09 Mar 1881
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1881
Page
1
A nostalgic verse laments vanished rural joys and childhood dreams of a utopian farming world. Images of plum trees, tomato crowns, and gooseberries contrast with present weariness and longing for simpler days in a dreamlike countryside.
Sir Hubert Glyndon seeks Lilian's hand for Lilian, daughter of Mrs. Trevor, amid a fragile past with an artist suitor and Harold Courtney. Lilian's arranged marriage grows tense as a past lover returns, triggering betrayal and fear. Lilian and Hubert confront love, duty, and truth as secrets unravel.
A survey of new instruments and findings includes a proposed rain gauge named the pluviometer and methods for testing aloes in cordials and detecting phosphorus after death. It details lighthouse gaslight fogs on the Thames, fish distribution on the Pacific coast, and a vivid Leadville woman’s frontier exploits.
James Vearson of 28 Sixth Street But fule says Spring Blossom is invaluable for regulating bowels liver and kinder. He would never be without it. Prices are 50 cents and trial bottles 10 cents.
Dan l Plank of Brooklyn Tioga Co Cu recalls riding thirty miles for a bottle of Dr Thomas Eclec tic OU. He credits it with curing a crooked limb after six applications and says it was worth more than gold to him.
A Philadelphia exchange recounts a comic scene where a driver complains his horse must work hard for $5 an hour, mocking the idea of rest. He insists the animal not lean against an icebox as he hauls the sleigh, and demands the same horse or a better one next Saturday. Also notes patent medicines and Canada’s rising public debt.
On the Labrador voyage from Havre to New York an immigrant passenger Jacob Neick Qerthy killed himself by jumping overboard. Sailors failed to save him amid rough seas. He left two letters to his sister and a fiancée written in incoherent language, indicating mental distress after being dissuaded from going to Africa and urged to take a different voyage.
London story says the Prince of Wales insisted a veterinary surgeon be treated as a gentleman after the officer asked to dine at Marlborough House. The royal anger over a court status slip spurs efforts to redress the insult, honoring a deserving veterinary class.
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