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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1898
Page
8
Poem recalling childhood dreams and moonlit memories. The speaker reflects on attic nights and lattice light shaping visions of time and happiness, contrasting past innocence with present weariness and seeking peaceful recall.
In a moonlit veranda scene a narrator and Stanfield recount a chilling tale connected to Judge Robertson who was killed by his own butler. A century‑old family superstition ties a death warning to an earthy odor of a fresh grave, foreshadowing the fatal murder on the same veranda site.
A New York Journal account recounts the murder of Robertson by his butler, who confronted him with a loaded rifle from a hidden veranda hole during a moonlit scene. The tale ties the killer to a fatal shot earlier, amid a haunted voyage and a wife haunted by her husband's ghost aboard a Bombay bound steamer.
A critique argues that acclimatizing white settlers to tropical climates is fundamentally doomed. It claims experiments along this line cause immense physical and moral harm and fail across moral, ethical, and political dimensions, asserting adaptation requires native atmospheric and societal conditions.
In Sedalia Missouri the Kansas City Times notes a scholarly gentleman awarded the Order of Christina by the Queen of Spain for his care of her grandsons Raymundo Guell y Borbou and Pernando Alfonso. He later aided Alfonso who became king and father to the present king. His gentleman is Colonel Van B Wieker, a well known figure among Missourians with state ties.
A Northern town builder worth at least 200000 lives frugally in a $2 per week house, owning many rental properties. A tradesman with 2000 to 2500 yearly income dwells in a four-room cottage to fund his children's future. Another wealthy man rents 0.50 monthly and rarely inhabits his country seat, driven by extreme greed. Laborers he lives among appear more lavish by contrast. A stray health ad closes the piece.
Excursion tickets sold on Tuesday and Friday each week to Omaha for one fare plus 2 for the round trip. Limit 15 days. J. B. Sweatt, Agent.
A Middleton era miscellany notes Benin queen’s wardrobe as a single belt with eighteen wooden strips for climate suited wear. It mentions a mix of fashions, early rising pills, and various ads from Moogk and Jungkunz with notes on migration mysteries and a historic Venetian Giovanelli chapter.
Personal testimonials from B. W. Sperry and Olmstead praise Ely's Cream Balm as the top remedy for catarrh with claims of complete symptom relief. A trial size is advertised, and distributors Jah Ely Brothers list 65 Warren St New York. Also notes Chicago Great Western Ry winter tour tickets to many destinations with round trip fares and enhanced onboard services.
On November 1 and 15 and December 6 and 20 the Chicago Great Western Ry offers homeseeker excursion tickets to Colorado Idaho Indian Territory Iowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Nebraska North and South Dakota Oklahoma Oregon Utah and Wyoming at one fare plus $2 round trip. Tickets valid 21 days from sale. agents Maple Leaf Route provide details.
A brief item notes a signature boat tour in Storia as part of a promotional event. The report highlights the vessel and organizer names connected to the tour.
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