14 Jul 1880
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1880
Page
1
A mother soothes her children after Dolly’s doll is damaged. The dialogue blends grief and care as the mother comforts the kids, promises to mend the toy, and recalls happier times. The scene emphasizes familial love, consolation, and the idea that cherished memories comfort in sorrow.
In a Sussex town romance, Melville West and May Warren refuse an arranged separation. May, bound to another by duty, resists marriage to a wealthy suitor, while May’s former fiancé Morgan Fletcher seeks her in New York. A leap-year letter triggers a chain of delayed marriages, culminating in May and Melville’s union and Morgan’s later marriage to Phebe Perry.
Mrs A T Stewart, widow of the late merchant prince, living alone with servants, climbs to her third floor each night to her room. At eighty, she discards mourning, attends parties in garnet velvet with 22 carat flawless diamond earrings, and sports a youthful wig. Her husband’s remains have never been found, she told a friend.
Reports on phylloxera in Italian vineyards near Vesuvius and Sicily with anticipated disasters, notes on a Paris Academy discussion of an Estherville meteorite, a simple weight experiment showing matter is not destroyed, copper deposition for statuary, photoelectric current in silver cells, and steel annealing via boiling water. A vivid English moor description contrasts with these scientific items.
Morris Livingston, an Israelite from Utah, visited Poughkeepsie and became engaged to Miss Rachael Rosenbaum. After learning Livingston had been married before, the engagement ended. He seeks return of rings and jewelry claimed as conditional gifts, while Rosenbaum's family argues they offset a banquet hosted for him.
The Late Major-General Samuel P Heintzelman was a Pennsylvania native born in 1807 who entered West Point in 1822. He advanced through ranks to captain, served in the Mexican War, commanded in the first Bull Run battle, and rose to Major General of Volunteers. He fought in Seven Pines Chancellorsville Gettysburg and Maryland campaigns, retired in 1869, and died from chronic rheumatism after years in Washington.
A prominent Auburn grocer gave his washerwoman a bar of soap and a reward for returning $3,000 she found in one of his garments.
A tall black-dressed woman refused to ride free but paid her fare after a conductor refused leniency. At a later stop she gave her pocketbook to an old man lacking money to reach St Louis, saying life is full of sobs and trouble. she then moved to another car.
Archeologist Schliemann reports finishing Troy dig begun in 1870 after ten years of excavation in Asia Minor. He claims seven ancient cities unearthed, including Ilion of Homer and Priam's city, with statues and images found. His Trojan collection currently in London, soon to Athens, with offers from several nations but not for sale.
Ma James Woody of Reidsville North Carolina recently professed religion on a Sunday and declared he would not swap his heaven chances with anyone. That same week he died suddenly on Thursday with those words still on his lips, his faith noted in the account.
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