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Newspaper

Freeport Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jul 31, 1878

Page

6

Wide Awake August issue highlights art and fiction

The August Wide Awake presents Elizabeth's home life and art by P Humphrey with illustrations including Andover Study. It features poems like Babyland and The Wisp, stories such as That Which Owed to Tommy and A Bit of Nature, and essays on Flora in a Garret, West Point Abbey, and London sketches. A vivid miscellany ends with a focus on authors and plates from Pelton New York.

Elizabeth P. Humphrey Mary Ashbury Ella Joan Nora Perry À Preant Tommy Eliza Wood Florence Allen Fidget Nest Ingersoll Elmer Lynnde Niel J. A. Sever Ella Farman D. Lothrop & Co Boston Ipston William H. Rideing Constance Fenimorelson Blue Ridge Albert Rhodes Walden Westster Abbey Miss Fenimore London Junius Ti Browne English Edgar Fawcett Danube Edward King Lippincott H. Knight Paris Philadel Sikes Henry Hooper Lapress Eugenie How Eclectic F. W. Farrar America R. W. Dale Meryon Frederick Nedmore The Spectator J. Arbuthnot Wilson Matthew Arnold Johnson Philochristus England Wm. Black Macleod of Dare Rum-Light Prof. Helmholtz Nature E. R. Pelton Bond St N.Y Scarbrough Bret Harte Meridian Trene Macgillienddy New York Edison Hughes Eric-a-Brac Humorus Stockton Noss Stephenson County Stevenson County Godfrey Vocht Margaret Vocht Samuel R. Vocht Ellen Cearn John Vocht Susan Bixler Catharine Aldenderfer Ann E. Reedy Mary Weigle Lydia Cole Ann E. Sregdy Theounty John Voeht Mary Welgle W. Scott Agney Godfre Dakota Western Union Railroad Stephenson Ianois Freeport Alnois Ann E. Reeds Sad Freeport, ML I BF. Kleckner

St Nicholas for August opens with King Cheese poem

The Midsummer Holiday issue features a long humorous verse by J. T. Trowbridge, adapted from Maud Christiani, about a Paris Exhibition 1867 incident. Hopkins provides a comical frontispiece and several smaller illustrations.

J. T. Trowbridge Maud Christiani Hopkins

Scribners Midsummer Holiday opens with Bryant portrait

The Midsummer Holiday number of Scribner's Monthly begins with a Bryant portrait by Cole from Eaton's drawing, plus a Bryant life sketch by Rev. H N Powers. It features twenty illustrations of Cum menton and Roslyn homes, editorials on Bryant, and reprints including Thanatopsis.

Scribner’s Monthly William Cullen Bryant Cole Wyatt Eaton Cummington Roslyn

Short Paragraphs From Various Papers Feature Quips and Oddities

A Yonkers Gazette quip notes a toothache signals extraction. The piece mentions a Georgian who sold 60 000 pounds of battlefield bullets, a Dighton Mass man growing a oversized huckleberry, and a Sunday sea boat church service with no alcohol. Puck jokes about cramps. Baby shows join county fairs as pairs. London club tricks with hat through ring. A demeaning racial crack from a race program is noted. A flute student falls. neighbors fear he may recover.

Battle Fields Mass Puck London Jasper Cato Yonkers Gazette

Pictures in Babyland August Reading Charming

A quaint notice extols the August issue of Babyland published by D. Lothrop & Co. in Boston. The monthly publication is praised for its pretty pictures and charming reading, priced at fifty cents a year, and urged for every child.

D. Lothrop & Co Boston

River of Death Swamp River Floodwaters Carry Dead Fish

A Rockford reader laments polluted waters after recent rains, describing a river flushed with filth and hundreds of dead fish drifting downstream. Large sturgeon, a five foot seven inch behemoth weighing 117 pounds, was reportedly hauled near the bridge as officials face a foul stench and looming pestilence.

Rockford Hell McDermaid’s Cooper Shop

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