07 Dec 1870
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1870
Page
1
The Tate department invites Stephenson County farmers to contribute articles on any farm related subject. Writers are asked to compose plainly and submit for one side of the paper, focusing on local agriculture and farming life.
A mixed excerpt covers bee behavior and danger from stings with old world remedies, tales of bees aiding escapes and bizarre bee warfare, plus cautions about handling hornets and wasps. It also includes horse colt care advice urging cautious rearing, separation for shy foals, and avoiding quack remedies, then ends with a potato dish recipe.
The Virginia City Enterprise recounts a comic wedding in Melican fashion between a Celestial couple. John Sung Fang and Ho-ye Goy, after securing a license, are guided by a judge in a humorous exchange full of pidgin phrases. They pledge rice and stable life, then celebrate with wine as they depart toward Chinatown amid laughter and delight.
A 1867 Prison Association report shows 77 percent of U S convicts had not learned a trade. The piece urges parents to place sons in thorough, useful trades, arguing carpentry and skilled labor offer better pay, independence, and steady work, even in hard times. It warns that lacking a trade makes a boy an adventurer and more prone to idleness and vice.
A quotation from Lippincott's Magazine humorously notes soldiers exaggerate and mock a small camp pest. An anecdote describes a soldier imagining a gigantic insect bearing U S on its back, turning to reveal it was merely eating hard tack, smoking a pipe, or picking teeth with a bayonet.
A collage of comic quips and vignettes including jokes about oils and time, a siege gun reference, a Scotsman at an inn, a Dutch language anecdote, a Irishman with whiskey, a New York merchant’s family life, worm remedies, and social quirks from 19th century newspapers.
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