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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1870
Page
3
A dramatic fragment describes a weary servant girl at a window and later on the street among a bustling crowd. The speaker notes her patience, her burdened market basket, and contrasts social classes while reflecting on divine judgment and humility.
A Toledo Blade fragment recounts the life of Patsy McGrogan, an Irish immigrant and colorful rogue who died after a confrontation in a Sixth Ward New York house. The essay lampoons Democratic politics, crime, fugitive exploits, and his rapid rise to local influence before his death in a burglary incident.
The narrative recalls Colonel David Wilson of Dubuque Iowa a lawyer and frontier officer who raised a regiment to pursue Sioux bands on the Upper Missouri from Yankton to Pembina. A young bank teller seeking sergeant major service asks for combat. Wilson assesses him writes a letter and inspires his path to adjutant. In action near a lone mound the adjutant is fatally wounded after aiding and firing on the enemy, dying bravely but refusing to surrender his duty.
A barroom narrator laments and recalls 1863 unrest and a figure who led the Throat Slashers. He reflects on anti Black violence, political figures, and the Fifteenth Amendment, noting personal grief and rumored schemes for wealth, power, and loyalty in New York society.
The article recalls a young Yankton Sioux battles with illness on a prairie dawn. He wills everything to his mother and asks companions to search for a picture of his fiancée. He dictates a letter to her while dying, clutching the image and a lock of hair as the wind cools his fading lungs.
Chicago researchers R M Whippie and Thomas Dickerson refined a process to convert crude petroleum into a gaseous fuel for engines by heating steam in a super heater and generating a carbon vapor. The vapor mixes with superheated steam to produce a powerful, nearly smokeless combustion, driving a 35 horse power engine and drawing attention from scientists like Henry of the Smithsonian and leaders at Western Union. The method, tested in Philadelphia and New York, has attracted financiers for New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Kansas.
In a sharp appraisal, Queen Elizabeth I is depicted as vain deceitful and erratic. The critique notes her protracted political flirtations with Alencon and France, mistrust from Burleigh and Walsingham, and a fragile grasp on Protestant leadership amid European turmoil.
A tale from an old record tells how a goose with no mate becomes guardian to ducklings. A motherly hen joins in the venture guiding the flotilla as townsfolk watch daily as the two birds escort the brood across the water until the youngsters mature.
In Fulton area mud flats a party boated several large catfish. Reports cite one to 150 pounds and others near 125 pounds with many smaller fish. A tale claims a cat lay asleep in mud and was hauled aboard without a struggle. The trip yielded fun and several hundred dollars in amusement.
A fragmented timetable lists arrival and departure times for trains via Chicago and western routes, noting connections through Reed, Cedarville, Orangeville, and other towns. It mentions weekly arrivals on specific days, holiday hours, and station open times, with references to Central Railroad lines and Western Railroads.
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