14 Feb 1872
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1872
Page
1
A Ballad recounts Tintagel in Cornwall where ivy covered church bells drifted from a distant land. The ship carrying the bells sinks near the cliffs, leaving only a mournful chime echoing the waves and a pilot’s warning that gratitude belongs to God everywhere.
A poetic fragment reflecting longing and memory as the speaker compares seasons and birds to a departed beloved named Ruth. It evokes themes of loss, consolation in memory, and a guardian presence guiding sorrow through time.
A narrator recounts his comic tribulations at Wiesenthal with three eccentric sisters Nimrod Dieffenbach and Oken as they thwart his pursuit of Minnie. After duels, misadventures, and a siege by the sisters he wins consent and four weddings follow with lasting happiness and changed lives.
A January thirty first celebration at Ridott house of Mr Augustus Farwell and wife marking their fifty five years married. Family of forty children and grandchildren gathered to honor a long life of work and devotion. The couple, aged and fond, reflected on hardship and triumph, with hopeful notes for eternity.
A curio from Fiskiana letters compiling aphorisms and epigrams. The selections include stark lines on life death and fate, with echoes of old sayings and reflections on memory, faith, and the precariousness of existence. The text blends wit and melancholy in a historical literary voice.
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