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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1871
Page
7
A reflective exhortation on mercy toward sinners and the fallen, urging gentle charity over harsh judgment. It cautions parents to protect daughters from temptation, advocates guiding strays back with Christian love, and stresses tempering judgment to aid others toward the path of light and peace.
An 1791 Paine anecdote recalls a Norman claimant to crown America with royal claims and £80,000 offer. Separately in Indiana near Southport a farmer was decapitated by a mowing machine, his son witnessing the grisly scene as the head was carried to the mother.
A Sycamore woman angry at her husband’s broken promise to bring home a bonnet sits on her husband’s $10 silk hat and spins until the rain is complete. She declares she will raise him to her level of dress by demolishing the hat into a bonnet, a feat noted as record first.
An 1860s scene shows Nasby recounting a Republican split, black and white attendees amid a staged show of unity, a postmaster remarking on a supposed split, and a violent outburst as a Deacon and others clash over civil rights and party loyalties.
A late night caller spoofed the office by phoning through the speaking tube asking for Dr Simon Jones. The patient demanded the doctor move after claiming to have lived there twenty years. The doctor leapt from bed but the caller fled swiftly down the street.
A man dressed as a tiger in a skin was shot dead by a boy he tried to scare. In Pittsylvania a woman in ghost attire rolled in a sheet to frighten her son, who struck her with a heavy stick, likely ending belief in spirits.
A monkey obsessed with a jack in a box causes danger and death as the animal repeats the startling scene. The incident ends with the monkey dead after the final, fatal shock.
A Rural New Yorker reader reports a salt treatment for horse colic. Apply pint of salt to the back at the spine and hips, dampen with water, repeat until dissolved, leave the damp salt on. The writer claims it cures even inveterate cases and guarantees success.
The Freeport Journal lists agricultural and food commodity prices on July 25 1871 including wheat rye oats and corn per bushel and per barrel. It also shows prices for butter cheese lard eggs beef pork chickens turkeys sheep hides wool and raw materials with units and varied per market rates.
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