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Freeport Weekly Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Feb 15, 1871

Page

6

Boats Compete With Chicago Express Train On Hudson

Report from Poughkeepsie describes a winter boating race on the Hudson where Zephyr owned by Mr. Cat and the Table owned by Mr. John raced against the Chicago express train, noted as the fastest vessels in the ice operations near New York.

Hudson Palatkasaount Peter Ian Tamntha Mellonville Enterprise Melonville River Orake Morida Jacksonville Wibernia Green Cove Florida Trea New York Boston Baltimore Phladelphia Schenck Porsche Schonek Schienck Schenek Moston Ayer Abary North Sixth Street Padadelphia

Song in Praise of Labor from a Tillers Point of View

A labor canticle celebrates steady toil from tilling soil to bread. The speaker, a worn but proud farmer, defines wealth in honest craft and daily sustenance rather than crowned emperors. He surveys fields, flocks, and harvests, finding dignity in simple rural life and communal family joy.

Drunkenness and tragedy cited by a Baptist minister

A minister recalls a 1847 tale of a man returning home intoxicated, his child dead on the stairs, his wife in convulsions, and the father later dead in a lunatic asylum. The account ends with a charge that drink debases and destroys humanity and a colored preacher’s quip about giving.

Mr. Gough Boston Philadelphia Farragut Yaustee George A Dickey Anna J. Dickey Stephenson County State of Illinois Stephenson Towit George S George 8 Susan A. Buck Freeport Insal Equity Ilamby Ihia Caleb WV. Brown

Vatican Council drama and church conflicts spill into press

The report surveys debates over papal infallibility and church authority with notes on German clergy opposition, Russian and Greek church matters, and a Philadelphia deathbed anecdote. It also mentions a New York Methodist Book Concern trial and a Meridian charity coat incident.

John Lanahan Methodist Book Concern New York F.H. Pease

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