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Newspaper

Freeport Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 07, 1879

Page

6

The Voyager An Ocean Fr742 Yet Cast Away

A fragment from an old verse to a voyager facing a northern wind and crushing ice. A friend pleads to rescue his family as night and storm threaten, but duty and danger bind them to the perilous voyage.

Freeport Real Estate Transfers Report May 3 1879

Real estate sales in Freeport and Lena from May 3 1879 include many transfers such as John Brown to Alex Smith 47 acres on Rock Run 2800 dollars and W F Taylor to F M Edwards part lot 1 block 5 Kimball’s Add Lena 800 dollars plus numerous lot trades in Freeport including Clark's Add Sil ver Creek Turner's Add Knowlton's Add Guiteau's Add and Orangeville with prices ranging from 100 to 9200 dollars.

John Brown Alex Smith Rock Run W.F. Taylor F. M. Edwards Kimball Lena Fred Rauch Huber & Herold Clark Freeport Zartman Aug. Bergman W. W. Rhodes Cal Washer Micheal Fitzgerald Shuler Bower W. J. Lawhorn C.D. Blachard J. W. Karcher Swq Silver Creek Mary Knabe Jacob Engbord Loran Turner’s Add Michael Bauerle Peter Fox Kent Hannah Wise Harriett. Blanchard J. M. Nuss Peter Kleckner West Point E. F. Smith Mary Sherbondy Buckeye Michael Seufert I. A. Spangler E.G. Jones J. R. Leigh Sig Erin Alfred Smith M. M. Fenner Elz Orangeville M. M. McCall Albertus Collmann Guiteau’s

May issue of St. Nicholas offers varied stories and pictures

The May number includes a May song and coronation theme but no May Queen. It features nearly forty pictures and stories across diverse topics from a spider tale to an astronomical story. Notable pieces include a boy becoming a man, a hunt for Wannetola, powdered-plot adventures, wild horse and foot sports, and Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Boy Astronomer ending at the Observatory.

St. Nicholas Wannetola W. S. Sheppard Crocco Ernest Juandl Harriet Prescott Spofford

The Atlantic Monthly May Contents Overview

The May issue lists features and articles including Labor and the Natural Forces by Charley Carleton Coffin. Witchwork by Larrieg Prescott Spotford. The Ship of France. The Abolition of Poverty. The New Dispensation of Monumental Art. The Decoration of Trinity Church in Boston. Our Florida Plantation. Emile Zola as a Critic. Recent Literature and more among other essays and notices.

Atlantic Monthly Charley Carleton Coffin Larrieg Prescott Spotford Jead- Ville George Willard Brown Irene the Missionary France CG. I. Cleaveland Alfred B. Mason W. SL Bishop C. P. Canch George MD. W New Trinity Church Boston Assembly Chamber Albany Henry van Tant Florida Plantation Harriet Beecher Stowe Emile Zola 4Ta Barnes Martin Richard Grant White The Com Ibutorg’ Club

Wide Awake May issue features Paris pieces and New Guinea tale

The May Wide Awake opens with Sarah Butler Wister on Paris and IH M. Robinson on Hudson Bay canoe travel. It includes Gen eral Paez a portrait by a friend, Village Life sketches, Bird notes, Richelieu drama, poems, tales, and serials. Batleu's May notes monkey men of New Guinea with stories and poems. Subscriptions $2 yearly.

Paez Venezuelan Republic Annie Porter Louisiana Nathan Clifford Brown Hooper Cardinal Richelieu Batleu New Guinea Island of Spain Honduras Ruthven Thames & Talbot Hawley Street Boston

May Nursery issue delights with stories and poems

The May number of The Nursery promises mild tales like Slome Guard and The Doll Show that entertain and instruct children. It highlights three dialogues including The Bird's Nest, plus attractive poems and charming monthly nursery visits praised by the Salem Register.

Reka Robbie Salem Register

Atlantée June issue previews diverse literary lineup

The June Atlantée promises a New England factory town study by the author of Certain Dangerous Tendencies in American Life, a Wood Engraving critique by W. Linton, an essay by Charles Dudley Warner, a literary study by T. B. Aldrich, Irene the Missionary installments, a New England humor tale, and reviews of the Art ists' Association and National Academy exhibitions along with numerous notices and contributions.

Atlantée New England W. Linton Charles Dudley Warner T. B. Aldrich Irene Artists’ Association National Academy

Electric Magazine May Issue Features French President Grevy Portrait

May number includes a steel engraving of M Grevy the French Republics freshly elected President with a biographical sketch and Har rison first impressions plus varied articles on science art sociology and travel Appletons Journal May contents cover Stone of Scone in Westminster Abbey and reviews of Busch Bismark Hamerton and Turner single issue 25 cents yearly 3 00

M. Grevy French Republic New Republic Frederic Harrison Francis Galton Goodwin and Shelly Leslie Stephen China Herbert A. Giles August Weissmann John Stuart Mill Charles Lamb Mademoiselle de Mersac Professor Grant Allen Egypt Reginald Stuart Poole Arabella Stuart France E. R. Pelton Bond Street New York Appleton Scone Westminster Abbey M. FE. W.S Athens Calderon Walter Besant James Rice Julian Sturgis Bay of Biscay

Scribner's Monthly gains readers with May issue features

A Pidal Wave of Popular Favor strikes Scribner's Monthly with nearly twenty thousand more copies sold in six months and doubled England edition. The May issue includes The New Museum in Rome Wilhelmj Remenyi A Day on the New York Docks an excerpt of Adeline Trafton Haworth’s story and the first Brazil Papers. Bind Volume XVII for four dollars and receive Volume XVI with a six month sub. Scribner & Co. 743 Broadway New York.

Scribner's Monthly England New Museum Rome Wilhelmj Remenyi New- York Adeline Trafton Haworth’s, &c Brazil Longfellow, Emerson, Holmes and Whittier Scribner & Co Broadway, N. Y

Hog cholera remedy and hog care claims by E R Moody

E R Moody of Kentucky writes to the Indiana Farmer detailing his hog breeding success over twenty years without a cholera loss. He describes clean ventilated quarters, clean water, green food, winter forest range, soaked corn and slops, sour feeds, and regular use of sulphur, coal, salt, and ashes as his sole remedy.

E.R. Moody Kentucky Indiana

Demorest May issue features fashion, engravings, and Fern Lake

The article highlights May content from Demorest magazine including fashion interest for ladies, home workroom tips, kitchen hints, two steel engravings and an oil view of Lake Geneva. It notes Phonological Journal for May, an analysis of M Grevy and portraits, Uncle Jamie the Cripple continued, a Burritt sketch, Brain and Mind chapters, health theories, Wells comments, and girls training guidance.

Demorest Lake Geneva M. Grevy France Jamie the Cripple Elihu Burritt Department of the Science of Health Wells

Fire and gas blast at Le Roy salt well

A salt well at Le Roy New York bored to 450 feet ignited by a stove mouth sending a 100 foot flame into the air. Water gushed forth smelling strongly of sulphur as superstitious workers fled in fear thinking the devil had been tapped.

le Roy N. Y

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