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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1878
Page
3
A collage of anecdotes from 19th century life including architectural “big bolle” prices, Prescott gun incident, bell-ringing on a Boston car, a corset defense, sunflowers as fuel, Sabine Pass harbor dreams, and humorous exchanges about manners, religion, and travel.
The subscription price for the nur sery, the most delightful of juveniles, is reduced to $1.50 per year free of postage. A large increase in circulation is expected as the little monthly commends itself to every household with children. Illustrations, stories and poetry please young readers. John IL. Shorey Boston.
The December number of Ballou's Monthly is praised for broad appeal with stories poetry illustrations and practical information. It lists contents like New Zealand and its People The Curse of Carnage and My Christmas Present. Published by Thomas Talbot Boston priced at $1.50 yearly or 15 cents single copy postpaid.
The December Wide Awake showcases poems and stories for all ages including The Doves by Market Mce Ewen Kimball, Tib's Cap by Erskine M. Stamilton and Several pieces on lions and schoolroom antics. It highlights serials, moral tales, drawings, and poems with a pitch for subscriptions at $2 a year from Ella Farman and DD Lathrop & Co of Boston.
The census tallies Chicago residents in the 6 to 21 age group at 125000, outlining a large youth population segment. The data emphasizes the city’s young demographic and potential implications for schools and services.
Appletons' Journal announces a shift away from illustrations to high quality literary and critical pieces. It will feature more papers on literature, art, social and political progress, with fiction reduced in prominence. Subscriptions cost three dollars yearly in advance in the United States or Canada or twenty five cents per issue.
The December issue opens with Edison's Telephone and Acoustic Inventions by George B. Prescott, followed by Fever Factories on fatal epidemics, and an Education as a Science series by Prof. Bain. It covers Six explosions from combustible dust, Nuxley at the Copyright Commission, and essays on language, emotions, women’s rights, animal intelligence, and portraits. The editor notes the magazine will enlarge, promising continued value for intellectual Americans at Fifty cents per number.
The December Scribner issue features fiction by Mrs. Burnett Bret Harte and T W Higginson plus the fifth installment of Boyesen's Falconberg. It showcases Dr Brewer on Bird Architecture drawings by Riedan Marsh Cole King and others. Illustrated pieces include Cliff-Dwellers by Emma Chamberlain Iardacre and Caribou Hunting by Charles C Ward with Henry Sandham drawings. Includes essays by Sumner Johnson and a Paris Exposition painter.
A survey of undergraduate life at Oxford and college theatricals in past days. Poems from ISIL and others. Dr. Holland on prudential elements and social needs. M S Beach recalls the Guadalupe Hidalgo origin and a plot against Montpensier. Household topics and The Maternity Society featured. The World’s Work describes new appliances and inventions.
The December St Nicholas issue adds eight pages and fifty pictures. It features Scottish folk imagery, Italian fairy tales retold by T F Crane, and illustrations by Sal Eytinge, Alfred Fredericks, and others. Notable pieces include Mrs Treat's microscope wonders, a winter paletot pattern supplement, and stories by Ann S Stephens and Frances Lledgson Burnett. Subscriptions are offered at 82 a year with club rates and premiums.
The Atlantic's December issue features reviews of Dangerous Tendencies and Three Typical Working Men, Part II of The Lady of Aroostock, and an authoritative Sheridan at Winchester by Major Crowninsfield. It includes Norton's Florence and St Mary, Exposition pictures, DeForest's The Other Fellow, White on music, Adams on taxation, and Bryant’s Death poem, plus pieces by Piatt and Cornwall and a lively Contributor’s Club with recent literature reviews.
Peterson's Magazine for December preserves its unmatched character with two beautiful steel engravings and a superb steel fashion plate exquisitely colored. It also showcases a magnificent Berlin pattern in worsted, enhancing the publication's appeal for fashionable readers.
The December issue features a steel portrait of Longfellow and remains the leading fashion magazine. It includes elaborate fashion plates and patterns, art criticism, notes and hints, household matters, and well written stories and poetry from W Jennings Demorest of New York.
The Atlantic Monthly announces its 1879 programme with serials by Aldrich Olney Bjornstjerne Bjornson and Jowells, stories by Stowe Woolson Jewett and others, essays by Kearney Sedgwick Stoddard Twain Warner and more. A portrait of Lowell is offered to subscribers. various price tiers include single issues and sets. Special offer gives free November December numbers to new subscribers who remit before December. Remittances to Naughton Osgood & Company, Boston.
A historical extract describes making a salve from green sheep sorrel juice. The mixture is sun-dried to a honey like consistency and applied to the ulcerous area on skin. It is claimed to cause the diseased tissue to slough off within days, followed by a healing ointment. The text notes the remedy is painful but harmless and promises a radical cure for cancer if the patient endures the pain.
The passage argues for teaching a trade, here typesetting, as a personal fortress against misfortune. It notes that skilled artisans can fallback into steady work such as selling calico, and that such knowledge has long helped men endure setbacks when other avenues fail.
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