26 Oct 1887
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1887
Page
1
We are now receiving our full stock of cook and heating stoves, furnaces and steam boilers with the best and most complete selection ever shown to the public.
The advertisement proclaims three thousand barrels of Michigan and New York apples, fresh Baltimore oysters, celery, candies, nuts, dried California fruits, coffee, teas, sugars, and a wide array of goods. It touts the largest stock in the state and insists on low prices with best clerks ready to serve. It also notes two carloads of California canned goods and positions the store as a Chicago-area competitor.
In Haddam Connecticut the lovers Theodora Rand and Charles Dibble quarreled aboard a boat on the Connecticut river after a chase for Misa Harris. Rand struck Dibble with a boat hook, Dibble fell, Rand beat him with the hook handle, companions intervened. Families of high respectability, Harris included, face public scandal as both suitors vow to settle the matter later.
An attempt to burn thirty Italians housed above a store in Paris township Kent County was thwarted when a guard awoke and alerted others. The attackers entered a vacant loft, set a fire, and fled as inmates escaped with little clothing. A related report covers train wrecking near Ledbetter Texas and a man killed, suspected robbery.
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