14 May 1857
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1857
Page
1
The Daily Journal announces a new volume and credits loyal readers and substantial friends for earlier losses. It notes a current surplus from dairy and job-room profits, pledges rapid remedy of shortcomings, and outlines plans to expand the paper’s size and content with growing income and advertising.
On a New York railway car a Black woman named Dinah clashes with conductor over fare and baggage rules. Dinah insists on paying five cents a foot for freight, magnetizing passengers with humor and a sharp, improvisational wit as the conductor struggles to collect a ten cent total and redirect her to the baggage car.
The article explains a postage treaty with France allowing letters to be sent by any steamship prepaid or at a rate of fifteen cents per quarter ounce. It notes that since standard letters commonly weigh more than a quarter ounce, placing an American quarter on the scale with a letter will show if the weight exceeds a quarter ounce, aligning with post office rules.
Fragmentary late news items describe a steamboat collision near piers on the Mississippi with the Belle in sinking condition and a report from Chicago on steam fire engines being considered. The column also presents an extended fiction installment about love, confession, and moral drift framed within a dated social narrative.
An itemized line lists items from Potash and acids to Mercurives pills and perfumes, alongside Bohemian glass bottles, nursing bottles, travel flasks, dressing cases, window glass, glassware, kitchenware, dental tools, forceps, tourniquets, and assorted glass and putty supplies, reflecting a broad 19th century catalog.
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