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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1878
Page
8
A scattered digest of odd facts and vignettes from various places including New York Paris Nashville and Tennessee. Essays on marriage elopement polygamy in Utah and women voting share humorous and curious observations about society religion and fashion with references to crime industry and daily life.
A compendium of kitchen and household tips lists methods to preserve dress color with alum and salt, plus chow chow, pemican on toast, sago and tapioca milk, meat pies, curry rice soup, macaroons, Yorkshire muffins, cucumber pickles, wallpaper removal, and wall preparation. It presents specific ingredient quantities and stepwise instructions.
The 1875 value of American carpet production exceeded all rivals at 82 million dollars with importation sliding from nearly 6 million in 1872 to 675 thousand in 1877. Centennial judges praised domestic trade for cheaper and mid quality fabrics and highlighted advances in Jacquard Brussels and Wiltons. The text notes a shift from hand looms to female and youth labor and contrasts past seven yards per day to fifty yards per day. It ends with a light literary aside promoting The Nursery and various illustrated works.
An 1840s editorial argues American soil and climate could grow tea like China and Japan. It notes high tea imports and consumption, promotes South cultivation, and proposes using Chinese and other laborers to plant tea fields in the West to exploit cheap labor and boost profitability.
The piece notes Oberlin’s historic stance as the first and only college to admit women and allow no woman to read her own essay. It contrasts past limits with today’s trend of co education at Vas sar Wellesley Smith and others and remarks on progress, finishing with a playful remark about lemonade without lemon aid.
Illinois Central timetable shows trains north from Freeport Mallville and Chicago east and west connections. Includes passenger services to Sioux City and Rock Island with listed departure and arrival times, Sundays excluded, with freight and night trains noted. Officials R H Hooper, J W Stennett, G P A and managers listed.
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