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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1876
Page
6
A fragmentary verse fragment describes barberries along a gray wall and garden plots turning bare before fall color, imagining eye catching torches along a road and comparing to sea coral and damask lore. It references rosy tramps and Ceres with December Atlantic imagery.
The Atlantic Monthly for 1877 outlines extensive contributions from Longfellow Lowell Whittier Wendell Holmes and Twain among others. It details poetry stories essays music departments a Contributors Club and a life-size Longfellow portrait option with subscription prices and ordering instructions.
The December Scribner features essays and sketches on American sports and humor. It includes Robinson Warren’s Bay Shooting, Quatty’s Great Speech, Cyrus Kiclanore, and notes on co operative stores, single celled plants, and Western Asia life. The issue also covers diplomatic satire, Civil Service notes, and Annie du Hot’s delicate poetry amid broader literary items.
The issue surveys poems and sketches across departments. It notes Bacon and Mr I Tuxley visit writings in The Better Times and The Interest of Fiction and mentions The Old Cabinet stanza Mystic and discussions of Daniel Deronda and Bohemianism.
December issues showcase large Christmas features with Moran frontispiece, Bryant essay, Proctor astronomy article, Trowbridge serial, Larco�n poems, and stories by Coolidge Hale Davis Thorne. Galaxy highlights Aspasia review, Turkish capital sketch, Old Masters paintings, Centennial art notes, Hancock on Gettysburg, and various short fiction and poems.
The December Ballou's Monthly Magazine contains the conclusion of M. Quad's That Taylor Boy and promises a lively issue with stories poems engravings and an upcoming Col James Fitts serial in January. Publisher Thames & Talbot Boston offers a year’s subscription at $1.50.
New book by Jules Verne about launching a hollow projectile with Barbicane Nicholl and Ardan to the moon. The Lakeside Library edition costs ten cents, with lavish engravings and full, unabridged text. Also notes Livingston Age and Atlantic Monthly contents and Bishop Levi Scott’s appointment as Senior Bishop.
Railway timetable notes mixed routes from Freeport to Chicago and Sioux City with passengers and freight services. It lists departure and arrival times for east and westbound trains, Sunday schedules, and indicates agents Johnson PanR.Agt A Mitcherll and W.H. Stennett as ticket and general agents.
Rockford Rock Island and St Louis Railroad announces departures and arrivals for Rock Island with Day Express at 8:00 am and 6:80 pm, Night Express at 6:50 pm, and Night Express at 6:30 am, connecting with Western Union Railway trains. General Manager Skinner and T Penfield, General Ticket Agent, oversee operations.
The advertisement invites the sick and bed ridden to seek healing and offers Centaur Liniment free of charge to the poor and distressed who have spent money on worthless medicines. It promises relief for the halr and lame and wounded and sore.
An 1874 advertisement extols Centaur Liniment for horses and other animals, claiming cures for spavin sprain wind galls scratches sweeny and general lameness. It cites endorsements from Expressmen and farmers and invites testing by farriers and veterinarians. Sold by J B Rose & Co, 46 Dey St New York.
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