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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1896
Page
2
Postoffice notice from Freeport Illinois dated December 17 1896 records a second class mail matter entry and related administrative action at the Freeport office. Local clerks reference mail classifications and delivery steps within the period.
Mrs. A W Bates visits Lena. Grant Deisher hosts 8 & B club. Busy Bee Lodge meets. Marriage license issued to David A Haworth and Eva Kryder of Buckeye. Brigham Bowler & Co v W Bier trial in circuit court. Bohnlte & Siecke display holiday goods. G & Manefield recruit from Belvidere. windmill in shoe store window. Freeport talent to face Rockford in whist. practice underway. Knorr & Hildreth repelled two confidence men in Chicago trip. Epworth Guards social at Embury church with program notes. I O Franz sues city for $80 over flooded basement. jury inspection requested but objected.
In the lodge room Fred Gund Council Royal Arcanum elected officers for the year including Regent Ed Mensenkamp Vice regent Jas R Cowley and Treasurer John Bamberger Germania society also named officers President W H Wagner Vice President F J Kunz Recording secretary F P Ohden Financial secretary Philip Knecht Treasurer H H Schulte Librarian Martin Anslinger and Trustees Henry Lichtenberger Wilhelm Arndt Philip Jo. A coal shaft collapse at Chapin Wood and Company coal wharf in Boston buried seven men.
The official canvass completed in Pierre shows Populists winning the governor, attorney general, and railroad commissioner while Republicans take the remaining offices. Electors: Bryan 41,225. McKinley 41,042.
Free sample offer from H. E. Bucklen & Co. Chicago for Dr King’s New Discovery and New Life Pills. Send name and address to receive a trial bottle free plus a health guide. Emmert and Burrell’s drug store guarantees the products will do you good at no cost.
Prominent Republicans from Freeport and the Ninth district gather in Chicago at the Great Northern to back Hitt for senator and to audit campaign totals. Aspinwall and Fisher supporters clash over pledged votes as speakers and aspirants convene for a potential leadership battle in the senate and speakership.
A grand gymnastic exhibition and dance by the Turners of Germania society opens this evening at Germania Opera House. Program includes horse exercises, parallel bars, cornet solo, callisthenics, pole climbing, pyramids, and dancing. Also reports a humorous Chicago fare-evasion anecdote and notes on an Antwerp ring cut from a single diamond.
Free sample of Dr. King's New Life pills offered by H EB Bucklen & Co Chicago. Claims easy action and effectiveness for constipation sick headache malaria and liver troubles. Pills are vegetable and non deleterious. Regular size 25c per box sold by Emmett Burrell druggists and piano teacher Harriet M Burbank at Studio 149 West Street.
Frank Krayenborg of Ridott township, twenty three, fed a corn shredder near Legal and was pulled in by cylinder teeth. His arm was amputated at the elbow by Drs Voigt and Sheetz after a thirteen mile trip to Freeport. He remains in hospital. corn shredders have caused many injuries in the region.
This brief compendium notes odd facts from history and science. Elephants prefer gin to champagne, Canterbury Cathedral will mark a thirteenth centenary next year, and London hotels supply telephones in every room. Newsboys on bicycles debut as a London newspaper venture, while poultry farms praise granulated bone and steamed hay for eggs. SunSower cake appears a valuable cattle supplement, and American ebony weighs 838.18 pounds per cubic foot. A meteorite in Australia carried pure copper embedded within. A recent English dictionary devotes 1716 columns to devil meanings. The Alpine Club on Mount Rosa claims Europe’s tallest inhabited building at 12 000 feet. Quoits traces to ancient Greece and Olympic games. Ladies’ bikes in England now feature bags for mirrors, powders, and perfumes. Dr Lawson Tait devises an instrument to halt bleeding by electric current. US patent applicants must file oaths and affidavits via a US minister or consul. South Australia signs butter carriage deals with Orient and P&O for two years at 8 farthings per pound.
A C Thomas offers hair work in all branches including custom doll wigs made to order at 255 Galena Bt. The advertisement promotes personalized wig craftsmanship and ready service for customers seeking styled hair pieces.
Advertisement lists three unfurnished rooms and one furnished room for rent at No 9 Carpenter Street. The notice appears in a late 19th or early 20th century style classifieds section with a brief property offer and timing note of 12-17 days.
Full one ounce bottle of quadruple extract perfume offered at 25c with bottle, smoking sets 25c to 1.00, dolls deeply discounted from 6c to 79c, holiday handkerchiefs in an extensive range, including children women and men styles, all at ultra low prices to deliver best value.
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