12 Oct 1881
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1881
Page
1
A man asks a blessing before meals and is interrupted by a poor, half baked dinner and a quarrel at home. The scene shows a courteous husband enduring a sour mood as his wife Marin is blamed for bad cooking. The piece advocates quiet care and duty over hollow grace.
Hector Graeme a rosy cheeked, sandy haired messenger at a busy city telegraph office bravely returns a dropped purse to a young girl. He declines reward, helps his sister, and dies from internal injuries after delivering a final message. His grave in Rose Hill Cemetery is marked by a white stone noting his duty.
A Chicago National Live Stock Journal article advises dairy farmers to maintain cow nutrition during pasture shortages by mixing inexpensive byproducts. It outlines ration options using bran, linseed meal, cottonseed meal, and corn meal to supplement grass, estimating costs per week per cow and the milk payoff, with suggested daily amounts and notes on varying by locality and seasonal pasture.
The narrator recalls traveling to the North Cape and Lapland where the sun shone all night, lamenting that no sunset occurred. He muses on humanity’s reliance on sunset for meaning, noting endless daylight, jubilant skies, and the paradox of a world where “Sunset” may not descend and life proceeds regardless.
The account notes Laplanders have extreme appetites with ten times the meat consumption of Swedes. A deer lasts a family of four a week and Von Buch recalls rein deer flesh cooked in huts. The master tears the meat with fingers while others race to share it, finishing with broth mixed with reindeer milk.
Riverside yields will reach about fifteen thousand boxes this year, tripling last season's five thousand, while San Gabriel valley production declines from sixty thousand to thirty five thousand boxes under authority.
A Kentuckian tells Louisville Post reporters that colored women never kiss, a claim debated as the Kentuckian cites family tradition and travel anecdotes. He notes fewer deceptions among Blacks than Whites and discusses social relations, while admitting the idea may reflect customs rather than universal truth.
A scene from the St. Louis Globe depicts a man in a sparse brass-buttoned dress coat and star as a Pullman car conductor who is mistaken for a navy master. A blue-blooded young lady refuses to dance, calling the wearer a fraud while a marines lieutenant is praised as society’s swell. The exchange ends with social death for the conductor and debate over real status versus borrowed attire.
At Mt Pleasant Massachusetts a fortune teller and divorce lawyer named Mr Young was expelled after three hours. He opened a tent at the spiritualist gathering to claim wives would receive revelations about their husbands and charge for attempted divorce proceedings.
A Dickensian tale unfolds as young lovers scheme to marry with a justice of the peace. The plan collapses when a hulking farmer and wife appear, and the couple flees, the romance ending in comic thwarted pursuit at the Cit Hall.
A London weekly offers a prize for the best poem on President Garfield's attempted assassination. Weil's verse laments the nation as liberty and peace endure while a despotism is thwarted by Providence and a hidden threat remains. The piece reflects on national sorrow, justice, and moral fate.
A Madrid correspondent notes midday laborers resting in shade and sun while beggars persist. A boy with a bad eye begs near the author as the city remains gay, cafes busy, and crowds throng, especially Sundays for bullfights. Public transport and private carriages fill to reach the arena, fueling daylong excitement.
Dan Simpson, drummer of the An cient artillery of Boston, is 90 years old and has performed at sixty annual parades, marking a long career of festive marching and public performances.
The article describes extensive bird netting and decoy methods in France that kill many small birds, with swallows largely spared due to legal bans. It notes attempts to soften enforcement by M. Guibert, but swallows still faced heavy persecution along the Rhone and in marshy areas, a fate echoed in Switzerland where protection arrived too late to avert damage.
An elderly German on Market Street recovered two stolen watches and chains after dreaming a strawcovered corner would hide them. He reported the dream, was met with skepticism except by the housekeeper, and found both watches after inspecting the indicated spot. The tale ends with the man embracing dreams as truth.
A sixteen year old girl in Litesfield Massachusetts, snow blinded last winter, after six months in a darkened room gains extraordinary vision. Her left eye sees eight to ten miles while the right eye offers remarkable magnification. A local tale notes a man in a billiard room appears large to one eye and small to others, illustrating the humor of a magnifying eye.
An interview sourced from Hotel Afail features a veteran waiter who declares that waiters seldom grow old. He asserts that they are lively until 28, weaken after 30, and by 40 are diminished as indigestion purportedly ends their careers.
The 1879 80 US whisky output reached about 2 040 000 barrels creating 4 080 000 000 drinks for a population of 60 000 000. Distillers fear prices fall and seek production limits while a looming whisky monopoly could be aided by government bribes as Kalamazoo readers tout Hop Bitters for cures and reliability.
A fourteen year old black girl living on a plantation about twelve miles from Lake Providence Louisiana gave birth to three male children. One was black, one white, and one mulatto.
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