09 Oct 1873
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1873
Page
1
A chaotic verse sequence follows a wandering figure crying I m going west with comic and dramatic touches. Additional scenes show old Chappaquack, a sleepy cop, and a household where three husbands seek obedience from Metty, who keeps a wedding sprig as a symbolic token.
A rustic tale recounts three daughters Karen Maren Metty. Metty’s stubbornness earns her the nickname the most disagreeable. After two marriages for the elder girls, Metty finds a distant suitor. Their wedding unfolds with odd manners and a dog, a gun, and a disobedient horse. Metty vows never to contradict again, and the story follows their cautious travels to Metty’s parents and a sequence of mistaken observations.
A string of wry vignettes on love vanity and odd happenings. Jokes and quips about a melancholy suitor dyeing his beard, a woman writing of an insame lover, a Pittsburgh poet calling dew the perspiration of the moon, and a host of homegrown witticisms.
A Humboldt Union report describes a massive Republican mass meeting on Saturday, with three to ten thousand attendees. Iola sent a rival procession led by a silver band and 37 girls representing the states. Gen. Smith D Atkins of Freeport Illinois spoke on liberty, history, and the party’s past victories, praising Lincoln and Grant while critiquing Democrats and Greeley.
The article explains two leaf ingredients the alkaloid theme and aromatic matter. It notes that refined tasters use large leaf amounts and pour boiling water, drink the first infusion, and discard the rest. Slow stewing extracts a high percentage of theine and astringent compounds, yielding a potent physiological effect per Lancet.
The Phrenological Journal for October receives approval for its varied and high quality contents. Price is 3 a year. Publisher is S.R. Wells of New York.
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