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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1881
Page
8
A miscellany of home recipes and kitchen tips including staining floors with ashes and copperas, celery fritters, chocolate pudding, feather cake, egg soup, grease removal, stuffed beefsteak, potted chicken, and farmers style macaroni. It also recounts a horse training anecdote where bribery with candy and apples tames a temperamental horse, citing General Jackson.
A historic reflection extols sound sleep as the sole rest we need and a cure all. It cites modern life diminishing sleep, notes the value of the ability to nap anywhere, and recounts Napoleonic sleep on the Wag ram crisis. It recommends warm baths and a calm mind to ensure refreshing slumber.
A vast lava bed in the San Jose Valley near Bluewater New Mexico is described as one of the largest in the world. The ancient lava lies in masses up to twenty feet high and preserves the form of a molten stream that buried all obstacles along its former path. The bed is located about eight miles north of Bluewater.
A stranger at Union depot asks Officer Button about the Grand River Valley train. He drinks through delays, returns repeatedly, and promises to delay no longer. After several hours he sobers, cries about being drunk, and depart.
The article stresses water quality and temperature for horses. Sudden changes in water can trigger colds, so travelers supply familiar water. To ease transitions, riders add oatmeal or bran and, if possible, warm the water. Spring and well temperatures vary by ten to fifteen degrees, affecting a horse's digestion.
A stranger from the East blocked at the post office when a fire alarm rang. He watched the Larned street steamer rush out and asked about the water system. A boy replied with a wry joke, and the stranger appeared satisfied with the answer.
Thomas Sims escaped from Savannah to Boston and was central to a famed fugitive slave case in the late 1800s. Sold in Mississippi, he escaped again with his wife aboard a dugout canoe and joined Grant's army at Vicksburg. Later he secured a position in the Attorney General's office in Washington under Judge Devens.
A compact epigram about a couple whose status shifts after marriage from mutual affection to financial roles, leaving happiness elusive in a brief, wry newspaper card style. The line hints at changing dynamics without naming people, places, or dates.
A humorous rundown of how young women speak and act in a college setting. The piece mocks staid fathers who insist girls speak proper English while noting campus slang, flirtatious banter, and social rituals at graduation month.
A club hears a St Louis inquiry on the God or no God issue. An elderly member recalls faith amid poverty and loss, declaring belief unshakable. The audience sits in grave silence as he finishes and another member urges Sir Isaac Walpole to weigh in. Free Press.
The piece defines a true home not by cost or luxury but by consideration for others. It emphasizes respecting others feelings and preferences as the angel of home and suggests small acts, like a rosebud on a loved one's dress, carry daily perfume of loving deed.
The Nashville Banner notes the shift in illness names from headaches to neuralgia and nervous prostration. It mocks fashionable diagnoses replacing sturdy labels for drink related deaths, suggesting old terms like drunkard's grave were clearer.
The Springfield Republican notes the surprising parallel between the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln and Alexander II. It observes both chief assassins were wounded and died, both had a woman hanged as an accomplice, and both executions occurred under martial law on a scaffold in capital cities guarded by troops.
Neapolitan society reels as Count del Cigno shoots his wife's Austrian lover on a Palazzo balcony, then is fatally shot by the rival. The Countess, a chief witness, collapses into madness and is confined in a Naples lunatic asylum.
The London Mechanics' Magazine reports extensive operations at Stepney Green London producing large webs of artificial leather resembling calfskin. India rubber is the main ingredient with other additives, yielding durable leatherlike material used for bookbinding and saddlery. The production method is secret, yet the industry’s scale is noted as significant.
The piece notes pearl-gray note paper and envelopes with engraved cards bearing inscriptions to hint contents before opening. Phrases include Discretion, A votre service, Attention, Bonne Nouvelle, and R. S. V. P. Business uses, while Nous reviendrons decorates blotters and albums.
The Norristown Herald mocks Ella Wheeler Wilcox for dreamy verse and urges her to write more vivid nights in which a figure with seven heads and dragon teeth enjoys a heavy seafood supper before bed. The critique playfully links dream imagery to Dante.
A workingman recalls debt and illness from a sick family and high medical bills. He followed his pastor’s advice and used Hop Bitters, claiming rapid improvement within a month. His family has remained well since, urging poor men to try the remedy as a cheaper alternative to medical care.
The article notes Japan establishing a minister of agriculture and commerce modeled on France. It also mentions a Franco-Japanese literature society starting with sixty members and its initial task of compiling a Franco-Japanese dictionary.
A simple method to gauge room air purity: fill a half pint vial with pure rain water, empty it in the room to draw in the air, then add a tablespoonful of lime water and shake. If the water stays clear the air is good, if milky or turbid lime carbonate forms indicating excess carbonic acid.
The simplest and best regulator of the Disordered Liver Carter's Little Liver Pills give prompt relief in Sick Headache Dizziness Nausea relieve constipation and piles remove sallowness and pimples from the complexion are mild in their operation on the bowels One pill a dose price 25 cents sold by Emmert Burrell
Japan operates 4,377 post offices with mail routes totaling 42,291 miles. The money order system is widely used and satisfactory to the public.
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