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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1879
Page
10
A dense, error-filled column merges crime mentions, inquest notes, and local color from a distant era. It references a Glas Bank victim, a jeweler, New Zealand paper, coroner verdicts, and scattered anecdotes about courts, telephones, and public life with many garbled names and places.
The London Times comments on Hindu women noting delicate olive complexions, proportional features, and black languishing eyes. It cites early marriages at age 12, emphasizes cleanliness and elaborate dress, and describes heavy jewelry, silk garments, and ornate adornments worn by women of distinction versus village girls.
An Indiana Plan case in Indianapolis Journal describes a German shoemaker near White River bridge who suspects his wife’s fidelity with a local baker on Blake Street. After a mutual divorce and property split, the pair marry later the same day with a witness, amid plans for bread and shoes exchange in a rustic match called “Eloosierdom.”
A traveler details the Rio Grande valley from Santa Fe noting irrigation, Pueblo and Spanish towns with adobe churches, crops like wheat corn and potatoes, and a wine potential. A Guyot survey reveals new Catskills peaks including Slide Mountain at 4,205 feet and many elevations above 3,600 feet.
Felix Meier of Detroit dedicates ten years and 87000 to build an 18 foot high clock weighing two tons. Its striking mechanism marks quarters and hours with staged figures of painters, youths, a graybeard, and a Washington figure who rises with the Declaration. Presidents pass via doorways as a music box plays.
A glass wick for lamps is manufactured by Voubriel and Beck of Hanau Germany. It suits petroleum and spirit lamps, yields brighter light than cotton wicks, increases flame heat in spirit lamps, produces no sparks, reduces smoking, and may save oil. It does not burn away but slowly fuses.
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