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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1879
Page
5
A garbled collage of social quips, tech ponderings, and local anecdotes touches on butter and cheese markets, patent medicine hints, literary allusions, and scattered personal vignettes. References to Mills, Michigan, Wisconsin cheese output, and stray remarks about health and politics appear amid disjointed lines and overheard conversations.
A collection of household recipes and advice including a cream sauce for fowls with oysters and lemon, tomato and bread crumb layers for a scalloped dish, rapid vinegar from cider, steamed apple pudding dough with fruit, croquettes from leftovers, and guidance on making croquettes from various meats.
The text argues farmers vary greatly in income and many understate profits. It notes farmers often misjudge costs and overlook their real gains from land improvements, stock, and diversified profits. It contrasts farmer earnings with salaried workers, stressing long effort and property gains as key factors.
A boy orphaned by parents runs away from an unwelcoming asylum and is cared for by Kate an Irish woman with a large family. In a city store a gentleman notes the boy and Kate replies with a warm blessing promising to leave heaven’s gate open. The piece closes with a quip on steel and brains.
The Agricultural Gazette argues American production outcompetes Britain across meat, dairy, fruit, and livestock. It cites higher labor costs, superior American ingenuity, and the need to abandon old English “ways” to offer top quality, cheaper goods with fewer middlemen.
The pig is praised as an economical meat producer converting less food into more pork than cattle or sheep. It argues that exporting pork is superior to corn, with lower soil fertility loss and strong ties to dairy through byproducts. The piece urges fostering pig farming, disease prevention, and treating pigs as profitable for farms and exports.
A San Francisco firm hires a young man to advertise its condensed chowder by displaying a large transparent sign in a theater box. He lights a candle behind the sign after being told to remove it. In Leadville a saloon keeper boosts business by hosting temperance meetings in his bar.
The London Society surveys Leeds iron trades amid a blight in mood, but praises rising productive power. It cites 1871 figures: 99 collieries in Leeds district, 423 in Yorkshire, 13 iron foundries with 247 puddling furnaces and 69 rolling mills in Leeds Bradford, marking a swift transition from earlier scarcity to industrial strength. The piece credits families like the Murrays and Fairbairns for developing Vulcan era ironworks, boosting local and national wealth and illustrating England’s enduring industrial preeminence.
A reader reports shoe sizes often too large causing foot friction and pain. Mrs C and a shoemaker find a four inch foot width with a two and a half inch sole, and a custom four inch sole resolves the issue. The piece notes many sufferers could be helped similarly. A comic exchange about medicine prices ends the excerpt.
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