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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1875
Page
6
Miscellaneous square of witticisms and snippets from the era. Jokes about education titles gender politics and theater along with anecdotes about Delaware flags Dawson Georgia and Jackson Michigan. Quips on Victoria Woodhull mood and the politics of spouses appear amid humorous misprints and oddities.
A little boy brings home two rabbits one white and one gray from his uncle. They build burrows in a clover bank and play daily with cabbage and lettuce. A yellow cat chases the white rabbit who hides behind a currant bush. a girl with milk distracts the cat and the rabbits safely return to their holes.
The New Orleans Times sketches Cassius M. Clay from Kentucky, recounting his early abolitionist allies Frank Clair and Gratz Brown, his Lincoln vote in 1869, and a 1861 rise to Major General. It highlights his Petersburg mission, daring embassy etiquette with the Czar, and his later break with Grant over states rights and abolitionist foes.
A fragment recounts a farmer and a schoolteacher joking about impossible sturgeon egg counts and a hen’s agitated protests. It shifts to a Trib une editorial praising Mrs Lincoln and her son for enduring sorrow and the country’s duty to honor them with respect and support.
In the Overland Monthly June issue, the writer denounces gold speculation led by 500 New York gamblers. He argues such activity risks 89 million people and inflates gold prices, urging reenbacks and stricter laws. He condemns bankers profiting from soaring stockholder profits while others endure economic burdens.
The column lists numerous farm and lot sales from May 31 including H R Scoville to Aug Volkers for 90 acres near Florence at 4500 dollars and Wm Lloyd to J L Stahl for multiple Freeport plots at 850 dollars. Other transfers cover Florence Lena Harlem Kent Silver Creek and West Point with prices from 400 to 11,688 dollars.
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