24 Nov 1888
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1888
Page
1
The Freeport Daily Journal notes Connecticut’s vote totals with Cleveland leading Barrrigan by 836 and the GOP delegation majority. It recalls a Rock Grove celebration for Democratic demise, a bonfire and funeral sermons despite expected political shifts.
A Georgia political episode unfolds on a train to Atlanta where a Northern observer recounts Georgia Democrats circling Governor Colquit’s renomination, the two thirds rule, and a convention that ends without a nominee. Also described are a critique of the vanished Republican party, a Garfield election joke, and a market egg counterfeit scare alongside domestic life notes and health tips.
The newly elected fifty first Congress will convene the regular session on the first Monday in December 188. A rush to reconvene after March is debated as Republicans hold a majority. Democrats threaten to withhold certificates to disrupt the party, while leaders insist a civil approach will prevail. Calls arise for an extra session to admit Dakota and address treasury funds and revenue reduction.
The prospectus lists prominent writers including W E Gladstone General Lord Wolseley Tyndall McCarthy Farrar and Tuxley among others with American names such as Lieut Schwatkit Andrew Carnegie Dr Austin Flint and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr The Companion reaches over 460 000 families and offers a free weekly subscription through January 1 1889 for new subscribers
An exchange notes artificial eggs were sold as real in the Pittsburg market and offered to the public. A woman visited the Board of Health on Seventh Street to report or seek assistance.
A 19th century treatise argues punishment should vindicate individual rights rather than solely deter crime. It compares criminal and civil justice, questions capital punishment, and calls for remedying victims through civil measures to restore injured rights, while lamenting gaps in just outcomes. The piece also discusses social issues like labor and service rates shaping justice.
How can parents lower their children to laugh and cough and claim it is only a cough while keeping cheap dangerous measles until lung fever or consumption strikes. BEGGS CLER RY GCOUGIL SYRUPY is claimed superior by Emmert & Burrell Druggist. Notice dissolving Fox Lion livery firm in Freeport. J. M. Fox directs future operation at Spring Street. November 17, 188?
Local readers offered a dubious cure for ailments with Kenny's balsam, claimed to guarantee cures. The ad promises quick relief from symptoms like hoarseness and headaches, with free trial and low prices on hats and bonnets from Mrs M k Hordner.
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