25 Dec 1872
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1872
Page
1
A tender Christmas scene unfolds with a mother, Benny, Harney, and Santa Claus as a child’s innocent faith shines. The narrator recalls wrapping warmth, mischief, and ritual, ending with prayer and tears of gratitude for motherhood’s blessing.
Washington Correspondence chronicles a long rail journey via Indianapolis Cincinnati Washington and Philadelphia to Boston. The writer describes epizootics, stacked mountains, and perilous grades, then tours the Capitol and Patent Office with reflections on American democracy, faith, and civic pride, ending with encounters in Washington and plans to visit Congress with a local guide.
A correspondent from Andersonville Georgia recalls the deteriorating prison grounds and cemetery, with thirteen thousand graves and the famed wells remaining. The item contrasts Civil War memories with current politics in McLean and Winnebago counties, noting McLean’s Republican strength and local banner claims, plus a peculiar invention claim by Captain Walker. The piece also mentions a Marengo man’s marble gag and Rockford Register’s take on cow owners’s concerns.
A fragmentary Christmas verse depicts roosters and hens dying for meat. The poem repeats a bleak refrain that men must work and women must eat as chicken pie is prepared for Christmas. Vivid imagery describes dismembered poultry and a housebound kitchen feast.
Fragmentary text evokes a Christmas carol about a star in the sky a mother's prayer and a baby crying with references to a manger and the Christ child. The garbled phrasing repeats themes of the Virgin the star of Bethlehem and the newborn Jesus in a distant Bethlehem setting.
A succinct old adage urges readers to cultivate patience as a practical virtue. It advises laying in a large stock of resources early to endure life's challenges and travel smoothly through the world.
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