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Newspaper
Freeport Evening Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1866
Page
2
The Leader praises Gov Bross for a detailed speech endorsing the ship canal project, arguing it will win over skeptics and become essential for Upper Canada with substantial aid from western states. Telegrams report extreme cold across the East and West.
Special to Proeport Party Journal from Chicago Market details hog futures firm then easing near close with heavy trade, prices from 4.85 to 7.25 for heavy hogs, broad brisk packing and ship inquiry, flour market quiet, corn dull, hogs and cattle price ranges, dairy butter and eggs cited, general slow sales in livestock and provisions with mixed demand and varied prices.
Irregular text from a New York market page mentions money, bonds, coupons and percent figures in a garbled form. Key entities are unclear but hint at exchange activity and securities around 1920s style notation.
Market notes show mixed action with some brands trading lower while others hold. prices include ROD Gi at 106 00.19.25 and items at R213 for Ned Milwaukee. A closing tone near 1056 appears, with gains and losses in store listings and a decline of 1.10 in some lines.
Fragmented line cites Aten shade ceaser at Geebie for Chicane and Milwaukee, Whisky nominal, Pork opened lower at see 2074 for new, S19.12 19.50 for old. Elositus at 810.50 for regular and 17.87 17.75 for primes. Card lower at 1 fin 12a dressed hogs tirme with quick Mga lt.
Market notes from Louisville report uneven prices for red winter wheat and new corn, with scattered figures in the Cobaccoe area. The jagged text references silos, storage, and fluctuating costs, mentioning sugar, oats, and buyers in a fragmented OCR snippet.
New Orleans markets show mixed quotes for staples with sugar and molasses steady to mild. cotton steady as receipts rise. Gold and sterling rates cited. New York exchange notes per vend discount amid fluctuating market signals.
The item reports Thurlow Weed’s role in a Manhattan Democratic Club split and notes Ward’s final break from the Republican party. It surveys political opinions on self-change, sincerity in prayer, Lincoln era anecdotes, and assorted 1860s news including a Nebraska water name dispute, peanut crop outlook at Wilmington, a London library sale, Queen Victoria’s health, Botta the wife murderer, Mary Nugent’s recovery, Mayne Reid’s bankruptcy, Senator Patterson lectures, Washington prayer meetings, and a frozen Mississippi River at Hennepin.
A Quaker woman preacher notes three wonders about human folly war and romance. On a Wythe County Virginia farm a zinc oxide ore mine is newly found with estimates of extensive ore from a Northern geologist and Mgr Graham. Madison Journal reports many 100 day service certificates remain at the Adjutant General's office awaiting orders for the former soldiers.
The fragmentary text lists names and titles in a strangers directory style. It references lodge numbers such as Winneshel Lodge No 90 and Freeport Lodge No 2 with weekly meeting times and officer roles, including M Oettinger N Vids O G Dennerlineg and other listed officers, set against a Freeport area context.
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