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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1869
Page
11
A fragmented poetic text attributed to Appletons' Journal presents themes of twilight, love, parenthood, and memory. It weaves images of a family beside the hearth with references to Ariel and ethereal light, contrasting earthly joy with spiritual longing in a dreamy, archaic voice.
In Bordeaux a quiet Englishman with strawberries confronts the renowned Comte de V as a crowd watches a duel. The strawberry eater, trained in humane combat, outplays the bully with calm skill and moral resolve, ending the deadly rivalry and marking the Count’s last duel.
A Squire quarrels with his wife over dinner plans as a guest waits. The wife serves a lone salad while the husband insists no meats were ordered. The couple laughs over a past debt and a comic misunderstanding ends with a lavish supper. Danver is 11 years old.
A Meriden baker suspects theft of his molasses cakes by town youths. He partners with a doctor to test a humane remedy by adding a harmless emetic to cakes. The plan backfires as the kids fall ill, prompting complaints to the doctor and a rapid rush for medical help.
A fragmentary digest reports on coal areas in Alabama spanning 1000 miles, Indiana child counts, corset claims, Mecca pilgrims 110000, horse values in 1805, hummingbird species on the Western Continent, Indianapolis letter totals, a Greenland resident’s fortune loss, a Cincinnati wallet incident, Eliot’s Indian Bible find, a Worcester election woman’s ticket, giant pear trees near Germantown, Britain church to population ratios, a Danbury note from 1776, a tragic nurse case in Virginia, a Bangor spider anecdote, Indian female medical school in Bareilly, long Boston Baptist pastorates totaling 167 years, a New Orleans mule recovery tale, a Louisville postal letter weighing, and various postal references.
A whimsical poem depicts a group of youths causing playful mayhem around the household. It asks who turned old Hilly loose, who broke eggs, who nipped posts, and who smeared cherry gore on a pinafore while describing mischievous acts and a general air of garden and kitchen pranks. It closes with the phrase Mischief, Fearth and Home.
A calm physician named Dosem counseled flustered families amid a mysterious illness among youths. He blamed improper eating, offered cautious reassurances, and claimed to have nothing more to light the matter. The community noted his double cure as boys recovered and committed no more thefts.
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