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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1877
Page
3
Fragmentary verse discusses paying for washing and mending as debt and affection. The speaker questions how de diction and care will endure over years, imagining paid affection as legal tender. Images of hands, arms, kisses, and a beloved figure appear, with debt metaphor giving way to love.
In a New England farmhouse setting, Mattie endures rival suitors and social temptations as Walter Hayes drinks and Arthur lacks resolve. A letter from California rekindles Mattie’s love, leading to a Christmas wedding scene where Walter returns, wins her hand, and the couple depart to the West to begin married life.
Informal readers describe un ceremonious visitors who intrude in homes. They arrive at breakfast or dinner, comment on appearance, raid desks, scent perfumes, snack at will, borrow magazines and wardrobes, and cloak it with I never stand on ceremony. The writer urges caution to avoid such guests.
Special Telegram reports a terrible tornado Saturday night at Pensaukee Station twenty five miles north of Green Bay. Eight killed and two missing as Gardner Hotel the largest brick summer resort in Northern Wisconsin is blown down. Sawmill shingle mill store wrecked. tug Spray and a schooner total losses. Depot lifted and moved blocking Green Bay train passage. bridge damaged. Chicago visitors in summer at Gardner resort.
The youth known as Casabianca, born in Corsica in 1788 to Louis Ganabianes, serves as midshipman on the Orient. He remains at his post during battle and fire, saving his shipmate’s lives while the vessel explodes, per Young readers’ tale of heroism.
A man with a severe ulcerated throat nearly dies as his household mourns at his bedside but a pet ape unexpectedly imitates the scene. The scene triggers the patient to laugh, and the laugh ruptures the throat ulcer, saving his life. The account presents a curious, humorous contrast between animal behavior and human tragedy.
Campbell and McLean quarrel over clan antiquity with biblical references. Campbell cites no McLean in Noahs Ark while McLean retorts his clan predates the flood, boasting they beat to their own drum.
Noted oculists such as Graft, Atty, and Stellway Canion advise blue or blue-gray glasses to shield eyes from red, orange, and yellow light. Blue chimneys or colored shades can soften candle, lamp, and gas light for normal and weak eyes. A long light blue chimney on a petroleum lamp may yield daylight-like illumination with a nearly white flame.
A little girl asks her mother whether God ever frets or scolds. The mother, startled, explains that God is good and does not scold, noting that scolding makes the child feel bad and would hinder love for God.
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