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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1880
Page
6
An observer recounts a dangerous tiger confrontation on a hunt near Burgut, detailing a near-fatal struggle. After multiple rifle shots and a broken gun, the tigress dies from a chest wound. The narrator survives despite being mauled, reflecting on the peril and his narrow escape.
The English Statist notes about 1 billion pounds idle in England seeking secure avenues. High demand for sound securities leaves little supply as 4 percent investments vanish and land prices fall in parts of southern and eastern England amid retrenchment and unsettled European affairs.
A clever stage device uses a crop curtain to reveal an enormous bonnet with floral sprays and feathery plumes early in the first scene. The effect is a prettily conceived hint inside the performance.
A reflective critique of esthetic tea culture praising sensorial rituals while lampooning its spectators. The piece describes dim rooms, scented air, somber music, and melodramatic fashion as part of a cultivated mood, ending with a question about the motive behind such performances and whether they hint at morbid cravings or genuine spirituality.
The passage urges factory workers to get outdoors to improve health and appetite. It promotes Hop Bitters as the remedy for pallid faces languor and bodily troubles, claiming sunshine restores health and rosy cheeks. It notes the remedy is inexpensive and advertised in the Christian Recorder.
The text argues that true rest and repair come from targeted exercise, not inactivity. Recovery depends on stimulating the organ’s vitality through fresh, moderate work that supports nutrition, rather than mere diversion or general idleness.
The passage describes superstition as an epidemic touching all ranks of society and defying age or intellect. It warns that high excitement nurtures delusion and belief, enabling the rapid spread of irrational notions.
Reverend Wellington E. Webb has erected a log cruciform church on his Virginia farm near Halifax Court House to serve the colored community. The building measures 65 by 67 feet, features a pointed roof and a grapevine and hickory exterior design, with capacity for about 400 worshipers.
The Troy Times notes Putter appears in Old Testament references but may have meant cream or sour milk. It traces butter’s scarce early use to ancient Greece and Rome, with earliest real butter mentions by Herodotus, Pliny, and German milk practices.
An old remedy titled When Found Make a Note Of claims Spring Blossom cures Brights Disease of the Kidneys and stone in the bladder. It lists price one dollar and fifty cents.
The advertisement touts Sellers Cough as the most pleasant and efficacious cure for coughs colds croup and related throat irritation. It claims over a million bottles sold recently and promises relief not found in common cough mixtures. Available from all druggists at 25 cents per bottle.
Local church notices outline services at German Reformed Church on Williams and Union. Rev Wernley presides with 10 am and 7 pm services and 1:30 pm Sunday school plus Eng ah service at 2:30 pm. Methodist Episcopal Embury-Exchange hosts 10:30 am and 7 pm services with 12 pm Sunday school. First-Stephenson at Cherry with Rev Mandeville holds 10:30 am and 7 pm services and 12 pm Sunday school.
Mayors and city officers listed with office locations at Cronkrite store and Fry’s Block. County offices also named with courthouse addresses and ward aldermen, clerk, treasurer, recorder, sheriff, and surveyor.
The Board of Education, led by President William C. Wright and members W. G. Barnes and H. J. Porter, announces supervision by Superintendent Charles C. Snyder with office in the High School building and hours from 7:30 to 9:60 a.m.
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