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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1879
Page
6
A reader describes an ideal domestic yard design with front plat laid out 10 to 12 rods wide, brick or gravel walks, and a blue grass lawn. Emphasizes modest cost, tasteful plantings, and wife input, urging careful tree spacing and seasonal care for a neat, cozy, well kept home landscape.
The text traces early glass production from Egypt’s eleventh dynasty to Thebes and Thebes artifacts, noting beads and vases with royal inscriptions. It cites Mycenaean disks, Phoenician trade, and Egyptian wall images. scholars debate dating, yet glassmaking appears ancient and complex across dynasties.
A man’s strength lies in firmness and decision, not despair. Indolence and bad influence vanish with a tranquil mind and intelligent heart. A peaceful home gives vigor to face life’s troubles, while jealousy and gloom erode him.
In Boston Journal account a swan keeper watches over a child’s grave in Pine Grove, noting the bird’s protective behavior and constant vigil. The white swan swims near the Ensworth lot as mourners file by, while attempts to approach the grave meet the bird’s watchful defense.
A man by his window on North B street notes there goes the woman George Brown loves. His wife enraged by the claim hurries to the window and asks for proof. The bystander identifies Brown’s wife, sparking a change in the home’s mood for the night.
A Vienna journal recalls Bismarck’s 1852 visit when he was unknown except as Sferr von Bismarck Schoenhausen. The King of Prussia sent a letter to Kaiser Franz Joseph praising his family and bravery to gain courtesy for his representative in the German Federal Parliament.
An act to consolidate the laws relating to weights and measures goes into operation in England. The piece cites Six Bushels for wheat in Shropshire, nine weights and measures for barley, and varied pound and sack sizes across towns. It highlights confusion in prices and standardization needs for grain, butter, potatoes, and other measures across local markets and regions.
An old advertisement touts Sellers Cough Syrup as the most pleasant and efficacious remedy for coughs colds croup hoarseness and related throat irritation with over a million bottles sold recently. It claims quick relief and compares favorably to other cough mixtures, priced at 25 cents a bottle. It also promotes Sellers Liver Pills for biliousness constipation headaches fever and liver stomach diseases, sold by all druggists at 25 cents per box.
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