21 Sep 1898
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1898
Page
1
The poem laments unreachable love and the torment of longing. A speaker pleads to be spared from passionate chains, comparing desire to Tantalus and contrasting heavenly restraint with human craving. The voice expresses patience yet deep urge, urging the beloved to stay. Michael Drayton in New York Times.
On a Mississippi river trip Fannie and her twins Sue and Lou face a near tragedy when Sue slips overboard. Spider, the boat’s handyman, dives to save her but fails. He is saved by the crew, rewarded with a new life as part of the Trencher family, and later serves as a devoted guardian to Lou. The tale ends with a wedding and a mourning, unanswered departure of a faithful man whose fate remains unknown.
Rev. George Young recalls a boyhood windstorm in a barn basement that collapsed around him. He knelt to pray, escaped entrapment by the hay and timbers, and attributed the narrow escape to Providence guiding him toward a life as a missionary in the North.
A July letter from P. B. Butler in Santiago de Cuba credits Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy with keeping pack-train operations running under siege conditions. He recalls diarrhoea among troops and praises the medicine as life saving, noting supply lines depended on its availability. Des Moines Chamberlain Medicine Co. advertised through Emmert & Burrell.
The article outlines practical guidance for arranging a dry, well organized storeroom or closet. It advocates buying groceries in season and on account when possible, keeping purchase dates and prices, and using jars, tins, and nets to preserve items like sugar tea coffee and lemons. It also covers storage temps, handling of butter milk and produce, and simple preservation methods.
The sketch depicts a screen with attached seats, a leather cozy seat in the lower portion, and an upper screen with soft silk curtains. One opening features a shelf for teacups, illustrating a convenient, novel sleeping or seating screen design presented by the New York Tribune.
The Grand Army national encampment showed veterans discount the criticisms of Secretary Alger, suggesting they know war is no picnic and may doubt sensational press claims, aligning with many citizens in skepticism of some newspapers.
A Schenectady Union notice quotes Mrs. Marion Leland criticizing Democratic tariff policies and urging farmers to support protective parties. The piece also notes Mrs. Leland presenting readings from Hobson’s exploits and Cardenas cable-cutting clippings, and mentions Mrs. W. J. Scanlan marrying Augustus Pitou, a theater manager.
The piece describes Ivan preferring idleness and drink over work, with holidays and drinking shops draining village earnings. His wife Masha and their children endure poverty, subsisting on black bread and sparse meals while a monopolist profits from the drinking culture.
An editorial style passage extols old age virtue through digestion and pure blood, touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a universal cure for blood diseases, references a Bagdad treasure tale, and advertises One Minute Cough Cure and DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve with endorsers listed.
Special rates via the C M St P excursion to Milwaukee exposition run September 10 to October 15. Tickets go on sale Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays with a return limit the following Monday. Round trip fare is one third above one way. J B Sweatt agent.
Special rates to Omaha via C M & St P railway offered for Tuesday and Friday trips at one fare plus two dollars round trip, 15 day limit. Also advertised are maps and a ten part portfolio on the American navy Cuba and Hawaii, with Illinois Central Railroad arranging a special edition for patrons and specimen copies at local ticket offices.
Detailed timetable notes from the Illinois Central system lists trains east and west with arrivals and departures, including No 4 and No 2 from the west, No 82 and No 142 to Rockford, and Lena, Warren, and Galena stops. Westbound and southbound trains show daily or Sunday exceptions, Madison line passenger movements, Dodgeville line, freight rules, through cars, and connections via Freeport, Beloit, Janesville, Milwaukee, Racine, and Chicago. H. W. Rowley as agent noted for Freeport Chicago service. miscellaneous through cars and limited-service notes included.
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