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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1881
Page
12
A jumble of anecdotes covers fashion, manners, and social mischief from a North Carolina AME church to visitors and ball gossip. The piece references Hoffman style jokes, flirtations at a gate, a bonnet caper, and a young wife found dead with an infant, alongside ads, medical quackery, and scientific notes on water, gas, and meat preservation.
The Black Cochin is described as the most profitable Cochin variety though not as large as Buff or Partridge. Cocks reach 10 to 12 pounds and hens 7 to 9 pounds at 18 months. They are active, hardy against disease, and glossy solid black with a medium single comb and a broad, full breast.
A collection of sayings and fables mixed with a vignette from Biarriz describing Eugenia’s villa. It notes a Prince Imperial room in a palace setting with a 12 year old boy, ink blotches, and a memo for a small expedition in Pau. The tone combines cultural morals with travel lore and royal memory.
Offenbach, idolized by Parisian audiences, faced a triumphal reception as he was pursued by admirers to his hotel. A mock military display with halberdiers and cannons accompanied a humorous, sentimental homage organized by friends including M. Albert Wolff. The composer, credulous and childlike, was moved by the affectionate spectacle and tears.
A boy seeks a home for a kitten and visits a clergyman. He returns, noting the kitten’s eyes are open and now calls it an Episcopal kitten, changing from the Unitarian label of the previous day. The humorous exchange highlights religious labels in a small town vignette.
The Journal is presented as the favorite Republican family newspaper with wide county reach and growing circulation. It notes a subscription price of 1.50 in advance and 2.00 at year end, offering an illustrated Annual to subscribers who pay all arrears and a year in advance, featuring calendar, reading matter, and statistical tables.
The Home Journal outlines its departments Editorials romance portraits and world affairs with essays European excerpts letters and gossip. It advertises yearly subscriptions and postage terms from Morris Phillips & Co at 3 Park Place New York.
Rates offer the Journal and Weekly New York Tribune at 240 Peaeecee. Prices include the Journal annual.
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