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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1871
Page
3
A lyrical sequence recalls a past romance between Hamily Girele HY J. RUGEN KE BUTLER and Constance. The speaker longs to return to shared youth and pastoral scenes, describing rides, forests, and moonlight walks. The plea ends with a request to bring back a flower from their homeland, to remember a day of happiness.
In a hazy tale, John Smith contends with Lord Vernon for Lady Idela. A masked party clash leads to a duel a fire engulfs a hotel as Idela is saved by Vernon, who perishes saving her. Idela vows love. Smith survives but scarred, left to ponder a noble deed and fate.
The romance follows Idela a noble beauty and John Smith a shy heir to a wealthy dry goods fortune. Their growing bond during a sea voyage faces a gulf of class and a looming match with Lord Vernon as his presence tests their hopes and dreams.
The scene follows a dramatic farewell in Florence as a patient speaks of marriage and loyalty amid illness. John receives a parting kiss and vows of constancy, while Vernon’s disappearance and descent into dissipation unsettle the others. Verbal exchanges reveal accusations of cowardice and temptation amid burning danger.
In a tale of memory and forgiveness a woman wrestles between idealized love and a sallow reckless past seen in Baden and Paris. He asks for forgiveness as she softens, removes a betrothal ring, and finally accepts him. She marries the scoundrel, as women sometimes do.
A narrator plans a methodical house hunt using ads but visits a shabby neighborhood. She describes a "neat white cottage" misrepresented by posters, noting delapidation, broken shutters, shattered panes, weeded garden, a broken well pump, a missing cistern, and a ramshackle barn, all signaling failed promises.
A narrator confronts a ruthless real estate ad and urges reform of shabby rental flats. He questions high rents and calls for repairs, better yards, and humane housing, arguing tenants deserve decent homes and builders honor mercy and justice.
The Galany for June continues Justin McCarthy's Lady Judith and other readings. Includes Richard Grant White on Wards and their Uses, Overland by J. W. De Forest, translations, Whitman, campaigns of Robert E. Lee, and more. Features poems by Fanny Downing, short stories, and Galaxy Miscellany notes plus Mark Twain’s Memora nd a Galaxy Club Room teaser.
Saturday issue features continued illustrated articles on the Mississippi by Mr Watchard and Mr Keeler. It includes fresh essays, notes, Bret Harte's poem The Old Mayor, News of the Week, Financial and Commercial items, and chapters IV and V of Nobody's Fortune by Edmund Yates.
The June 1871 issue features a steel plate of Mary Queen of Scots meeting Queen Elizabeth at Fotheringay Castle, contrasted with elegance and power. It includes a fashion plate, music selection, varied entertaining literary matter, and numerous illustrations of summer costumes. Price is $25 per year. four copies cost $6. published by Deacon & Peterson in Philadelphia.
The Living Age numbers 1407 and 1408 cover Lord Brougham recollections of a lifetime and essays from Edinburgh and Westminster Reviews. Includes In Quest of Diamonds, commissions on the Commune, German Upper House, Roumanian issues, and more. Serial stories by the author of John Halifax Gentleman and George MacDonald. Subscription $3 yearly. $4 includes one of the American magazines. Littell and Gay, Boston.
Scribner's Fortune lists eight illustrated articles including The Wonders of the Yellowstone Three Leaves from a Story Lights and Shadows of the War The Mother of Emperor William Letpsie and ta Farr and The Illinois and St Louis Bridge among the usual editorials and illustrations.
Contents list for the June Atlantic Monthly features a mix of fiction, travel, criticism, and essays. Items include Botanizing by Wilson Frigg, The Shifting of Power, A Virginian In New England thirty-five years ago, The Capture of Ft. Fisher, From Generation to Generation, The Robin, Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, American Life in France, Kate Beaumont, Bubbles from an Ancient Pipe, The New English Edition of Lamb's Works, A Summer Mood, Encyclicals of a Traveller, Whisp ering Gallery, Recent Literature.
The Nation issue 307 lists The Week Editorial Articles The Treaty at Washington The Commune and the Labor Question England The Kax Blunden Correspondence An Enquiy Dr Kuyler's Confession Juliet's Runaway Notes Iyan Turgenett Wyse's Impressions of Greece The Experiment Ralabine Current Literature Geological Survey of California A Latin Primer History from Marble The Primary Synopsia of Universology and Alwato
The June issue of The Little Corporal closes volume twelve with the end of a story. A new volume begins featuring Emily Huntington Miller with a fresh tale titled Summer Days at Kirkwood. Annual subscription is $1.00.
