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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1899
Page
5
Roy Farrell Green narrates a Leslie's Weekly poem describing a wounded hero recovering in hospital ward four. A fair girl brings flowers and care, easing wounds as love aids his healing beyond medical lore. The piece blends hardship with hopeful return and domestic solace.
In a London drawing room Betty Oakhurst plans to wed though Nora Helmsley fears the fallout. Ted Markham, arriving for a chaperoned concert, reveals Betty’s engagement to Lord Barthorpe is a sham. He confesses money worries and a reshaped future, leaving Nora stunned by his candor and Betty’s calculated ruse.
In a Washington Star discussion, Tai Hung Chang notes Li Hung Chang is endlessly asked for concessions. Senator Sorghum quips Li hides behind a yellow jacket or peacock feather while preserving his bank account and influence with the Russian government.
An advertisement claims Morrow's Kid-ne-oids cure kidney trouble and sleeplessness. Mrs Mary Smith of Jackson Michigan testifies of relief after three years of back pain, dropsy symptoms, dizziness, and fatigue. The pill like tablets are sold by druggists or mailed by John Morrow Co Springfield Ohio for fifty cents.
A commercial traveler visits a well known chemist and offers a card to represent his employer. The chemist replies that the traveler is fortunate and notes the cosmetics line, while the man of medicines questions the claim as the photograph handed by mistake is returned and the visitor departs without farewell.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as curing consumption by strengthening lungs and boosting blood quality. It argues hereditary risk can be overcome, promises to expel disease germs, improve appetite and digestion, and offers a 1000 page medical adviser for 21 cents with stamps to the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo, New York.
In Tropics and Snows Burton notes a tiger cult where the carcass is carried to a nearby village and a hen is decapitated in front of it. Gonds, before the tiger god, gather with women and children, placing coins on the beast as offerings, venerating the creature's feared power and form.
A card from Eusert & Burren, C. P. Guenther & Co. and H. J. Mooak Likdwon promises refunds on 60 cent and 25 cent bottles of Green's Warranted Syrup of Tar if cures coughs or colds fail. The text also mentions an early clock credited to a thirteenth century Sar acen urbanic.
An advertisement asserts deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining and cannot be cured by local applications. It offers one hundred dollars for any deafness case caused by catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, with circulars free and product available from F J Cheney Co Toledo or druggists for 75 cents.
Edmund Parker, longtime guardian of George Washingtons tomb at Mount Vernon and former slave in the Washington family, has died. Parker recalled his life from 1827, guarding the tomb for decades, noting visits by Hayes, Cleveland and Li Hung Chang, and that he helped plant trees for royal visitors.
Tit-Bits notes that a busy reader averages 300 words per minute, covering about 92 yards of type in 30 minutes and roughly 19 miles per year in reading. Over fifty years this can reach 950 miles, rivaled by the vast journeys of Europe. Professional writers may log 300000 words annually, a 3 mile pen journey, potentially 120 miles over forty years with earnings from 100 guineas per mile. Some surpass these figures, but none match Limitd Point to the Grampians in distance.
A compact line extols loyalty as the noblest humane virtue, framing steadfast friendship as the ultimate ethical standard and generous in its moral appeal.
The New York Tribune promotes its papers with price details for the Daily Weekly and Semi Weekly issues. It highlights market reports weather pages war stories from Spain and a Pictorial Supplement with illustrated content and literary features. Sample copies and club offers are mentioned for readers and merchants alike.
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