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Newspaper
Freeport Evening Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1866
Page
3
Advertisements intended for the Daily Journal must be handed in by eleven o clock A.M. Small advertisements wants to rent etc must be submitted later than three P.M. Gold closed at 13th at New York with delook today. Cholera has entirely disappeared in dainiica.
Special to Freeport Daily Journal reports on the McKenney case at Dixon and the New York post office location at City Hall Park. News notes include salt supply, corn declines in New York, and the seizure of a large distillery corner of 16th Street. Emperor of Austria orders prosecutions across life war undone. The ship David Croucher arrived in Philadelphia. Three drowned in a Quebec ice field incident.
Reports say the Mexican Emperor resumes his crown backed by 35,000 troops as his party presses for withdrawal of French forces. Cholera ends its Jamaica outbreak.
Extracted telegraph items report Turks Island salt stock nearly depleted. Other items note Congress appointees to locate a new post office at City Hall Park lower end, a large 4600 gallon per day distillery seized by U S Commissioners, and Jamaica cholera absence reports. Marshall county arrest warrant for F McKinney, later taken into custody for murder and manslaughter, to appear before Heaton.
Chicago market update shows fresh butter at 25 percent margin, dressed chicks $2.00 per dozen, turkey and other poultry prices varied. Hogs steady to active with prices $4 to $6.74. Wheat demand weak with No 2 Spring around 92. Rejected corn and oats steady to lower. Overall market closes firm with mixed shipments and notable price shifts.
On Saturday Savanna saw a few light fingered gentlemen lingering in stores then entering Stoddard Gilbert where a ninety dollar value theft occurred after a man left a purse on the counter. Crouse on Mt Carroll Road reported a burglary with nine hundred dollars stolen from a trunk. Police efforts to catch the thieves have yet to succeed as residents quip about pocket searching and countyors.
A farmer Graves was shot after surrendering to four armed men near Lebanon Tennessee. They looted his trunk, seized $400, and fled. Other incidents include a Des Moines Iowa shooting over a domestic dispute, a fatal Eason injury, a New York city fire causing heavy losses, and a bizarre Zanesville currency piping tale involving a fainting lady and recovered stockings.
An advertisement from Mills & Co News Dealers at 117 Stephenson St Freeport advertises Gold Pens, albums, toy books for children, and letterpress stationery. It urges readers to visit the shop and compare prices, highlighting new styles and ready-to-ship items.
A late 19th century style notice announces bounty payments for soldiers, requests witnesses at the police, and warns of rapid bounty fund processing. It lists multiple surnames and references local merchants, with a separate ad promising cheap coke and a free remedy offer for nervous and urinary disorders.
A listing of periodicals and magazines including Mills Weekly Bulletin Chicago Tribune Chicago Republic New York Herald New York Weekly Literary Album Boston Pilot New York Ledger Mercury Flag of Our Union National Police Gazette and more. Also notes on standard novels on hand and any book procured to order.
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