08 Sep 1880
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1880
Page
1
A lyric lament recounts a reunion that reveals changed hearts and shared sorrow. The speaker recalls a meet that ends in cold formality and farewell, despairing over unrequited love and fortune’s slight. The poem portrays two hearts now estranged by pride, with a final adieu and lingering longing.
Mrs Terebiath, aged sixty, plans a birthday gift and disinherits a girl Winny from a misfired alms. Uncle Capt Leofric seeks a painting, with a copy from Roland Tinto after a sold work at Gentuflex. Mrs Forrester pursues a Juniata scene, nudging a trio of copies until three arrive, as the aunt prepares to marry Deacon Penfield.
Chicago Times urges farmers to begin fruit raising with a few trees and vines during farm improvement. Plant apple pear and cherry trees with care in good locations, then expand gradually to build a large orchard and vineyard. Isolated trees better for vigor, air, and sun. avoid full-scale planting before farm readiness.
The artist Meissonnier shows relentless thoroughness, rejecting unfinished works and even facing crowds of amateurs and dealers bidding as if at an auction. He often erases the principal figure with a single scrape, prompting horror then solitude to restart the labor toward perfection.
In Brooklyn families reportedly fall ill after consuming lemon meringue baked in a copper vessel. Medical authorities warn copper vessels react with acids like lemon, forming acetates that upset the stomachs of those consuming the dessert.
Readers are reminded that the A. B. T. C. Black Tip will wear as long as the metal tip while enhancing the shoe’s appearance.
A Philadelphia Times piece advises camphor as the chief remedy for summer Sumner diarrhea, especially when onset is sudden. It urges prompt dosing of six drops every fifteen minutes until improvement, with mixing in brandy or milk. Additional remedies cited include cinchona tincture, lime water for vomiting and wasting, opium for adults, laundanum, and five‑grain sugar of lead every four hours for stubborn cases.
A contemporary portrait details Henry Labouchere as about five feet seven or eight inches tall with fair complexion brown hair cut short and a ped beard. His eyes are light and expressionless, his dress casual, and he is described as an intimate admirer of the Prince of Wales.
A three year old child gazes at a small pie and tells Mother to save it so Papa can see it when he returns. The child hopes to describe the pie exactly to his father.
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