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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1876
Page
3
A parade of rural quips and anecdotes on life, manners, and misread moments. A landlord’s grim joke ends a lease after a graveyard twist, church humor, sharp wits, and a city alderman’s comic medicine mishap cue a string of light vignettes.
A historical survey of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence describes their professions ages and fates. It notes John Adams and Thomas Jefferson later becoming presidents and the signing as part of the Centennial near. Charles Carroll adds his residence as Carrollton and lives to 1872.
The list explains how names such as Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia the Carolinas Georgia Florida Alabama Louisiana Mississippi Arkansas Tennessee Kentucky Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois Wisconsin Kansas Iowa Minnesota and more were derived from French English Indian or regional sources. It notes figures like Henrietta Maria Charles II Penn and Queen Elizabeth the Virgin Queen, and includes interpretations such as Maine from Main in France and Ohio from the Shawnee for beautiful river.
The Paris Figaro warns readers to distrust fair complexioned women with wide mouths. The remark appears as a sharp social jab reflecting editorial tone of the era.
The essay laments childish nicknames in families and schools as a social nuisance. It argues mothers and elders propagate undignified tags like Tommy or Bunny, harming girls as they grow into adulthood, shaping misperceptions and limiting proper respect in society. It urges banning nicknames from nursery onward and preferring formal names aligned with discretion and breeding.
The passage laments growing use of nicknames among youths and officers, noting a missing nickname makes a schoolboy seem anomalous. It criticizes young ladies for extending nicknames to add casual familiarity, calling it a freasom and sans facon detrimental to fashionably high society.
Freeport Post Office mail arrivals and closings listed by route with times, routes include Chicago and Northern via RR lines, Dubuque via LGR and other lines, and Western and Eastern via WU and W.R. Open daily April 1 to November 1 from 6 45 a m to 8 9 a m and 12 m to 12 30 p m and 4 to 6 p m except Sundays. D. Atkins P M.
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