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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1900
Page
7
In a poetic vignette from Pall Mall Gazette, a narrator and a rose colored glance frame Doris asleep beneath leafy branches. The blackbird observes as sunshine slips through gaps, while the figure T retreats toward the house, deemed wise for the moment.
In a dim rooftop garden after a hot evening Jack Sutherland watches Edith in a nearby table. He recalls their failed love as a lilting tune recalls their past quarrels and moments of closeness. Edith signals a possible future meeting with a simple Tomorrow.
Sedgwick argues politics arise naturally from ethics and religion as men form communities. He contends power governs life and that the state must recognize universal political power and apply it to public affairs.
A brief conversational sketch where a child and mother improvise a game. The boy proposes a play in which he acts first and the mother responds by telling him not to. The exchange captures a gentle domestic moment of instruction and play.
General Schalk Burger, aged about 70, has been gazetted as the new vice president of the South African Republic filling the vacancy created by General Joubert's death. A Transvaal native born in Lydenburg in 1852, Burger led a division in the war near Ladysmith and is described as self taught, a deep thinker and effective orator. He has served as a field cornet and is a United Dutch Church member who received the Order of Jesus Christ from the Portuguese king for a Delagoa Bay speech on Transvaal-Portuguese relations. At elevation, he sat on the executive council and opposed Isinger in the last presidential race.
The article profiles Harry B. Smith as a highly successful librettist and composer. It notes 12 comic operas and musical plays in production with heavy weekly performances, royalties from The Casino Girl averaging 140 dollars per show and about 980 dollars weekly, and total royalties last year around 96000 dollars. It recalls his start on the Chicago Tribune and states this year his annual income surpasses six figures.
Dom Jayme, heir to the Carlist claim and son of the Duke of Madrid, has traded a modest £300 annual allowance in the Russian army for a practical venture with a young Polish prince. They are reportedly founding a steam ship company to serve Black Sea trade.
A tale of Jo Carlton’s death, Rogerson’s manslaughter conviction, and Grace who deserts her husband. Eighteen years later in Boston, Grace’s daughter Clara Hertanus meets a German man, who is Grace’s estranged husband, George Hermans. He seeks pardon, and Grace and Hermans are joyfully reunited at last.
A New York World quotation laments the extension of dress code restraint in modern society. It argues that the white shirt front high collar precise tie enameled shoes crush bat and topcoat symbolize a tyrannical social norm. The piece describes fashionable attire as a form of oppression impeding freedom and crushing dissent.
A punctilious southern Indy married to a carefree Carolinian faces a clothing mix up. The wife packs six shirts for a trip and asks for a fresh one daily. He returns home to find every shirt missing, then exclaims he has found them all, still worn, and explains they are on him as one by one.
A man aboard a suburban train discusses marriage and children, while the piece notes veterans like Geo S Anderson of Rossville Penn enduring war service and suffering rheumatism. It cites Chamberlain's Pain Balm and One Minute Cough Cure, plus a Mississippi law on corporate property and a Paris police bicycle plan.
An ad-like snippet claims lagrippe or heavy cold yields to Foley’s Honey and Tar, said to strengthen the lungs and restore soundness. Endorsed by H. J. Moogk and W. E. F. Jungkunt, with a jab about bank tellers and good fellowship from Chicago News.
Henry H Richards of Willseyville New York reports a persistent sore on his breast lasting over a year. After using Banner Salve for half a box he says he is perfectly cured and will not be without it. In Paris sewage farms cause wells to become infected and an epidemic of intestinal troubles follows.
Chas Replogle of Atwater Ohio was unable to work due to kidney trouble. After four days using Foley's Kidney Cure he became entirely well. Names H J Moogk and W F Jungkunz accompany the notice.
Mrs Hale offers chiropody and manicure services at Pennsylvania house cottage. Treatments include bunions and related foot concerns with coin-like payments noted in the listing.
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