05 Feb 1873
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1873
Page
1
A laborer's return from court ends with relief and plans for home. He envisions his wife Melinda, childlike antics of their boy and girl, and the comfort of kitchens and chores awaiting him. He clings to faith that heaven lies in reunion with family and a future secure.
A young heir aged twenty one inherits a hereditary estate and travels with a driver toward Leff Valley. A storm forces a crash and he wakes in Arnley Castle in the care of a mysterious old woman. He meets the deformed Lord Armoy and learns he is a prisoner within the castle. The family doctor prescribes quiet, nourishment, and secrecy while plans for escape unfold.
A forgotten patient lies in a castle infirmary under a cruel nurse and a mysterious healing visitor. The narrator endures fear and feigned obedience, while a spectral young woman appears and braves the nurse’s glare to offer quiet aid and a hidden note to his mother.
A family newspaper presents a frontispiece image Dust Out of Reach and a second picture Calling the Herd showing Swedish peasantry customs. It includes The Silver Cup short story and another Metropolis ville installment. The children’s section abounds with educational and entertaining content.
The Nursery is welcomed as the brightest magazine for children with charming pictures stories and poems that delight youngsters in several homes.
A terse theological discourse argues that apparent freedom is a human illusion while God controls all outcomes. It asserts predestination to heaven, the necessity of hell as evidence of final salvation, and casts sin as arising from misperceived freedom. It condemns human autonomy as serpentlike and previews a divine spiritual view emerging within humanity.
A moral exhortation urges using spare time for reading and family life instead of gambling or vice. It praises domestic pursuits, calling the home the best club, and argues an hour daily yields 365 hours yearly of intellectual and familial benefit.
An excerpt from Lippincott's Monthly Gossip recalls Thomas Jefferson Madison embracing temperance in Virginia’s Montpelier era. It narrates the disappearance of wine and whisky from the estate, the return of old habits after a serous discussion, and the reestablishment of the ancient order.
The New York Tribune Association sells 51 shares for 550000, valuing the property at 1000000 and claiming it is the highest price paid for a newspaper on the continent. Comparisons note Chicago Tribune sales before the fire at 1100000 and post-fire at 900000, with the New York Herald over two million and Evening Post at a million.
A Western journal critique notes France as a tinder-box and President Thiers as holding the safety-valve. It imagines he could ignite the fuse with a key, which would silence Sir Barney Roche’s achievement. The passage reflects strong metaphorical rhetoric about political tension.
The writer praises Robert Burns for teaching that poetry surrounds us and the urban heart. Burns urged singing of shared feelings, urging that humanity matters more than wealth, and that a person is defined by who they are, not possessions.
In Danbury News humorously recalls two cats climbing onto Mr Welland's roof on a Friday night. The fearless felines grappled and screeched, then tumbled to the ground in a fluster, leaving the roof to their misadventure and nourishing the grapevines below.
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