24 Aug 1881
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1881
Page
1
A humorous verse from the New York Sun reflects on aging, romance, and vanity. The speaker recalls past loves and social preoccupations, jokes about hair turning gray, club life, and remaining sentimental toward a youthful heart. He imagines a future marriage and laments fame’s fleeting lure.
The affluent Clifton household shelters an orphaned girl Ethel after her father’s death. Doctor Arnold Clifton, torn by a long engagement to Miriam Featherstone, grows close to Ethel as Miriam returns to reveal she loves another. Miriam breaks the engagement, freeing Arnold to pursue happiness with Ethel, while Miriam renounces love to care for her ailing father, leaving both women to bear the aftermath.
The piece mocks a London social fad where young men and women adopt a medieval showy dress. Women wear tight outfits, short frizzed dyed hair, amber beads, and poking-glass accessories, presenting a dull colorless look. Men are described as whiny, unkempt, and fond of Bass ale, carrying artificial lilies as props.
A Detroit man aboard a Canada Southern train recognizes a couple entering at a nearby station near St Thomas. He confronts them and learns the man is fleeing with a judge’s wife, after earlier gossip about abducting the judge’s daughter. The exchange reveals a bold elopement scheme with ties to Buffalo and Detroit.
Renowned pianist Rafael Joseffy has begun naturalization, receiving first papers. He has completed his first piano concerto with orchestra and plans a concert season debut featuring the new work.
To-co-be, chief of the Shoshone Indians of Nevada, is shown with a spanking pair of trotters hitched to a handsome carriage. He has had some successful ventures in mining and is an extensive cattle breeder.
A historical roundup lists notable comets from 184 B C to 1874, noting their appearances in Rome and Constantinople, bright tails, sunlike lights, and famous names such as Halley. It records periods, orbits, and the long intervals between reappearances, including Donati’s comet of 1858 and other famed celestial events.
A shabby visitor asks an insurance agent trivia questions about history and myth to prove he is mixed up. After each reply the man pleads for more questions, finally asking if he ever lent money to aid Columbus to his dying wife, which leads to a quip about Diogenes and the man’s continued混.
Sfanchett and Carter of the Great 12th Street Livery in Chicago dated December 5 1879 report Kendall's Spavin Cure as the best remedy for spavins ringbones scratches splints and related horse ailments. They declare it indispensable for their business and call it one of the greatest discoveries of the age. It stands without a peer in horse liniment.
A humorous compilation of anecdotes about notable figures and ordinary people who harbor odd superstitions. Examples include a well educated lady blaming wash day breakfasts on irrational whims, a coffee graduate avoiding left sides due to creditors, and James G. Blaine and Carl Schurz with quirky fears. An old journalist worried about railways survives a dramatic ride after lacking a conductor note.
The Irish highwayman Ephraim, short of cash, ambushes a farmer returning from the market and offers a life for gold. A Quaker farmer proposes a barter, trading the pistol for the money, and the highwayman agrees. Pat later demands the return of the gold, threatening to shoot. The tale ends with the Quaker’s clever mercy and a failed robbery.
Yesterday forenoon a party of five parsons waited for the boat to St Clair Flats on the wharf. An old dock loafer teased them asking if they would catch fish and if they would lie about their size, prompting a sly exchange about truthfulness and tall tales.
An old advertisement claims continuous cough relief with Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil. It markets the remedy as an unfailing cure for persistent coughing that disturbs others, urging readers to try the product rather than wait for self resolution.
An experienced paragrapher recalls the Hebrew worthy as a patient cheerful man who avoided daily office work. He notes the craft of fitting eight columns of material into two, writing on mundane items, and distributing poetical pieces on a baluster for ten dollars a week.
A writer recounts long suffered hay fever relief after a newspaper notice advised a home remedy. The formula uses carbolic acid, aqua ammonia, distilled water, and alcohol in a four ounce bottle inhaled through the nostrils, kept away from heat to preserve strength.
An advertisement touts Burdock Blood Bitters as a cure all for bodily ailments linked to impurities of blood and liver irregularity. It lists price one dollar and a trial size of ten cents, urging free use for indigestion constipation and kidney disorders.
The interior of Hillside chapel in Concord Massachusetts where the Summer School of Philosophy is held has been altered this year. Alongside busts of Emerson Plato Pestalozzi and the mask of Anaxagoras new busts of Alcott and John Brown will be added.
A newspaper notice highlights Kendall's Spavin Cure with promotional wording urging readers to note the remedy. The brief ad presents the product name and a call to attention without details.
The A S T Co has developed a new Black shoe tip praised for wear without its prior objectionable appearance. They report the tip offers durability and aesthetic appeal, urging parents to request it.
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