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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1881
Page
6
The jumble recounts diverse items from a historic page including a noble case of a deaf child, financial dealings, railcar shipments, a long list of scattered anecdotes, weather speculation, and a Wyoming tragedy. It mixes fiction and fact with numerous misreads and invented phrases.
The piece highlights rapid telegraph growth across the world and details Brick Pomeroy's Atlantic and Pacific Tunnel Company in Colorado. It notes vast land and submarine cable networks, a speculative five mile tunnel through Gray's Peak, and the company's stock structure and temperance clause.
A travel sketch notes Icelandic geysers dying out with two active vents and a landscape scarred by eruptions. It describes the great geyser and Strokr, the churn, with amusing anecdotes about mud doses and dramatic eruptions. It ends with a remark on Japan adding three notes to its musical scale and improved piano pitch accuracy.
The article details Washingtons plans in 1781 to combine with De Grasse and Rochambeau to trap Cornwallis. It covers the Wethersfield conference, feints against New York, the Chesapeake descent, and the joining at Williamsburg with Lafayette and St Simon. Clinton’s relief attempt by sea is noted as the strategic counter.
The excerpt recalls Washington marching toward Yorktown with northern troops, highlighting strategic deftness and Clinton’s setbacks. It lingers on Harper’s Magazine discussing sneezing, detailing diverse styles from schoolgirls to market women, clerks, and the nervous to the jovial, with vivid, humorous portraits.
A man recalls attending a church meeting where exhortations to donate led him to pledge a large sum. The minister promised that God would repay a hundredfold, and he felt he must accept the bargain. Weeks later a debtor paid a long‑lost debt, reinforcing his belief, yet he confesses he does not dare trust the promise again.
A fragment discusses earthquakes and their destructive power on deltas and alluvial plains. It notes weaker, incoherent formations like clays and tertiary marls, causing more thorough shattering of structures in exposed areas.
The Chicago Tribune reports on a new Pennsylvanian scheme dubbed death bed insurance, using life insurance assessments to pay out on deaths. Operators seek profits by insuring neighbors or strangers, betting on who dies first, with ghouls lurking to purchase policies on the infirm and elderly.
The Buffalo Lepress lists debate prompts for the Woman's Congress on female roles and ambitions. Questions probe safe monetary schemes for women, impact of women’s clubs, trimmings relations, and whether women should serve in roles such as teachers, preachers, deacons, architects, musicians, barbers, or editors.
A damaged report notes spiders swarming along highway trees and telegraph lines in Japan. Dew-coated webs are conductive, sending current to the earth and causing persistent communication problems. Sweep crews with brushes fail to fully resolve the issue.
A Chicago Tribune figure study details widespread tobacco use among 26 million Americans in 1880 and reveals extensive adulteration in plug tobacco and fine cut products. It cites lax duty revenue, varying blends, and deceptive practices from manufacturers, noting perique tobacco’s historical role and the prevalence of slippery elm bark as a cheap filler.
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