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Newspaper
Freeport Evening Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1866
Page
4
The December 22 1866 issue outlines subscription offers for the Daily Journal delivered to homes or businesses, calls for regional correspondence on politics and events, and notes scheduling changes including a no-paper day before Christmas. It reports on prison conditions, local meetings, and city commerce plus weather and shipping notes.
A long promotional notice details agents offering Hinkle and Lyon Sewing Machine Company machines at steep subscriber deals. Promotes $5 or $10 per subscriber incentives, freight terms, and special pricing up to $80 for a sixty dollar machine with various installment options. Also mentions building plans, street improvements, and a school closing program with remarks by teachers and visitors.
A fragmentary atlas of names and places shows arrivals and patrons at The Howard House. It lists numerous individuals and origins including Chicago Rockford Milwaukee Madison Dubuque and Geneva with dates around Friday and Saturday in a historical lodging or notice context.
A verbose nun chides a man as a mighty sinner claiming she personally keeps up discipline. The speech blends religious piety with secular bluntness, asserting daily rebuke and self-justification in a mock-archaic voice. The line satirically contrasts sanctimony with claimed personal authority.
A fragmented Freeport market listing shows mixed and unclear seeds hay and grain prices with garbled items like Itay Timoth yhay, Timothy hay, and various fodder names. Net details are unreadable but imply agricultural goods with fumbled pricing.
The corrected weekly notice lists White Rowell & Co Wisconsin and Michigan Lumber Yard back of the Brewster House Freeport Illinois. For sale the residence of J C Goodhue on Adam street apply to Oscar Taylor 40R-dtr.
Wholesale and Retail Liquor Store advertises a stock of whiskies wines cigars and medicinal spirits. Emphasizes quality selection and medical endorsements, inviting customers to compare stock and prices before Christmas purchases. Located on Chicago Street between Pasteha and Galena in Freeport.
Auction posted for parcels at the Court House site with terms of sale lower cash payment and two annual payments. Enquiries directed to Jacob Mayer via myor bank and 1st National Bank. Auctioneer Mayer to conduct sale on date shown in notice.
Mappy informs his numerous friends that he has obtained the most approved apparatus for preparing a safe agreeable anaesthetic in its purest form. He states it is daily used with success in the extraction of teeth.
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