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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1882
Page
3
A poem recounts a youth named William whose ideal musings fade as time reveals harsh truth. The speaker recalls hopes of virtue and service, while noting the boy’s growth into a wary man. Enduring faith contrasts with a world grown bleak and doubt-filled, yet the memory remains vivid.
Janet Dean, a farm girl in a rural town, meets Robert Graham the poet when he boards at her uncle’s farm. He helps her publish poems and praise from him spurs her toward fame, while a past husband is alluded to. in the end Janet and Graham confess love, planning a life together.
A dense manual page offers household advice on cleaning textiles, wood, ink, and metals, plus methods to renew damaged fabrics like cashmere. It also covers preserving items from moths, affixing labels with gelatine, and practical notes on livestock feed, dairy yields, and crop-plant root depths, all framed in period practicalities.
A eclectic column lists varied recipes including sugar cream tartar lemon eggs and flour mixes. It details puddings cakes biscuits and breads such as lemon coramis caron canrs and jack chicken parce with steps and ingredients. It also recounts an odd science anecdote about Daniel Collitt Geneva and a Swiss gun demonstration and ends with a Boston editor note promoting kindness to children.
A garbled excerpt discusses per pound phosphate pricing, feed and waste digestion, the liquid portion rich in impurities, and applying manure to soil. It mentions agrience, Detroit Post, and a proverb like No Way Medicine for Mant Windy, reflecting a jumbled historical clipping.
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