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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1878
Page
8
The article warns cold is deadly and a sharp winter heightens mortality. It stresses maintaining body heat through nutrition clothing and warm air, favors fire in a bedroom over doctors, and suggests mustard plasters for early colds while noting Persian indoor dress and royalty attire observations.
The text analyzes Japanese habits and contrasts them with European practices. It notes how tasks are performed seated, tools held with feet, and actions reversed in many daily activities. It asks why Western methods differ and weighs which culture is "right" or "left handed" in truth and orientation.
A historical sketch describes Persian women riding astride and wearing a chudder a dark veil wrapped around the body with a white openwork eye veil. The covering extends from head to foot and conceals features while allowing limited visibility through the eye opening. Women go out with male relatives and wear outfits matching the veil and robe, enforcing strict modesty and nonrecognition by husbands.
A Detroit Bree Press tale recalls Thomas delivering ninety one quarts daily from nine cows at Elizabeth Street. He miscalculated using seven quarts per cow, leaving a hole in his figures and wondering where the rest of the milk went as a wary customer looks on.
Attend well to your business and be punctual in payments. Consider well before promising and dare to do right. Enquine man and faithfully perform duty. Go not in paths of vice. Have respect for your character and be just. Judge mercifully of others faults and know thyself. Lie not and make few acquaintances. Never profess what you do not practice. We occupy time usefully and postpone nothing you can do now. Quarrel not with neighbors and save against trouble. Treat everybody with kindness and moderate yourself. Vilify nobody and guard against idleness. Examine conduct carefully and yield to superior judgment. Zealously pursue the right path.
A reflective piece urges gentle bedtimes to preserve warm memories and childhood dignity. It warns against excessive indulgence while embracing parental blessing, noting the lasting impact of a mother’s care on a child’s sense of love, purity, and self-respect.
The tale recalls a marksman in New York State who shot at a game cock to avoid a grouse but misfired by targeting the wrong nipple on the shotgun. The failed shot ruined the fifty dollar bird and the crowd dispersed.
The text asserts that swallowing two gills of sweet oil can instantly neutralize any poison from vegetables animals or minerals. It also notes a stronger constitution may require nearly twice the amount and presents the claim as a certain remedy known to physicians and chemists.
In Congress there are 266 lawyers, 45 editors, 20 doctors, 15 farmers, 19 bankers, 7 manufacturers, 17 merchants, 6 railroad officials and 4 teachers. Total, 366.
A witness questions Mr. Hitchcock's character noting concerns over honesty. Deacon Solomon Rising defends him, saying Hitchcock is not mean but might be prudent, recalling a past case where he levied on a widow’s ducks to cover a debt, a tale framed as prudent action.
Archie Campbell head of Edinburgh's old town guard sent his mother's body to the Highlands then brought back the spirit in small barrels. He joked with cronies that he took away the body and brought back the speerit while selling smuggled whiskey to town council members for profit.
A historical note describes filtering warm milk through a sprig of washed fir tips set upright in a funnel. The leaves trap hair, skins, clots or sliminess and impart a pleasant aroma, helping the milk resist souring. A fresh sprig is recommended for each filtration.
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