09 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1879
Page
1
An introspective poetry fragment from James Rusch Lowi in Atlantic explores longing, memory, and the tension between earthly desire and spiritual yearning. The speaker laments absence and loss, contrasting idealized dreams with tangible sorrow, and ends with a plea for balance between heart and intellect.
Nellie Huntley defies propriety to aid in a coal mine rescue. Allan Trevor descends the shaft, frees trapped miners, then survives a perilous return. Nellie proclaims her love as the crowd hails the brave pair and the rescued workers.
A column notes the heliostat's use in modern warfare, praised for sun powered signaling across distances in Afghanistan India and by officials like Gen. Browne and Lord Chelmsford. It explains code via light durations and suggests vast reach with proper stations, while contrasting sunny climates with uncertain telegraph reliability and describing related observational signals.
A Brookline Massachusetts Chronicle piece by Mr John Nowell argues education is a public interest and will stay so. He says times change but schools lag, urging reforms to align schooling with modern science, politics, and industry while stressing teaching actual things and useful skills over mere words.
In Zinsley’s Magazine the author laments English trade unions and pride as foreign competition rises. He argues Britain risks losing manufacturing dominance as foreigners adopt and advance machines, with London becoming a pawnshop of the world and English districts decaying.
The piece explains how green vegetable matter decays quickly in the stem and leaves, and how drying slows decay. Ploughing grain crops into soil creates a rich compost as surfaces decompose. Buckwheat clover rye and rape should be ploughed under when flowers begin to open and conditions favor decomposition.
The article argues that female students in the junior class learn bread making, yeast production, baking, roasting, and cooking a full meal. It emphasizes mastery of household management, canning, preserving, and basic sciences, concluding that women’s ability to run a household earns masculine respect.
A traditional tale says as a boy Benjamin Franklin studied philosophy and liked technical terms. After he swallowed acephalous mollusks his father panicked and the hired help pumped warm water, then shook him. They joked that the oysters were to blame, and Franklin later spoke with unusually clear language.
Regent lecture describes how plants defend crops from insects and animals. Opium, strychnine and deadly belladonna are cited as plant defenses for cattle. Natives in South Africa reportedly use poisonous plants in baiting traps. Poppies and mint cited as protective through toxicity and aroma. Some plants deter pests by sticky secretions. goats and caterpillars avoid or die when faced with certain plant defenses.
Rev. Treadwell Walden, an Etn clergyman and literateur, foresees a day when practice and space vanish and all races become one family on this earth. He praises the Atlantic cable teleglyph and phonograph as steps forward, though he warns future inventions may fade before humanity’s destiny.
The Excelsior Water and gravel mine on the Pacific coast operates underground works lit by 1000 candle power electric lights, showcasing substantial illumination for subterranean mining activities.
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