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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1872
Page
3
The fragment meditates on human bias in love and speech, hinting at a divine silence and the challenge of expressing true feeling. It juxtaposes human tongue with a sacred, filtered language and explores the ache of miscommunication.
A thoughtful reflection on Jesus as a boy and man, urging balance between divine and human aspects. It argues tenderness for human infirmities, mercy’ s rewards, and the spiritual battle between belief and atheism, ending with a view of heaven as rest of balanced faculties.
Compassionate note about Japanese children in poverty disease and ignorance. The writer recalls their lack of education and Christian teaching, praising sabbath school songs sung before a heathen temple and urging readers to help fund education for these millions of kids.
The German emperor abolishes decapitation and orders death by strangling or shooting. German surgeons argue the head stays conscious after severance. The piece critiques the guillotine and Spanish garrote as equally cruel, detailing the collar device’s quick fatal effect.
A man reports experiments on destroying obnoxious lawn growths like dock horseradish by cutting two to three inches below the crowns with a spade, pouring kerosene on the exposed part, then replanting the sod. The horseradish supposedly dies while grass remains unharmed.
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