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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1872
Page
3
The paper invites farmers of Stephenson County to submit plain, single side articles on any farming subject for publication. Contributions should be written clearly and on only one side of the paper.
A 1845 reminiscence from a nurseryman on fighting brown locust damage with early cultivation copper-water and guano solutions. He describes using horse and cultivator, hoes, and extended labor from dawn to night to keep stock healthy enough to bud, noting a repaid cost in growth.
A reader argues that poultry exhibitions have become prize driven and unfair. He cites the London Field critique and urges rules to require birds be bona fide property or in possession for six months to curb professional trimmers and protect amateurs and young fanciers from clique dominance.
Congress on June 8 1870 approved a resolution to print 6000 extra copies of the work directed by Commissioner Cap ron. One thousand five hundred copies were allocated to Senators and 9000 to House members, with 1500 for the Commissioner of Agriculture. The notice lists sources for Gamgee on the Lung Plague smutty corn effects cattle pleuro pneumonia and related studies by Woodward Billings Curtis Ravenal Dodge and others as to where the volume can be obtained.
The article argues for expanding craft schools to train youths as practical engineers chemists printers machinists and farmers. It urges that educated workers should dignify all trades and that engineers must be educated for their business just as lawyers are for theirs. It criticizes ignorant engineers who control powerful machines and advocates discipline and broad learning.
A quotation warns against letting unqualified youths rule affairs. It argues for a future where all positions of responsibility are held by educated men, with current workers urged to adapt or quit. The author cites dangers from inept leadership and calls for improved standards.
Damascus Farmers Club notes April 18 1872 recounts Secretary replacement, ongoing meetings, lively discussions on Labor and Capital cultivation and farm beautification Sheep husbandry and Forest Culture. They plan blanks for statistics, receive Commissioner of Agriculture reports, and trial a Thomas Smoothing Harrow pending weather and spring work.
James Parrox portrays Thomas Jefferson as a planter who expanded estate wealth and slaves while selecting farming over public office. The narrative highlights the patriarchal, self-sustaining Virginia household, the master’s daily authority, and his role coordinating labor, defense against mismanagement, and family needs from Albermarle to the farm.
Vandalia route offers fast connections to St Louis and the West and Southwest. Illinois Central trains provide prompt transfers, making travel time shorter than other lines.
Starper's Weekly bound in half morrocco leather offered at the Freeport Book Bindery above JOURNAL office for three dollars and sixty cents per volume.
A vivid aside on men using scraps of paper for hill-heads instead of visiting the Journal office for freshly printed songs on new type, admiring the neat look and the pleasure of discarding the scraps.
A long list of snippets includes jokes about lip service ten cups and saucers, a rash of postal notices, monkey cutlets and parrot pie, and curious ad copy. Various lines poke at social norms, politics, and manners with brief witticisms and brief dialogues, from a public singer mosquito to the ethics of trust and labor. The piece reads as a collage of humorous vignettes and aphorisms from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper page.
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