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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1872
Page
6
Fragmentary text shows public support for Grant and Wilson in Richmond era rallies. Citizens voice favor for the candidates amid wartime politics and calls for leadership in Washington.
A Berks County Pennsylvania scene from Baltimore shows factions of Democrats like Horace Greeley supporters and straight-out members in heated debate. Locals including Maj. Getz and Levi Maltzberger react to Greeley’s nomination amid drinking and political sniping at the Eagle and other hotels.
A Berks County political rally devolves into chaos over support for Horace Greeley and Ulysses Grant. Speakers including George Seltzer urge loyalty while critics lampoon Liberal Republicans. The crowd jeers as editors and leaders debate Postmaster prospects and party fate.
Prof Barraday adopts Flourin’s physiological theory that man’s age is one hundred years. Growth ends at twenty. life then spans five growth periods totaling one hundred years. Infancy lasts to twenty, youth to fifty, virility to seventy-five, with old age beginning at seventy-five. disease and vice shorten the span.
A discussion on how artificial brain stimulants destabilize personal autonomy and moral will. The text argues that stimulant dependence enslaves the user, likening it to fever and alienation. It cites Stowe and the Theologia Germanica to contend that true selfhood requires surrender of self-will to a higher order.
The eldest son of Dr I A and Mrs j Angelino A Mense died at 19 in Janesville Wisconsin from Malignant Pustule Ophthalmic infection. He studied medicine after Wisconsin University Madison and died after inoculation and rapid systemic decline. The account describes his symptoms including eye inflammation vomiting delirium and a phlyctenoid eruption with bleeding and urinary failure. It notes doctors Whiting Barrows and H Palmer treated him and discusses historical context of Malignant Pustule with references to Hippocrates Oribasius and French and English authorities.
A Detroit Tribune report recounts a hydrophobia case with convulsions and doglike barking. Doctors used skin morphine injections, castor, chloroform, and ammonia-solution-warmed blankets, claiming the regimen halted the outbreak and led to gradual recovery, urging wider testing.
Evidences mount that Horace Greeley’s Baltimore nomination was not a political accident but the result of a long planned Democratic conspiracy in New York. Ex Governor Seymour appears as a key Democratic figure in the agreement. New supporting disclosures trace the scheme amid attacks by some Senators and Tribune’s alleged complicity in earlier investigations.
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