presence of a specific contaminant in the water. The procedure mentions concentrating the mixture to a small bulk before testing.
An English vicar stood at his gate when four parishioners arrived carrying a basket of potatoes. The man explained it was their very best tally, a rare kind, and claimed his wife had heard the vicar say in a sermon that commentators did not agree with him.
The Massachusetts Historical Sack plans publication of the day Chief Justice Sewall and the year 1673, offering a vivid New England life sketch akin to Pepys. Editable passages from Dr. Paul History of New England are drawn from this diary.
A Frenchman mutters about a hummer in a noisy setting while a tenor is blamed for the disturbance. The exchange proceeds with odd metaphors as a "heaven orbit" reply emerges, leaving the speaker unsatisfied with the clarity of hearing.
A parish sexton in County Armagh faced a family quarrel as a woman named Peggy urged burial of a Tyrone relative near her kin. He warned she must stay within her own parish, promising to relocate if she caused trouble.
A man known for never losing his temper grew visibly angry during a dispute as his opponent hurled water at him. He wiped his face with a handkerchief, then coolly insisted the interruption was only a digression and resumed his point with composure.
The club’s rules ban men from contributing more than 20 dollars for four dresses and 52 dollars for an evening dress bonnet. Each meeting requires members to declare they owe nothing to a dressmaker or tailor and to tell the truth about any debts.
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