Real Estate Transfers Show March Boom and Higher Prices
Real estate activity was strong in March with rapidly rising prices and demand for farm loans. Notable transfers include McKee to Willie for 800 dollars and others in Waddams, Ridott, Freeport, and surrounding towns. Abstracts furnished. deeds mortgages and wills properly drawn. loans negotiated by Taylor & Son.
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Land Office
A McKee
J M Willie
Waddell
Freeport
Adam
Young
G W Heckman
Waddams
Collmann
Charles Keeler
Silver Creek
Dirk Roos
Henry Roth
Ridott
Henry Ricksmeier
Conrad Koeller
Jefferson
Carey Noble
Carlos Wells
Rock Grove
Luke Hammond
J F
C M Turner
Samuel Bowers
Benj Shultz
JJ Hewitt
Margaret Hall
GC Mayer
F W Butterfield
Davis
J P Reiger
Fred Hofmeister
Lancaster
Jere Snively
Samuel Kohler
L A Babcock
Florence
Joseph Rice
Zipse
West Point
Winslow
Ebenezer Stevens
F A Howard
Wm Grigsly
Finkenbinder
Loran
Geo Shoesmith
Wm Hayward
Martin Riess
Kent
Charles Wright
W Kochsmeier
Herman Richter
Dirk Fuls
C H Shriner
P W Rockey
Block
Wm Sherman
Joseph Rader
Ephraim - Bonner
Poppo
Janssen
AG Rees
J E Aspinwall
Elf
Erin
Taylor & Son
Lippincott's Magazine April contents preview
Lippincott's Magazine for April offers a varied, light, and voracious mix. Highlights include A Trip at the North of Ireland by W George Beers and Characteristic Dance of the World by Amelia E Barr, plus a first illustrated Zoological Curiosities piece on Mountain Sheep by Felix L Oswald.
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Lippincott
Ireland
W. George Beers
Amelia E. Barr
Felix L. Oswald
California
Louis
Ah Sin
John Henry
Sydney Chase
Maurice Thompson
Howard Glyndon
Charlotte Bates
Carlyle
George Eliot Featured in Helectic April Number
Eclectic Magazine announces an April George Eliot number with key pieces on her life and influence. Includes George Eliot A Personal Sketch from Blackwood's Magazine, George Eliot A Critical Study by Leslie Stephen, and George Eliot Her Moral Influence by a Close Associate.
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George Eliot
England
Gorge Eliot
Blackwood
Blackwood House
Leslie Stephen
Freeport Water Mains Ordinance Plan Map and Dist Count
An 1881 Freeport ordinance adopts a city water distribution plan filed March 22 1881. It specifies pipe sizes from 6 to 16 inches along Foley West Locust Scott Adams Stephenson Galena Jackson Pleasant Broadway and related streets with centerline placement and minimum five foot cover. The document bears March 9 1881 approval and signatures of Mayor W C Clark and city clerk.
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City of
Freeport
Foley Street
West Street
Clay Street
Pleasant Street
Locust Street
Stephenson Street
Scott Street
Jackson Street
Broadway
Adams Street
Clark Ave
Ottawa Street
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Galena Street
Galena Avenue
Chicago Street
Clark Avenue
Pecatonica River
Taylor Avenue
Jenderson Street
Henderson Street
Smith Street
Ilinois Central Railway Company
Walnut Street
Weat Street
Prospect Street
Float Street
Illustrated Scientific News description and contents
The Illustrated Scientific News from Munn & Co New York features 32 pages of engravings on science and arts, with sections on paper hangings ball throwing curves in baseball Capt Eads ship railway and hydraulic locomotive, plus artisan and household recipes. Yearly subscription is $1.50 and copies are sold by news dealers.
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Illustrated Scientific News
Munn & Co
New York
Eads
Isthmus
Park Row
Announcement of the Chicago Weekly News
The Prairie Farmer notes a bold statement about the Chicago Weekly News, describing it as a peculiar publication offered at seventy five cents annually and reliable to perform as it promises in all respects.
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Chicago Weekly News
The
Prairie Farmer
Grateful Women Endorse Hop Bitters
The Courant notes that grateful women praise Hop Bitters for many ailments common to the sex including chills fever indigestion liver trouble headaches back and kidney pain and a feeling of despondency. the remedy is described as uniquely suited to women and highly beneficial.
