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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1879
Page
3
A boy speaks of mischief, energy, and honest effort. He notes how adults scold or restrict him at every turn and questions why boys are blamed for mischief. He urges patience, as the best men were once only boys, and values earnest effort.
The October issue offers a frontispiece and Rev. I. L. Beman’s true deer hunting story, plus a Philadelphia Reform School article with thirteen pen and ink drawings by Hermann Faber. It features Polly’s Temptation with Champ illustrations, a full page for Mrs Lizzie W. Champney’s Trotting Song, two illustrated poems by 8. C. Stone and Margaret E Kytinge, Nip and Tuck by Eleanor Kirk, How the Penny Family Lived by Amanda B Harris, The Boy That Would Climb Trees by Janet Carruthers, and St Olave’s and Dogberry Bunch plots. Includes Fred’s Pet tale, Dr Johnson and his Times, Belgium glimpses by Mrs Alfred Macy, Don Quixote Jr with an Indian Fighter, and Mr Benjamin’s American Artists Series on Woodworth Thompson. Ella Farman editor. D Lothrop & Co publishers.
Lippincotts Magazine for October features Margaret Bertha Wright’s lively account of American artists in Italy with vivid illustrations. It includes Oswalds Summerland Sketches Western Sierras, Chamois-Shooting with the Emperor of Austria by Baillie Grohman, Sunday in England by an English writer, Lady Farrier Acland biography by William N. Stone, American Landscape Gardening by Edward C. Bruce, and English in Germany by H. M. Kennedy. Through Winding Ways concludes, with several short stories and The Monthly Gossip remains entertaining.
The passage lists contents for Littell's Living Age issues ending Sept 20 and 27, detailing articles and serials from Macmillan's Magazine to Quarterly Review. Notable items include Seely on History and Politics, Jane Ingelow works, Townshend's The Queen of the Whigs, Temple Bar stories, and Gladstone on Marketable Beauty among others. Eight dollars yearly post free from Littell's & Co. Boston.
M De Lesseps, famed for his work on interoceanic canals, reaches seventy five years of age while caring for eight children under ten.
The October Peterson's Magazine offers a steel engraving and a color pattern for a Java canvas tidy, a deluxe colored steel fashion plate, and notable novelets by Mrs. Ann Stephens and Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett. It promotes club subscriptions, includes St Nicholas content, and highlights Alcott, Barnard, Halloween notes, and numerous illustrations and stories for children.
Ballou's Monthly Magazine offers originality freshness and value with a hundred pages monthly for 1.50 per year prepaid. The October number includes a variety of pieces such as A Picture of Quebec Camels and their Uses Cape Town Sonnet A Marble Woman Memorial My Romance and many more features plus editorial notes and a puzzle page. It promotes family reading and club rates.
A summary of Allman’s inaugural at the British Association on Protoplasm and Life. The address extends G solid unity of life through a common material substratum, tracing ideas from Dujardin’s sarcode to Mohl’s protoplasm and Schultze’s demonstrations.
An extensive review of October Scribner contents highlights essays on myth, science, and recreation by figures like Allman Bain Barnard Romans and Powell. It notes photography, biographies, and numerous papers on anatomy, method, ice, and telegraphy, with portraits, illustrations, poetry, fiction, and journalism critiques.
In the New Bedford estate case against Elizabeth Vassels, Nathaniel Hammond faced payment denial for medical visits and nine gold pills. Hammond testified he doctored Mrs Wassels at her urgent request using pills of solid gold costing 87 to make, believing precious metal could act as a tonic. His almanac-like account book, labeled Doctrin Mrs Wassels, shows the visits alongside dates.
A directory listing multiple churches with addresses on Pleasant Oak Union Williams and Stephenson, noting pastors, service times, and Sunday School hours for Evangelical German Methodist Episcopal Presbyterian Catholic Zion Baptist and other bodies. Some times appear garbled but mainly 10:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. services.
ER. L. Cronkrite mayor Cronkrite's grocery Stephenson street WM. Trembor city clerk Fry's Block H. Ratz city treasurer opposite Barnes' warehouse J. C. Kean city attorney E. B. Chamberlin city marshal J. B. Rogers street commissioner F. E. Josel surveyor aldermen first ward A T Irvin J H Crane second ward D Kuehner I S Zartman third ward H J Porter J R Wagner
JP Kleckner as County Clerk W W Hutchison Treasurer Dan L Brewster Recorder J R Leigh Sheriff note all County offices are located in the Court House.
Fragmentary entry notes arrival and departure times for Freeport and Rkk Isle with multiple freight slots and a note about Saturdays excepted. No clear date or event. details appear transitory and fragmentary.
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