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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1866
Page
6
A concise extract on plant structure and physiology describes leaf buds and fruit buds as rudimentary leaves around growing points. It explains leaf evaporation, stomata, gas exchange, and how leaves absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen, with notes on how light, seasons, and soil affect sap, growth, and plant chemistry.
A local youth, courting a city girl, collected photographs from artist Smith to hand out among friends. At her door he showed a card believed to be his likeness, only to discover it was the Jack of Clubs, shocking her. The tale ends with her asking for a better portrait.
An eyewitness account recalls the Niagara and Post boy collision on the Mississippi. A enslaved crew member tied a rope to a wooden float and saved two women with a child, abandoning his own trunk clothing and $300 to sink with the wreck. He urged the women to jump and catch the float, then swam them to shore through a fierce current.
Jonathan Timber toe recounts a duck hunting misadventure with Uncle Zeke on a river trip. A powder horn falls, Zeke dives for it and stays at the bottom as the horn leaks powder, while a bystander woman listens in shock to the tale. The Chicago Tribune reports a livestock board ring in Chicago aimed at controlling cattle prices and concealing sale prices from farmers.
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