16 May 1877
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1877
Page
1
An early tale set in a village follows a young couple of nearly twenty as they navigate destined engagement, parental counsel, and a vow to wait two years. The narrative blends romance with moral duty, urging love aligned with holy principles and devotion to God and neighbor. APRIL 28, 1877.
A shabby Californian trader from Solano befriends a social circle in New York,借 local theater. He buys stocks for a mysterious heiress Miss X, wins trust, dodges danger with charm, and rises to a stock-board figure before a club scandal reveals his true identity as a shepherd from Solano.
Mr Knox teaches temperance to children defining abstinence from injurious intoxicants. A boa constrictor tale shows unity against a common enemy, strong drink. Massachusetts Woman’s Christian Temperance Union pushes juvenile societies, opposes wine in communion, and lobbies for a prohibitory liquor law with speeches by Mrs Talbot at the State House.
A mixed excerpt of wordplay jokes and seeds of moralizing prose. The piece features knockabout riddles about language and everyday life, plus a long discussion on charitable giving methods attributed to various philosophical and religious frames. It reads like a late 19th century miscellany with humor, proverbs, and didactic guidance.
Dr Cuyler notes 78 year old Prince Gortschakoff avoids wine and tobacco and has preached 30 years with only two Sabbaths missed. Contrast with Edgar Allan Poe Lord Byron Sheridan and others famed for drinking, debt and tragedy. Charles Lamb struggled with alcoholism. History repeats itself.
A Chicago lady notes that there are exactly seven real gentlemen in the audience and quips that she counted those who did not go to see a man when the curtain fell. The man beside her recalculates with a blush as the next act begins.
In Trenton New Jersey a vigorous temperance revival has drawn great crowds over the past two weeks led by QO A Osgood a reformed Maine drunkard. Dr C I Fowler Rev J GC Noble and other eminent speakers have delivered addresses with over a thousand people signing the temperance pledge.
A tipsy husband tells his wife not to blame him for sinning, saying Eve tempted Adam to eat forbidden fruit. The wife retorts that while Eve tempted Adam, he chose to drink of his own accord.
A reminiscence from a weathered rural school about eye estimation tests. The author recalls teachers holding objects like canes hats and rulers to gauge length and capacity, illustrating how easily the eye misjudges size and how measurement reveals true proportions. The piece quotes Advance on how perception tricks the eye until experiments prove the facts.
A historical remedy in Holland shuts the patient alone with a physician for five days while all drinks and foods are heavily adulterated with brandy or infused to promote continual intoxication. After five days the patient is deprived of nourishment until repelled by alcohol, and from then on the smell of spirits acts as an emetic.
A solemn ten year old boy at Central Park’s monkey cage sighs that with four legs he’d get cheese and ginger snaps and with two he must eat taters and bread. He imagines if bald and with stove cover eyes he’d be offered candy and called pretty. He notes others swing on a limb and that papers never praise him.
A prim Boston editor questions propriety of young married ladies on stage. He suggests acceptable behavior is sitting close to the driver with feet not dangling over the sides. The remark reflects social mores and theatrical norms of the era.
A humorous scene in an eating saloon shows a quiz loving patron testing a colored waiter over hash. The entry then shifts to a long list of patents issued to inventors in Illinois and nearby areas for the week ending May 15, 1877, with many items dated May 1, 1877.
A cantankerous bull breaks from a fenced pasture after a Hartford to Springfield railroad line opens, confronts a speeding locomotive on the track, while its farmer shouts encouragement. A carriage crossing scene with two New York ladies and a coachman follows, ending with comic relief as soldiers and a joke wrap around a legislative reference.
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