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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1874
Page
8
A veteran warns that giving horses water immediately after a heavy feed can harm digestion. Water dilutes stomach contents and can cause indigestion, diarrhoea, and even colic. Dogs and people can suffer similarly from large drinks after solid meals.
A conservation note urges rapid timber recovery through forest planting with acorns, nuts, and seeds. It advises sowing in fall, light soil covering, protecting young sprouts, and mulching with autumn leaves to encourage rapid growth. Emphasis on prairie groves and careful storage of nuts.
ThePacific Rural Press warns farmers and patrons to resist self serving allies who seek political influence through development talk. It urges strict adherence to constitutional lines, warns against partisan traps, and stresses careful, principled organization before engaging in politics.
A compact religious column contrasts the world’s promised cleansing by Christ with prophetic visions of global peace and divine reign. It cites Spurgeon and a tale of steadfast faith, then quotes Sir Allen Park on Christianity shaping civilization and law.
The reflection discusses grace as given and received, urging fuller faith and hope to increase joy and realization. It cites Spurgeon on heavenly love, urging patience with human infirmity and noting true duty includes kindness and pleasantness even when unacknowledged.
The reprint from Leonard Scott Publishing Company in New York lists contributors and topics. It covers Butler on Analogy weakness Emigration Goethe and Mill defense the Admiralty and Navy Mr Lewes and Metaphysics Emancipation of Women Lamarck Nationalization of the Established Church and more. It also notes a Contemporary Literature section with many new books numbered at one hundred seventy.
Various items note Mrs. Lincoln in Paris and Tilton's retirement, New York politics under Mayor Havemeyer, Jay Gould related gossip at Long Branch, Stephens declining re election for health, a Democratic reunion snub, Boss Pweed absent, Oval Oil Johnny running a meat market in Jimtown Pennsylvania, fishing trip plans with Swing Beecher Chapin, the Sumner widow seeking a name change, Toledo Blade on Sumner monument, and claim that American Smith invented the needle gun.
An advertisement touts Centaur Liniment as a universal remedy for humans and animals. It claims to relieve rheumatism neuralgia lockjaw palsy sprains swellings and more and to produce many cures. The pitch cites certificates and offers free circulars and dosing prices with Rosz & Co of New York as sellers.
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