Demorest’s Young America has become the Standard Juvenile Magazine for all Young Americans. The Jane number is fully up to its usual standard. Do not fail to secure this beat of all juvenile magazines. Price 1 a year. Address W Jennings Demorest 838 Broadway New York.
The June issue of Demorest's Illustrated Monthly is praised as superb and called the queen of monthlies. The appeal urges every family to subscribe and provides the address W Jennings Demorest 38 Broadway New York.
A juvenile publication titled Work and Play promotes its June number featuring poetry and stories plus sections Our Little Artist Our Puzzle Sunday Recreations and Our Post Office. Milton Bradley Co Springfield Mags distributes the issue for a year.
Our Young Folks for June presents three chapters of Mr. Trowbridge’s Jack Hazard and His Fortunes with illustrations by Darley, a ferry tale by Laura D. Nichola, poems and stories with fine illustrations, and contributions from Our Young Contributors. A promising lineup for July included.
Golden Ifours, a leading illustrated juvenile, carries on Breaking the Rules a school life tale. Mrs. Sanborn Tenney discusses sea flowers Sea Anemones. Margu Hughes continues Ned Waldron's Independence. Remaining prose and poetry suit parents and young readers.
The ninth volume of The Children's Hour closes with the June issue. The editor pours earnest work into this magazine to make it pure beautiful and attractive. It is offered to those who love children and seek to fill minds with pure true good things as a wise counsellor and pleasant companion. Arthur Sons Philadelphia.
A colorful periodical for young readers delighting children with attractive pictures and simple stories.
One of the Bright Side’s popular features this year is a series of letters titled Seeing the World by its special correspondent. The writer, en route across the Pacific, currently explores California. Also new in juvenile publications is a News Department, and readers are treated to a handsome engraving at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
A fragmented listing from Appletons Journal outlines various features including The Old Mill illustrated pieces, Morton House continuation, a piece by Edwin d Leon on Jean Branvyaisy Mie Khldive of Egypt, Arctic Explorations by H W Dodge, Waiting for the Diligence illustrated, Suagke River illustration, The Other Side, a Sonnet by Paul Hayne, plus Scientific Notes, Foreign Items, Miscellany and Varieties in an undoctored catalog fragment.
Ballou's Magazine for June appears with about twenty six articles and illustrations. The standout is The Clerk's Secret by Levi Beardsley Bay a former Washington department agent. Other stories praised. subscription at 1 50 per year or 15 cents single copy. Sold by Thomey Talbot 68 Congress St Poston.
Chicago Evening Mail states it is indebted to the company for the daily paper, describes the publication as highly readable with news gossip and literary content, and provides address Evening Mail Co. 106 Madison Street Chicago for terms per year.
The sixth volume of the periodical announces increased interest with new material from Pacific coast writers. Notable items include Water Trumbull’s Yellowstone Ripe and Noah Whaling by Captain O. M. Shammén, plus poems and articles such as On the Los Gatos by W. C. artlelt and Coarse Gold by Prentice Muiforame.
An 1871 Nashville monthly issue lists diverse literary pieces including Nothing but a Woman by Alonely, selections such as The Professor in Shafts and The Carnival of Coosa, essays like Our Aged Ones and How Matches are Made, poems by Sir William Jones and others, and notices for the periodical priced at 3 dollars per annum.
The June issue of The Capital Monthly features a steel engraving of Professor Darwin and a sketch by the editor outlining Darwin’s life. It includes “The Descent of Man” as a humorous poem, and a table of contents with about twenty substantial articles and essays on Europe, Japan, Rome, the Central Africa journey, and more. Edited with several departments and a new Patty story installment, the issue is published by BR. Pelton, 109 Palton Street, Yorks Prize $5 yearly, single copies 45 cents.
The June number of superb publication arrives praising its regularity, labor, and perfection. Highlights include Night a sleeping figure group, The Pied Piper of Hamelin with Browning verse, The Hayne Fall, Mount Quamatas, The Papyrus Swamp, a portrait of William Cullen Bryant, and Street Angels Home Devils. Subscriptions are $2.00 per year, with chrome in oil colors included, payable via agents or James Suits & Co. at 2 Liberty Street, N.
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