21 Mar 1877
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1877
Page
1
The piece contrasts a grand wealth filled home with a worn silent wife and fretting children chasing fashion, then a simple cottage where joy and love flourish. It highlights domestic life through two portraits, praising a husband and wife’s quiet devotion, and ends with a prayer for a blessed life. Anne F. Bradley in Phrenological Journal.
Prof A Graham Bell and Watson showcase a working telephone between Boston and Cambridge two miles apart, transmitting speech and even tones via a wire. Reports describe private experiments, battery-free operation, and prospects for long distance use including possible transatlantic tests.
The Norwegian bark Surprise, capt Welzner, carried a fifteen foot boa constrictor for months after an Africa stop. Hidden in the cargo hold, the ship reached Liverpool where workers discovered the giant snake. The panic among crew and stevedores was memorable before the constrictor was captured and caged.
A fragment from the Toledo Blade dated March 83, 1877, records Nasny the ex reformer railing at political foes and drink, lamenting Democratic leaders and predicting a farce of reform. He mocks Bascom and party lines, cites fear for liquor and foreclosures, and envisions a New York tabernacle and municipal role amid a fractured party.
The piece contrasts the man of business with the man of thought, praising the former for driving progress and global connections while criticizing the latter for hesitation and self focus. It also explains ingraining in two ply and three ply ingrain carpets, their weaving, color mixing, and historical names like Scotch carpets and Kidderminster. It mentions a 1821 Kidderminster strike shifting trade to Scotch makers and includes a political rant condemning obstructionist tactics in a national context.
In Paris two years ago a waiter attempted to imitate sword swallowers by inserting a fork into his throat. After collapse and a months long agony, doctors performed gastrotomy in October to extract the fork. The instrument was found black and intact, and the patient now recovers with a fistula closing.
The house Turner lived in was dirty and disorderly known as Turner's den. He was untidy and stored most of his pictures there while muttering “You can't come in.” Windows uncared for. patched with paper. door black and blistered. iron palisades rusty. He kept visitors waiting as a wizened old man opened barely to see who knocked.
From the National Weekly an early January reflection on the presidential crisis and its peaceful resolution. The author credits Congress and the Electoral Arbitration Commission for settling the dispute and urges citizens to favor national welfare over strict party loyalty, warning that devotion to destructive party aims harms the republic.
The article explains a process to create hollow statues using plaster and stucco molds. A clay marble coating forms a hollow mold, followed by a stucco plus brick dust inner mold. A solid core minimizes waste. the mold is baked in a kiln for weeks to dry, then buried in earth with only vents showing before metal pouring.
Mark Twain visits a New Haven jeweler to examine a remarkable watch by ML Muatite. He praises its precision and features, noting moon phase, day and month indications, dual stop hands, two racehorse timing, musical chimes, and minute divisions. He jokes it could outvote some politicians if its sex is right.
Swede inventor Mr Oestberg showcased a two layer fireproof suit with an inner India rubber liner and outer English leather. A helmet, air and water hoses, blowers, and coolant passages enable airflow to cool the wearer while directing smoke and flame away from the eyes. In tests the suit with burning shavings produced minimal flare, suggesting a possible full invention.
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