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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1873
Page
2
The piece is a playful, dialect heavy ode by John Phannix praising Spring's arrival. It blends rustic observations of farm life with comic riffs on plants, animals, and seasonal chores, using Shakespearean allusions and humorous local color to mark the season. The speaker speaks directly to Spring, noting growth, feeding, and pasture activity as winter recedes.
A lyrical speaker asks for a whispered love response as a dark world brightens with the presence of a beloved. The narrator folds the beloved’s hands, rests head on the breast, and vows enduring affection through joy or sorrow. The piece ends with a longing gaze and a hopeful whispered yes.
The tale follows Benjamin and Tom Hitchens, known as Les Freres Provencaux, who rise from rope tricks in a back garden to headlining at Royal Conduit Gardens. They perform a dangerous balloon linked trapeze act, tension grows as risk escalates, and a near fatal fall tests their bond and courage. Government limits end the dangerous act, ending the brothers’ living.
James Parton, famed biographer, and his wife known as Fanny Fern attract gentle satire in a tale of morning coffee errors and servant confusion. A blithe glimpse mixes Miss Rose’s absence with Violet’s sharp talk, then shifts to Jake the old gun-bearing laborer on a Denver street, his memory of frontier figures fading as history passes him by.
Towanda resident Alexander Simpson dies after following Dr Hall’s bilious cure to lie outdoors. A fat man’s beer binge beside him leads to a fatal crush. Mrs Simpson seeks Dr Hall’s address to pursue inquiries and replace hair and eye.
A San Francisco newspaper, in a benevolent spirit mixed with satire, derides a controversial correspondent calling him an infernal fiend, a false-tongued midnight monster, red-handed assassin, thief, schoolmarm, and fraud, likening him to a pea-green demon with a cork neck and other outlandish imagery.
The Boston Bulletin reports a wild plan for a grand musical jubilee with bizarre acts and improbable props. It foresees gunpowder organ blasts, freight-train whistles, a Heidelberg tunnel bass drum, and a China band in a chaotic parade of performances.
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