The Atlantic Monthly April 1881 contents list
A contents page overview listing articles and authors such as Henry James Jr on dead love, John Fiske on Aryan words, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, William M Rossetti, Louise Chandler Moulton, and Ella Wheeler. Also mentions The Filmore Administration, Johnson's Garrison biographies, Two German Novels, The Contributors' Club and Books of the Month.
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Atlantic Monthly
Henry James, Jr
Rose
Terry Cooke
John Fiske
Circe
Cameron Mann
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Voltaire
James Parton
William M. Rossetti
Louise Chandler Moulton
the New Sunday
Julius J. Ward
Frances M. Brown
Washington
Filmore
Ella Wheeler
Richard Grant White
Johnson
Contributors’ Club
Notable Mortgages and Pledges Works Published by Loughton Mifflin
Notice from Loughton Mifflin & Co announces immediate publication of two legal works by Leonard Jones A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages of Personal Property and A Treatise on Pledges including Collateral Securities The American Law Review praises the Mortgages work calling it sound practical and valuable with clear principles and significant new material noted for careful judgment and discrimination among cases.
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Messrs Loughton, Mifflin & Co
Leonard Jones
American Law Review
Atlantic April issue features engaging contents and notable pieces
The April Atlantic showcases Mr James's entertaining story The Portrait of Lady grows more intriguing, Miss Phelps' serial maintains its January momentum, and Mr John Fisbie writes a smooth article on our Organ ancestors. The magazine meets the year's promised standard of excellence.
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Chas
J. Peterson
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Atlantic
James
The April St Nicholas Delights With Verse And Frontispiece
The April issue of St Nicholas showcases engaging stories and poems from start to finish. A standout is the illustrated frontispiece The Session on the Sampler, which marks the issue’s decorative highlight.
The April Nursery Delights Young Readers
The April Nursery adapts to all young children with pretty pictures and engaging stories and poems. A five year old girl finds the visuals a constant delight and many pieces are enjoyed repeatedly, making it a favorite juvenile magazine among readers.
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ashigHttsa
Sympathy for Mothers of Sleepers by Christian Union
Poetic lament urging mothers to endure grief as the silent toll of death claims children. The verses speak of pillow dampness, pitiless night, and the somber winged angel, calling for prayers for grieving mothers and the resting little heads.
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Christian Union
An Essay at Stephenson County Grange Meeting
Emily C. Woodruff of Ridott reads a reflective essay on individual destiny and the duty to use one talent, noting that no man lives to himself and urging self improvement. The piece, dated March 15, 1881, contemplates how hints shape life and cautions against quick judgments of others.
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Stephenson County Grange
Emily C. Woodruff
Ridott
Carter’s Little Nerve Pills Ad Claims Quick Relief
Advertisement urges trying Carter’s Little Nerve Pills for nervousness sleeplessness weak stomach indigestion dyspepsia and more. Promises relief and touts value as the only nerve medicine for the price in the market. Sold in ten vials at 23 cents by Emmert and Burrell.
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Carter
Emmert & Burrell
A Bad Lot Salt Rheum Ad Ends In Mockery
An old advertisement teases a product for salt rheum with a punchy joke about Lot and his wife. It promotes Spring Blossom as a remedy, noting a price of 50 cents and trial bottles at 10 cents in a coarse, period tone.
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Lot
Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil Claims Instant Relief
A Caledonia Minnesota reader reports excruciating inflammatory rheumatism and says a single use of Dr Thomas Eclectic Oil gave almost instant relief while two fifty cent bottles produced a permanent cure, signed O K Comstock.
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Dr. Thomas
O. KE. Comstock
Caledonia Minn
Germans Return Loot to Aid Hospital Fund in Samoa
Two Itu o tane natives from Sawwaii Samoa attacked a German sailing ship but were repulsed with no loss. Berlin demanded 2500 as punishment, which was reluctantly paid. Germany now remits the sum to Abia's hospital fund, the islands' chief settlement.
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Itu-o-tane
Sawwaii
Leentoes
Abia
Men Who Recklessly Run In Debt Often Favor Eau de V
A quip notes that men who incur heavy debts tend to prefer Eau de V as a fashionable remedy. The remark suggests a satirical view of financial imprudence and vanity in society.
