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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1878
Page
7
Paris reports praise for American agricultural machines and superiority of American arrangements while French journals mock the decoration. Street cats exported from the United States cited in deprecatory notes and the absence of warlike displays noted amid the exhibition.
Our Paris correspondent notes the United States Agricultural section features a pentagonal wood and glass structure, a comprehensive display of soils, crops, and machinery, and strong American farming gear from Deere and Co and Stratton and Cullom. The French mock us for ornamentation, but US plows, drills, and wagons impress, while Beaux Arts displays lag behind.
The Erie Railway Company aids West readers planning a European tour by linking western depots to Jersey City steamers, offering direct transfers to ships and quick routes to New York. It also publishes a Paris map for expo navigation and notes agents meet ships on arrival to save time and money. A separate notice reports a G S W narrow gauge foreclosure and rolling stock seizure worth 4080.99 dollars to satisfy a Blewett judgment.
The Hartford Times notes vast fish abundance, citing 6000 barrels of porgies caught off Newport as evidence of rich coastal waters from Vineyard to Long Island Sounds. It contrasts this teeming sea with human rapacity and destruction beneath the waves.
Enormous porgy catches mark a day at sea but pale beside legendary hauls of bonusfish mossbunkers. Bluefish drive the prey to the surface where sailing hawks and gulls strike. Sharks and tigers of land and sea reflect the ruthless struggle for survival.
An elderly German resident of Nurley shares a forty year old cure for dog bites. He advises immediate washing of the wound with warm vinegar and water, then applying a few drops of muriatic acid to destroy the saliva poison and avert hydrophobia danger.
At McConnells Grove on June 18 1878 Cole born New York 1796 came to Illinois 1852 resided near McConnell's Grove veteran of the war of 1812 likely the last survivor in the county funeral in the Lutheran Church McConnells Grove June 19 Rev R A Harwood officiating mourners include widow seven children and numerous relatives.
Remaining unclaimed letters for week ending June 24 1878 at Freeport Illinois include Andruth John Moss Henry Albright Jacob Myers John Addams Libbie Norton Roy E Botfield Albert Otto Simon Baldwin Fred K Post Franklin Baker H K Price Jane Cline A Plant Louis Carr Daniel Peters J F Charlton J J Rhody Maggie Clark Katie Smythe Chas Carey Minnie Sniveley Christian Dana E Steffens P Dommel Mary Taylor Bros Helmendinger Geo Tuttle Kate Henry W Wright 83 R Jenkins Mary Zels Martha Elizabeth Langan Arthur Zeigler H A Lambert. Office hours as listed with Sunday exceptions and instructions to state advertised letter date.
Latest Chicago markets list meats produce and grain prices with receipts. Butter and cheese, potatoes turnips onions beans apples cabbage dried fruits and more show quoted per unit. Wheat flour and meal prices noted alongside meat and poultry values and cash and futures for spring and winter wheat.
The report shows oats, rye, and barley prices fluctuating across July August and September with cash and delivery values. Provisions strengthen with Url rising to 9.25 and lard up 2.25 cwt while beef cattle and packing shipments hold steady amid quiet trading and unfavorable Eastern news.
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