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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1881
Page
3
A fragment from The Century Magazine November issue features Richard W. Gilder's reflections on public grief and prayer at the President's grave. The piece laments national sorrow and calls readers to unity, honoring a fallen leader as a heroic but imperfect man.
The BLACK HILLS region is depicted as a giant mining belt with mountains of quartz, rich veins of gold and silver, coal and iron fields, copper and lead, and vast petroleum deposits. It notes 20,000 recorded quartz and placer mines, 1880 yield over 4 million, 1,200 stamps, and ongoing mill construction. The piece highlights farming value, substantial wheat production, extensive pasturage, timber, wildlife, and a growing population of about 20,000 across 55 settlements. It also outlines travel routes from the East via Omaha or St. Joseph and Sidney, Nebraska, detailing stage connections and lack of ferries or blockades on the Union Pacific corridor.
Passengers travel to cross the Missouri River by ferry and overland routes via St. Joseph and the Union Pacific system. Emigrant tickets to Black Hills points are honored with baggage allowances and stage rates. J. W. Morse, General Passenger Agent, Omaha, Neb, invites inquiries for lowest available rates.
The November issue unveils a broader Century Magazine with 14 extra pages and larger pictures. Contents include Mrs. Burnett’s Through One Administration, George W. Cable studies of Louisiana Creoles, Trowells’ American life sketches, sculptural histories, Living English Sculptors, portraits of George Eliot and Browning, and papers on Civil Service reform. Subscriptions remain $4 a year. single issues 35 cents. a life-size portrait of Dr. Wolland is offered separately.
A nearly eighty year old parishioner testifies to Burdock Blood Bitters curing dyspepsia indigestion and constipation after many failed remedies. He credits the tonic with restoring strength at a cost of one dollar and a trial size ten cents. In Cincinnati Mayor Means calls protecting youth a community duty and says protecting boys first safeguards girls.
A letter from Michigan’s burned district describes a hurricane of flame that darkened skies, swept through Bad Ax wiping out 53 of 55 buildings, and forced residents to seek safety in wells and cellars. The calamity left many dead by suffocation and smoke, with some mothers delivering under danger. The scene notes scarce panic, preserved by calm, and reports field and soil scorched while livestock perished in groups. The Century Company advertises its new tale Donald and Dorothy and invites subscriptions.
The November Atlantic Monthly offers a notable Garfield tribute by an unnamed author, recollections by Miss Lucy Larcom on Lowell Mill-Girls, a Pilgrim Fathers question by Sidney Howard Gay, and Miss Sarah Orne Jewett’s From a Mournful Village. John Fiske on language origin theory, a Florentine family paper by EB Bidnetardi, and Sylvester Baxter on Census forestry. Serials Towells's Dr Breen's Practice and James's Portrait of a Lady continue, plus short stories So as by Fire and reviews.
In Hiram Ohio a small graveyard behind Hiram College marks the final resting place of two of a president's children. An infant daughter known as Little Troy lies on a white stone, with eldest child’s memory tied to the town. Edwin, the youngest, died in babyhood beside her. The note also previews St Nicholas November’s ninth birthday issue and its stories, poems, illustrations, and frontispiece by Sir Joshua Reynolds painting, with Mary Mapes Dodge as lead serial author.
A vivid 19th century travel sketch describes Japanese inns as wooden two story structures with thatched or tiled roofs, open ground floor fronts, low verandas, and kneeling landlords. Guides escort guests up arches to rock gardens with koi, ponds, turtles, and pine scenery atop Kanozan with ninety nine valleys visible, contrasting with continental hotel norms. Zippincoff's Magazine
Lippincotts Magazine for November features Charles Bur Todd on A Walk over Montalk with pen and pencil depictions of the cape and its wreck-street shores and cattle. a humorous sketch about American art students in Paris. Oswalds Zoological Curiosities on Animal Renegades. materials for a diary manuscript on the Prince de Broglie. a John Clarke essay by William Stuart. travel sketches including Shorton Fair. and the United Service section with Yorktown Campaign of 1781 by J Watts De Peyster and other pieces on Mississippi reminiscence, pay, blockade, army service, energy in the navy, and sweethearts.
An advertisement extols Dr Thomas’ Electric Oil as a remedy with exceptional power to cure disease. It asserts wide effectiveness including rheumatism neuralgia sore throat asthma bronchitis and diphtheria, emphasizing the merits lie inside the bottle rather than the praise.
A Norristown Herald item argues the cost of a railway to the nearest fixed star would be prohibitive. Using a penny per 100 miles and a mass of gold equal to twice the national debt, the fare would vastly exceed any possible payment. The piece notes it would be futile to even attempt such a journey.
A Bergen New York Baptist clergyman, once warned against Hop Bitters, suffered kidney trouble neuralgia and dizziness for over two years. He believed the remedy would fail but after his cure he urges others to trust Hop Bitters and not fear it.
A red headed sophomore wore brown cloth from head to toe at a masquerade, representing a lighted cigar. A dissatisfied senior sent friends altered photographs with numbered remarks on the back. A Cornell student was injured by accidental discharge of his duties. The Yale News shared an excuse note for seasickness. An Ornithorhynchus insult aimed at a creditor drew curious questions. A Northwestern junior offered a warped rhetoric about lies and hyperboles in a sly scholastic quip.
The term Quaker was first applied to the sect in derision. When George Fox, founder, was brought before the magistrate he told him to quake before the word of the Lord.
An advertisement asserts Frazier's Root Bitters are medicinal not a dram shop whiskey beverage. It claims strong effects on liver and kidneys and lists ailments it purportedly treats from dyspepsia to scrofulous humors. A testimonial from Mrs. M. Martin praises relief, with Henry & Co. as sole agents at $1 per bottle. The section ends with a Persian parable about self-recognition.
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