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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1870
Page
6
A mother tutors her daughter Mary on nouns using an English grammar lesson. Mary questions what nouns are, while her mother provides simple examples from people, places, and things, highlighting that names like London and York are nouns and that even family terms are nouns.
A mother explains that many everyday words like room dairy cupboard and box are nouns. Mary asks about places and things such as key hole drawer and tea chest and learns that objects made to hold items can also be nouns. The scene ends with a promise of a second lesson on nouns.
A teacher questions students on breakfast prep revealing vast time scales from minutes to thousands of years. Dialog explores bread making, wheat growth, salt origins, firewood and coal, then shifts to Christian moral reflections on youth, growth, and responsibility.
The piece argues that inflated currency hurts farmers by raising costs while foreign prices hold, urging return to specie payments to restore real purchasing power. It notes higher wages and prices bite farmers most, and cites a Keokuk honey theft as a humorous contrast, plus a Paris Journal anecdote about a young girl's family hardship.
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