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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1878
Page
6
A fragmentary reminiscence recalls Henry Stanley as a young writer whose naval engagement dispatches to the Herald earned praise. The account highlights his tireless work ethic, illness resistance, and habit of penning multiple letters daily from rough ambulance routes to secure future commissions.
A reflective piece contrasts winter mornings with summer birdsong noting the still sacred quiet and meditative mood. It laments morning laziness yet recalls a tranquil dawn where the air is mild and the lake calm before night’s sleep and vanity return.
A three year old Philadelphia girl, devoted to her father, followed him to communion in church and knelt with folded hands at the altar, shocking no one as the tender scene moved many to tears. The anecdote, recounted as a touching domestic vignette, appears amid a note about engravings and chromo prints from Stinson & Co. of Portland Maine.
The issue begins with Nobody's Dog and a brief line of text about a dog in the snow seeking food. It follows with numerous short stories, poems, and child friendly pictures plus a full page of music for young readers.
The March issue previews Lecky’s social portraits of the period, Julian Hawthorne’s London papers on rural life, and Reading aloud by Miss Kate Hillard based on Legouve. It highlights new serial by Annie Edwards, Edward Bellamy sketch Two Days Solitary Imprisonment, New York society tale, Lizzie W Champney Paris scenes, and Carnival of Venice. An illustrated Rio Janeiro piece opens the editor’s pages with Bowles and Victor Emanuel features.
The advert lists the February 9 and 16 Living Age issues with featured articles by Wedderburn on the Dutch in Java, Blackwood and others, plus translations, fiction, poetry, and back-number offers. Subscription details quote fifty-two numbers per year, price one dollar and fifty cents, or ten dollars and fifty cents with American weeklies postpaid. Littell & Gay, Boston, are the publishers.
The March issues present Nathan Aven and Mme Blavatsky with portraits, essays on science, religion, and art, and serialized fiction. Principal papers include Wolseley on France as a military power, Tyndall on Spontaneous Generation, Ruskin and Iuxley contributions, and Black's Macleod of Dare with Oliphant's Young Musgrove concluding.
The Western Rural of Chicago grows in influence with its enterprising spirit and diverse departments. It advocates equal rights, opposes capital encroachment and monopolies, and provides strong general news and market reports.
Demorest's Monthly for March showcases three steel engravings and one fine oil painting along with poems household hints and art notes. A full page series of illustrations of the city of Chester adds strong local visual appeal. Subscribing at 3 per year appears a remarkable value.
The March Atlantic notes a lively Contributors' Club meeting with talks on Canadian Indian policy, pulpit and press perspectives, Lord Hicks marriage, phonography, prose versus poetry, and the use of tiles among other subjects.
Detmold, the hero of W. IL. Bishop's romance in the March Atdaisic, is an artist as well as a lover. His talk on painting architecture and kin dred subjects is very good.
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