Local Grocery Ads Offer Deep Discounts
A brief retail notice promotes lemons at 20 cents per dozen and syrup at 9 dollars 40 cents per keg, claiming savings of 25 to 50 percent on any grocery item.
01 Apr 1887
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1887
Page
1
A brief retail notice promotes lemons at 20 cents per dozen and syrup at 9 dollars 40 cents per keg, claiming savings of 25 to 50 percent on any grocery item.
A Brooklyn man, William J. Clarke, is accused after a $10,000 currency package vanished from a New York post office pouch room. Detectives traced the theft to Clarke, who confessed after hours of interrogation and a bottom-of-rubbish closet search. Clarke, 30, married and living at 240 DeKalb Avenue, will face further investigation into sixty-two similar robberies over recent years.
Debates on a tenant relief measure in the House of Commons cover purchase of holdings, severance of judicial rent periods, and protections for insolvent tenants. Provisions include caretaker rules, possible debt settlements, and revisions of rates amid Ireland’s governance tensions and Archbishop provisions.
The report notes Charles Blothins Waterwich, born in Caronovia on April 20, 7843, rises to the post of assistant secretary at the Treasury in Washington. It traces his education at Harvard Law School, early practice in New York, deputy attorney general service, and European tours studying old world monetary systems.
John G Saxe, famed American poet and humorist known as the Thanes Hood of America, died after a long retirement following a railway accident that harmed his nervous system. He was born in Vermont, educated at Middlebury, and later edited The Burlington Sentinel and served as a state attorney. He was a notable critic of society and politics, admired for wit, and his death ends a celebrated if melancholy life.
A volatile early April disaster off Kentucktyo Port follows the Tage Slaty Aouly wreck, with 50 to 60 seal finhermen lost alongside the vessel. Survivors report a chaotic night as fires and wreckage drifted near Greotupond, while rescuers consider the catastrophe the coast’s worst.
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