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Newspaper
Freeport Weekly Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1871
Page
1
The department of a newspapers opens to Stephenson County farmers and requests articles on local farming topics. Write plainly on one side of the paper for publication.
The Damascus Farmers Club met February 14 1871 with a large attendance. Minutes from prior meetings were read. I B Churchill gave an essay condemning tobacco use. Discussion covered amending the club constitution to form a stock company for a library. no action taken yet. Also commentary on labor value for married women and hay waste in winter, urging improved feeding racks and storage around stacks.
A Country Gentleman correspondent argues over a wife’s labor and value beyond wages. It weighs daily chores cooking washing ironing dairy care and childrearing against money, asking if a farmer’s wife earns any dollars for her work. The piece treats this as brain work and domestic duty rather than a salary.
The article profiles Edward N. Ruloff, convicted in Binghamton, N Y, of murder in the first degree and sentenced to hang on March 8. It recounts a burglary, drownings of associates, old crimes including killing his wife and child, and notes his intellect, language skills, and self defense in court.
The excerpt urges farmers to build an ice house for summer use. It explains cost efficient construction, pond creation if natural ice is unavailable, and the value of a well and windmill to supply water. It details dimensions for better preservation and notes the first ice of the season, if thick, is prized by ice men.
Secretary Seward speaks on the intrepid ordinary people who founded American liberty citing Episcopalians at Roanoke Puritans Plymouth Quakers Schuylkill Catholics Susquehanna Netherlanders Hadson Germans Lehigh Swedes Cape Henlopen and Wing Cape Henlopen as founders of a free representative state. A Philadelphia artesian well trial provides clean water with 50 000 gallons daily at 3000 dollars two hundred feet deep and eight inch core yielding a constant seventy five and a half degree temperature.
A jumble of quips and jokes on marriage, weather, theft, and social mores. The piece riffs on education, love, and courtship with puns about dieting, drinking, and etiquette, weaving character sketches, provincial wisecracks, and banter about bachelors, cooks, and shopkeepers. It preserves a lively regional voice and cadence.
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