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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1872
Page
1
A poetic fragment extols Kanily Girele addressing Jeannie as fair and beloved. The speaker vows devotion and even death if separated, imagining twilight walks and a kiss in a lonely grove. The lyric tone centers on unwavering affection and longing.
A devotional poem urging children to kneel and pray at dusk and dawn, seeking God’s protection against temptation and sorrow. It emphasizes turning to Jesus during trials, finding strength to resist evil, and trusting in eternal life through the Redeemer.
In a Brussels hotel Elizbeth narrates a fear driven trip with her husband to escape gossip and disapproval. A sleepless night follows as she recounts a terrifying vision of a bearded man with a prominent nose who urged her toward him and vanished when the husband woke.
The dialogue centers on a stubborn refusal to engage with grim or macabre visions as the speaker vows to seek only good and pleasant sights. The exchange, framed as a serialized narrative, hints at a future shift away from disturbing themes.
Locke & Jones of Toledo Ohio publishers of the Toledo Blade and American Farm Journal announce the launch of Locke's Dollar Monthly to be issued November 1st with D. R. Locke Nasby as editor. The 48 page quarterly aims to rival four dollar magazines and reach every family at one dollar per year with two years for one dollar if subscribed by November 15.
The New York Evening Post remarks Littell’s Living Age has flourished for so long that many families recall a time before it. It notes the weekly issue is as regular as the seasons and a part of national civilization alongside schools and major civic traditions.
The Atlantic Boston issue highlights Dr Holmes eleventh Sitting Breakfast Table and Dinner Party praise. James Parton presents Jefferson biographical sketches with his 1789 France return. H James Part II Guest's Confession. John Fiske critiques mythology. A Comedy of Terrors chapter eleven. Prodigal in Tahiti recounts Sandwich Islands life. Editorials cover literature art music politics.
Edna Dean Proctor opens the issue with Northern Russia and St Petersburg, plus Christiana Rossetti days of vanity. Poems by H H and J J Holland begin serials, Hawthorne's Last Bequest by T W Higginson, Kate Parkman wedding days, and other tales and poems by Celia Thaxter and Elizabeth Ackers Allen. Various departments like Topics of the Time and Culture and Progress fill the issue with diverse content.
The latest Eclectic Magazine features a steel engraved portrait of James Anthony Froude and a biographical sketch of the late William Henry Seward reprinted from the New York Tribune. It includes a seventeen-article table of contents with pieces on Japan, a voyage to the ringed planet, George Eliot, Paris police, Jacques mother, a poignant tale, meteors and shooting stars, and more. Published by E R Pelton at 108 Fulton Street New York. Terms five dollars a year two copies nine dollars single issue forty five cents.
Harper’s Weekly shows Nast cartoons including Mr Greeley tied to a to bacconist Indian dummy as a hindrance to progress to the White House. A full page prefigures the Tribune of November 6 bearing Mr Greeley to his Chappaqua home. Other illustrations feature Taking the Waters at Baden and The Last Sitting of the Geneva Court of Arbitration. George Eliot’s Middlemarch continues and an eight page supplement offers Little Kate Kirby.
From D Appleton New York Fenimore Cooper completes the Leather-Stocking series with Too Prairie The Deerslayer The Last of the Mohicans The Pathfinder The Pioneers and Too Prairie in a fully illustrated edition by F O Darley at seventy five cents per volume praised as neat and cheapest edition of celebrated American literature
A Minnesota paper notes there are sixty four fine single women in Brainerd. The column mentions real estate for sale in the area, reflecting local listings and social notes in the town.
The piece reflects on how this year’s prosperity contrasts with drought and fires of the previous year. It notes rich harvests from Santa Clara to Penobscot, rebuilt Chicago, and widespread religious revival. It praises Geneva arbitration and urges timely Thanksgiving while questioning secular gratitude without belief in a loving God.
The piece defends righteous indignation against wrong as Christian anger that can do good. It argues anger is necessary for some to resist injustice, but warns perpetual anger wastes power. It contrasts immediate defense with enduring hostility and favors lawful, timely response over vindictive habits.
A long string of pithy vignettes and quotes on life virtue and folly. It includes Brainard like sermons on liberty and benevolence, humorous lines about balloons and trees, and quirky anecdotes from editors to a four year old question about asked to sing. Diverse curiosities and social jests fill the page with no single clear event.
An Irishman visits a Chief store and quips about faith and papers, prompting a storekeeper exchange over application rules. A link boy questions Dr Burgess preacher in a dark wartime scene, and the doctor replies while a grim comment on hanging echoes in a dim alley.
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