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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1875
Page
6
A garbled OCR style collage of sayings and anecdotes touches on social norms, fashion, love, politics, and everyday life. It mentions Queen Victoria, voting, a church festival, a saw mill, and a judge’s fate, interleaved with fragmented phrases about dogs, tails, and distant places. The piece reads as a miscellaneous list of quips and reflections from a late 19th or early 20th century column.
Mrs. Martin helps a lost boy named Little Boy Brownie after he wanders in a snowstorm wearing a grown up waterproof. She searches corners, brings him to her home, and contacts his anxious mother. A red string tied to a coal scoop helps reunite them, with the mother crediting God for guiding her to the child.
A moral exhortation warns boys that profanity harms character and prospects. It urges honesty, generosity, and virtue, noting elders watch them and that clerks and apprentices seek upright, steady youths. The piece ends with a nod to shared resolve.
Appletown Journal prints a highly interesting condensation of Livingstone's last journey from the traveler’s journals. The four installments will include the adventures and sufferings with illustrations from the original two volumes. The first installment appeared in January issue. the current issue continues the summary.
The Nursery presents a lively February number full of entertaining stories and poetry for children. The frontispiece The Frenchman and his Pigeons is beautifully executed while Dora Burnside recounts Adolf’s pigeon show. Alfred Selwin narrates How two Dogs ended their Quarrel. The Children and Chickens evokes good humor and Miss Dollikins charms young girls.
A notice promotes The Republic monthly at $2.00 per year with the first issue of volume four. It lists twenty articles on current political questions, a review of Work in Congress, and a 35 page appendix with the President’s message on Louisiana. Also announced is Blackwood’s Magazine for January 1875 republished by Leonard Scott Publishing Co with contents and a set of periodicals offered at $4 per year or $15 for all, postage prepaid.
The January issue of Littell's Living Age features Prof. T. H. Huxley's Hypothesis that animals are Automata with its history from the Fortnightly Review. It also presents Part II of Saxon Studies, Alice Lorraine, and Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd, plus other readings. Subscriptions offer 52 numbers yearly for $8 or $10.50 for postpaid monthly issues, Little & Gay, Boston.
Appleton's Journal issue outlines Livingstone's last journey as the first paper with a portrait and serials including Ralph Wilton's Weirce, Richlieu's Honeymoon, The Greville Journals, and The Louisiana Question. It covers drama, music, science, art, and society notes, with literary and theatrical reviews and miscellany on poets and plagiarism.
A graceful tribute by Louise Chandler Moulton to St Nicholas and its editor Mrs Mary Mapes Dodge. She praises Dodge as the magazine’s heart and notes Liitle Women and Eight Cousins as connections, comparing Dodge to a salon host drawing out readers and authors.
The February Atlantic includes Bryant's The Two Travelers, Greene on Heasian Mercenaries, Hudson continuation, Bancroft on Native Races, and Sanborn on Virginia Campaign. It notes reviews, literary notices, poetry by Moultere, Powell's Colorado paper, and Thackeray etchings.
The issue highlights Landseer’s Marmosets frontis, chapters of Eight Cousins, Chimney Sweeps by William H Riding, The Fox and the Raven by Rebecca Harding Davis, and various child friendly pieces. A lengthy report on the Geneva reform conference notes notable attendees, papers, and the push toward an International Code and peaceful arbitration.
General Pryor of Tilton's counsel estimates up to eighty witnesses for both sides and suggests the trial may not end before April. Rumor claims Beecher's lawyers will call The Woodull to testify Tilton secretly inspired the publication in her paper. It is rumored Butler may join Tilton's side and accuse Gen Tracy of unprofessional conduct toward Moulton.
Illinois Central trains run north to Freeport and south to St Louis with Sunday exceptions. Passenger service includes connections via Pass. east of St Louis with no car changes and 7.40 am return departures. Freight and passenger times listed with Sundays exceptions and general supervision by Johnson and Mitchell.
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