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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1880
Page
8
The Provincial Council of Venice weighs sanctioning engineer Pufo's three mile bridge plan to connect Venice with the mainland. It would serve as a tramway route and accommodate pedestrians and vehicles.
A reflective critique contrasts a town charity figure who is never generous in profit yet universally relied upon, with a portrait of Adolphe de Freycinet the French Prime Minister and engineer turned statesman. The piece notes his early career, wartime responsibilities, and postwar rise to lead works and canal projects, highlighting a rare example of a prominent engineer becoming a premier.
The article highlights Dr. Richardson's assertion that ample daylight in homes improves health by purifying air and stimulating the brain. Dark rooms weaken blood flow and heart action, increasing illness, while exposure to light reduces organic poisons and contagions.
An exchange warns that a cow needs as much currying as a horse and the milk will end up in the pail if the farmer leaves it under the cow during currying. The advised method is to turn the pail upside down or remove it from the area until currying is finished.
Across the page reports a staff officer Tchitchevsky is convicted for brutal treatment of his wife and faces loss of civil rights, army dismissal, and a year four months in prison. Separate notes describe Viola A. Pomeroy, a prima donna with a wooden leg, suing for salary after being discharged for lacking feline nimbleness in Girofle Girofla.
Mr. Proctor notes that printers meddle with scientific statements turning cosmic into comic and plants into planets. He recalls a 19th century example from his Spectroscopic Analysis with misprinted violet lines becoming links bands and stripes for violent spectres providing documentary evidence of the error.
A year-old infant can climb chairs and tables. when placed in a fixed high chair, it will inevitably slip free and fall, risking a broken arm or skull fracture. The mother believes the restraint is ultra secure, yet danger remains from the chair setup.
At Nyatka Russia actress Barbara Parmenova Kos siakovskaya owed a butcher eighty four roubles for meat. She could not pay and the butcher clashed with her on stage during The Actress of Venice admitting he felt paid for meat. The audience laughed as she sued for defamation.
The document enumerates city roles with officers and their offices including Mayor Cronkite at Cronkrite's EREOL store 08 Brephenson st city clerk Trembor in Fry's Block council rooms city treasurer Ratz opposite Barnes' warehouse city attorney Kean Fry's bik marshal Chamberlin street commissioner Rogers surveyor Jose court house aldermen 1st Ward Irvin Crane 2nd Ward Kuehner Zartman 3rd Ward Porter Wagner.
County offices listed include Clerk I F Kleckner Treasurer W W Tutchison Cor Dee Dan Brewster Sheriff J R Leigh and Surveyor Hirai Shons all located in the Court House.
Board members include F Bartlett president and Wm O Wright and W G Barnes. Superintendent Chas C Snyder, office in High School building, hours from 7:30 to 9:60 o'clock a.m.
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