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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1869
Page
12
A 19th century newspaper piece analyzes how minor shop-tasting by shoppers at grocers adds up. It compares nibbling to a mild form of kleptomania, estimating losses to grocers from tasting bites, samples, and small sips. It notes that some customers habitually lick and sample and that grocers must balance exposure of goods with temptation, discussing potential yearly costs and impacts on profit.
A fragmentary science item discusses measuring heat from the moon using a reflecting telescope as a burning mirror. It cites estimates that lunar radiation is about one ninety thousandth of the sun and that the moon’s surface temperature could reach extreme highs. Mentions Sir John Versheles and speculative living conditions on a molten lunar surface.
The article recounts medieval trials against insects as if they were crimes. It notes clerical judges heard cases when pests damaged lands and ordered bans or exorcisms. It cites a Mayence electorate case where Spanish flies gained guardians and land to inhabit, plus other then-strange legal notions and public warnings.
Senator Sumner is invited to preside at the Massachusetts Republican State convention meeting on the 22d instant. Receipts from internal revenue for July and August 1869 exceed those of the same months in 1868 by 6,703,996 dollars.
Vineland New Jersey offers 60 square miles of rich wheat land 20 acre to 60 acre farms with 25 dollars per acre, one fourth paid and balance in four years. The tract fronts rail and centers a town with fruit soil praised by experts, near New York and Philadelphia markets, with rising population, schools, churches, and no liquor sales.
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