07 Sep 1881
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1881
Page
1
A poem by F. E. Weatherly reflects on aging and enduring love. It contrasts youth and old age, urging gratitude for shared days and quiet hope as life ends. The verse contemplates twilight years, loss, and the comfort of hand in hand.
In a newsroom romance a handsome new bookkeeper John Clifford clashes with the flirtatious Lesley Lord. After a mistaken scolding and a rainstorm arrival at his hostess, the pair improvise a playful conspiracy about love. He stays. she confesses affection. Six months later they marry.
The essay recalls the joy and relief of finishing an apprenticeship and becoming independent. It contrasts merciless editorial pruning with the later freedom to work on one’s own terms, noting how early constraints sharpened judgment and ultimately benefited creators. It reflects on the vivid memory of starting to write publicly after training.
In Dortmund a bride to be admitted she stole and pawned her fiancé s watch to buy a wedding dress. Police traced the watch to the pawnbroker and the sweetheart was arrested. In court she sobbed and confessed, the judge consented to marriage and the couple left with the watch back on the Rhine.
Dr Damrosch retires to Schooley Mountain for hygiene and quiet. Helen Potter sails to Europe for a foreign tour aided by her success. Col Frederick Conkling visits the Catskills as a loyal Democrat. Vanderbilt sought Sharon Springs for rheumatic relief amid plans for a vast palace. William, age 60, contemplates life easily while wealth unsettles him. Moses Taylor stays in the city through summer, buoyed by stock advances. Ex Governor Tilden remains in town enjoying his cool spacious house, still tied to Lebanon where his father ran a store. The bachelor question remains publicly unanswered, likened to Irving’s earlier disappointment.
A London correspondent recalls a tale from western Ireland about political disorganization and Land Leaguers. A cosmopolitan traveler and Pat discuss armed Leaguers ready to confront Britain, but fear of the police keeps them from action.
The Berlin to Settin cable completes the empire telegraph network. Cables cover 3,420 miles with seven wires, linking 221 cities. Cost exceeds 7.5 million dollars. The first cable was laid four years eight months ago.
A Brooklyn tale fragment turns on a forgotten man and a landlord’s pun about an insurance company. The narrator recalls men from plantations in Louisiana and a bank in St. Louis while seeking names to finish a joke that never lands, ending with a party memory and a missed invitation.
Dr Bruton in Bravo explains a linseed poultice method using a hot poultice wrapped in two flannel layers with an outer cover to prevent cooling. The technique avoids skin burns and provides gradual heat, offering notable relief for abdominal pain.
A controversial excerpt presents a woman-hating joke about two men saving a drowning woman. It mocks feminine judgments while contrasting a safe, well-presented rescuer with a dripping, disheveled hero. The piece aims to provoke by gendered stereotypes and humor.
An eastern society journal notes current fashion at Long Branch requires only one toilet per day. The trend is also reported among Piutes at various mountain watering places on the coast, though not highlighted as noteworthy.
Description of a local glove factory near Troy New York outlines process from French skins to finished gloves. It notes shaving cutting slitting stitching using steam forms with heated shaping, sorting by color and size, and overstitched seams. Workforce exceeds 200, with sixty to seventy-five dozen gloves produced daily. Wages quoted for cutters and female makers. A masquetaire glove made from imported Moch skins is highlighted as superior potential.
The Denver Tribune recounts four prospectors who found a rich mine near Halley in the Wood River region, named for a young lady friend and to pass her the legacy if death comes. A snow slide buried them last winter, leaving the heiress to plan how to use the $65,000 offered for the mine settlement.
A French newspaper reports a millionaire lost nearly all his fortune, dying of grief within a day. His brother, sole heir and long-poor, suddenly inherits a large sum and dies of joy shortly after.
Mayor Richmond of Pueblo describes a Colorado mining stock scam to the Philadelphia Evening Star. A new company forms with initial capital, purchases a claim, then inflates value to attract Eastern investors. Prominent capitalists lend their names, stock sells at inflated levels, profits go to insiders, while dividends never arrive for second-class holders.
A quoted question argues that common plants such as hops buchu mandrake and dandelion can yield many miraculous cures like Hop Bitters. The piece notes wide testimony from old and young rich and poor clergy and editors, urging belief beyond doubt.
A vintage advertisement extols Burdock Blood Bitters as a gentle remedy for obstinate constipation and dyspepsia. It claims the product benefits all humans and even animals, noting a trial size of 10 cents and a full price of 1.60.
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