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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1879
Page
4
A blend of household tips and recipes including ink removal with muriatic acid, cleaning and whitening methods, wood odor removal, alum washes for pails, hot water and soda mixes, and lemon oil refreshments. Also features culinary items like cornmeal cakes, pan drop biscuits, and Rasigoto fish sauce, plus home remedies for croup and glove mending.
A $100 wager on oil puts and calls at the new Oil City exchange yielded a $5,250 profit in one year. The young trader bet on price movements from $1.80 to about $1.13, buying 10,000 barrels at 80 cents and selling as prices rose, while preserving a put option for the year.
A reflection on gossip as a pest in society and a call for culture to cure it. The piece argues gossip stems from idle minds and neighborly curiosity, urging young people to pursue culture. Included anecdotes about a wagoner’s mishap illustrate arithmetic as a practical counterpoint to idle chatter.
A Russian journal the Mulva notes a custom where retired generals in parade uniform attend weddings to display relations with the bourgeois. Generals are paid from four silver roubles, arrive early, stay late, and leave intoxicated or unable to return home.
The piece explains two people sleeping in a shared bedroom lose about a pound of body weight overnight, from carbonic acid and decayed matter. It argues air must be refreshed daily, as damp body odors and exhalations saturate the room. burning small amounts of cotton underscores the air’s sensitivity. Proper ventilation and airing of bedding are urged.
A youth on Bragg Street hid cobblestones in an apple barrel marked Greenings. A sawdust wagon driver attempted theft at dusk, lifting the barrel and suffering a heavy fall as cobblestones revealed the hoax. By morning the barrel remained, two hoops intact, leaving the prank unresolved.
A heartfelt homage to the phrase brace up, praising the neighbor who lifts others with open hands. The piece celebrates a blunt but kind push to face hardship, share a hopeful story, and reveal the light behind dark clouds with a silver lining mood.
A summary of animal communication claims by M Houzean and observations on London’s population, streets, housing, and jails. It notes dogs learning fowl signals, birds with danger calls, and London’s 7,000 square mile spread with births and deaths, underground wires, and a Coventry doctor jailed for neglecting a sick child.
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