26 Oct 1870
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1870
Page
1
The paper invites farmers from Stephenson County to write articles on any subject related to local farming. Submissions should be plain, on one side of the paper, and respectful in tone for publication.
A Cincinnati writer recounts a comic travel puff on the Ohio State Fair trip aboard the Cincinnati Dayton road. He notes sample beers, train cars, a conductor demanding fare, telegraph poles en route to the fair, and a drunken passenger mistaking the journey for a mill excursion, all in a playful railroading voice.
A James Thompson summary urges farmers to maximize fodder, grow roots and cabbage, and use turnips and mangels for store hogs. Roots should be limited to half a bushel per cow daily. if grain is unavailable, sell some to buy a little, as one pint daily can prevent scouring. Emphasizes manure as the farmers’ primary asset.
A Cincinnati Gazelle writer outlines a method to kill a silver leaf poplar and its twenty year sprouts by girdling the trunk, loosening bark to form a salt pouch, and filling it with common salt, arguing all roots, branches, and sprouts will die. Also notes alarm over Colorado potato bug reaching Western borders and proposed border quarantine and salt.
A Fond du Lac paper describes a glass jar weather frog that moves only in rain, signaling weather changes. In Wisconsin Sauk County near Black Hawk, Germans form a beet sugar company with 250 dollar shares, four acres per holder, planning about 1600 tons of beets before frost and a 40 000 dollar factory estimate at Honey Creek. The piece also notes birds’ role against insect depredations and mentions a velvet factory in Franklin Kansas and a Pa couple’s fourteen mile walk to Emlenton for circus attendance.
A long column reviews Henry Ward Beecher's recent sermon, noting the preacher treats heaven and hell as figurative and the Bible as not a bundle of fictions. It criticizes Associated Press misreporting, cites Beecher’s conservatism, and comments on 19th century beauty trends and Sheridan's war notes. It also reports Camden county New Jersey Democratic resolutions favoring Anglo-Saxon heritage.
In a harsh rate war Pacific Mail steamers and the overland line slash freight to California with through bills as low as two dollars per hundred for the same class. Railroads have taken goods at three dollars per hundred from New York to San Francisco undercutting Chicago to Omaha.
A letter praises the Freeport editor Joun wal Gen. S. D. Atkins and the journal as one of the best and most sound papers in the state. A domestic worker allegedly tried to procure engraved silverware with the phrase entrails M. M. on each piece, startling the clerk.
A long string of lighthearted items. witty anecdotes probe social mores and religious figures, with jests about lawyers, doctors, ministers, and a few misadventures in moral expectations. Names and places appear loosely, shaping a collage of humorous vignettes and regional quirks.
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