Fragmented anecdotes and editorials drift through a midwestern paper
A jumble of humorous vignettes, editorials, and gossip spans White texts from Springfield to Cincinnati. Topics include bets, snuff, hats, Naples and apples, a mayor, and political quips during elections. Pieces touch on social manners, editing choices, and a fire in Ohio with Lincoln’s election context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Wotton Exchange
Dennis Nelegram
Ohio
Hald
Cincinnati
Lincoln
Street-born prodigy sketches on New York sidewalks
A thirteen year old Liverpool born orphan, James William Carlin, haunts New York sidewalks with crayons and woollen stocking case. He draws grotesque figures and portraits on flagstones before a growing crowd who drop coins as tribute to a young genius shaping an inner world beyond his rough appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
James William Carlin
Liverpool
Weighing the Baby and a Cat’s Dream
A short scene shows a newborn girl weighed at seven pounds and a quarter as family members debate her future. A cat dream sequence follows, then moralizing on thrift and youth habits. A stray reflection quotes Go on Works and a Maine prayer meeting remark about boot sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom
Grandpa
Nurse
Will
Eclectic Magazine Advertises Wide Coverage of Literature
The Eclectic Magazine promotes itself as the broadest non scientific periodical, featuring discoveries and inventions and importing articles from renowned scholars such as Huxley Tyndall Proctor Owen and Lockyer. It claims to republish essays reviews sketches criticisms and poems from leading English publications and select French and German works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eclectic
Huxley and
Tyndall
Richard Proctor
B. A
Prof. Owen
P. W. B. Carpenter
Max Muller
J. Norman Lockyer
France
Germany
Co-partnership formed to buy J W Neil's drug stock
The undersigned formed a co partnership to purchase Mr J W Neils stock of drugs and become successors in the drug business at 85 Stephenson street Freeport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephenson Street
Freeport
Ill
N. A. Draper
J. W. Neil
Hig
I. H. Miller
Exchange and
Bridge Streets
J. Elne
Atrmy Surgery
George Potts
V.S
Potts & Davis
J. R. Perkins & Co
W. W. Robey
W. S. Gray
Geo, Thompson
D. D. Blanchard
Frank Miller
Stephenson St
Queens
Robey, Thompson & Co
Ilinois
Jonathan Hay
Stephenson
Illinois
District Court of the United States
Albert Bliss
Elias H. D. Sanborn
Silas H. D. Sanborn
Stephenson County
Court House
Charles G. Sanborn
Elizabeth M. Sanborn
Sanford, Bidwell & Co
Dec
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Springfield
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Hae
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Red Joe
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New Britain
Sun
Chicago Times
Louisville
Times
Cerom
We of the District
Naples
Lancaster
Young Men’s Inn Association
Columbus
Ceeze
Kansas
Eswer
Jackson
Amos Kendall
Aly
The
Little Street Artis
Woxps
Maine
Charles Tompking
British Quarterly Reviews
Edinburgh Review
London
Westminster Review
British Quarterly Review
Black Wood
Edinburgh Magazine
Leonard Scott Publishing Co
Fulton St
New York
Great Britain
Blackwood's
Blackwood
Blackwood’s
Eclectic Magazine
Telatie
Science
R. Pelton
Fulton Street
N. A. Drapes
J.J. M. Aneran
Friends
Broad
A. F. Broad
Blue
L. Lautenbach, Col
Chicago and
Galena Streets
Dundas Dick & Co
Wooster St
Peard’s
William Lane
Baileyville, Ogle Co
Messrs
Hettinger & Williams
Minonk
Chicago & Minonk Coal CO
Minonk, Ills
Blossburg
Fred
Commission ‘Stable
ARMER
Freeport Woolen Mills
GRAY
ROBEY
Blanchard
GEO
Thompson
Sunderland
Gray, Blanchard & Co
Cassimeres
Adamson
Chicago
Legal
John Kline
John
Kline
Rispensar
Clinois
I. i. Klecckner
J. W. Crane
Cos DS A
J. D. Line
America
Michigan
Wisconsin
Brewster House
Freeport, Ill
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