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Newspaper

Freeport Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Nov 06, 1873

Page

6

Wheat Crop Outlook Sees Mixed States As Yields Vary

The October crop report from the Department of Agriculture notes mixed wheat results, with New England steady while several western states show strong gains and southern regions suffer shortfalls. Ohio and Maryland see improved yields, Minnesota and Iowa rise, and Kentucky and Texas report notable increases in certain varieties. overall U S production projected higher than last year though regional disparities persist.

Jy. Dodge New England Yee Maryland Virginia Cass Sus Minnesota Iowa Missouri Kan-es Kentucky Ohio The Lakes Yestral Wisconsin Mississippi River New Hampshire Vermont Masschusetts Connecticut New Jersey Pennsylai Delaware North Carolina South It Georgia Alabama Ispi Texas Arkansas See West Virgina Ken Michigan Illinois Towa Nebraska California Oregon

Aldine November issues praised for art and prose

The Aldine for November is celebrated as a charming art journal with fifteen engravings including Scene on the Catawba River and Niagara. Editor R H Stoddard guides meritorious articles and art, with a complete volume priced at $5 containing engravings rare to obtain singly. Publishers offer subscribers monthly numbers plus two chromes at the same price.

The Aldine R. H. Stoddard Catawba River Niagara Jack and Gill

Prairie Farmer subscription offer and terms from 1873-4

The Prairie Farmer advertises a Western farm journal with weekly issues and broad readership. It promotes a special 1873–74 subscription offer, stating free extra months, reduced rates, and a cash commission option for agents, with sample copies available upon request.

Prairie Farmer Sterling Prairie Farmer, Company Wabash Avenue Chicago

Explorations in Africa book reviewed in 19th century Press

The Union Publishing Company of Chicago releases Explorations in Africa a comprehensive volume on Africa by noted travelers including Livingstone and Stanley. It features biographies sketches of explorers descriptions of lands rivers lakes animals and vegetation and Livingstone's account of sources of the Nile and Stanley's Land of the Moon in Equatorial Africa. The review praises its breadth depth and appeal to readers seeking knowledge about the continent.

Africa Livingstone Barth Cumming DuChailly New York ‘‘Herald Henry M. Stanley Omers Union Publishing Company Chicago Stanley Equatorial

The Ladies' Repository November Issue Highlights

The November Ladies Repository offers varied writing including fiction history legend and poetry. Leadon Tower and Martyrdom of Mary Dyer pieces draw painful interest while Mr Rudd the Workingman evolves toward its denouement.

Leadon Tower Mary Dyer Rudd Prairies The Art-journal of America

Overland Monthly Contents and Featured Works

The issue presents a readable table of contents including Part Ht Isles of the Amazons Folk Lore The Mother Lode of California Old Uncle New Hampshire Queen Elizabeth's California A Romance of Gila Bend Natural History of the Animal Kingdom Ulthana No If The Lost Cabin along with two poems Current Literature and additional sections.

Isles of the Amazons Mother Lode California New Hampshire Gila Bend Animal Kingdom

Scribner's Monthly November Table of Contents

November issue lists articles and poems including Northern Russia, Earthquake at Africa, At His Gates, The Demons of the Shadow, Kate Parkman's Wedding Days, Hawthorne's Last Bequest, Expedition with Stanley, Nature and Science, Home and Society, Culture and Progress, and various poems with engravings by E. B. Bensell.

Russia St. Petersburg Edna Dean Proctor Christian G. Rosetti Africa B. W. Sturdy Arthur Bonnicastle F. G Holland Mrg Oliphant Demons of the Shadow Moncure Conway Quendolen Celia Thax Ticom Hiram Rich Kate Parkman Eliza Wood A. D. T. Whitney Aawthorne T. W. Higginson Stanley Edward King Elizabeth Akers Allen E. B. Bensell Scribner’s Magazine Broadway New York

Buffalo Land a Glimpse of the Western Frontier

A lengthy evaluation of Buffalo Land by Hon. W. E. Webb from E Hannaford & Co. extols its over 500 pages of Western wealth, wonders, and emigration lore with fifty three engravings by Henry Worrall. The volume covers climate, resources, homestead law, frontier life, and a guide for emigrants, and the publishers seek agents with generous commissions.

