29 Mar 1882
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1882
Page
1
A damaged excerpt presents a love sonnet that laments lost affection as sunlight wanes. The speaker reflects on past devotion, missed conversations of love and faith, and a now shelterless heart as day gives way to dusk. The verse hints at longing and unresolved ache within a troubled relationship.
A youth ventures into a familiar scene and sings through the night beneath the mauaton’s shade. He moves toward a hopeful sight but finds a door marked To Let, transforming longing into wary revelation. The verse frames longing, spectacle, and a sudden, somber twist.
The narrator recalls Colonel Coyote Clark a notorious yet magnetic figure, recounting his brutal acts alongside moments of odd tenderness. Through a series of encounters with Clark and his family the piece explores loyalty, danger, and a conflicted affinity that endures amid violence.
A historic note explains sweet potatoes, once southern luxuries, are now grown in Maine and Michigan with modest effort. It describes starting plants in a hot bed from a simple box frame, using horse manure and forest leaves, keeping the bed moist and shaded at night, with seed quantities and handling tips for families and potential sellers.
Col John F Hoy, a noted temperance lecturer, told a Louisville reporter that the worst city in the United States for drinking is Cincinnati. He said New England uses the least liquor, while the West and South show more, with Cincinnati described as the Hell of the World. He blamed laboring and poor classes for the greatest havoc from drink, noting bar rooms as their only social outlets.
Dr John Hall of New York presents a lecture on St Valentine’s Day noting that comic valentines are not modern inventions but date from ancient times when maidens sent hints to avoid unrequited love. The talk emphasizes playful verses and social customs of courtship.
In a United Service critique the author argues for stricter marriage age and rank rules for officers, citing foreign practices in Italy France Russia and Germany. The piece contends delaying matrimony would reduce entanglements and preserve naval professionalism while noting the high value of officers’ government bonds and social status.
Agricultural notes discuss wall construction for warmth using air gaps and layered materials plus tar paper. It warns farmers not to sign for strangers and cautions against fraudulent schemes. It covers manure making, feeding effects on manure quality, and methods to nourish house plants with guano water ammonia solution and cold coffee. It notes mice reproduce rapidly in farms.
A fragmentary 19th century farming note warns that most summer stock is killed in winter if soils saturate. It urges selecting fruit trees for spring now, buying from reliable growers, avoiding doubtful tree peddlers, thawing frozen stock slowly, and turning under worms in meadows. It also suggests hogs and rollers to lessen meadow damage and notes higher farm costs and the need for higher prices. A zinc on live coals claim is mentioned as a soot cleaner for stoves.
The term bear arose from a trader who fell short of delivery and preferred prices to drop so he could cover. Bulls are often blamed for market moves, but true investors may be bears in spirit awaiting cheap buys. Speculation has value when balanced. recent times show bears gaining ground after bulls dominated in France, per London News.
Practical guidance from the National Live Stock Journal on growing corn for sheep in Arlis with 3 foot rows and six inch drills. After harvest, shock ears and run through a cutter to make chaff and fodder. A ton can be cut in 20 to 30 minutes with a large cutter.
A correspondent argues farmers misjudge moles as crop enemies. He states he never sees crop damage from moles in his wheat field and notes moles do not digest corn. He estimates seed corn losses from wireworms, not moles, as a greater threat to harvests.
Fragmentary verse describes a bustling maiden and a speaker confessing romantic affection. The lines hint at a playful, courtship tone as the speaker asks the maiden to tidy his heart and choose him as partner. The text preserves periodful cadence and affectionate imagery.
The Langor Commercial notes Maine fur bearing animals such as beaver and deer are recovering from near extinction during the rebellion era, with furs in demand. Foxes appear at night near city suburbs Brewer docks, muskrat are killed in docks, and an otter was seen in Kenduskeag near the rail bridge.
Sixty million sheep and twenty million cattle roam the pampas of the Argentine Republic in a vast livestock landscape. Local ranchers and markets rely on this immense herd volume for export and regional meat supplies.
Louise Chandler Moulton reflects in Our Continent on training children in courtesy at home. She advocates scrupulous politeness toward children, listening without interrupting, and respecting others’ needs to maintain household harmony. A girl fines herself for Solevism at the table while adults repay faults, illustrating gentle, practical etiquette.
Lucy Hamilton Hooper reports from Paris on how little France knows about the United States. A French colonel questions U.S. scale, while an American retorts Texas equals one large state and notes forty states in the Union. The exchange ends with polite civility as the colonel reveals his disbelief.
A crude zinc chloride solution is used by tinsmiths to help solder copper, brass, and iron. Heat outside due to fumes, add zinc strips to muriatic acid in a wide bottle, then apply a drop of the solution and solder as usual.
The Industrial World notes Michigan as a rising metal power with copper mines surpassing Chilean output and totaling about 84,000 tons of ore valued near $10 million in 1881. It adds Lake Superior copper is nearly pure metal ready for market, Michigan ranking high in ore value and possibly the largest ore producer in the country last year, with 2,821,315 tons mined.
A Boston woman, Miss A. C. Fletcher, has lived with the Omahas for seven months near the city, studying the tribe’s inner life. The educated young lady, a Boston resident, is for the time a member of the tribe to gain firsthand understanding. She was in the city on Tuesday.
Disjointed OCR text mentions Dr Yuy Likinson, Agent Om Sas Ad Winnot Bagos, and Miss Fletcher. It hints at conversations about travels through northern tribes, study locations, and routes toward Flatheads of Washington Territory and Sioux country, with no coherent narrative or clear event.
An imperfect fragment from Count Miot de Melito recounts a meeting with Napoleon in Italy. The description focuses on Napoleon’s appearance with powdered hair a tricolored feather and a stern yet thoughtful demeanor, noting his brusk manner and earnest conversation about Italy.
A faded column urges use of fumes from boiling malt vinegar to dispel infectious particles and prevent disease. It claims vinegar fumes close spaces for twenty minutes then allow fresh air, and suggests benefits for cattle and sheep as well as humans. It warns against complacency amid scarlet fever measles and other ailments.
The milk traffic in New York began in 1843 with early moves from Orange and nearby counties. By 1849 or 1850 the first regular milk train started, drawing religious excitement due to Sunday morning runs. Today milk trains remain highly profitable on the roads.
An advertisement touts Dr. Frasier’s Magic Ointment as a universal cure for skin diseases including pimples blotches and eruptions. It cites a Cleveland case by F Drake Esq and claims blind bleeding or ulcerated piles also cured, with Henry & Co as sole proofs and Emmert & Burrell selling the product.
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