01 Sep 1880
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1880
Page
1
A speaker sits listlessly content to dream while a bark drifts idly by a forest and dawns. The mood rejects spring's awakening and yearns for quiet unending rest. The speaker grows tired of life and even death as a potential mercy to end the weariness.
A verse-like inquiry echoes a suitor’s plea for genuine happiness and near presence. The speaker longs for true affirmation, hoping a loved one’s smiling response confirms shared joy, amid silent stars and drifting thoughts.
Kate Falconer visits a doctor for her sick lover George Tillston and overhears a confession from a betrayed woman. Confronted with deception, she quits the room and nearly causes a relapse, then learns the truth through the doctor. Kate nurses George back to health and vows to mend.
A discussion contrasts British farmers with North American prospects of vast wheat production. It notes a Thunder Bay to Rod River railway, Welland Canal completion, and British worries over cheaper U S and Canadian wheat. Dr Playfair argues wheat is a pioneer crop, while East US farms shift to dairy and vegetables. British dairy and native butter quality could rival prairie exports.
A Hungarian report describes a man hanged and revived by a special electro galvanic current but dies next morning from brain congestion. A similar trial on a Bridgeport Connecticut hung body revived breathing yet failed to revive the heart.
An unexpected discovery claims an absolute cure for kidney diseases via Day's Kidney Pad. Advert confirms the product as a remedy promising full recovery, urging readers to try the pad as a treatment option.
The Slade collection at the British Museum holds a moulded lion's head glass bearing an Eleventh Dynasty Egyptian king. This dates to over 2000 B C, indicating glass making and the skill existed long before.
A Leadville barber shop tale shows fourteen men waiting as Plug fires a pistol in a prank fight ending with barbers and police involved. The Bastile storm story recounts a sixteen year old Mile Monsegney amid burning straw and a hero saving her, De Launay’s brutal death, and the revolution’s dawn.
The passage argues that calm spiteful temper harms most when masked as placid restraint. It warns that taunting words aimed to wound self love often injure most, and that covert rancor is harder to disarm than sudden passion. Domestic life bears the brunt of such tempered cruelty.
Dr. A J Howe argues in the Transactions of the National Eclectic Medical Association for triangular vials designed for poisonous drugs. The vials would be labeled clearly as poison to reduce swallowing errors and encourage adoption by physicians and pharmacists, potentially preventing many accidental poisonings.
Advertisers tout A. B. T. Co's Black Tip as the ideal children’s shoe, combining style with low cost. Readers are urged to try this brand, already advertised in another column, to see its value.
A humorous exchange where one man apologizes and the other retorts that the speaker is not polished enough to reflect on anyone. The banter plays on language and social polish with a witty jab.
A Berks County farmer with a quarrelsome wife faced her departure but neighbors learned she planned to leave. In a plucky reply the farmer told a well meaning neighbor that she has indeed come back, easing the tale’s tension with a moral jab.
George asks his wife what she would do if he died, prompting her to consider her future. She admits she has not thought about widowhood and plans to consult her "Book of Etiquet" for guidance on proper conduct after a husband’s death.
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