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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1882
Page
3
Two elderly bachelors in a rural town debate dinner options with a tiny lemon and a spoonful of onions. They borrow onions, chase a mythical meal by chasing a mouse, and finally conjure a bizarre plan to cook the rodent after a sage and onion hunt. Their odd quest ends when a reading goes awry and a cliffside fall halts the tale.
Elder Boyd, a well to do widower, pursues a widow with a knack for money. She entices him with mince pies and hints of a treasure, plans a social ascent, and surfaces as his wife after a staged courtship. The supposed pot of gold remains unclaimed, yet the union proves content and long lived.
In a heated scene one candidate withdrew and Marcy attempted a coup for Garfield. Garfield's ballot was handed to a delegate who already held another vote. Merrill hesitated while the teller neared, and Marcy playfully shook the hand delivering Garfield’s ballot causing it to drop into the hat. Garfield won by a single vote.
A sharp-eyed World reporter watches a young showman push a scam promising three envelopes worth $17 of currency and two soap cakes. The crowd pays $10 then discovers the envelopes hold only soap, while the crook pockets the money and vanishes, leaving the victims furious.
The Pall Mall Gazette portrays John Dunn, chief of one of Zululand’s kinglets under Wolseley, as a European ruler with broad powers to cut timber mine seek minerals divert streams cultivate land and control trade. He imposes a hut tax on his people and levies charges on wagons while maintaining a personal revenue, amid doubts about the permanence of his office.
A pro- Garfield supporter named Marcy who knew Gurilula as a boy says that nearly 100 bullets were taken during the incident. The remark ties to political tensions and an active convention atmosphere surrounding the nomination.
A Middletown family speaks nine languages including English German French Spanish Italian Portuguese Greek Arabic and Turkish with many Italian and Spanish dialects. The father, Swiss-born musician once chief musician in Constantinople, traveled Europe before settling in Middletown with six living children and others scattered in Brooklyn and America.
An unusual claim reports Ext Penkixa finding pine knots in an alligator’s stomach in Florida. The piece notes the animal’s behavior and remarks that alligators do not need to endure rocks and gravel banks year round.
A flood of letters to P T Barnum responds to an advertisement for the handsomest woman in America. Ms from Minotaville Pa Oshkosh and other towns describe height, hair, eyes, and form while some offer money or staging ambitions. A widow in Kryport and others claim beauty, vision, and stage plans amid praise and playful boasting.
A Paris cabman was arrested after he refused payment to a woman who hired him and then tried to play bezique for her fare. He insulted her claiming she owed him, and a policeman took him to custody. He served forty eight hours in prison.
A humorous missive notes a search for a new home and prospects of ranches, with playful warnings about the old garden and a vow to return once a good claim is struck. The writer signs as Adam to Eve and mentions Josh Billings.
A damaged excerpt mentions raw cold weather and someone named Tam inadequately dressed, with stray lines about teeth and a fateful warning. The text is incomplete, with no clear event, date, or location to anchor a fuller report.
A collage of curiosities on treaties, ancient games, natural wonders, and historical anecdotes. Topics include Greenland tax treaties, the Pope Joan alias Pope Julio, ancient weapon lore, Niagara waters, agate naming, a Dutch tobacco figure, meteoric stones, fishing diets, peasants charms, Greek climate, Thucydides epidemics, star lore, oxford belt terms, Andean plant rites, ague cures, Elizabethan guild pageantry, Flemish dances, and a Keyport marine anecdote about a lobster bed restoration.
Billy Prant, a Ninth Street meat dealer, explored a Rocky Branch sewer to fix a chronic blockage. A two foot tall white and black dog with bloodshot eyes and phosphorescent fur attacked, forcing Prant to flee up the ladder. His brother heard the cries as the creature raged below, while locals doubted the animal’s origin or escape route from the sewer.
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