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Newspaper
Freeport Republican
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1882
Page
5
The advertisement touts an extensive stock across all departments including silks, velvets, plushes, shawls, cloaks, dolmans, and wool flannels. It highlights low prices, a Pearl branded unlaundered shirt at $1, and bargains on table linens, Turkey Reds, live goose feathers, and holiday silk assortments while inviting comparisons with rivals.
A fragmentary poem laments a mother’s lullaby as the speaker recalls childhood, yearning for maternal presence and long nights of song while growing into womanhood. Central images of memory, longing, and familial bonds recast the mother figure in a nostalgic, poetic voice.
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