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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1879
Page
8
A British report warns that foul soil saturation and privy vaults near wells cause deadly typhoid risks. Observers in Cleveland note similar hazards in older districts with multiple wells, vaults, and sinks, urging city health action to end the dangerous conditions.
The text lists stain removal methods for different materials. It advises soap for cotton and wool grease spots, potash for linens, ammonia for wool, and benzine or alcohol for oily stains, noting silk and paper require careful handling. It includes cautions against rubbing and mentions magnesia, fuller's earth, or pipe clay for silk and valuable papers.
The issue opens with Tad's Telephone by Kate W. Hamilton and The Training School Ship Minnesota by Mrs. Dickinson with twelve shipboard drawings by Miss A J Humphrey. It features Our American Artists on George L Brown, a playful history of a landscape artist, and a comic poem The Tragical History of Chang Fung Loo. Includes The Wonderful Trio The Storks and Don Quixote among several serials, poems, and illustrations. Palmer Cox contributes She Wolf and the Goats. 1880 prospectus on the cover. subscription rate $2. Ella Farman, Editor. D Lothrop & Co.
A column combines anecdotes about Said Pasha, predecessor of Ismail, including a monopoly gift to a soldier turned purveyor and a garden sale trick, with a literary survey from North American Review highlighting discussions on women’s suffrage, Malthusianism, and Lincoln era politics.
The piece praises beauty in vegetable gardens and ornamental plants, noting onions, potatoes, beets, parsley, kale, peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuces, and radishes as attractive. It urges farmers to plant flower or vegetable gardens for pleasure and dignity, and ends with a parable about a barber correcting his son.
The issue numbers for the weeks ending Oct 18 and 24 include articles on the life of the Prince Consort, Westminster, and various reviews. A new volume begins in October, with subscription options at eight dollars for fifty two numbers or thirty one fifty for a year to receive any American monthly or weekly with Living Age postpaid.
The November number of Ballou's Monthly is released at newsdealers or by subscription for 1.50 per year postpaid. It promises rich reading including stories poems sea yarns and illustrations with a notice of a forthcoming December issue in new form and type. The contents list features tales sketches and columns such as The City of Venice The Falkland Islands Salt and Salt Mines My Lady's Bounty A Marble Woman and more.
At Memphis Creek Utah Territory several Mexicans rested by a fire when Telstore Cru ens spotted a nine inch centipede. Cru ens killed it by shooting its head but died within hours from the bite. A mule tethered nearby also died at dawn with a swollen leg and burst skin.
An enterprising land-owner in the Tay of Plenty District on the north eastern North Island New Zealand demonstrates that tobacco equal to the best American produce can be grown there. A local torore variety, once used by the Maories, is improved by cultivation and multiple varieties can be produced. The planter intends to pursue the venture seriously.
The most respected medical men in large cities endorse this remedy. It is priced at $1.50 per bottle and $7.50 for six bottles, sold by Emmert & Burrell.
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