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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1874
Page
3
A former speaker argues legislators should scrutinize all medical practitioners with yearly exams by a board of doctors. He condemns diploma mills and irregulars, urges universal rigorous testing, and warns that only well grounded in anatomy physiology and chemistry should practice medicine. The piece defends science and warns against quackery.
A Dakota Illinois orchard owner details a five year battle with canker worms from 1870 to 1873. He describes tying rope and tin around trunks, sealing holes, and timing this before frost to stop moths from climbing. He notes wind and tree spacing affect spread and reports a mass of webbing in 1872. Also previews June Scribner issue on Missouri resources, rivers, railways, and life along the Mississippi.
The Orangeville Teachers Institute opened at Slatult with prayer by W Wagenhals and a welcome from Supt Potter. A A Krape was elected president. topics included spelling methods, zoology teaching, primary reading using the word method, Civil Government, fractions, and school classification. Resulted in an adjusted program and adjournment for the day. The magazine notice on Holland House and other articles followed in February issue.
The piece argues that the United States offers little sympathy to socialist agitators, who are tolerated only as long as their demonstrations remain nonviolent. It cites Chicago St Louis and New York as examples where authorities would subdue radical activity, praising Bancs of ordinary workers while condemning the Bread or Blood banditti and noting forthcoming literary notes from Appleton's Journal and various excerpts in Miscellany.
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