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Freeport Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Sep 24, 1879

Page

3

Freeport to host massive London Show tour on Sept 27

A grand monster combination headlined by the Great London Show and Sanger's Royal British Menagerie with Cooper Bailey Co. arrives in Freeport on September 27. The tour has wowed crowds in St Louis and other cities, featuring elephants, aerial feats, bareback riding, and a dazzling electric light display. Attendees applauded Madam D’Atallo, James Murray, Charles Fish, Adelaide Codona, and Batchelor’s six-elephant somersault.

Sanger Royal British Menagerie Cooper, Bailey & Co Freeport St. Louis Post-Dispatch London Crossley and Elder James Murray D’atallo Samson Frank Melville Charles W. Fish Adelaide Codona W. N. Batchelor Lawrence Sisters

Colic in Horses Described and Treated with Remedies

Two types of colic in horses, flatulent and spasmodic, with signs of abdominal distension, distress, rapid pulse, and labored breaths. Remedies include hyposulphite of soda with gull ens eel and ginger. opium tincture with camphor ether and water. Treatments may be repeated hourly as needed.

Thackeray and Lady Ashburton Reconcile After Satire

Thackeray, once a Welcome Visitor at Lady Ashburton’s house, felt slighted by her frank tongue. Months later he sent a dinner invitation card back with a playful pen drawing of himself kneeling, hair aflame from a brazier, as contrition. The humorous display led to a full reconciliation and their continued friendship.

Thackeray Lady Ashburton Bomething Sam

Steam streetcar joins a New York line in unusual style

A steam streetcar now operates on a New York line. The closed car is unusually wide and light, mounted on a curious blend of boiler and frame.

New York

Fertilizers and Corn Planting Experiments at Athens 1873

Dr E M Pendleton reports on fertilizer experiments at Athens Georgia 1873. Findings note ammonia waste with concentrated Peruvian guano unless mixed with superphosphate alkaline salts and related combinations. Conclusions cover soil, salts, lime, soluble manures, subsoiling, planting distance and corn productivity.

Athens E. M. Pendleton

Wheat Straw Lumber Promises Hardwood Quality

A Bushnell Illinois gentleman showcased wheat straw lumber claims to rival black walnut and mahogany in finish at pine costs. Straw boards are softened by chemical treatment, rolled, dried, and hardened to produce water resistant, fire resistant, and burnable lumber that closely resembles hardwood in appearance and sawing.

Bushnell Ill Oskosh Northwestern

Turpentine fumes unlikely to cause death when well ventilated

At the Paris Academy of Sciences Dr Poincarre reported on 284 painters exposed to turpentine fumes. He found fatalities unlikely unless air is extremely confined. Ventilated spaces prevent death, with varying potency among sources. harms mainly affect inexperienced workers causing headache eye watering cough and throat irritation.

Academy of Sciences of Paris Poincarre Faculty of Sciences Nancy

The Enchanted Pin trick in Parlor Magic

A Norfolk town Herald note describes a juvenile trick titled The Enchanted Pin. The routine uses a brass pin bent in two places to create a surprised chair effect. The piece concludes that such simple amusements would curb moody poems about missing boys.

Norriptown Herald Maischief

English woman marriage law in Paris distress

Miss Leigh notes many English women in Paris suffer due to French law. She says a marriage contract created by a Frenchman with an English woman in England is not binding under French law, worsening hardship for English women and children.

Miss Leigh Paris England

Leave Day Pass Chicago 9 am 8 am Night 10:16 pm Freight 7 pm

Public transit note records a leave day pass in Chicago with times listed as 9 am and 8 am for departure, night at 10:16 pm, and freight at 7 pm, indicating a schedule snippet for a passenger or freight service.

Bragports Chicago Co & N WR Ravecesse Southern Northern LCR Rywesseee Um Dubie ICR Bansses Rusesensenepa Wurr Western Wurr Russe Monroe Wis Cedarville Orangeville Qoneco Shuey’s Smith D Atkins

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