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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1898
Page
7
A devotional verse by Mary Norton Bradford expresses sorrow for departed loved ones and a resolve to persevere. She asks for strength to fulfill God’s work, declaring she cannot long for death while there remains unfinished service to God and the children of His love.
In 1864, a visit to White Hall in Alexandria, Kentucky, turns eerie as the hostess Aunt Theokla and Alice confront a haunting during a missionary retreat. Ghostly footsteps, a shadowy figure, and a cursed night drive the family from their home, ending in murder rumors, illness, and two deaths.
Josephus Osbourn of Columbus Indiana says kidney and bladder trouble ruined his health for years. After trying many doctors and remedies he used Morrow's Kid-ne-oids gaining relief in three days and says he is cured spending less than a dollar on the treatment. He urges others to write for confirmation and details. The product is billed as Yellow Tablets in wooden boxes selling for 50 cents and marketed by John Morrow & Co. in Springfield Ohio.
In the travel narrative, diners in China confront a grim menu spectrum from iced champagne and six course dinners to simple soup and beef. A Mussulman village forbids pork, pushing travelers toward salt beef which is actually stale goat.
A Scotsman correspondent from Bombay narrates a Hindoo wedding as a vivid spectacle. Lamps outline the garden trees and a high flag hung pondside as wreaths of lamps sway. The bridegroom arrives on a red horse in cloth of gold. A ritual cord joins the couple as guests gather, rice is tossed, and the bride covers her face with a scarf.
An overheard New York Weekly vignette shows Mrs De Gaod reporting lurid rumors about parish life. The whispers accuse Mr De Good of stealing church funds while other wives and husbands face rumors of infidelity illness and deserted help.
The notice warns that neglecting a simple cold or cough can lead to pneumonia or fatal diseases. It promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a safe cough remedy and lists Swarts and Fleck and Brown and Dollmeyers as local outlets with a forthcoming Copley Prints event next week.
The article discusses Eskimo picture writings using walrus ivory and reindeer horn carved by Alaskan natives. It notes engraving methods, tattooing on women, whale-tale marks, and the use of lampblack, oil, and mineral pigments, with colors sourced from iron carbonates, decayed fungi, and red chalk.
Fay Allison asks about a game and her mother turns it into charity. They dress warmly and visit a tenement district house, where Mrs. Allison distributes bread to hungry children and helps other families, ending with Fay praying thanks for the act.
Comprehensive list of Illinois Central trains with arrival times, routes, and connections from South Freeport to Chicago and beyond. Includes Madison, Dodgeville, Rockford, Janesville, and Freeport legs, plus freight and passenger distinctions and agent details.
A wounded lieutenant recalls frontline attack near Santiago. He describes an unseen rapid fire gun spraying bullets like hose spray, grass torn by bullets, tension breaking only when the shower endures him with a gunshot wound and he backs from action.
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