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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1881
Page
3
A fragment from David and Foster recounts a suitor praising a maiden with perfect beauty and tender thoughts. The speaker vows devotion after a dreamy exchange, while the beloved responds with weariness, ending the scene with a sigh and a terse retort.
Delivered at Batlexnnge Cemetery to Lieutenant George L Piersol on May 80 1881 the speaker honors fallen Civil War soldiers of the Grand Army of the Union praising their sacrifice for universal liberty and moral cause while contrasting Napoleon Washington and Christ to underscore patriotism and sacrifice for humanity.
A poetic fragment about lonely sailors adrift without compass or chart, exploring love as a vast sea. It praises reading another’s thoughts behind dear eyes and asserts that as long as Love’s sun stays, every sky seems friendly and every shore promising treasure. Published in Scribner for June.
The June Eclectic marks a Carlyle number with four major essays on his death and reminiscences by Mrs. Oliphant Leslie Stephen R I H Hutton and James Cotter Morison. Other contents include reviews, fiction, poetry and notes, plus an index and subscription details.
Prompt relief in sickness headaches dizziness nausea constipation pain in the side and more. Guaranteed to those using Carter's Little Liver Pills. One pill a dose twenty five cents. Sold by Emmert and Burrell.
The June Scribner’s Monthly emphasizes timely essays and portraits including Col Waring’s Sanitary Condition of New York The Remedy a guide to house and street drainage. It features Farragut Monument art by St Gaudens an August Morning with Farragut and notes on Disraeli Lepage and Joan of Arc. Also presents serials poems and tableaux for students and readers.
The June issue of St Nicholas expands with The Treasure-box of English Literature and The Stories of Art and Artists by Mrs Clary Erskine Clement. The former shares selections from Hawthorne Irving Bryant Scott Thackeray Longfellow and Lowell with new illustrations while the latter covers art history from Greece to the Middle Ages with fresh anecdotes gleaned from Mrs Clement’s European study. Also in this number are Sarah J Pichard’s freshet story with a bold frontispiece Pease-Porridge Cold and Nature's Wonderland with adventures in the American tropics.
A Boston newspaper promotes Hop Bitters as a valuable tonic for the season, claiming it aids digestion and purifies the blood. The ad extols its preventive power, urging readers to use the remedy before illness weakens them.
A fragmented timetable notes trains going west and south toward Freeport and Chicago with day passes and freight connections. Mentions Milwaukee Deep West freight and passenger runs to Belvidere and Racine, with times around morning and night windows. Carrier: R. H. Holder, Agent.
The Journal remains the favorite Republican newspaper of the county with widespread circulation. It reaches every town in the county and nearly every state and territory, and its audience grows. Subscription is $1.50 if prepaid and $2 if paid at year end. Every prepaid subscriber in arrears for a year earns a handsome illustrated Journal Annual with calendar, reading matter, and statistical tables.
Prices listed for the Journal and Weekly New York Tribune at .82 50 include the Journal Annual and Correspondence by responsible local reporters. Readers are invited to send in county happenings and contributions are welcomed and valued.
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