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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1883
Page
6
In Freeport Illinois a lawyer serving a long sentence petitions for release, backed by his two daughters who argue for a father's aid and reform. The Home Department declines to intervene, and notes include comments on crime, punishment, and legal reform across Europe and beyond.
Fragmented text recounts anti Whitmarsh hostility and vandalism, then a note on French urban population trends and rural migration. Includes a parish cleric marriage offering, then a modest marriage certificate with a grateful odd note from a poor groom expressing thanks instead of payment.
A travel salesman yarn recounts a barroom prank where a young man outsmarts a boastful drummer by saying he is minding his own business after being asked about his line. The tale, from Drake's Travelers Magazine, ends with the drummer recognizing the ruse and the crowd enjoying the rye. An English inquest notes a man who drank for forty years died sober, and a Pikabenyina man prefers cats to rabbits for food.
Readable passages reveal a household scene with a child’s questions to mother, a cat adopts three young squirrels, and a bustling Japanese street with kites and toys. The piece blends memory, humor, and cultural notes about Tokyo boys and girls, and holiday customs.
In Japan children are lively and cheerful, with girls playing battle dore and shuttlecock while boys fly kites and spin tops. Girls wear bright robes and girdles, faces lightly powdered with rice flour, and their hair styled in traditional fashion as they enjoy their games.
The London Saturday Review notes France’s waning relative status since 1870, contrasting historic strength with today’s population of 37,072,000. It compares France to Russia, the United States, Austria-Hungary, and the United Kingdom, highlighting faster growth in other nations and France’s lagging amid changing powers.
An old tale notes that rushes, once a friend to mankind, gained a cruel twist in some lands. A Ragsian legend tells the devil received oats and buckwheat for his role in creation, then danced in joy, while the wolf queried the meaning, and the devil forgot his gift, claiming he danced for joy at receiving the rush and the thistle.
A collection of household tips and trade recipes covers cleaning marble with lime paste, preserving brass and iron, measuring corn crib bushels, drying cured hides with saltpeter and alum, making an iron rot varnish from tar and lamp black, and general improvised maintenance practices. The advice reflects period methods and materials, including crude whitening for marble and turpentine blends for varnish.
A fragmented eighteenth century style scene depicts Professor Porteus Pyro, a meticulous tutor, and a prank by Tommy Yare and his seven teen companions. The boys plant carpet tacks to scare him. violence erupts as the tutor endures stinging pranks, a frightened retreat, and an injury episode. The tale notes smallpox in an Indian camp as a lingering tag.
The text notes amber as valued resin from ancient pines used in the arts and found along Europe’s coast, including a 1676 discovery valued at $6,000 and an 18 pound piece in Berlin’s museum. It contrasts ambergris, used in perfumery, with an East India Company purchase once cited at $18,000.
Small steamers run up toward the rubber district but canoe travel remains perilous. Snakes and alligators threaten voyagers with frequent attacks and near certain capsizing due to the crowded saurian and reptile environment. Wood scarcity drives high prices in France and other nations.
The business markets itself as the largest west of Chicago with the biggest stock. It claims to carry the very best goods and ample supplies, promising that customers can find whatever they want.
A dense parliamentary summary notes numerous bills on regulation topics including railroad salaries, storage rates, liquor licenses, telegraphy, insurance, and Canadi thistles. It highlights committee votes, proposed amendments, and key figures like Mr. Daler Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Shaw, with actions on eminent domain and canal finances, plus pending House activity and notable appointments.
Venice authorities praise stemboats as safe and quiet, banning loud whistles and night runs. The gondola keeps alongside the fleet, maintaining orderly harbor traffic and preserving the historic canal atmosphere.
Preswent Avicuy F Freeman of Wellesley College argues the girls’ breakdown stems from insufficient physical care before admission. A Dean Norton quote adds that a man without ambition is like dough without leaven to rise.
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