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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1869
Page
7
Fragmented verse opens with social critique and gossip about a Mr What's His Name and neighbors. It shifts to a Romantic shore scene where the speaker recalls walking with a companion, hearing the sea, watching moonlit ships, and later walking alone as joy fades and volcanic turmoil replaces earlier wonder.
In a tale from the Overland Monthly, writer Sam Simcox recounts a gorilla caper involving Jack Gale in Corlander’s menagerie. Gale, disguised as a gorilla to win Clara Coriander, navigates debt, romance, a fire, and a dramatic bystander rescue, ending with a rebuilt show and a real bond between Gale and Clara.
A curator notes a cat drinking milk and a bridegroom in New York travels to Paris for wedding card engraving. An editor recalls fourteen years in journalism. A bankrupt merchant walks now that he has shed his carriage. The Richmond Examiner reports a marriage of legless neighbors in Richmond after frost injuries. A dressmaker misplaces a sleeve, unsure which arm needs what.
A jumble of statistics and anecdotes reports Hartford value at 41 784 165 dollars, New Brunswick paying 1120 for deadbeats, 400 million in Southern Asia drinking, and diverse wonders from a London donkey loving concertina to Washington’s death near year end. The piece blends trivia, oddities, and social drift across places and people.
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