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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1878
Page
7
Poem recalls a mother’s affection through a child’s day from morning wake to bedtime. The speaker lists kisses for waking, meals, baths, injuries, play, and falling in love with his mother’s care. The piece emphasizes a mother’s unwavering tenderness toward her baby boy.
A reflective note on housekeeping and business success. It argues that beauty in work comes from avoiding drudgery, and that humility can elevate. It urges mastering each department, seizing opportunity, and finding delight in one’s calling, regardless of status.
A dialogue shows a student learning about a transparent body. The instructor asks for a definition and an example. The student recalls the term and answers with a rock as a transparent body, noting light passes through.
Thackeray is cited as the gentlest of critics and sharp cynic, asking what defines a gentleman. A true gentleman upholds lofty aims, pure life, honor, balance in fortune, constancy in suffering, and steadfast truth across good or evil, earning love and loyalty from society.
A novice with a keen eye and a practiced hand enters a Detroit Grewold Street bank and asks for more dollars after handing over a ten dollar bill. The teller questions his motives as the man hints at marriage plans and attempts to leverage the cash, suggesting a risky speculation.
A discussion on feeding grain to farm stock warns that meal is a poor return and fattening heifers hinders breeding while pasture can yield better results. The page also mentions Professor J Lawrence Smith of Louisville and a cerium mineral Mosander and outlines a rat-poison method using squills and bacon baked into small cakes.
A motley collection of old jokes and observations spans quick quips about a bell ringing Irishman and a stubborn cow, misheard pleas, and hotel swan charges. It recounts railway anecdotes, fruit diets, and a steamboat pilot’s mountain legend with light, humorous tone.
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