Buffalo Land E Hannaford & Co Cincinnati Chicago W. E. Webb Topeka Kansas West Henry Worrall Great Plains U. S. Lands Office E. Hannaford & Co West Madison Street

Peterson's Magazine November issue a standout with new plates

Peterson's Magazine for November lands with strong art and stories including a striking original Steel Plate image from A Game Two Can Play At. It features copyright Novelettes Lindsay's Linch by Fanny Hodgson and Bought With A Price by Mrs Ann S Stephens, plus low club prices and a 1873 prospectus. Address subscription to Charles J. Peterson Philadelphia.

Jerusalem Charles J. Peterson Chestnut Street Philadelphia

Arthur Bonnicastle to be serialized in Scribner's Monthly

Dr. Hollands new serial novel Arthur Bonnicastle will start in Scribner's Monthly for November. It will be autobiographical in form and differ from earlier work, drawing on personal experience and addressing key American life issues. Miss Hallock handles the frustrations of the story and promises strong magazine quality.

Dr. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle Scribner’s Monthly Miss Hallock

Harper's Magazine November closes Forty-fifth Volume

The November number of Harper's Magazine concludes the forty fifth volume with contributions from top American and European writers. It features 450 engravings across eighty seven pages and includes serials by Porte Crayon William Flagg Emilio Castelar Anthony Trollope Miss Thackeray Charles Reade and Wilkie Collins.

Harper's Magazine America Europe Porte Crayon William Flagg Emilio Castelar Anthony Trollope Miss Thackeray Charles Reade Wilkie Collins

New York Weekly Mail Praised As First Class Paper

The Norristown Herald recommends the New York Weekly Mail to readers tired of politics and seeking a quality paper. It notes editorials foreign and domestic correspondence, art and literary criticism, sketches, poems, fashion and society gossip, and daily news.

New York Weekly Mail Evening Mail Mail Robert Johnson New York Norristown (Pa Herald

Thanksgiving Story Opens November Little Corporal

The November issue of the Little Corporal features a Thanksgiving Story by Lucie Chase Bell and an instate ment of Mrs Weeks charming serial Dora Aunt Sylvas Browsing. J B T Marsh provides a graphic sketch of a great fire and Mrs Huntington Miller begins Uncle Dicks Legacy. The publisher offers new subscribers next year the last two numbers of this year free plus chromo Cherry Are Ripe.

Lucie Chase Bell

Our Young Folks contents and feature lineup

Our Young Folks delivers a varied issue with Mr. Trowbridge’s A Chance for Himself Part II, One Little Woman by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, The Schoolmistress in Japan by Mrs. Leon OWens, Snap’s Revenge by Aunt Mollie, Chickaree and Little Hackee by C A Stephens, poems, and many illustrations.

Mr. Trowbridge Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Japan

First Frost Illustration Promises In Hearth and Home

The present issue features Miss Mary Hallock's illustration of the First Frost with several cuts. A pleasant paper on the Delaware Breathwater and Lighthouse accompanies the art. The magazine also offers engaging material, a strong children's department, and a new serial by Mr Edward Eggleston starting next month.

Mary Hallock Delaware Edward Eggleston

Merry's Museum October Compendium with New Stories

Three chapters from The Fog Bell by Charles Bernard continue Rhoda an Old Fashioned Fairy Tale by J H Swing and The Story of a Street Urchin from the German. Includes many attractive stories and poems with numerous excellent illustrations.

Merry’s Museum Charles Bernard Rhoda J. H. Swing

No more attractive Nur sery issue for November

The November Nur sery issue offers bright pictures, charming stories and pretty poems. Enjoy Joy and Sorrow in illustrations and poems and consider sending for the Nursery if not already in homes.

Ann The Landlady Teaches Open News To Boarders

A landlady advises her new helper Ann that sharing bad private news with boarders before dinner improves meals over time. The remark links honesty about afflictions to better dining atmosphere.

Ann

No respect for consent cited in age of moral panic

A quivering moral panic voice suggests that persistent vigilance by girls fails to deter inappropriate advances. It argues that even a polite or courteous man may force a kiss when the girl is unprepared, implying danger lies in male behavior regardless of female caution.

Easy to please: desire alone suffices in arts

A concise aphorism notes that unlike other arts, the art of pleasing requires only the will to do so. It emphasizes desire as the sole ingredient for success in charming or pleasing others.

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