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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1880
Page
6
A historical note explains counting all placements of fifteen numbered blocks in a 15 square frame. The solution uses a simple permutation product from one to fifteen yielding 1,307,674,368,000 possible configurations. The author remarks this vast number dwarfs earth’s population.
A chaotic scene at a Cassaye street blacksmith shop follows a boy’s arithmetic anxiety and a quip about fractions. The writer laments schooling expectations and mocks political chatter in a blend of lettered notes and foreign observations, touching on Liberia and Monrovia customs.
Commentary on pig breeding by a reader of the Country Gentleman and Town Register. Key points include selecting quiet mothers, avoiding large litters, separating sows from barrows, delaying breeding of young sows, private quarters before farrowing, controlled feeding with early milk or soaked corn, and ensuring pigs have ready access to feed and water to reduce mischief and promote growth.
An article from the National Live-Stock Journal explains teething in horses, noting wolf teeth are harmless during this period while the large grinding teeth cause more trouble. It discusses symptoms like lampas gum swelling, feverishness, and how to manage teething with mild laxatives and cautious care to avoid excessive excitation.
In Chemiker Zeitung Herr Kruger proposes a rust preventive: dissolve 10 parts caustic soda in 500 parts water, add five parts yellow beeswax, stir and cool. The final heated solution is applied to iron articles to protect them from rust.
In a garden by a path a spider stretched a web across and balanced it with a nearby pebble attached by a threefold cord. The setup held firm as the web supported a large catch of flies, illustrating remarkable instinct and engineering in a simple natural structure.
A correspondent compares English and Eastern Western farm economics noting England’s lack of soil ownership, Western land advantage, and cheap U S produce. It argues the West as granary for both Americas and Europe, urging better Eastern farming. The piece also reports Mori Arinori, educated in the U S, attacked by Hirinji Hioron editor for Western ideas and for changing Mori’s name spelling to Maury.
An old ad touts Sellers' Cough Syrup as the most pleasant and efficacious cure for coughs colds croup hoarseness and whooping cough with over a million bottles sold. It claims relief and benefit not found in other cough mixtures and lists price at 26 cents per bottle. Liver pills are recommended for liver and stomach ailments at 25 cents per box.
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