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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1898
Page
4
The poem recounts a ship battling a thick crowd of mist and harbor spray as sails trim and bunting flaps. A gray gull flies above the darkening billow while the gale lifts the ship and foamy decks threaten danger, yet the vessel presses on to beat home. William Biggers: Youth's Compinion.
Absalom Bogle dies on a December noon leaving his estate to his brother Jeptha if he claims within a year. Absent Jeptha, the fortune passes to distant cousins led by attorney Sidney Spooner and a sham claimant Jedediah Sprout claiming kin through a supposed elder brother Solomon Sprout who vanished in South America. Kate Winthrop and her husband Jack decline to contest claiming, preferring their quiet life as Jedediah presses other relatives with legal notices while wary cousins balk at the scramble.
In a decedent’s mansion, Jeptha Bogle reveals himself as Absalom Bogle’s brother and heir, inviting Kate Winthrop and husband to dinner. Relatives object. Jeptha offers most estate to distant kin, but selects Jack and Kate to share the fortune, changing the heirs.
A New York Sun quote by Mr. Goslington notes that a common form of boyhood play is pulling off peers' hats and tossing them into the street. He observes this impulse appears early and persists through childhood, often targeting smaller boys as a playful, exasperating act.
Rev. Lyman Abbott, successor to Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth Church Brooklyn, plans to retire from the pastorate at season's end due to ill health. Abbott, editor of The Outlook, has led the church for 11 years maintaining its popular reputation. The church now seeks a successor to Abbott and Beecher's legacy.
The steel magnate Andrew Carnegie has bought 80 lots between Ninetieth and Ninety second streets near Fifth Avenue New York for $900 000. He will build a palace on the property costing over a million dollars and two years will be needed for completion while he remains at his current residence on West Fifty first Street.
The London Chronicle reports the czar’s melancholy Copenhagen stay marked by gloom. He occupied three rooms in Bernatorff Palace and spent days in his study writing dispatches and reading. Each morning a St Petersburg courier arrived and each evening another departed with results. He walked with his mother after breakfast and joined family at meals, recalling his carefree boyhood alongside his stern father.
Leslie's Weekly describes Emperor William as a loving father in late hours of a busy day. Surrounded by his seven children, he spends time in playful games during travels with photographs of his family often in view. He brings gifts for each child on every return home, and unpacks trunks in front of the children including the baby who clambers onto the contents.
Paderewski becomes owner of Comte de Marines villa near Lausanne and adds a byre for six cows. He buys the villa’s cellar with 10,000 bottles of wine and kirsch 20 years old. Vineyards yield 6,000 bottles of white wine this autumn, while 4,000 bottles of 1898 vintage are sold. He previously invested in Warsaw land as the city grows amid Russian interest.
A Rural New Yorker concept by John M. Jamison advocates compact movable hoghouses for sanitary, weather adaptable pig farming. Describes a 6 by 6 foot light frame with tight construction, straw or fodder coverings, and a movable plank floor option to reduce disease risk and simplify relocation.
Agricultural station tests in Utah show a 14 inch tired wagon bears about 40 percent more weight than an 8 inch tire wagon with equal load. Ohio State University findings show a wagon with 3 inch tires and 4,480 pounds hauled by two horses on good dirt or a hard surface, while a narrow tire half that size is a load for a double team.
A historical extract argues dairying requires superior intelligence to boost profit. It contrasts dairy work with manufacturing and selling, urges testing cows, selecting for profitable yields, and weeding out debt-ridden stock. Also notes figures on butter output and breed improvements, plus unrelated ads and notes on grain drinks and women's health.
The Delineator describes Koral self colored lace edging with silk cord in several widths and color pairs such as amoked pearl with silver gray turquoise with white and black with white. It highlights Bertha lace effects for gowns and hats, emphasizes Winter hats with upturned brims, Vorpadour Continental shapes, and Dainsborough styles as dressy carriage and afternoon wear enhancements.
Dr J C Bishop of Agnew Michigan reports Foley's Honey and Tar helped three severe pneumonia cases this past month. At Pompeii a life size mosaic portrait of a woman, the first antique portrait in mosaic found, shows workmanship so fine it nearly reads as a painting.
Benj Ingerson of Hutton Indiana reports months of whispering after using Foley's Honey and Tar he regained his voice. The remedy is widely used by speakers and singers in the area, including d Moogk Swartz and Fleck.
An 16 page collection of colored map plates sized 14x21 inches shows all Spanish possessions and the locations of principal cities and towns. The offer notes postage paid for 18 cents and directs correspondence to J Morice G P T A Cedar Rapids Iowa.
C M and St Paul Ry offers round trip fares at one third off for trips within 200 miles. Sales run December 24 25 26 and 31 plus January 1 and 2 with final return by January 4. Agent J B Swearz notes this holiday special.
The Chicago Great Western Railway releases a holiday greeting book series titled Baby Rhymes Baby's Bouquet and Baby's Opera. Illustrated by Walter Crane, these nursery song collections cost ten or twenty five cents, with mailing costs covered to cover delivery from Chicago to patrons.
An OCR fragment promotes Foley's Honey and Tar not as a cure all but offering comfort in advanced disease and possible early cures. It references deaths in Russia and chest pain signaling pneumonia, suggesting Chamberlain's Pain Ball for chest pain and Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as dependable and pleasant. Emmert & Burrell are listed as sellers.
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