24 Jun 1870
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Newspaper
Kokomo Journal
Location
Kokomo, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1870
Page
1
A funeral medley urging readers to grieve for the living and lost souls rather than the infant at rest. The verse contrasts the baby’s blessed afterlife with the sufferings of the aged, wayward, mariner, culprit, and the homeless, urging repentance and faith in Jesus.
C F Elliott Esq of this city received the nomination last Thursday for Prosecutor and is expected to win without opposition. In a separate session, delegates from Howard, Tipton and Hamilton counties at the Congressional Convention unanimously renominated Judge Garver for re election to the bench, a commendation long deserved.
Delegates from counties met at Wildman Hall to nominate James N Tyner for Congress. Judge Brownlee was elected President and T C Philips Secretary as the GOP platform was ratified. Tyner named unanimous choice. central committee selections included Kane Justice Stivers Bearss Brownlee Knight Wildman.
City council met with most members present. Reports approved include sale of city bonds totaling 16.76 and redemption of similar orders. Bechtel eligible for 50 for extra services, opposed in general practice. Key to jail discussed. two members to confer with the Sheriff. Fire department needs noted. Miller and Wildman named assistant engineers. Jay seeks quarterly deadline for extra service claims. ordinance for Maintreet improvement authorized.
The council debates hogs running at large with edits to a city ordinance and notes the vote pattern of George Washington Pierson as bellwether on street policy. The issue precedes a Modern Spiritualism column challenging reliance on conscious knowledge and religion, citing Thayer and Mr. Davis.
An Iowa-era letter recalls a Tampico school where a teacher defended phrenology based discipline, cites resistance from locals, and details his shift to flogging then resignation after deeming support lacking. He compares critics like Dr. Cole to distant skeptics and notes debates over brain study history.
The text recalls Dr Gall tracing nerves to the brain and outlining a phonology based on external observation, then dissection. It mentions Dr Cole's second article and potential sources by Dr Sewall or Dr Rice on the Mechanic, Merchant, and Tailor, noting early writers knew little of Phrenology and ends with a confession of deception and a conclusion next week.
Measurements of the five Great Lakes list their greatest lengths and breadths, mean depths, elevations, and areas. Superior runs 335 by 160 miles with 688 feet mean depth and 627 feet elevation. Michigan 390 by 108 miles at 900 feet depth. Huron 200 by 160 miles at 600 feet. Erie 250 by 80 miles at 84 feet. Ontario 180 by 65 miles at 500 feet. Combined length 1,585 miles and area about 90,000 square miles.
The Dubuque Herald notes a joke that could earn a patent. Two men enter a saloon, one dry and one not, and a ten cent shin plaster leads to both receiving two horns of whisky.
A humorous exchange between an old bachelor geologist and a lady centers on the idea that home and familiar nature imbue ordinary rocks with memory. The lady claims a rock known as the rock of the cradle surpasses the geologist's knowledge, highlighting a playful contrast between science and personal sentiment.
The Goshen Democrat editor disapproves of women wearing humps on their backs and says it would be more respectable to wear them elsewhere, but he does not specify the location.
The King of Burmahiss ordered large tracts of country to be devoted to the cultivation of jute.
The article cites Dr Hall’s Health advising Americans to slow down during meals. It contrasts US haste with English meals, noting hasty eating expands food in the stomach and can leave a lingering urge to eat more, while deliberate eating avoids this effect and preserves comfort.
An Indianapolis Evening News critique notes The Times failed due to lack of capital and patronage, praising The Evening News as a successful paper. A New Orleans streetcar scene follows with a couple hiding a mother revealed by a breeze lifting a veil, prompting comic alarm.
The fragment lists weights and items including hemp seed dried peaches dried apples coarse salt fine salt castor beans onions bran corn, corn meal, malt plastering hair lime and coal. It hints at a man’s words and visions as a guide to knowing him in the Beit.
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