09 Nov 1886
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1886
Page
1
Winter Apples headquarters buy direct from growers selling now from 1.75 to 225 per bushel and all three bushel bags. Wandies Gool Mixed Candy Loose Gum Drops fine handmade Cream Bon Bons two cents each. The Flour Good Roller Flour 85 ventery back. Don’t forget the numbers 67 and 64 Stephens Street.
President Cleveland arrives in Boston for Harvard University ceremonies marking its anniversary. The event features a reception with Mrs. Cleveland, a grand Harvard procession, and honorary degrees awarded to governors, professors, and notable scholars amid speeches by James Russell Lowell and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The excerpt describes a Harvard speech by President Cleveland, praising public duty and the bond between citizens and leaders. It covers reception logistics, praise for education, and calls for active citizenship, followed by a Boston to New York celebration with crowds, a gun salute, and a torchlight procession ending in fireworks at Cambridge or a related site.
Reports describe clashes as non union workers face intimidation at the stock yards. Deputies and militia patrol the area while packers push to recruit non union workers. A worker was allegedly assaulted, with authorities arresting some participants as violence spread toward the town hall.
Reports from Indiana say pleuro disease has struck Clinton County with 2000 cattle ill in Taupo county, leading to cattle drives and possible slaughter. Separately a Thames crew race delivers a decisive win for Tau and Buller crows, while Donovan recounts injuries from a suspension-bridge fall and doctors fear pneumonia risk. Other items note Brooklyn honors Henry Ward Hopeland with a city reception and Ohio legislative timing, plus boxing in Kentucky.
In Indianapolis Judge Woods orders county clerk to bring all ballots and tally sheets to the state capital. Democratic and Republican forces clash over Meagher and Meagher County clerk’s handling. affidavits edge both sides as Meagher’s seat and justice of the peace become focal points. The senator’s race grows more tangled with Meagher near center and both parties mobilizing in the next legislature.
A Progres club is formed in New York with a goal to abolish poverty in poor districts. George H. George forecasts broad political change and attacks editorial backs. The piece notes concurrent Democratic signals in New York and a looming constitutional convention debate.
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