13 Mar 1873
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1873
Page
1
A sentiment laced plea from a mother to her son John urging him to avoid drink and idleness. She recalls the hard life of the family on the old farm, the father’s aging, and the dangers that poverty and vice pose. She appeals to faith, family duty, and the hope of staying by the farm to avert a drunkard’s fate.
Charley Despard, a restless former Harvard man, returns from California with a tale of mining riches and a romance. After a wild pursuit through New York, he wins Nettie Kemble, daughter of Thomas Kemble of Gramercy Park, in a January wedding noted by the city.
A dispatch from Exeter New Hampshire reports Franklin B. Evans, known as a heavy headed wretch, convicted of first degree murder in Northwood New Hampshire for the Lovering tragedy. He awaits hanging on the third Tuesday in February 1874 after a failed suicide attempt. He claims a long series of crimes: 1858 killing a 8 year old girl in Derry New Hampshire. 1861 assault and throat cutting of a 14 year old girl in Augusta Maine. 1865 rape and murder of Isabella Joyce 14 and her 12 year old brother in Bussey's woods near Boston. 1872 suspected murder near Fitchburg Massachusetts and a pattern of outrages over the years. Full details of the latest crime were published previously.
Advice on purchasing seeds early and storing them in labeled boxes. Build a hot bed or a shallow box across a window as a cheap substitute to get early lettuce radishes and tomatoes. Seeds for annual flowers can be started similarly to advance flowering. Old folks should be serious and avoid frivolous talk.
A New Churchman critique argues that modern sects fail the gospel call to charity and social justice. It urges abandoning the old moralism and Swedenborgian orthodoxy to pursue universal love, mutual truth, and cooperative action for the common good, following Christ’s demand to sell possessions and aid the poor.
A critical look at Minnesota as the land of salubrious air contrasts with claims of dry, pure air that cures cold. The Paul Dispatch notes frost bite and painful thawing as common, arguing bitter cold seeps to the bone and harms pulmonic or rheumatic individuals.
A reader from Agriculturist reports horses once run down after a hard summer. A simple barley and corn meal milky water mix fed from a plank pump changed their appearance in days, stimulating appetite and aiding digestion without giving solid meal.
An unclear report describes Jones wagering on Brown the horse as a peculiar act to win money. The fragment references sitting on a tail and a dog, but the details are incoherent and incomplete.
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