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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1869
Page
6
Poem fragment recalls twilight shadows and a weary mother soothing a child. The narrator speaks of listening to a cradle song and a gentle angelic touch, describing the child’s final sleep and a journey to an eternal shore beyond earthly rest.
An eccentric showman recalls Minnikin and Immensikoff a giantess and a dwarf in a touring act. Minnikin poisons the giantess with debt and manipulation while she endures abuse until a decisive confrontation changes their dynamic. The tale traces escape and revenge as the pair reform and resume work at the narrator's shop amid a cautionary note on tyrannical spouses.
The Boston Saturday Fueling Express announces it has hired a fighting editor at an immense salary to match belligerents who challenge the paper’s remarks. The individual claims fifteen years in the business and cites past exploits such as biting hoses and cars, gouging eyes, breaking limbs, and killing men by throwing them from an editorial window, with all acts allegedly preserved in a glass bottle.
A satirical verse laments declining public bathing in Margate as adults avoid the sea for fashion and propriety. The speaker notes modest bathing fees, the costly attire, and jokes about legal controls and social propriety affecting seaside culture.
A London professor explains in Appleton's Journal that the heart's beating relies on heart nerves containing both fibers and nerve cells. These cardiac cells influence nerve fibers to generate nerve force, driving the heart muscle, as a tortoise heart can beat after isolation.
A physician warns that candy harms children by inflaming the stomach and exhausting the blood. He cites a case of a restless, thirsty girl kept awake by candy intake and urges a general approach to discipline, noting sugar itself is not the issue but the irritants and manufacturing additives.
The spectrum analysis revolutionized chemistry and astronomy in ten years from Wollaston to Kirchoff and Bunsen. It enabled detection of elements in mineral ash, aided steel making via flame indicators, and supports medico legal tests. celestial bodies like the sun and stars reveal their chemical makeup through spectra, with elements such as sodium, calcium, iron, and others identified in Aldebaran Sirius and dozens of stars.
A long compiled list reports on petroleum shipments, church growth in Germany, French cable rights, Hartford life-insurance policies, a Boston toothpick monopoly, a Nicolaus bust, Russian railroads, a preacher in Iowa City, a two headed rattler, royal wedding costs, and various social issues. It notes Crimean War losses, British postal deliveries, UK savings deposits, a centenarian abstainer, and scattered curious anecdotes from America and abroad.
An excerpt urging against giving burnt sugar and poisons to a nursing child. It warns such nourishment dulls appetite and digestion, predicting severe long term harm including dyspepsia, early death, and stunted development. A physician quote from Hearth and Home advocates proper, gentle feeding to restore appetite and health.
Mrs Eleanor R Campbell of Kansas City Missouri publishes notice she releases all interest in extensive property sold recently by her late husband and conveyed by deeds that omitted her dower. She offers the release without fee or reward and aims to avoid wronging others.
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