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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1871
Page
6
A school party in a white pine grove enjoys lunch and playful hunts. Sammy Somers, the smallest pupil, drifts from the group to rest by a stream and discovers a cave with a tiny fairy-like figure inside, offering a gentle mystery rather than fear.
Sammy visits a fairy land through a cave door where a benevolent fairy rules a brook and garden. He sees a pearl floor palace, talking fountains, and playful creatures, receives flowers for his mother, and learns to tell others to treat living beings kindly.
Letters from Alsace and Lorraine residents in Washington describe a strong desire to emigrate to the United States this summer. French gentlemen in New York and Washington plan to form a society to raise capital and buy land to establish agricultural and manufacturing colonies in East Tennessee, Northern Georgia, and Alabama.
A reflective critique traces poets and writers like Milton Cowley Gray Beattie and Walter Scott on solitude. It questions genuine feelings behind retirement fantasies, cites Cowley’s hinted American retreat, and notes public reactions, including Chicago Times remarks on Jefferson Davis and the U S army.
A Memphis newspaper reports William Dodd of Woodruff County Arkansas was killed Sunday in the woods by three men. The paper suggests the killing followed Dodd’s threats and implies self defense or expedient action by the assailants.
A Southern paper questions paper currency losses and Boutwell’s debt plan while criticizing Democratic leaders for clinging to Civil War era issues. It notes Peoria’s bond pledge to move state buildings and reports Mississippi’s new railroad passenger assignment law with fines and imprisonment.
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