25 Feb 1880
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1880
Page
1
An early morning scene shifts between a farmer’s note and a weary editor in a sanctum. It captures rural life, small quips about peaches and politics, and ends with a ceremonial ode to the noble profession as teachers and editors march toward a city gate.
Bonnie Bessie, a Highland beauty from Black Linn, marries Squire Renfrew after a tale of love and a ghostly temptation. Jamie, the sailor believed dead, returns to reveal true feelings and seal a conditional reconciliation, ending in a kirk wedding with Renfrew giving away the bride.
The Rev Charles F Deems warns that youth roaming at night leads to moral ruin and social destruction. He urges strict parental oversight from sunset to sunrise and warns against letting children play near the corner. He cites cases of weak mothers and notes lectures by Rev Lawrence Walsh on Irish finances and aid misdirection.
The essay argues that regular moderate athletic exercise supports life and health, while excessive exertion harms the body. It stresses temperance, long-standing physical education with balance of mind and body, and notes ancient Greeks valued a unified development of physical and mental faculties through a complete education.
A Western Morning News correspondent relays that on Sept 21 the Crocodile crossed the equator and that jelly fish temporarily halted steering. Myriads of luminous organisms appeared, blocking condensers and causing vacuum loss, forcing three steam sessions to fail. Five hours delay with fish later sinking as dawn came, then a repeat delay the next night lasting four hours.
The article recounts Joseph Gillet in Birmingham starting penniless with buckles and steel toys, secretly building a press to mass produce pens, marrying his sweetheart and turning out high quality pens at speed, selling a gross before fording to church. It then shifts to Minneapolis flour mills expanding output and shipping, noting 14 000 barrels daily and a shift from barrels to bag packing to improve transport efficiency.
The article argues American cheese is underused at home while foreign markets attract attention. It notes English households rely on cheese daily, while many Americans buy in bulk or whole wheels like Stilton and Edam. It urges producers to educate the public to create demand for native factory cheese.
A paper to the American Institute of Mining Engineers by Mr. Church M E analyzes how heat timbering with square sets nitro glycerine powders and shaft timber repairs contribute to mine accidents. It notes rock movement in shafts and transporting rock by human labor cause frequent hoisting accidents and projects deep mining will raise 10 percent of casualty causes while 60 percent remain unaffected.
A Minnesota voter collapsed and died immediately after depositing his ballot. Investigators have not identified the cause or any party involvement. Officials say the incident remains under investigation with no further details available.
A bizarre French tale reports a series of six arsons in the Anvers commune linked to a romance between Clemence Blossh, a 16 year old, and Albert Romain, a neighboring laborer. Ambition, fear, and forbidden love drove the girl to ignite haystacks. the neighbor helped, authorities chased flames, and after six weeks a neighbor captured Clemence. She confessed and received a harsh sentence of ten years.
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