Wealth and calamity forecasts in late nineteenth century prose
An article compares national wealth and per capita income, highlighting the United States near the top of capital value and growth, then shifts to a sensational prediction by Prof Grimmer of Cambridge Mant claiming dire Earth events from 1882 to 1887 due to planetary perihelion alignments, detailing disasters, disease, and environmental upheavals.
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United States
United Kingdom
Great Britain
France
British
Germany
Scandinavia
Russia
Europe
Italy
Spain
Republic
Grimmer
Cambridge
Mant
Asia
Mars
Saturn
Marseilles
Jupiter
Uranus
Neptune
Earth
Carlyle Buried Where Dickens Fought for Westminster
The text notes that Carlyle, unlike Dickens, secured his preferred burial place. Dickens had written wishes for a quiet Kent church-yard, but clerical influence persuaded his family to bury him in Westminster Abbey, and that choice prevailed.
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Carlyle
Dickens
Kent
Westminster Abbey
Jail haunt used by Mexican bandit to enforce discipline
A jail in San Jose, California uses a feared guest of a Mexican bandit to terrify inmates. A young man sentenced to the chain gang refused street work and was placed in the cell, but after one night there he agreed to work as ordered.
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San Jose
Wal
Massachusetts legislator proposes repeal of atheist witness credibility rule
Mr Higginson of Cambridge Mass introduces a bill in the Massachusetts legislature to abolish the law that atheism in a witness in court may affect his credibility. He frames the measure as redress of grievances and argues atheists face a great injustice under the current rule.
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Higginson
Cambri
Mass
Massachusetts
Monuments Erected in Berlin Prompt German Commemoration
The history of Germany and its literature is being carved in stone as Beeb Louise and Gethe statues rise in Berlin last year. A committee plans a monument to Lessing and appeals to Germans abroad for subscriptions to support the cause.
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Germany
Beeb Louise
Gethe
Berlin
Lessing
Engine 411 on the Philadelphia and Reading road
The locomotive is described as the most poverty locomotive in the world. It features an oiler 58 inches in diameter with 184 two inch tubes, 10 feet 2 inches long, and a grate area of 76 square feet. Cylinders measure 21 inches in diameter and 22 inches stroke, with 68 inch driving wheels and 64,250 pounds on driving wheels.
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Philadelpha and
Reading Road
Burglary at Corpus Christi Ends with Fatal Shot
A burglar entered a Corpus Christi residence and stole a trunk believed to hold money. He carried it a mile away, opened it, found nothing of value, returned in anger demanding payment or life, and was shot by the resident. The incident ends with the assailant receiving a bullet.
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Mises
Corpus Christi
Earth Like A Blackboard Explained By Prolific Children
A proverb notes the earth resembles a blackboard as humanity multiplies across its surface. It uses playful imagery to comment on population growth affecting the planet.
Illinois Central and Chicago Northwestern Time Cards Rail Schedule
Rail timetable page lists Illinois Central and Chicago & Northwestern times for westbound and eastbound trains. Freeport to Chicago and Milwaukee connections shown with departure and arrival hours, day passes, freight and night options. J. A. Cotton, agt, notes St Paul Railway east and west schedules with be loit and Lanark details.
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Chicago & Northwestern
Niga
Freeport
Chicago
B. Odam
Ean
Milwaukee
Belvidere
Milwauee
Racine
Fea
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Eclectic Magazine
Messrs. Hayden and Miller
L. C. Whiton
G. ¥. Barnes
Mooley
Miss Whitney
New’ England
Hansell
W. J. Chase
Mite Society
Sagetown
M. L. Evans
Kate Tannatt -Wood
Mother Hubbard
Rocky Fork
Honor Bright
Polly Cologne
Walter Shirlaw
G. B. Bartlett
Elson
Edward Everett Hale
D. Lothrop & Co. Publishers
Boston
Germantown
Illinois Central
Chi
Milwaukee & Trains
Older
St. Paul R’y. East
Sun
Freigh
la Balle
Gale
St. John
N.B
William Bayard
Enwin Bayarn
Walker
Joan Berry Inan
Dr. Johnson
Lags
J.D. Wire
GeoRge Keater
T. W. Carnot
W H Harding
Aaron Alward
New Brunswick
Messrs
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