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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1870
Page
3
A devotional meditation asks who can look back on life without remorse yet seeing gratitude in life’s deeds. It contemplates acts of kindness to the outcast, aiding the weak, and offering mercy, concluding that a life spent in service to others and to God is never lived in vain.
A rambunctious night at Graff farm ends with a feather bed disaster and a moral twist. Roxana vies for heroism with a pistol while Susie Vine and Aunt Marcia's workers contend with fear and mischief after a mysterious delivery. The episode yields laughter and a cautionary ending about consequences.
The piece extols combining farming work with music education led by a daughter who helps with the plow and piano. It praises a resourceful family, noting a daughter drives a plow to town for repairs, provides lessons, and sustains younger siblings through culture. It urges Western farmers to balance sound finances with home culture and music, while referencing a State Fair net of 20,006.10 and expenses not yet known.
The article outlines coffee cultivation in Severn Central American states from planting in beds to field transplantation. It details tree growth, fruit yield, picking seasons December to March, and processing steps including drying, shelling, and removing skins, with labor details and productivity: 660 pounds of fruit yield 100 pounds of clean coffee.
The Rondout Courier recounts that the first locomotives in America arrived in 1829 on the sloop Eliza under Charles McEntee. Two engines from England on the ship George Canning were shipped by Horatio Allen, later joined by two more on the Elisha Hicks. Placed on canal boats and towed to Itonesdale, they proved too heavy for the road. Allen is credited with running the first locomotive here, though later claims about Albany and Schenectady timing are noted as mistaken.
A San Francisco resident named Jones fell for a letter hoax from New York claiming a distant English relative left fifty thousand dollars. A coincidental identity with a real claimant led him to travel to New York, prove his identity, and return with eighteen thousand dollars, all from a prank. Governor Shaffer bans Mormon militia gatherings in Utah and orders arms surrendered. A convention outsider compares his feelings to a condemned Scotchman, disgusted with the proceedings.
In a Pittsburg court a plaintiff showed the jury the skillet used by his wife, explaining how its three legs fit holes in his head to illustrate the alleged wounds. A Decorah trout company forms with 3,000 dollars capital to stock a pond fed by a stream from a bluff. A fisherman’s joke about twins closes the item.
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