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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1873
Page
7
A collage of jokes, proverbs, and snippets from a late era newspaper excerpt. It includes Irish humor gags, moral reflections, stray anecdotes about teachers, editors, and a horse carving by a Detroit boy named Frank James, plus brief notes on education and civic matters.
The advertisement promotes volume one starting January 1, 1878 for a weekly 64 page Living Age with essays reviews serials poetry science and more sourced from foreign periodicals and living authors. It highlights new serials by Erckmann Chatrian and Fritz Reuter plus offers pricing options including combined subscriptions with Harper's Weekly and other periodicals. It notes Harper's Weekly December 28 frontispiece and includes various literary notices and quotes urging readers to subscribe.
The program for the Week of Prayer, January 6 to 19, 1878, outlines daily topics and prayers. Key subjects include foundation and unity of the church, providence, prayer for churches and ministers, families and education, national peace, international affairs, business and press purity, evangelization, and the theme Let the whole earth be filled with His glory.
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