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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1871
Page
8
A garbled verse collage mixes lines about a burning deck a pipe of clay Susannah dying a taters bag and Bunker Hill sword plus snippets about Mollie Anh a tower a spider and a fly The text blends historical imagery romantic fragments and nursery rhyme like fragments in a single damaged OCR fragment without coherent narrative.
A playful poem fragment narrates a lone pickle amid eaten companions. The speaker laments vanishing friends as days pass and wonders who remains when loved ones are gone amidst creation's vast pickle. The tone blends whimsy with existential musings on loss and solitude.
The digitized passage argues vast public lands west of the Mississippi could house tens of millions in farms. It compares the land to a farm for every American adult, notes locations from Iowa to California, and calls for policies to attract immigration while preserving public lands. It envisions a Europe-to-America repopulation using farms of one hundred acres each and highlights climate and geographic fit in several states. The tone advocates leveraging public lands to yield farming and industrial prosperity.
In Europe American firearms face shifting favor as iron age systems give way to newer rifles and muskets. The text notes France importing hundreds of thousands of muskets during a late period, with exports of over 600,000 muskets from America and smaller shipments still holding limited significance compared to heavy orders from major powers.
A historical account notes that mass produced Remington rifles and other arms have been exported widely. It lists numbers shipped abroad, including Denmark, Sweden, Cuba, Egypt, France, Greece, and Japan, and cites large totals of carbines, rifles, revolvers, and cartridges along with ongoing interest in German rearmament and American arms supremacy.
Newburgh sculptor H K Brant has completed a plaster cast for a Washington statue of Gen Scott. The Evening Post hails it as a modern Greek art work marked by vitality simplicity and beauty. Brown’s portrait in uniform shows Scott on a superb Arabian horse with alert poised stance.
An article lauds ex Secretary of State William H. Seward as a remarkable traveler at an advanced age. It notes his journeys from Alaska to the Far East, China and Japan, and his reception in Bombay with a Byculla Club dinner honoring his visit. Seward’s remarks praised Anglo American relations.
A moral exhortation on fretting as a costly, unhelpful habit. The piece warns it harms both mind and surroundings, likening chronic worry to a disease. It advises solitary, private fretting if necessary, arguing that it does not repair losses or improve daily life while harming others.
A Daily Telegraph correspondent documents the Paris uprising's brutal scenes at the Louvre and Hotel de Ville. Mob violence, executions, burned streets, and gendarmes suppressing crowds are depicted with stark imagery, including the dragging of a wounded woman, executions, and mass arrests. The report notes communist leader Vallès being tortured and shot, plus numerous military executions and fires across the city.
A sermon asserts faith as sight saving and transforming, not mere church membership. It argues Christ’s ascension secures heaven for believers, notes joy in suffering, and urges unwavering seeking of Jesus through life and history, emphasizing virtue, self-control, and resilience against adversity.
A curious scene unfolds as a sick man enters a whisky shop. He tastes crackers offered by the bar keeper and asks for brandy to wash them down. After trying brandy and whisky, he attempts to leave without paying, sparking a dispute over who owes what for the crackers and the beverages.
A resident of Poplar Grove Missouri, John Andrews, fell into a well forty feet deep while digging and was trapped for seven hours. He crawled, with hay covering him and dirt spilling, to reach a pole ladder and scraped a hollow path to escape. His wife and children feared the worst as they watched, then cheered when he emerged alive.
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