14 Nov 1896
Page 1
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1896
Page
1
A price list shows granulated sugar by 21 pounds and bulk coffee by pound with Lion or XXXX brands, plus bulk starch by pound and by package. Also listed are baking soda or saleratus per package, best oatmeal per pound, yeast cakes, best rice, beans or peas per quart, lard per pound, picnic hams or breakfast bacon per pound, corn meal per sack, buckwheat per sack, graham per sack, table syrup per gallon, jelly in 16 pound pail, and mince meat per package.
J A Luebbing at South Galena Ave and Jackson St Illinois filed a street intersection inquiry or notice with local authorities.
Thursday evening program at Germania Opera House Freeport features Col. Ingersoll praised by Henry Ward Beecher. General admission and reserved seats priced at 11 12 and 76 cents, plus one dollar.
A brief listing of assorted cakes and bread varieties including fruit cake jelly cake eponge cake cocoanut cake and ginger bread. The fragment notes various baked goods without additional details.
Edward Ivory alias Edward Bell, a New York saloonkeeper and alleged dynamiter, faced sensational testimony at Bow Street as government detective Jones described secret Irish circles in America. Jones testified about Clan na Gael links, Chicago convention ties, and camp instructions, with Ivory shown highly agitated but held for trial.
In New York Irish National Alliance figures react to a London livery case informer production. Thomas M. Jones once connected with Shamrock club and Amnesty leadership is identified as a New York figure tied to the United Irish and Nally clubs. Officials flag his outspoken anti British work and alleged access to secrets.
Ex representativ Forman of Illinois, a Democrat once touted as governor candidate, arrived in Washington and was formally offered the internal revenue commissioner post. He seeks time to decide, with some advisers urging him to decline though he leans toward acceptance. In other items the National Silver party plans permanent HQs in Washington and Chicago, and a Lind recount drive in Minnesota cites fraud and miscounted ballots for both major slates.
The witness Jones described last year’s Chicago convention and what was learned. He claimed election as treasurer of the Nally club whose meetings were highly secret and where district orders were burned after reading. Initiation assigned members a number and part of subscriptions funded a revolution.
The article recounts Mr. Monroe Peterson of Johnson City Il, crippled by a fall in 1861 leading to sciatic rheumatism that shrank his leg and caused tremors like St Vitus dance. After exhausting medical trials and a State Board pension denial, he reports relief from taking Dr Williams Pink Pills, allowing him to write again and tend to farm chores.
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