23 Mar 1881
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1881
Page
1
A lyrical scene on a church spire shows a maiden and a weathercock as a ship returns from the sea. A lover on deck waves and blows kisses toward the land while the Maiden laments that her lover may change with the winds. The weathercock responds that it would be strange if it did not change with the winds.
Hilda Reynolds loses wealth, becomes hospital nurse, and forgives her former guardian as she rises from poverty to care for others. A millionaire dies, wills his fortune to Hilda, restoring her heiress status, while she learns caution toward insincere friends. Old Bazembee’s dramatic family scene ends with a comic curtain.
A lyrical fragment recounts Annabel Christing, described with ornate cosmetics and attire, sailing from Muscatine on a brigantine. The voyage leads to the Republic Argentine where she and a partner are married by the Dean, amid dreamlike fancies and exotic touches.
A San Francisco Post correspondent recalls a playful London scene with the Queen at Windsor. The Queen teases the Duke of Shrewsbury about American fashion and invites a stay, while chatter shifts to rivals and a crown-related flare ends with Victoria retreating in anger.
Those unhappy persons who suffer from nervousness and dyspepsia should use Carter's Little Nerve Pills made expressly for sleepless nervous and dyspeptic sufferers. Price 24 cents. Sold by Emmert Burrell.
A Little Rock seance ends badly when a violent visitor demands to contact an “old man” of the spirit world. The medium’s communications fail, a gun is drawn, and the intruder is insulted as the supposed ghost is revealed to be in city prison drunk.
A Germantown Telegram reader describes feeding twenty five hens with corn and wheat, two quarts of thick milk and pepper weekly, plus table offal and grass. In winter the corn is warmed and water provided. The 25 hens lay 2654 eggs across months with variable monthly totals.
A London antiquarian notes two kinds of poison rings: weapons or concealment vaults for poison. An example sold as curiosities featured claws gripping a stone, hollow inside, causing a poisoned scratch. Historical accounts cite Demosthenes, Hannibal, Crassus, and even Emperor Hellegoyimce as bearing poison rings in legends.
A historical sketch on Michigan editors highlights Mark Williams of Clinton County who risked his life after a fierce attack on a state official. The tale recalls a window escape, a vow to never slander unless able to fight, and a memory of bold editorial courage as part of frontier press lore.
A fast train near Zanesville Ohio suffered a spectacular failure as driving rods broke loose and tore into the locomotive. Engineer John Moore was thrown into the air landing on the severed cab but narrowly survived, while fireman McKelvy saved him and halted the train. The crew rode out the damage and restarted the journey after forty minutes.
Considerable amazement follows the conviction of J Manford Kerr a prominent young lawyer politician author and editor in Piqua Ohio for selling land without a title He claimed a contract but evidence failed and a jury rejected it Public opinion is divided with a lean against Kerr Rumors of other dishonest acts circulate and a sensational report mentions ancient palms in Jay Gould's conservatory burned in a fire.
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