04 Dec 1873
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1873
Page
1
Poetic reflection on beauty as a rising, celestial ideal. The text contrasts earthly beauty with a higher, unborn radiance, urging reverent love of nature over art. It speaks of life, birth, and the spirit unfolding in skies beyond earthly forms, urging tender devotion to truth and beauty.
A lyrical address pleads with Ada to be Beloved of the Father as the speaker longs for dawns, melodies, and a shared life beyond time. The poem muses on love, death, and spiritual union, ending with the speaker asking for sleep while naming Ada as a sacred beloved.
In Barrenville the news of heiress Effie Ketchum’s wealth sparks a love duel between lumber men Jack Starbuck and Zenas Mahan. Effie’s supposed fortune turns out to be a whiskey jug left by her eccentric uncle Saul. Mahan marries Effie, learns of the jug, and vanishes in misfortune. Starbuck weds Mary Knowell and prospers.
The essay honors Father Hyacinthe, exiled from a Paris monastery for loyalty to conscience. It portrays his 1866 Notre Dame sermons praising love and marriage, his bold desertion of vows, and his marriage to a American woman. It condemns Protestant ridicule and urges respect for reformist fidelity within Catholic freedom.
In Bellefonte the flag of the Royal Grenadiers, captured at Monmouth, is described by Captain Win’s guest Wilson Potter. The lemon silk banner depicts England and Scotland emblems, with the Union device, and bears a vivid history from Washington to Monckton. The piece toured through Judge Wilson’s family, later returned by Gen. Potter and his daughter.
A courtroom exchange ends with a quip at a witness’s trade and a judge’s dry verdict. A witness proclaims he is a shoe-maker and wine merchant and is mocked as a sherry cobbler. An American judge endures two days of legal volley then declares the act repealed.
The January Scribner's Monthly issue includes illustrations by Kappesar, a Mother Goose scene, Dr. Holland and Arthur, a story The Tramp among the Alps, Isabella Hopkins Miss Mr Thanksgiving tale One of Mercy's Evenings, The Dotions of the Su, Mrs Oliphant's At His Gates in book form. Also poems by Buchanan, Terry, Reyker, and Rich. Topics by Dr. Holland about Our Visitors and Wall Street rascal, plus notices of Froude and The Annual.
The Little Corp December issue ends volume XV. Arrangements for 1872 are already complete with Mrs. Miller’s Uncle’s Legacy continuing and a new Mary A. Bennison story starting in January. Three serials by popular authors are promised, plus travel letters, history, biographies, poems, puzzles, and illustrations. Subscribers who pay before January 1 will receive the November December number free and the rest of Mrs Muller's story from the start.
The Nursery began in 1807 and remains a trusted visitor in every family with a child. Its contributors and artists provide choicest pictures in costly style. Subscriptions start with any issue, back numbers supplied. A hound of The Nursery is praised as a meaningful gift for children.
The piece promotes a family friendly weekly magazine priced at $6 per year. It claims to offer extensive reading matter including tales history biography music and poetry. Editor Dow of Boston Mass endorses the publication as a leading weekly in the country.
A fragment listing contents of Athad The Nation issue 385. Items include The Booth and I tion The Relalue of Greenback Gree among the Artists The Boston Fire Proudhon and Gantier Correspondent Another Lie nailed to the Counter Notes Reviews p Novels Recent Poetry Trothingba TM of of the Public Lamartine 94 vig litter at politique and Alexander Humboli.
The Boston publisher Ballou's Monthly Magazine faced a great blaze that destroyed premises. Within twenty four hours the team had bought 4 web and was rapidly preparing the January issue to be issued on time for subscribers proving the community’s resolve and pluck.
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