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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1899
Page
7
Poetic fragment cites a speaker pondering what to do if love grows cold or betrays. Lines reference heart, youth, pride, and pain, ending with a note attributed to St. Paul. The passage dramatizes longing and unresolved emotion amid looming separation and death.
Percy Charrington dies in a fall from a fence during a stormy November afternoon. His widow Mary Charrington, freed from years of misery, faces a future with renewed resolve after learning he will not stand in her way. She has long loved Jack Collingwood, a barrister who fled to Calcutta, and now prepares to join him, selling falsehoods and hope alike as fate reshapes her life.
The narrative follows Mary Charrington who sails to Calcutta after a lover’s betrayal. On board the Kandahar she meets Edgar Goring, a decisive suitor who vows to win and wed her. The tale ends with Mary finding happiness in a renewed, wealthy life with Goring, despite earlier despair.
A dog owner smugly advises firmness with dogs. Kelley, urged by Smalley to strike, punches the dog with a bat, turning the animal into a comical base hit. The next day Smalley finds the dog badly injured, while Kelley claims no harm was done. Chicago Record.
A polite highwayman confronts a coach as a moonlit woman steps out with a leather-covered box and claims the diamonds inside. The highwayman departs with a courteous bow, noting he is not an advertisement.
The text discusses how observers often miss the Lion’s head concealed in the Liberty portrait on the silver dollar. It compares searching to memory and perception, stressing clear mental images for accurate recognition and distinguishing objective sight from subjective interpretation, citing Joseph Jastrow.
A humorous anecdote from Lippincott's Magazine recounts a colored maid Susu visiting a dime museum. She describes seeing a hairy boy and a two headed man, while her employer muses on the places she visited downtown. The exchange highlights curious curiosities and streetwise dialogue.
Mrs Tor kins asks Charley how to distinguish pitchers and players after hearing terms like queer mugs and noting Mr Rusl as a fancy pitcher. The Washington Star excerpt presents a light, humorous inquiry into baseball jargon and player traits.
Attention gentlemen: those indebted to this office should call and settle. Those unwilling to call are urged to remain in one place long enough for us to catch them. Those not indebted are asked to call and become indebted. Warren Summit News reports this summons.
Mrs Wellup intends to spend a large part of the summer at home in the city. Mr Sumrox remarks reproachfully, and Mrs Wellup replies that she can afford it, being very rich and not obliged to.
A Havana paper urges Gen. Lee to be recalled after entering a room with the Queen of Spain’s portrait on display in shirt sleeves. The Pittsburgh Press notes the Queens of Spain have not always been so particular.
A composite July headline notes a couple hidden from a third party provoking cold humor and hints at South America’s turbulent actions with two revolutions and one war lately, as reported in Atchison Globe and Pittsburg Times.
An old time testimonial promotes Morrow’s Kid-ne-oids claiming cures for kidney pain and nervousness. The reader is told to write Mrs Mary Smith of Jackson Michigan for more details and to buy the remedy from H J Moogk drug store in Freeport for fifty cents.
A New Orleans broker recalls a Texas doctor labeling him with valvular heart disease and urging constant caution. He later finds he has no symptoms, experiences relief then confusion, and questions medical certainty as he contemplates rumor and doubt.
London reports the Standard discusses overcrowding in English medicine. It cites the alleged huge Beecham's Pills sales, estimated at six million boxes yearly, as a factor reducing demand for physicians. The public trusts Beecham's remedy, leaving doctors needed only for extraordinary cases.
An advertisement extols Beecham’s pills as a potent preventive for La Grippe and a tonic to bolster the system against after effects. It claims the remedy acts as a laxative and antiseptic, attacking all enemies to health and cannot be equalled.
Sufferers praise Beecham's Pills for improving health with more exercise less starch and water and indicate the remedy is harmless.
Advertising copy notes women suffering from headaches find relief with Beecham’s Pills. Street claim describes the product as a blessing and lists the price at 25 cents per box.
A Christian Endeavor lesson interprets ancient Israel’s battle rites as a modern metaphor. It urges sacrifice, prayer, visible banners in God’s name, and unwavering faith, citing Psalms and prophetic verses to show how believers today win through devotion, reliance on God, and just cause.
A Sunday School Times reflection argues daily patient teaching and steady, detail driven faithfulness can save and shape a child more than dramatic martyrdom. It emphasizes that conscientious living and consistent virtue illuminate a Christlike life more than heroic death.
A religious reflection extols faith as a sure guide to life and salvation. It emphasizes trust in Jesus and the unbreakable promise of salvation, asserting that believers are held securely by divine power.
The Presbyterian Journal editorializes that selfishness isolates humans from God and from each other, warning that a life lived in solitary pride results in eternal separation and a lack of fellowship even with the once despised Lazarus.
A Jewish Voice asserts sincerity as the essential ingredient of every action and thought. It condemns insincerity as life’s curse that cannot be smoothed over by effort.
A Stopford A. Brooks quotation contrasts self interest with living for God. It states happiness lies in accumulation for the former and blessedness in distribution for the latter.
A Presbyterian Journal editorial speaks of steadfast effort with a sense that triumph is divinely timetabled, asserting that noble work carries within it a future of success seen in the eyes of God.
Train notices show departures from South at 2 05 a m daily except Sunday and 3 45 p m daily except Sunday, and 9 00 a m daily. Arrivals from Madison 1 00 a m daily except Monday and 6 55 am daily except Sunday. No 101 leaves for Madison with No 184 arriving from Madison. No 141 leaves for Madison at 10 05 am mixed. No 182 arrives from Madison at 7 25 am. 3 30 pm freight trains carry passengers except 51. All trains daily except Sunday.
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