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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1886
Page
4
The Freeport Daily Journal announces a new weekly feature the International Sunday School Lesson for the following Sunday. Explanatory notes are by the famed New York clergyman Dr John Tall D D LI D. Readers are expected to welcome the addition.
The city in brief records a string of casual notes from Freeport and nearby towns. Mentions include Rev N W Heermann's departure for Rockford, A A Hopkins appearing at the opera house, Miss McCoy visiting Mt Morris, and several travels of locals to Lincoln Omaha and Chicago. Also noted are a Picn ic at Crane's Grove a campaign about sower work and a Minoly Central excursion to Crookston Minnesota.
A Lena correspondent reports Straus selling confectionery stock to Binkley with move to Milwaukee. Millerville hosts a lively party group including Darve Knox and friends visiting from Chicago. Millerville’s crowd enjoys a pleasant time four miles south of town. West Point Bible Society meets at the church, and an eastern traveler recounts a Colorado mining scam tale with a Connecticut stock sale.
Engineers under Chief Randolph drive the first stake on the survey from here to Chicago with Kingston as a midway base. The plan aims for a direct air line, with construction to begin soon and a line to Madison and Freeport viewed as imminent, promising arrival of shops at Freeport and rapid progress before year end.
The joint teachers' institute at the High School building draws a large, intelligent audience of Indiana men and gentlemen. Lectures cover opening exercises, color perception, tone of objects, physiology, psychology, arithmetic, drawing, and pedagogy with noted speakers from Savanna Normal and local educators.
A note expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for eight months of kindness during a family illness. The message credits their efforts to relieve suffering of a beloved wife and mentions a pharmaceutical brand and a skeptical remark about Acker's Blood Maxip.
Coxe Bros Co Lehigh or Scranton White Ash Coal offered fresh mined for immediate delivery. Sizes include Small Egg Range Chestnut Coal. Cash payment required on order. Call to inspect coal before purchasing elsewhere. July led in.
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