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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1870
Page
8
On a Jersey City ferry Edward Minturn spots Grace Flitter admiring a dashing military man. Minturn, posing as the officer’s friend, introduces Grace to the writer and a trombone player provokes amused laughter as Grace storms ashore.
Professor James Orton’s paper at the Troy meeting details the condor’s true size and strength. He notes fifty years since Europe’s first specimen and debunks giant lift theories, citing Marco Polo’s elephant tale and a traveller’s feather length claim, urging cautious ornithology.
A traveler recounts condor size and habits with notes from the Andes. It details wingspan ranges, flight, nesting sites on cliff ledges, carrion feeding, and behavior in the wild. Captivity notes include diet and handling difficulties. incubation is about seven weeks with regional timing.
In Wilkesbarre villagers revere Gertrude of Wyoming as Moses and Washington, naming every girl Gertrude for fifty years. Minsters baptize without question. editors keep the poem on every galley and jubilees, with hundreds of tons of Gerty hair jewelry sold yearly. A local man was killed for doubting her existence. old timers recall her pig pen walks to Beautiful Dreamer. she is said buried in forty six cemeteries. Sunday Dispatch.
M Maury conducted self experiments to show dreams can be triggered by stimuli during sleep. He describes eight trials including feather tickle, bells, perfumes, a burning match, heat, and sound words, detailing dream sequences and recalled memories linked to the stimuli.
A roundup of anecdotal prose on Prince Leopold of Dessau, detailing his military innovations, steadfast nature, and tender moments. It recounts his marriage to Mademoiselle Fos, his continental tours, and a poignant scene when his dying daughter Louisa summoned him to lead a dramatic military display, ending with Leopold weeping beside the Saale bridge.
M Devergie recounts a Paris memoir of a 19 year old Bordeaux merchant’s son who killed his stepmother during dessert and fled. He later surrendered, was judged insanity by eminent French alienists and acquitted. The piece notes his exemplary life before the act and a baffling postscript about flight from Brussels later.
A man visited his father and brother in the city, bought pistols, and was driven to a cemetery to visit his stepmother’s tomb. At her grave he wrote lines in his memorandum book, then killed himself. He lamented dying on her tomb, claiming love and regret. The act is called lunatic by contemporaries and linked to a controversial murder motive.
The eccentric French trumpeter Vivier causes a stir in England after a private party invitation to the Duchess of Sutherland. He insists on English custom, raises prices, and finally accepts with pride, prompting royal-style reception and lasting fame.
A Missouri hunter in Daviess County shot an otter while rabbit hunting. The enraged animal chased him over a rail fence. the man leapt back and forth, finally grabbing the otter by its tail to escape. The struggle drew cries from a farm house nearby before he could walk away.
A fragment advises insomniacs to roll the eyes in various directions to divert thoughts and induce sleep within minutes, claiming the method creates a blank mind while moving. It also mentions a dubious remedy involving codfish skin boiled in water, supposedly effective after 20 years of use by Mrs. M. J. C. Lamartine of Wis.
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