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Freeport Weekly Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Apr 14, 1859

Page

3

Brearine Rhodes' Tallow Faces Doannoyance From Smoke

Brearine Rhodes' Tallow reports annoyance from smoke affecting residents and prompt calls for mitigation. City officials note complaints from neighbors and pledge to review local nuisance rules and potential remediation steps.

Rhodes

A Vision of Heaven and Earth and a Child’s Faith

A bereaved child recalls a dream of guardian angels blessing fields and flowers, guiding growth, and comforting sorrow. An elder shepherd offers fatherhood, while a lasting faith in divine care remains after waking. The piece shifts to a family scene with poetry and moral tales about heedless risk, love, and loss.

Iman God

The Professor on Great Cities Explains Boston

The Atlantic piece presents a playful dialogue where Boston dominates as the continent’s thinking center and social influence hub. Maryland and Philadelphia compete in wit as New York lingers as a formidable metropolitan voice in a cosmopolitan互 exchange.

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A Story for Boys: The Tale of Jay Jones and Kindness

Miss Taylor teaches a class about Jay Jones, a crippled pauper boy with no parents. Allen Blair and others return his kindness by bringing him apples and gifts. Jay grows weak and dies, leaving classmates and villagers to mourn at his grave, having learned Christian charity.

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The Angel of Mourning and a Mother's Grief

A mother grieving her dying child is visited by the child's heavenly apparition. The spirit warns that additional tears would disturb the child's rest in heaven. She stops weeping to secure the infant's happiness, praising a mother's self sacrifice.

Phorpe's Vale Bohn

Walk Softly In Life and Conduct for Lasting Influence

A reflective exhortation on moral responsibility urging quiet, thoughtful actions. It cites small acts like a crust of bread and ill timed jokes that harm friendships, urging readers to walk softly by day and night, as every life step is accountable before judgment. The text references an “Ishah's Journal of Health” and emphasizes lasting influence across generations.

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On the Other Side Baby Died in Happy Home

A sorrowful scene unfolds as Alice asks who took the baby to the other side after death. The mother explains that angel friends and Jesus welcome young children into heaven, describing the bright angels guiding the infant.

Alice Jesus Kingdom of Heaven

Monument for Thurston proposed by Mons Carlincourt

A draft monument by Mons Carlincourt honors Thurston who fell from a balloon valve-board. He suggests US wreckage heirs fund the memorial by each performing an ascent and donating proceeds. Also notes Swiss workdays and wages for children women and men.

Mons Carlincourt Thurston United States

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