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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1880
Page
7
Observers note a deep chasm and a toppled rock in a snow bed on Mount Massive with nearby hotel tremors felt in heating. Temperature rise at the hotel, from about 34 to 48 degrees, hints at an unusual spring. Professor Ott and Chron writer planned a further examination likely tied to local superstition or ceremony.
Dr Die rig notes that in fifty years no young Harvard graduate shows tobacco use without harm. He cites Harvard’s class heads rarely smoking, while five of six students used tobacco yet did not finish well. Trainers also bar smoking from athletes due to brain and muscle damage.
A Detroit constructed clock by Professor Ix Meiers, hailed as a superb horological work, stands 18 by 5 by 6 feet and weighs 4000 pounds. It shows local time and 30 world cities, depicts planetary motions, and includes a music box with a Washington portrait and presidential procession. The clock, priced at 45,000 dollars, is on display in halls for public viewing.
A Knoxville Chronicle note describes a polished discoidal stone relic of variegated quartz, double convex in shape and devoid of metal tools, found near Kingston. The Cherokees mention using similar pieces in a game akin to ten pins, leaving the origin and purpose of the artifact uncertain.
Prof Morton president of Stevens Institute Hoboken has invented a device to locate sound origin. The topophone uses two pivoting resonators and ear-pieces connected by tubes to determine direction. Experiments show it works from six miles away even if the sound is inaudible to the unaided ear.
The World’s Dispensary at Buffalo expands to London England to supply Dr Pierce’s Family Medicines to foreign markets. The firm markets Golden Medical Discovery for blood and skin diseases and other remedies including Pellets Favorite Prescription and Extract of Smart-weed. Proprietors claim the expansion will benefit both conquerors and employed customers.
A grieving family credits Hop Bitters with restoring their daughter after eleven years of illness treated by many doctors who named her disease differently but offered no relief. They warn against prejudice toward a medicine they found unexpectedly effective.
An advertisement quotes a heated plea from a Scotch newspaper urging the Established Church to rally for a stronger struggle against disestablishment. It cites biblical figures and laments the church's current feeble resistance to changes threatening its status.
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