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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1870
Page
3
A fragmentary verse in which a maiden laments being judged as flirted while seeking a proper suitor. She contemplates proposals from John and others, wrestling with social pressure and timing as she weighs when to accept. The piece portrays flirtation, prudish stereotypes, and inner resolve amid doubt.
A 1868 Farmers Club talk extols native birds like bluebird robin thrush crow blackbird meadow lark and warbler as beneficial insect controllers. It urges protecting nests feeding and sheltering birds, warns against cat predation, and describes many species habits and roles in farming. The piece also notes dangers from sportsmen and predators and contains long digressions on local politics and race.
Nasby and his confreres attempt to secure Negro support in the Seventh Ward New York. The piece outlines their strategy obstacles and what they considered the remedy. It shows local politics and race issues reflected in a Toledo Blade reprint.
A newlywed country couple stays in a Western hotel and the bridegroom complains to the clerk about nosy guests. He notes his wife has been invited to rides and shows since yesterday and a smooth stranger asked if she was alone and if her countryman had left, which he interprets as intrusive politeness.
An extremely stingy parishioner nearing deafness sits under the pulpit listening to a sermon. He mentally vows to give ten then fifteen dollars, finally resolves fifty, but his charity dwindles to zero as the collection nears. In a crisis, he places his pocket-book in the box and quips Now squirm old natur.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company plans leaving the New York to San Francisco via Panama lines due to unprofitable rates and is seeking from Congress a doubled subsidy to sustain service to San Francisco and China and Japan. The firm has paid eight million dollars to stockholders and built twelve million dollars worth of ships since 1856.
A Montana man who built a frame shanty on another’s land refused to leave. One night a group seized the structure and, with the couple asleep, moved it to a raft, launched it on the river, and swept them about sixty miles downstream. The squatter warned his wife that if he returned home, a formidable war might be organized.
A young Treasury Department clerk in Washington found a mouse tucked in her chignon at work last Monday. The frightened woman cried out, her caput addenda was removed, and the mouse scampered away.
In Rockford a proposition to issue bonds of 50 000 to the Rockford Rock Island and St Louis railroad for a Rockford to St Louis line passed by about two to one in a large turnout. A narrative from Cincinnati notes a countryman insulted a colored damsel who struck him and walked away.
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