16 Jul 1879
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1879
Page
1
A lyric meditation on the whip-poor-will as evening lover and forest shadow. The speaker recalls spring evenings, scent, and youth while the bird’s repeated calls evoke half human, mysterious sounds and the solitary watcher in shaded groves.
In a crowded factory scene Jacqueline Dubois, an American worker, saves a nurse’s child from a runaway wagon by stepping before the wheel. Her action shatters her foot and sparks a moral tale of selflessness, charity, and romance with George Dunham as she endures pain and embraces a future aided by Byron Laflin’s generosity.
A New York correspondent warns of Wall Street temptations in a yellow fever season parallel, recounting five men who pursued stock bets with a $50,000 capital. Their fates ranged from lunacy to insolvency, with one left paying $1.79 daily and others vanishing or barely surviving. The piece stresses persistent warnings while greed lures men to risk, noting many similar cases.
A bake and cook series offers home remedies and recipes. It includes instructions for chapped hands with cider vinegar, hat cleaning with borax and bleach, honey cake, insect destruction using coal oil, scalloped tomatoes, home and farm apple pie, Centennial Biscuits from acorn mush, Pulled Bread shaping, and a Chocolate Cream dessert with eggs, sugar, chocolate, milk, gelatin, and whipped cream.
Antique anecdotes trace tea's entry into fashion markets with ladies taking lessons in brewing. Clumsy early practices include boiling pots and serving tea as a vegetable, while seventeenth century parties shared tea leaves as a delicacy. A New England habit of carrying one's own cup arose, with a dish of tea phrase linked to square teacups. A lineage teacup connected to Governor O'Reilly survives, while old customs faded as crockery broke in modern kitchens.
David Crockett, touring a menagerie in Washington, pauses before a monkey and remarks on its resemblance to a congressman. He turns to find the Hon. Mr. X nearby, prompting an embarrassed apology. Crockett muses which to apologize to, the gentleman or the monkey.
The Monitor Tin Plate Co of New York operates a timing house on Ilovano street where operations occur, while the iron is rolled at a Pittsburg mill. The timing house is 100 feet square with modern apparatus. Sheets are rolled, cut, pickled, cold rolled, bundled, and placed in baths of Russian talon or palm oil. They move through heated baths, cleaned, polished with lambs wool, and boxed for shipment.
American millionaire Mr. Winans plans a monster 4000 to 5000 ton cigar ship in the Clyde costing near £200,000. He aims for a five day Atlantic crossing. This will be his third vessel of this type, with two smaller ones already known by Solent visitors. Total cost of the three ships is about £400,000. Truth notes it is fortunate he is a millionaire.
The Fort Collins Courier profiles E A Bennett’s sheep ranch twenty miles northwest of Collins, near Livermore in Poudre valley. Bennett runs 1500 Merino ewes plus several hundred wethers, with strong acclimation from Wisconsin stock, highlighting pure Merino quality and high annual return. He notes foothill range superiority, water quality, winter feeding costs about 500 dollars per thousand sheep, 65 percent annual increase, 18 percent loss, and roughly 20 percent clear profit. Merinos valued for hardiness, while acclimation from east stock poses challenges. occasional use of Cotswold rams suggested for one season only.
Cordighiera, a village on the Genoa to Nice route along the Cornice, hosts Italy’s largest palm tree collection. In Holy Week of Rome, locals profit by selling palm leaves and branches, with the papal court holding exclusive privilege to supply them.
In Lancaster a newsboy asked Wilhelmj to buy a paper he declined then gave the boy a dollar to ease his sorrow. After the concert a boy sought a note from Prof Berg who asked why. The boy said his mother would not believe the dollar unless a note confirmed it. Berg wrote the note and the boy left smiling.
The writer argues that a starting 64 hive apiary, managed properly, could double every year for several years and yield about 540 pounds of honey over seven years, worth around 331 dollars at 15 cents per pound, plus 448 dollars from sales at seven dollars per colony, totaling about 329 dollars. He believes the venture is feasible with proper care and invites feedback.
A foreign description outlines a method to insulate ice for ill patients during hot nights. It uses a nine inch square flannel wrapped around an old tumbler to form a cup shaped funnel. Ice can last for many hours, aided by a loose four to five inch square flannel cover.
Government officials say two factories in San Francisco and another in New Jersey are producing crude opium for smoking. Customs laws impose a duty on opium prepared for smoking at one dollar per pound, with morphine content estimated around nine percent. The crude opium is described as low grade and unlikely to meet legal standards.
A Sun Fry Post report notes Tat, a clever Oakland boy, received $2 to dig for a buried gari. He went to the neighbor’s yard and, by dawn, the ground was verified two feet deep, revealing the small treasure.
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