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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1898
Page
5
A seller advertises a large invoice of canned fruits and vegetables bought before price advances. They promise quality equal to any in the market and urge buyers to stock up now, claiming they will sell regardless of current market value.
A newspaper sale ad promotes flour at 1.00 per sack and table syrup at 25c per gallon. It also offers a 25c coffee special and 4 packages of mince meat for 26c, urging readers to buy now rather than be told items are out of stock.
Lists identified victims washed ashore along Cape Cod including Orleans and Provincetown cases. Names include FE Dudley Freeman Yarmouth attorney, George W Delaney Boston, Mrs C M Mitchell Northaston, George Graham Portland porter, William Mosher Gorham ME, and others. Number aboard Portland estimated near 120 to 155 with 16 bodies recovered. many unidentified. Wrecks and later losses include steamer Ainsworth near Revelsdock and the King Philip wreck with ten crew lost.
Old salts struggle to explain Captains conduct after the Portland wreck off Cape Ann near Thatcher's Island. Mariners note no life boat fragments, theories place wreck near Peaked Hill bars forty five to fifty miles from Maud S sighting. Wreck time cited as Sunday forenoon with watches stopped. location uncertainties remain.
A bamboo found on Plymouth Beach carries a message from the schooner White Wings of Gloucester. It states thirteen aboard will be lost in the recent storm and mentions the deaths of Henry Wilder and Frank Hasking. The message says they are on a raft and cannot put into battle.
After fifty days of riot duty in Pana Bloomington’s First Illinois cavalry squadron was relieved by Delavan’s Company K Fifth regiment. New negro troops arrived and were checked at Springside barracks. Sheriff-elect Downey slated to take over next week. County committee found deputies filed inflated bills, with claims of day and night work. They will recommend rejecting about $15,000 in bills.
The Dunn family in Cameron sees a father kill his newborn child during a drunken celebration and fatally threaten his wife. Neighbors intervene as he fires on the scene, injuring a marshal who lost his ear. Dunn is jailed in Barron to avert a lynching.
A large masked mob gathered at 11 pm near the south end of the bridge demanding two alleged assailants. Sheriff Wade ordered dispersal as 400 and later 1,000 more people converged on the jail, shots fired but no injuries reported.
A Washington pawnbroker recalls a shabby middle aged man who offered a nearly 200 year old Jacobus Steiner violin for 50 dollars, played it to prove its value, and sold it for 80. Other experts judged the instrument worth a few dollars, revealing it as a common fiddle rather than a fine instrument. The buyer and seller misread the market.
The semi official hymnbook for the emperor’s pilgrims opens with Rudolf Kogel’s Gott will es and includes chants about Jerusalem and heaven. It shifts to patriotism with songs like Deutschland, Ueber Alles and ends with a jarringly light verse inviting to drink sparkling wine, seen as genial yet improper.
Kokomo correspondent reports a premature cannon discharge near the presidential train in Lidlana injured three artillerymen, killing James Jones who wore an overcoat found on an unknown official member. Wilson’s absence of a coat in Indianapolis is linked to the incident.
A Cincinnati Enquirer note questions whether clothing like dresses and bonnets are vital to religion. The take: while not required, women’s church attendance rises when peers wear new bonnets, suggesting social fashion influences devotion.
A Beavor Dam Ohio reader recounts her daughter's recovery after four doctors gave up and a neighbor suggested Foley's kidney cure. She now walks miles without fatigue and credits the medicine. Signed Mrs J M Bailey H J Moogh Swarts Fleck. Ummert Burrell.
A collage of promotional lines and quips mentioning doctors tonics, ointments, and tonics. It includes truncated dialogue about work, medical cures like Deans Ointment and Woorlds Norway Pine Syrup, a note on Emmert & Paper from seaweed, and brief etymology on Haiti and Cuba. The tone mimics a newspaper clipping with assorted product blurbs.
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