25 Jun 1873
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1873
Page
1
An elderly couple and their family gather in a modest home where warmth and affection replace gold. The poem contrasts poverty and abundance, praising contentment, family bonds, and unshowy virtue over material riches.
A fragment from the Commercial Advertiser presents a poem about a hand as a symbol in life and death, describing its presence in sickness, travel, and the bridal vow. It contrasts tenderness with mortality, invoking images of warmth, trust, and devotion.
A first person reminiscence of Edward Brandon describing a Civil War encounter, fear, and a dramatic cavalry assault. The narrator claims battlefield valor while admitting fear, narrow escapes, a hand to hand clash, and a dubious hero’s reception from officer and comrades.
In Danbury Mrs Perkins learns Mr Stiver’s horse is in the care of a reluctant keeper. A breakfast stable misadventure escalates as oats, a peck measure, and a hay cutter collide with a raging horse. The narrator, battered and mud-splattered, recalls past near-disasters and narrowly survives the chaotic ordeal. Mrs Perkins hides at the window as the horse wreaks havoc and Silver's horse defies control.
The July number of Ballou's Magazine is praised as neat and tasteful. It lists stories and illustrations including The Pyr a mids of Agypt Indian Lify Finglish Inns and Club-Houses Childhood The Eleventh Hour and more. It notes price as 15 cents or 1 450 per year and gives address Thames and Talbot Boston.
A comic encounter with a traveling book peddler ends in farce. The narrator and a deaf companion mock her sales pitch as she proclaims loneliness and independence, then leaves in a huff after a loud quarrel. The episode ends with the narrator's triumphant joke at her expense.
A Forney's Press critique argues women bow to fashion, surrendering taste to milliners and storekeepers. It laments that many lack independence to choose beauty, noting fashion shifts daily and labeling yesterday's elegance as old fashioned. The piece contrasts enduring nature's beauty with fashionable whims and calls for rejecting ugliness in favor of true beauty.
A San Francisco Chronicle letter claims Henry Harvey the Gnishee of the Mint was abducted by counterfeiters and forced to finish dies for a $20 piece. He describes seeing indistinguishable counterfeit tens and fives, weapon use, and a payment of $5 gold pieces, detailing alleged methods and misprints while at his Pine Street home. The account blends romance and plausible details, and further word may follow.
It is noted that more weddings have been solemnized at the American Legation in Paris in the past six months than at any time since diplomatic relations between France and the United States were established.
The writer relays farmer youths urged to study home training, imitate refined peers, and cultivate self discipline. Lucy butts heads with awkwardness while gentry advice stresses erect bearing, engaged talk, and reading newspapers to gain knowledge, promising respect and social acceptance for those who apply these lessons.
Capt J L Smith, settled in the Colorado Desert twenty five years ago, argues the area will become very fertile. He notes abundant water from artesian wells and a potential ditch system could irrigate hundreds of acres. An artesian strike at New River rose six feet in an hour and has stood since, suggesting greater flows with proper mains.
A Springfield Journal item recounts a near house fire when a family cat, awakened by a blazing kerosene lamp, patted at a child’s face and woke the sleeping household in time to prevent disaster. The writer notes uncertainty over cat intelligence but shares the remarkable event.
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