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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1881
Page
6
A long excerpt recounts election day folly as an old Galveston resident dupes a campaigner offering money. The exchange ends with Uncle Mose voting the other way, a dramatic reminder of caution in civic duties.
The article recalls Daniel Webster’s deep attraction to farming alongside his public duties. It notes his joy in returning to his well tilled fields, cattle and horse care, and his habit of guiding farm overseers from Washington. It highlights his use of kelp as manure and his skillful rural management.
The Berkshire white horse is a 170 yard long figure carved into a hillside. From a distance it appears drawn on chalk but is actually deep ditches kept clear of grass by locals. Ditches are six yards wide two feet deep with a four foot eye and a fifteen yard ear. It is visible for sixteen miles and locals celebrate when clearing and maintaining the display. Nearby Accomac Virginia reports a mirage of Chinosteague land seen as if nearby.
A long miscellany of prose reflections on truth and falsity blends with culinary notes for a doughnut recipe and a murder tale in Austria. Short dispatches describe a French canal project, a deer misfortune in Alpena, and a Guatemala railroad subsidy, plus wartime and literary asides from The London World and Symmes lore in Louisville.
Miss Clara Louise Kellogg an American prima donna famed for Italian and English opera in the United States and Europe. Born 1848 in Sumter Saint Clair she debuted 1860 at the Academy of Music New York with Col H Stebbins guiding her future rise. Her acting includes Gilda and Margherita and she remains widely popular, generous, and influential in the arts.
In Galveston the News notes no coins smaller than a nickel in use. A quarrel on the avenue ends with a boastful large man demanding three cents to fight, while a smaller man counters with a napkin smartly refusing change. The piece ends with stray ads about Pills and Liver and a line about Russia importing grain and wool.
A French statistician, detached from railroad journalism, notes prerailroad France had one death per 135,000 passengers and one injury per 800. Between 1836 and 1875 rail travel reduced fatalities to one per 5,178,890 and injuries to one per 650,450, illustrating a falling accident rate for railroads.
Directory of churches with addresses and service times including Evangelical Lutheran Faith, German Evangelical Fimanuel Oak Pleasant, German Evangelical St Johns Union, Methodist Episcopals Embury First German Chicago, Presbyterian First Stephenson Third German Pres, Catholic St Joseph St Marys Irish Union, Zion Episcopal Stephenson, Baptist Stephenson and Free Methodist Pleasant street services and Sunday schools listed. Includes pastors Rev Byers Rev Wernley Rev Hiller Rev Gooley Rev Mangan and others.
City officials named including Mayor El Crorkrite and Clerk Warren Co Clark. Treasurer D B Breed and City Attorney JFH Stearns listed with offices. Street Commissioner H Huenkemeier and others in First Second and Third Ward groups named.
The names listed include Clerk Kieckner Treasurer Hutchison Recorder Danl Brewster Sheriff J K Leigh and Surveyor Hiram Shons. All county offices are housed in the Court House.
Public Schools Board of Education President William O Wright and members WW Barnes and H J Porter. Superintendent Charles G Snyder. Office at High School building with hours from 7 to 10 a.m.
Train timetable details listing Illinois Central and Northwestern routes. Trains going west and east with times for passenger and freight service. Includes Milwaukee via Belvidere and connections at Freeport, Racine, Janesville, and Lanark Junction. J A Cotton is listed as agent.
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