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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1872
Page
8
A historical home recipe outlines pickling cucumbers using small to medium fruit left with stems. It details vinegar preparation, salt, alum to harden, spice bags, horseradish, and careful boiling and scalding steps to ensure crisp, flavorful pickles that keep well.
A Western New York correspondent discusses selecting only the best ewe lambs for breeding to improve flock quality. Recommendations include separating breeding lambs, feeding methods, and culling ewes with poor lambing or teeth, with emphasis on pasture, proper weaning, and maintaining breed purity at shows and fairs.
The article discusses Prof Agabsiz argues North America was covered by ice up to 6000 feet thick, citing glacier worn slopes of the Alleghany range and Mount Washington. He asserts the glacier acted as a great plow grinding rocks into soil aiding subsequent agriculture, matching other ethnial views.
The Kansas Pacific Railway runs from Kansas City to Denver covering 689 miles. It markets fertile Kansas lands with prime educational facilities including the State Capitol University and Agricultural College. Kansas is praised as an unsurpassed agricultural state with high cereal yields and top fruit prizes. The route promises varied scenery and healthful air, with hot springs near Denver. It invites buyers to settle along its line and travelers to enjoy the region.
A distraught widower confronts an insurance agent amid a grim scene of grief and decay. The man rages at the agent while recounting years of poverty and a wife whose labor produced meager earnings amid a harsh, trauma filled life. The atmosphere is thick with stale gin as the widower laments lack of sympathy and the burden of insurance terms.
A countryman appeared in a police court wearing only trousers shirt and collar. He alleged a woman lured him to a lodging in Spitalfields and deprived him of boots coat pocket hat before locking him in a room under threat of murder. He surrendered after thirty six hours. His clothes were returned by order of the magistrate and he was remanded.
A French paper details the manufacture of false eyes in Paris amid a claim that about 400 eyes are sold weekly for human use. A top dealer operates from a grand saloon and tests eye effects on his one-eyed servant. Eyes cost around 10 dollars each. Used organs are sold cheaply, with quantities shipped to India and the Sandwich Islands.
A collage of light items and notices including jokes about weather vanes pranks and a tale of a neck-singeing clothesline incident. It also reports the U S Navy on Aug 1 had 177 vessels with 55 in commission and ironclads largely laid up or unfinished across yards.
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