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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1897
Page
3
A poetic fragment themed on mortality and creation, describing love as immortal and evanescent. An archangel guards a seed of paradise as it blooms into the world, with celestial bodies and seasonal imagery surrounding the rose that crowns Earth. Credits note G, BE and Woodbury in Century.
A Chicago North Side man pursues an umbrella fad to extremes, owning about 898 umbrellas from various sources. He stores them in a bedroom closet, counts them often, and admits to occasional acquisitions despite consequences. Friends see him as clever, yet his habit worries relatives.
A wry Hotel Mail note debates cutlery use in urban dining. It questions overreliance on forks and suggests spoons and even chopsticks for certain foods, praising the fork as a limited shovel for solids but poor for liquids. It contrasts urban manners with rural diners and mocks rigid tradition.
Ex President Harrison writes in The Ladies' Home Journal that United States judges are largely men of high ability and character. He notes rare instances of arbitrariness but condemns rudeness and passion in courts. The bar should support courts while judges remain deferential patient and temperate for the system to stand.
A Detroit Free Press quotation questions how Jolly tolerates his wealthy wife described as a Tartar, while another voice argues how he could live without her. The exchange highlights domestic tensions implied in the snippet.
What is called elm dust is actually the seeds of the tree, maturing prior to complete leaf formation.
Portland Maine is stated as 1,297 miles northeast of 5¢ Louis, a terse line likely from a travel or telegraph note.
A London Mail observation humorously critiques the American reliance on checks in travel life from hotels to trains and Niagara Falls. The author recounts mishaps with luggages checks and personal items, noting how pervasive and inescapable the system feels, even at the Cave of the Winds.
Riverside’s Magnolia avenue, famed nationally, now gleams with newly macadamized approaches and arc lighting every 800 feet. A one mile stretch reveals 160 lights on 60 poles, creating a dazzling, oriental fantasy under the pepper tree canopy and turning a dusty, dark avenue into a brilliant thoroughfare.
Mr I Zangwill told a Maccabees dinner story about a large woman who sought a diet to lose weight. The doctor prescribed dry toast and boiled beef but she could barely fit through the doorway after a month due to religiously following her meals. The doctor then adjusted by asking about her ordinary meals.
On the eve of his execution a keeper tells the doomed man a visitor wishes to see him. When asked who the visitor is the keeper says he does not know and instructs the doomed man to ask the visitor if he wants a pill and to tell him to call tomorrow.
A wealthy St Louisan hosted an unconventional evening for his wife guests by turning the Lafayette Park home into a makeshift gambling den with a roulette wheel poker and keno. The finale involved two bulldogs fighting until both were soaked in water after the host’s ward politician confidant insisted on the dramatic stunt.
A London Spectator note observes that animals with large litters show easier rearing and quicker learning. Pigs, partridges, beavers, otters, and water rats exhibit early social or caretaker-led training, with kennelike youth engagement and gradual introduction to essential tasks.
Chivalrous James Pields is praised by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps in Chapters From a Life for his fearless support of women’s advancement. He championed coeducation and reform with no literary snobbery toward women’s work, insisting that “Men and women!” must share equal treatment in publishing and society.
The growth of the English language this century has been without parallel in history. Commercial ties between English and American peoples with every nation have brought words from all climes to enrich our mother tongue.
A town meeting debated building a combined library reading room and social club on Deacon Close’s lot in Wampton. Deacon offered the site for 2500 dollars with a 500 dollar donation, while others noted rising prices and urged public support. The minister, doctor, banker, and lawyer reacted with mixed enthusiasm as the deal shifted and the lot’s value jumped.
A St James Gazette critique questions maintaining houses linked to great figures as eternal monuments. It warns against façade gifting, noting Carlyle and Turner houses attract brief interest then fade, becoming a white elephant unless turned into functional institutions near Holland Park.
A Boston Transcript dialogue recounts a humorous scene at Stoder’s last evening where Sto der’s daughter suddenly sang and the company dispersed quickly. The piece notes a lively royal tidbit about Alexander I of Servia, born 1876 and elevated in 1889, and a curious historical claim regarding Pope Hormisdas in 698.
The Australian megapod sits rarely on its eggs, using large mounds heated by fermentation to incubate. Nests reach 14 feet high and 65 feet around, built by the bird from surrounding leaves and decaying matter. In Ninafoa a related species uses warm sand for incubation, while the leipoa from Australia modulates mound temperature with multiple daily cover and uncover actions before the young finally depart.
Lord Leighton's house is to be presented to the nation, a move that stirs controversy as officials weigh the public value against private prestige and potential reputational risks.
A lengthy defense of women maintaining health to sustain motherhood. Emphasizes avoiding neglect of female organs and promoting Dr. Pierce remedies such as Favorite Prescription, Golden Medical Discovery, Extract of Smart Weed, and Pleasant Pellets. Includes testimonials on relief from weakness, pain, and fainting spells, and notes constipation as a root of many diseases.
The advertisement touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the world’s best remedy for bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and other eruptions and claims a money back guarantee if not satisfied 25 cents per box. It notes Emmert and Burrell as the sellers and mentions a Royal Academy custom of members presenting a self painted picture upon election.
Perry and Cameron druggists of Flushing Michigan state they have no hesitation in recommending Chamberlains Cough Remedy to customers as the best cough medicine they have sold and always gives satisfaction. It is for sale at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by Emmert and Burrell, druggists.
Window boxes need ample water as roots fill soil with white fibers craving moisture. For chest pain apply a damp flannel with Chamberlain's Pain Balm over the chest and between the shoulders for prompt relief, especially when chest pain stems from cold with pneumonia risk. Forsale by Emmert and Burrell, druggists.
James Manson announces a tax collection office behind First National Bank for Freeport. Dr W D Scott will be at Brewster house every Monday from 2 to 8 pm to assist taxpayers and collect payments.
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