14 Sep 1881
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1881
Page
1
A reflective poem describing the sudden silence of a clock and the existential echo it creates. The speaker notices the stopped clock, compares it to a life halted, and muses on how daily blessings are overlooked until they fail.
In a mountain picnic near redwoods two travelers, Herr Schenning and I, coping with homesickness and fate, wander astray then find a welcoming Blumenwald cottage. A reunion with Barbara, Ulrich's widow, and a hopeful tale of a German romance ends with Schenning praising compensation as divine.
A pair of commercial travelers share a single room with a hypochondriac alarmist. After a night of anxious breathing and a shattered casement, a broken glass scene reveals the antique bookcase caused the commotion, curing the patient by imagined danger. The piece closes arguing for balanced views on trotting horses in agriculture.
Clifton Ontario writer quotes Mr. Wills of Gettysburg recounting how Lincoln, on the day of the cemetery dedication, read aloud the speech he had been drafting at a small table. The anecdote notes later autograph copy suggestions from April 1864 for the Soldiers and Sailors’ Fair in Baltimore.
In a Burlington Hawkeye snippet, a New York gentleman asks a porter to call him at Lyons after boarding. The next morning the porter reports it’s twenty minutes from Buffalo, triggering a comical miscommunication as the passenger frets over Lyons and the porter finally realizes the mix up.
A dated lampoon argues that lawmakers and officials siphon office goods to their homes during or after sessions. It names Tom Jones, Dick Roe, a clock, a messenger system, and a cabinet maker as examples of unreturned items, suggesting routine abuse of trust and unpaid accounts.
A Popular Science Monthly excerpt warns confined bad air in narrow school rooms can induce consumption after about three months. It notes rare cases under age 15, benefits of outdoor activity, and cites nine teacher deaths from acute or consumptive illness in eight years in one Pennsylvania county.
A young clergyman introduces an idea during a clerical gathering. An older cleric approves by suggesting the concept is best left as simply a notion rather than pursued. The exchange captures a moment of cautious exchange and conservative guidance.
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt recalls two medical students debating the President's wound in a Fulton Street saloon. They propose bizarre treatments and mock surgical ideas, poking fun at officer procedures and a lecture by Old Breyfogle. The exchange ends with plans to attend a baseball game.
New York riches among bachelors draw attention from Hartford Post awealthy list includes James Gordon Bennett aged 42 with Fifth Avenue and Fort Washington homes, Bennett building and Herald estate valued at $2,000,000 plus Newport property and England lodge. Samuel J. Tilden, 68, worth about six million, touted as world’s richest bachelor. Also Wm H Hurlbut John Bridge Frederick Paulding Belmonts Roosevelts named as eligible bachelors with varying fortunes.
The passage satirically notes the reuse of loaded terms by Gus do Smith and Col Gilhooly. It highlights misnaming Jewish and Semitic groups, with a humorous miscommunication about sending whisky via a colored porter, confusing racial terms and ethnic labels.
In a Washington Capital exchange a journalist praises the judge as a man of fine attainments yet confesses a need to consume him, while the judge wishes the journalist were less egotistical, noting constant self reference from morning to night and all night.
The article notes the highest grade tropical woods used for floors in Russia and eschews fire and pine due to dust and dirt. It highlights mosaic floors in the Summer Palace and ebony inlay with mother of pearl, plus a trade in small oak blocks from Dantzic and Riga for parquet floors. Demand is strong in France and Germany but absent in England.
A column suggests that simple plants like hops buchu merry drafts and dandelion can heal all classes from poor to rich including pastors doctors lawyers and editors asserting universal cures. The note invites readers to see another column for details.
An amateur haggles over the price of a Dresden china table service. The dealer asserts every chipped piece enhances value, claiming the set is the one Bonaparte broke during Leoben preliminaries, offering an unbroken version as alternative.
A letter from P O Sharpless of Marion Ohio proclaims the remedy Thomas' Eelectric Oil to be highly effective. It cites one man cured of an eight year sore throat with one bottle and many rheumatism cases cured where other remedies failed. The letter asserts the product is the best medicine sold.
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