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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1899
Page
7
A New York Times interview with a silk merchant notes a move from a few favorites to a wide range of fabrics. Customers now demand variety, seek unique gowns, and rely on dressmakers, while competition lowers clerks’ salaries and pushes many sellers to hire elsewhere.
A town visitor reports Mile Held, famed performer Anna Held, returning from Hoston and learning English, drew attention at Col Ingersoll's Boston lecture on Supers tition. She applauded the Dreyfus case remark, then showed visible discomfort when nudged by her manager, ending with the note she was unsettled by the event.
The piece cites Disraeli and a German observer on emotionless faces and highlights Lockhart the biographer who kept strict restraint. It notes his early belief that showing feelings was unmanly and recalls how his brother and sister died within days, yet he did not cry and risked his own health.
A detailed look at the five inch breech loading howitzer, its power, recoil, and accuracy. Describes weight, range, shell construction with Lyddite, and crew drill. Notes the dangers to loaders from recoil and blast, plus uniform and horse teams.
Kansas City Star contends that a cache of John Wesley letters to his wife, dated 1751 to 1775, may illuminate their troubled marriage. The piece notes Mrs Wesley’s fierce temper and digs into Wesley’s devotion, travel, and prolific preaching as seen through the lens of domestic strife.
A mosaic of short notes on diverse people and events from the era. Prince Mikdad Midhad, the Kurdistan paper, Sofia’s cultural anecdotes, and Yankee figures like Roswell Flower, Erickson Nichols, Emilie Wagner, and notable tycoons including Rockefeller, Morgan, and Gould.
The lively anecdote recalls former U S ambassador Bayard in Wilmington seeking a terrier in New York. At a rat pit, Travers urges buying the rat after the terrier balks, turning a humorous test into a moral nudge. The piece shifts to a London mood on doomsday chatter and a child’s witty remark to end with a jam note.
A collection of aphoristic lines on love ambition and social foibles with humor criticism and observations about men women art money and manners. The varied maxims blend wit with social commentary and suggest cautions about pride luck and perception.
In a strange tale from Public Opinion Major Lawrie survives the Atbara fighting with a spider he found in his helmet and later sends it home alive along with two young spiders. The odd episode follows his later return to London. The rest of the text covers varied ads and notes about influenza remedies and early musket history.
Ninety cents per sack, bargain on Peach Blossom flour includes a handsome calendar free. Each sack warranted. Martin Serr advertises at 117 Edwin 52 Stephenson St. Monograms made on pins. C B Anderson photos mounted. Ennenga Wagner's Clothing House offers orders. Jungkunz Cough Balsam cures coughs when others fail, 25c. New Asheville line via Queen & Crescent Route and Southern Ry from Cincinnati, 12-19c0wd-31.
The piece describes Festa de Monte Vergine near Naples on Whit Sunday with decorated carriages and dancing peasants returning from a mountain church. It also notes a late eighteenth century Russian Whit Sunday custom of a summer marriage market in St Petersburg where maidens display tokens of value to attract grooms, aided by brokers.
A humorous list defines terms with irony and satire. Each entry offers a playful misdirection such as alcohol as a hall to perdition and diplomacy as yielding gracefully to the inevitable. The quip about freckle notes it takes generations of riches to fade.
A brief note states daily publication runs except Sunday with a Saturday Baily report.
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