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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1878
Page
5
The readable text blends politics and society notes from a late 19th or early 20th paper, mentioning voters in Texas and Massachusetts, a Boston woman, Disraeli references, tax figures, a pharmacist and a parson, and stray remarks on schooling and taxes. It also notes land farming in California and Paris region harvests, with varied figures and anecdotes.
A collection of old time kitchen notes detailing spice mixes for stuffing salt, lemon pies, brown bread, tea-pot cleaning, molded crushed wheat, potato salad with egg dressing, lemon custard pies, and plain custard variations. Includes measurements and simple substitutions.
A compelled vignette of a curious visitor asking if a shop is a retail store and a bustling, chattering Union street bazaar scene. The text shifts to a factual remark noting that during the late war Russian surgeons suffered higher mortality than many officers, with donnée about the Prussian army in 1870-71 as a comparison.
In Alicante Spain a healer named El Baldaet offers miracles for the blind deaf dumb and paralytics claiming to revive the dead and cure phylloxera damaged vines. He hosts daily readings in a large room where invitees drink magnetized water after his epileptic demonstrations and incantations, though few cures are reported.
Officer Bayer saw James Callahan a former lawyer and later soldier with tattered clothes and no shoes, trying to dress on a doorstep. He claimed to have walked 866 miles and asked for mercy, but Justice Otterbourg sent him to the almshouse while remarking on market terms like bear and bull.
A historic report details eruptions on January 0 and February 11 near Tana Island in the New Hebrides. Harbor bottoms rose, rocks formed near Sulphur Bay, and a tidal wave about fifty feet high devastated eastern plantations. The west coast cracked, sinking land while the harbor mouth narrowed.
Passenger and freight schedules list eastbound and westbound departures from Freeport to Chicago and Rock Island connections. Timetables include day and night passes, transfers, and agents names such as W P Johnson and R H Holder with Western Union and Rock Island routes.
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