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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1873
Page
8
A Rural New Yorker piece urges farm wives to balance duties with self care. It advises orderly morning routines, quiet reading, rest, light exercise, and mindful spending, while encouraging thrift and husband cooperation to sustain a healthy home life.
The piece describes diverse baby care traditions. A Guinea mother pots a sand crib with her child buried for the day and straps the infant in a back chair for travel. Other customs feature a baby in a shoe stuffed with moss and a reindeer moss cradle worn by a Laplander child. An Esquimaux infant is carried in a fur bag with a hood.
The article outlines habits for effective study including deep interest attention and deliberate practice. It advises reading carefully and thinking often mastering each step, applying lessons, balancing study with recreation and rest, and studying systematically to form lifelong good habits outweighing mere knowledge. It emphasizes learning how to learn as essential for youth.
An Indian plain becomes a stage for a troop of large black faced monkeys. Their leader deduces a human culprit after a dead juvenile monkey falls from a banyan tree and directs a ritual execution of a snake as the alleged murderer. The piece closes with a moral urging boys to finish tasks and seek wholesome play.
Tuursors Farrer reports from Linn County on a bustling Fairport Journal view of the fairgrounds. He notes crowded gates, strong stock and premiums for Jersey cows Holstein Durham and short horn breeds, large hogs and sheep, and good wheat oats barley flax hay prices near Freeport. He mentions drought and frost hurting crops, with fruit scarce and trees frozen last winter.
Baileyville editors report Elmore Derby suffered a severe accident one mile south of town while oiling a horsepower. His right arm was amputated midway between elbow and shoulder by doctors McKim Sibert and Balsbaugh. Derby remained calm though injured. Local grain shipments rise as Baileyville shows activity. Lane seeks return of a lost buck skin glove in Freeport.
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