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Newspaper

Freeport Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Nov 10, 1880

Page

3

Election Returns Across the Nation in Garfield Victory

Nov 4 reports from New York City and beyond show Garfield leading statewide by about 20 to 23 thousand votes as Republicans claim strength in California New Jersey Pennsylvania and other states. Election tallies also note Democratic claims of fraud and discuss results in Tennessee Kentucky Iowa and Indiana with varying majorities and legislative shifts.

New York Democratic Republican New York State Garfield Tha ‘Times the Herald Garfeld The Sun Hancock Dowd Tammany Hall Democratic Committee New Jersey Philadelphia Paladelphia Pennsylvania Mermomis Lafayette Hardeman W. F. Moore Congress Casey Young Nashville Hawkins Wright Wilson Senate House Cleveland Hayes Fremont Austin Gen Chattanooga Times Nancock John Kelly Cornell, Conkling and Co Tilden York House of Representatives Redon Publicans San Francisco Jancock Weaver Page Pacheco Rosentranz Berry California Rosecranz Davis Mabell Greenbacker del Norte Terry United States David Davis Aldrich Farwell Indianapolis Indiana Webster County Des Moines Republican State Committee Iowa Union Carpenter TorrKa Str. Louis Sedalia Col. Phillips Judge Mice St. Louis Hazeltine Waddle

Grant Garfield Ticket Appears On Louisiana Ballot

A Louisiana ballot on Tuesday carried the Regular Republican ticket headed by a Grant portrait. It lists Ulysses S. Grant for President, James A. Garfield for President, Chester A. Arthur for Vice President, followed by the electors.

Louisiana General Grant Ulysses S. Grant James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur

Heiress Buys Saugerties Clerk In Romantic Joke

An amusing Kingston correspondence describes a Saugerties dry goods clerk who is bought by a Columbia County girl in a playful romance. The woman, worth about $25,000, arrives with cream and humor, then departs with the clerk on the 2:30 train, while he returns to work days later, reticent about his escapade.

Kingston, N. Y Saugerties Columbia County Main Street

Well Fixed. V Pencil Writing Cure Mentioned

An ad notes that varnished pencil writing can be made permanent by moistening with the tongue while claiming Spring Blossom cures for Dyspepsia at prices of 1 dollar and 50 cents.

Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil Praised by Cedar Rapids User

Robert Lubbock of Cedar Rapids Iowa says Dr Thomas 5 Electric Oil cured Diphtheria for him and his family and would use it again Pope and Billau druggists Cedar Rapids report exceptional customer satisfaction and seller pleasure from this medicine.

Robert Lubbock Cedar Rapids Iowa Thomas Pope & Billau

Soap pastes using oatmeal and soap scraps

A method to improve skin by cleansing with a paste of oatmeal and water. Instructions describe making a facial paste from oats, borax dissolved soap scraps, and optional sulfur or camphor, boiled to a creamy consistency and molded into cubes for use.

Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil Promises Rapid Joint Relief

Ads claim beds of down become hard for rheumatic sufferers and urge use of Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for aching joints muscles and related ailments. Testimonies assert speedy relief and note treatment for throat lung diseases sprains and bruises as well.

Thomas

Regularity in Exercise for Health, Says Dancer

A dancer warns that regular steady exercise better preserves health than irregular effort. Sudden shifts from sedentary to strenuous work or back can disturb organs accustomed to activity. He advocates maintaining brief regular activity during breaks to keep fitness and prepare the body for future demands.

Discoveries by Accident Highlighted in Day's Sidney Pad

The article notes that many valuable discoveries arise from chance rather than design, illustrating this idea with Day's Sidney Pad. It emphasizes serendipity in scientific and practical breakthroughs.

Day

Reflections on sorrow and taste for fine feeling

A philosophic musing on how suffering sharpens enjoyment and how intense emotion requires balance. It quotes Mr. Froude and The Gentleman's Magazine on human sensitivity, provincial wheat consumption, and costs of living in Turkey, with figures for bread needs, wages, rent, and taxes.

The Gentleman’s Magazine England Turkey

Refrigeration trial near Smithfield market in London

A large refrigerator building has been built near Smithfield market to test keeping beef for forty days, the Australia passage time. If successful, several steamers will be fitted. Temperature aimed at 3 degrees with chemically-made ice, machine cost 5000 dollars, gas engine eight horsepower, running ten dollars daily, ice twenty cents a ton. If beef from Australia becomes viable, American shippers may face competition.

Smithfield Market London Australia England

Agriculture as Basis of Civilization and Class Emergence

The text argues agriculture underpins civilization and that even the humblest farming yields surplus beyond immediate labor needs. It contends agriculture creates a leisure class and enables other workers to earn a subsistence, shaping social and state structures.

Imperial silk costs at Chinese court soar in two years

The imperial silk manufactories at Hangchow report Chinese court outlays on silks rising to unprecedented levels. In 1878 wholesale silk value reached 400000 dollars for robes, garments, and 1300 servant pieces, with Empresses and court ladies alone spending tens of thousands more. upon death, a lady’s entire wardrobe is buried with her, inflating yearly waste.

Hangchow China

Children's Shoes Worn At Toe Need Black Tip Approval

Parents who submit worn toe shoes to avoid metal tips should try the A. B. L Co s Black Tip. It protects the toe and adds to the shoe’s beauty. See advertisement in another column.

Society dinner demands cook’s service despite illness

In brisk dialogue, Bridget resists interruping the cook’s absence as the threatened attendance of several prominent Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals members looms, insisting the cook must work or another option be found.

Bridget Society For the Prevention of Cruelty

The Journal declares its partisan stance for county politics

The Journal outlines its mission as a trustworthy, partisan local paper, vowing to advocate for what it sees as right. It pledges independence from cliques, honesty about evils, and a commitment to cleanse party shortcomings, while promising vigorous involvement in Stephenson County politics this year.

Stephenson County

Local Happenings in County Sought for Correspondence

County residents are invited to send correspondence from responsible parties detailing local happenings. The newspaper welcomes timely notes from readers and organizations and will publish suitable items as space allows.

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