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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1873
Page
3
A wanderers tale follows two travelers who meet a mysterious old man and a circle of little dancers. The old man shaves the travelers with a knife and bestows charcoal as payment, granting wealth that vanishes when greed intrudes, leaving the smith bald and hunched while the tailor remains content.
In a domestic scene five year old Bessie insists she can knit despite Mama’s warning. Mama innovates by breaking a knitting pin to make a knobbly tool, guiding Bessie through basic stitches. Frustration peaks as yarn slips and pins fail, while Grandma’s practiced knitting appears to triumph.
A 1879 Baileyville correspondence notes plowing and sowing delays due to frozen ground but reports improving soil and impending verdure. It warns about Colorado potato bugs, urges early control, and compares methods. The writer praises Baileyville’s tranquility, growth, and independence, suggesting railroad and manufacturing interest may come, including a sugar factory and Elgin watch firms.
The piece reflects on Samson's downfall as a warning against boasting in personal gifts and yielding to temptation. It argues that strength misused leads to ruin, urging humility, vigilant restraint, and earnest effort to avoid moral failure in life.
A Brooklyn Heights woman, editor from a leading New York daily, enjoyed a late evening ferry ride alone with a man nearby. The exchange ends with her insistence she is not alone and a sharp retort about not keeping bad company. The piece then pivots to reflections on science, humility, and moral exhortations from figures like Spencer, Alcott, Beecher, and Starr King, ending with mention of Rev Horatio Stebbins and a San Francisco salary.
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