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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1877
Page
6
A fragmentary column offers wry remarks and quick quips on social manners and gossip. Jests touch on manners, marriage, teachers and trains, with slangy asides about dentists, elevating elevators, and the quirks of everyday life in the city.
December issue announces Galaxy entering year twelve with plans for 1878. Lawrence Barrett to write on actors Edwin Forrest and Charlotte Cushman. Other promised pieces include Gideon Welles on Lincoln, Charles Wyllys Elliott industrial topics, Richard Grant White on Shakespeare, Henry James Jr sketches, Henry James Jr novels, and contributions by Annie Edwards and more. Drift Wood Nebula and the Scientific Miscellany remain features.
December Ballou's Magazine showcases varied content from poetry and humorous items to travel sketches and fiction. Notable pieces include The Close of the Year by Earle Marble, Brazil and its People, and The Ludlow Disappearance, with illustrations praised as fresh. Thames & Talbot publish at $1.50 yearly or 15 cents per copy.
Petersons Magazine for November promises grand improvements in 1878 including a monthly supplement with full sized dress patterns for women and children, twelve patterns a year, five original copyright novelets, and a hundred shorter tales all at two dollars yearly postpaid. Club offers include multiple copies with premiums and gratis sample requests. Littell's Living Age issue No 1745 features Dispensaries and Hospitals pieces, Thackeray prose, legal histories, a tank irrigation article, The Black Museum and a Female Detective story.
The December number features four full-page steel engravings, fashion plates, and stories and poems. It highlights a steel portrait of M DeLegseps on the frontispiece of Selectic Magazine and praises the issue as unusually interesting from publisher E. R. Peyton at 25 Bond St New York.
The Nursery for youngest readers closes its eleventh year as a popular monthly. Its humorous stories poetry and illustrations make it highly desirable. Published by John L. Shorey in Boston. Times are improving with brighter prospects as households even with moderate means report two beaux and a doubled spring crop.
A vintage advertisement touts Parker's Ginger Tonic as a universal remedy for coughs colds sore throat bronchitis and even consumption when used early. It claims to purify the blood strengthen tissues improve digestion boost energy and aid feeble convalescents with a $1 bottle from Swarts & Stocking as sole agents.
An 19th century medical notice describes liver derangement symptoms including right and left side pain, back and shoulder pain, appetite loss, digestive trouble, headaches, memory loss, fatigue, chills, and numbness. It promotes Dr C M Lane's Liver Pills as effective for ague and fever and other bilious issues, warning to insist on the genuine product with proper seals and signatures.
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