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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1879
Page
1
A rustic scene near a railway where a boy named Kaming Grete boards a train with his mates. He carries a cricket bag and receives a farewell box as tears rise among watchers. The family and town reflect on love, loyalty, and the boy stepping into a world before him.
Albert Moore, a Civil War veteran, marries Alice Warren and learns frugality from her. She saves diligently, investing small sums that grow into a banked nest egg, enabling them to buy a cottage and future security while Albert discovers the value of patient saving. Their tale spans 1865 to 1870 as their finances transform their lives.
A farmer warns of mysterious horse blindness from improper preparations and overdoses. Neighbors report horses blinded after saffron or chemical powders used to improve coats were added to feed or stalls. Cases near the author show it is hard to detect until eye damage appears, urging vigilance by owners.
The passage describes a long black flexible stringlike organism among seaweed that entraps fish with a suction mouth and twisting movements. It likens the hunt to a fishing rod, detailing how the creature grips, pulls, and consumes prey, with vivid notes on its form and behavior.
The article urges farmers to diversify into profitable crops not widely grown locally, emphasizing producing what is needed on the farm, then what sells near markets. It highlights sugar beets, barley, flax, mint, camomile, poppy, hemp, jute, and specialty produce, plus year round home food, and notes shifts toward pasture and cattle despite declines in wheat and corn acreage.
Reports recount two record fast dockings. In London an 8 557 ton steamer was docked scraped protected bottom painted and floated again in eleven and three quarter hours. In Russia a 745 ton vessel was docked scraped painted crew examined repainted and refloated in seven hours.
Excerpts praise John G Whittier quotes on Dean Stanley at Westminster. Arizona concerns claim Mormon presence small two dozen families near Phoenix and about five hundred along Colorado headwaters Ya va pi county. polygamy rumored, but evidence disputed. A clergyman gaffe on Heaven’s reunion sparks joke about first wife. Gleamers directing project between Howton and Cubs abandoned.
Fragmentary inscription notes removal to London and dedication in Alexandria. Names of officers and crew appear with dates 1478 and 1878, detailing panels atop the pedestal and bronze plates depicting Cleopatra and the monolith’s elevation.
A humorous piece discusses pedometers as pocket devices measuring steps and distance. It recounts a married man’s day in Central Park and a wife’s discovery of eleven miles walked, ending with a moral about honesty. The text also notes wartime medical staff totals and Crimean War medical outsourcing.
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