10 Sep 1879
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1879
Page
1
A lyrical depiction of the Northern Lights moodily brightening a seacoast home and distant hills, seen by a mother and child. The verse contrasts beauty with sorrow, foretelling toil, loss, and a hopeful afterlife as lights illuminate a grieving cottage and a voyage toward Paradise.
In a dramatic exchange, a woman confronts a proposal that she has been claimed as a prize. She accepts, stepping into a lover’s embrace as Karl holds her close, determined to resist any bid that would separate them.
Scours in young stock especially calves is common and risky. Treat promptly by removing the cause such as cold or diet change. Use well burned meal mixed with milk, and if needed an infusion of white oak bark added gradually to milk or feed until the diarrhea stops.
Amherst Agricultural College experiments cited by the Boston Transcript show girdling grape vines accelerates ripening. Vines girdled in early August produced fruit about two weeks earlier than ungirdled ones, with fully mature fruit observed three weeks earlier on girdled levels. The effect persisted on vines girdled the previous year, which remained healthy and healed after the incisions.
A tale of Partridge the almanac-maker who rides on despite a hostler's warning of rain. He is drenched, learns the hostler uses an indoor Partridge Almanac predicting “settled fine weather.” The hostler earns a crown for revealing how the indoor almanac foretold rain.
King Trumbert toils late for meals as food arrives half spoiled in tin boxes. Queen Margaret, uninterested in fine cuisine, savors a dry cake from a Roman baker and a small brown loaf for the 12 o'clock breakfast. The baker sends forty eight cakes daily for the Queen and the Prince.
In Bismarck a customer loudly attacked the Government in a beer saloon. Ife warned the speaker to leave instantly or risk a broken glass. When ignored, he acted on the threat by ordering a waiter to replace the glass and charge the breakage to the offender.
The Duchess, noted for genius in painting and sculpture, died at 42. Her husband died young, and her devoted Willows, retreating from society, sought solace in her art. She created many beautiful sculptures under the name Marcello that will preserve her name for generations, and in her busiest days she never forgot the poor.
The article argues that per acre yield matters more than total area. It explains economics of farming, noting costs and surpluses at 12, 15, 20, and 25 bushels per acre. It identifies nitrogen, potash, lime, and phosphoric acid as essential plant foods and stresses barnyard manure as a complete source.
Detailed nineteenth century recipes describe lime whitewash with linseed oil glue and lime cement to resist rain. Variants mix boiled glue alum salt blueing and borax with slaked lime and whiting, or salt and zinc sulfate with milk, to improve durability for exterior exposure.
A historical guidance urges nasal breathing as superior to mouth breathing. It claims mouth respiration causes throat and lung diseases, including consumption, and links open mouths to overheating, weak sleep, and frequent colds. Emphasizes caution for children's habits and the social effect of open-mouth posture.
Sir George Campbell, touring the United States, notes a prevalent urge for high profits and lavish living. He says this craving for great profits and high wages, while neglecting economy of living, acts as a bane to the country, and that moderate gains and careful expenditure are rarely pursued.
Mr Starr of Litchfield Connecticut operates a well managed dairy route to New York City. An eightieth cow milk is sent each night, bottled in glass quart bottles with the Echo arm monogram and delivered in painted vehicles. Each bottle costs ten cents and demand is high.
France consumes about 20 million dollars in poultry and 87.5 million dollars in eggs annually. The poultry industry is dominated by very humble workers who raise and fatten birds under careful, continuous care from birth, ensuring they are never left to rough it.
An archivological remark to a British Museum antiquarian discusses free theatre orders as a modern belief, suggesting an ancient precedent by recalling Joseph cast into the pit by his brothers. The wit links biblical fate to theater practices, reflecting 18th or 19th century satirical humor.
Druggists report amusement at customers who come in with a wary stance when asking for bedbug poison. The scene often starts with the buyer being “sent in by a neighbor,” reflecting social pressures around pest control purchases.
The report estimates spindles in the South near 9,909 and nationwide around 10.5 billion spindles employed in cotton manufacture in 1876, with the United States and Great Britain each maintaining large counts, including about 40 million spindles in Britain.
A recipe described as corn and cheap coinage mix in equal parts with one seal added makes the best feed for pigs when sucked, boosting mill output. This, with clove and soaked corn, is claimed to promote rapid pig growth.
Instructions suggest adding powdered alum and borax to a 20 barrel Sister of n4 that is blackened or oily. After mixing for several hours the sediment settles and the water clarifies. Resulting water is described as clearer and potentially suitable for cooking purposes.
A scrambled OCR fragment presents a nautical speaker and an elder saying Courtship is a ship with two mates. The garbled text mentions trying experiments, tracing success or failure, and a captainly remark about courtship as a two-mate vessel.
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