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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1879
Page
8
A garbled excerpt from a St. Louis Journal page contains disjointed phrases with little coherent context. The tangled lines include phrases like ta fool and patent references, offering few discernible persons, places, or events.
A jumble of anecdotes and witticisms about Nellie Grant and others, including fashion slips, odd habits, and social foibles. Bits touch on Paris metal workers, piano pedals, age of majority, and humorous exchanges from various towns. The tone resembles a bustling moral miscellany column with scattered vignettes.
Literary notices announce a new Helectia volume starting January Humber with trial subscriptions for three months at one dollar. The Belectin enters its thirty fifth year offering family friendly instruction and entertainment. The January issue features twenty articles and a steel engraving Woodland Vows with contents by Tyndall Kebbel Proctor Fawcett and others.
The January 1874 Wide Awake issue features a Christmas frontispiece The Christ Cradle by Margaret Preston and stories by Mrs A D Whitney and Margaret Sidney. It includes Boston Rosebuds illustrations by Miss Amphrey, a Ralph Waldo Emerson essay by G B Sartlett, and six Concord views. New serials The Dogberry Bunch and Royal Lowrie’s Last Year at St Olave’s begin, with a promise of Don Quixote Jr. in February. Subscription is $2.00 per year.
The Living Age volume for the week ending January 4 introduces Sir Gibbie continued, a new serial The Bride's Pass by Sarah Tytler, The Romance of Calvert House by Katharine Macquoid, and anticipated translations and essays by scholars and writers such as W H Mallock Dean Stanley and Gladstone.
A long summary of January offerings from The Living Age and Petersons Magazine notes extensive literary lists. Contributors include MacDonald and Miss Ferrard authors, with illustrated pieces on byways and hunting. Also highlighted are serials, poems, fashion plates, and subscription deals with free extras.
The Inter Ocean declares loyalty to Republican principles and reviews its role as a national newspaper. It outlines new year plans with expanded departments in home economics agriculture veterinary and women’s topics. The weekly price for The Inter Ocean is set at 1.15 with other editions and promises improved correspondence and features.
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