29 Jun 1870
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1870
Page
1
The newspaper invites farmers of Stephenson County to contribute articles on any farming related subject. Submit plain copy written on one side of the paper only for publication consideration.
A reader from Freeport argues for feeding boiled potatoes to hogs using a homemade swill mix. He details a process with boiled potatoes ground with wheat screenings oats bran and meal, then aged to sourness, claiming healthier hogs and higher yields than dry corn. He cites personal success and compares potato yields to corn.
Rural New Yorker notes from the Knoxville News item a conversation between two Western drovers on cattle buying, feeding strategies, and honesty in trade. They discuss weighing stock, grass and water content, early feeding, and cautious purchasing amid market shifts. The piece ends with Col John Baxter beginning a libel suit against the Knoxville News publisher for fifty thousand dollars.
From the Boston Traveller a June 11 report notes efforts to discredit religion and a Tremont Temple tract on Jefferson. It reprints Daniel Webster’s 1852 letter recounting a Virginia Sabbath conversation with Jefferson and praises the Sabbath School as essential to liberty and morality. It also records Mrs. Harriet M. Wilson of Massachusetts dying at Natick at 46 after a long illness.
A White Pine digger hired to dig a grave for a man who died at the mines refused to leave the grave, claiming he had struck a line of lead and could not bury the body in the hole. A Wisconsin gentleman sat on a beehive and momentarily stayed seated before rising.
From the Washington Chronicle a variety of items recounts printers seeking work after travel across the country. A seedy applicant at the Government Printing Office relates his travels from Cheyenne to New York and Baltimore, begging for a job with little money. Lighter vignettes describe a courtship mischief, a Sunday school scene with three unruly boys, and political sympathy for Cuba.
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