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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1869
Page
5
A narrator recalls a buyer facing harsh scrutiny and price cuts as buyers question a horse’s soundness. Critics target eye, tendon, and hock, with talk of blood spavin and wind. Amid distrust the dealer mindset emerges, showing pride, fear, and a sly market ethic.
A Washington clerk woos a New York woman after anonymous correspondence. They marry by authorities, honeymoon briefly on Canal Street, then seek parental forgiveness. The bride’s parents discover the union and reaction turns sour, shattering their dream.
A collage of brief notes: a man named Tamman wrapped in thoughts shivers in cold while a youngster begs two cents on the Fourth. An attorney is acquitted for professional missteps. A well oil strike near Tre, Pennsylvania, and a three year old boy questions Sunday work. A cunning trickster hides as an old gentleman to trap fish hooks. Courts debate damages in a Paris case about marital status. A Brooklyn bank run prompts a staged deposit dispute, while a Scotsman and Irishman share a chicken and a dream ending in comic misadventure.
A collage of farm and home tips incl Poultry feeding and crop care, cow grooming, manure use, and preserving silverware. Practical methods include feeding crops with pudding before roost, preparing lime-free manure, and using white polish for luster. Cautions about tin foil and lead in packaging given.
American Agriculturist advises prudent calf rearing through the first summer. Do not rush to pasture. provide abundant succulent feed and steady milky intake. Keep calves from check by consistent nourishment, with hay or cured grass and frequent milk feeding for four months. Gradually introduce light pasture as weather allows.
Instructions on sowing Sowleg Corn for green fodder emphasize row sowing three feet apart for easy tending, thick seed coverage to ensure bushy growth, and continuing sowings into August. The method favors hand sowing or using a wheat drill, then rolling the rows. Strong emphasis on space, density, and efficient cultivation.
The article urges guarding flocks on hot days by sheltering them in woodlands and driving them up before storms, notes ewes with lambs need extra protection, and warns against summer storms. It also promotes boiling water applied to peach tree collars as a simple, reliable method to kill peach tree borer eggs and worms with minimal risk to trees.
The text argues midsummer strain requires tonic treatment to prevent decline in strength. It promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a palatable, efficacious compound to sustain vitality, counter heat’s draining effects, and guard against dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation, fever and ague, nervous debility, and other climate-related ailments. It emphasizes widespread acceptance after twenty five years of use.
An early 19th century remedy, Davia Pain Killer, is praised for universal acceptance in India, China, and Western ports. It is described as a safe, vegetable preparation providing rapid relief from burns, diarrhea, dysentery, cholera in early stages, and rheumatic or neuralgic pains, framed as essential Family Medicine kept for emergencies.
An ornate 19th century drug advertisement promotes Cod Liver Oil and related tonics from Garwann Hazagp Co New York and Gaswain Marano Og. It claims purity, superior efficacy for coughs chest oppression and bronchial issues, urging readers to buy from druggists with warnings against substitutes. It mentions prices and mail order options.
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