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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1878
Page
6
A fragmented quotation praising nature in wit and its alignment with modest plainness. The excerpt notes how genuine wit mirrors the mind and benefits from restraint, contrasting with overindulgence that harms the body.
A collage of curiosities and incidents includes odd auctioned goods with odd bids, remarks about a four poster bed inheritance, a coroner's verdict on a death, and tales from San Francisco, Nevada, and Vancouver Island. Also notes on cattle capacity, lead pipe cautions, a Siberian earthquake report, and Franklin’s wealth maxim.
The text urges placing children in responsible positions, hiring the right people, and training them to work. It cautions that lack of discipline and poor management can erode wealth and lead to a failed estate, showing how a single generation can squander what previous generations built.
The lactometer is unfairly trusted in some quarters yet largely unreliable. It often confuses rich milk with watered samples and has caused police actions in France against peasants selling pure dairy. In American cities it is viewed as aiding dairy fraud by detecting diluted cream.
Reports detail a 19th century order mandating each Austrian soldier issued a ticket of identification and a dressing wound packet. Tickets list name regimental number class residence and age. Burial officers must collect tickets and notify authorities, while field surgery kits include a calico sling bandage cotton wool and pins. The rest of the text mixes disparate trivia.
Railroad timetable details show Illinois Central trains from Freeport north and south with passenger and freight departures and arrivals, plus Western Union and connections to Rock Island and St. Louis. It lists day and night schedules, Sunday exceptions, and corrections as of December 1, 1877, with officers H Holper and W H Stennett.
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