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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1882
Page
3
A fragment from a historic poem recalls a brutal skirmish near the Rio Grande. Guerrilla fighters clash with the Tenth brigade while soldiers endure thirst and wounds. A hero named Langenworth dies and is mourned as the narrator and comrades bury him with their colors.
In a seaport graveyard tale, Wonderment Sanchez guides a voyage to learn of Capt. William Moereen and a buried iron box of wealth. Polly, now captain Polly of the Coppering Pot, reunites with her past, confronts the box, and, after a tugboat effort, sails again with her husband to freedom and prosperity.
A controversial excerpt argues that Ottoman Turks embody extreme sensuality as described in Koranic tradition, claiming slavery, harems, and degeneration over two centuries. It asserts physical decline, feminine fragility, mental incapacity, and widespread intellectual inferiority among Turks, with Christians used in business. It cites Abdul Mejid, Abdul Aziz, and Murad as examples of depravity. The piece ends with a tangential anecdote about Laymon in New York and a phrenology joke involving Dr. Howe.
Premature baldness is linked to hygienic habits and stress from foreign climates. Hair growth depends on epidermic cells, follicles, and scalp blood supply. Factors include hat tightness, nutrition, and mental strain. Some tonics help. shaving the scalp can thicken growth. Gray hair results from pigment absence or air spaces. fright can darken or whiten hair in rare cases.
A column notes fashionable dinners using old English menus and ritualized dishes. It cites cucumber soaking to remove alleged cramp agents, mid meal mineral waters, personal soup tureens, and a rise of silver fish knives in New York hotels. It contrasts Chicago progress with New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, and cites Sam Ward and a rebuttal from the London Caterer.
An odd tale claims Australian parrots shifted from grain to meat after sampling a mitten, leading to flocks attacking sheep and devouring them. The account describes widespread destruction and welfare concerns among farmers as parrots allegedly become carnivorous.
Morning to night cries of Polly wants some mutton echo from parrots upsetting sheep farmers. Australian flocks suffer losses as growers, distressed by the noise and damage, seek methods to curb the feathered menace.
Detroit Post notes census figures detailing farms occupied by owners and renters across nineteen Northern and fourteen Southern states. It highlights Maine as having the smallest renter share and South Carolina as the highest, with Illinois at a notably high renter rate. The piece argues for broad land ownership to prevent concentrated renting and cites government policy promoting ownership for the landless.
The 1880 census shows 54,000,000 inhabitants in the United States and 2,970,000 square miles of land. If land were evenly divided, each person would have 36 acres. a family of six would receive 227 acres. Even after trimming bad lands, a 160 acre minimum per family remains. The piece argues the nation can feed many with one acre per person and praises the railways, telegraphs, and postal tubes as proof of national prosperity.
Mr Moore argues John Dickinson authored the Declaration of Taking Up Arms in 1775, presented as the sole writer after Dickinson’s and Jefferson’s deaths. He cites handwriting analyses, citing Dr John D. Logan of Baltimore, to prove Dickinson’s authorship and dismiss Jefferson’s role, in an address to the New York Historical Society.
A compilation of assorted quips and anecdotes from late 19th century newspapers. Jests about doctors and patients, airports of wit, misheard phrases, and snippets from poems and humorous tales. Notable lines reference a Boston dispatch, Moscow street life, a Cincinnati marriage, and light verse about an aesthetic young lady and her frieze.
Miss Fox recounts an amusing anecdote from her journal illustrating the value of cure certificates. Mr. Gregory recalls a London steamer voyage where an old gentleman spoke only in grunts and shakes until dinner, then finally tried to speak, revealing the struggle with stammering. A New York correspondent notes a link between Micawber and a New York gentleman, touching on Allibone and Forster's Life of Dickens.
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