Regular Meeting Minutes of Freeport City Council 1881
Regular meeting notes from March 7 1881 in Freeport Illinois show attendance Alder men Dorman Zartman Taylor Waddell Porter Mayor absent. Matters include license transfer approval for Rot Spranger to brick building on Galena Street, financial reports, bills and payrolls, and a water works ordinance with a special committee appointed to study.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagner
Dorman
Zartman
Taylor
Waddell
Porter
Rot & Spranger
Galena Street
City of Freeport
Illinois
Ald
Geo. W. Oyler
Special Meeting of Freeport Council March 8 1881
City council met at mayor's call to consider water works system. Aldermen Dorman Zartman Waddell Porter Wagner present. Porter moved 7 percent warrants Nos 17776 to 18002 be called in and interest cease after March 20 1881. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned to March 9 1881 at 7 30 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Gartman
B. R. Sheridan
Seimioy Siefert
Jas. Mannion
Jas. Edwards
GB. Huenkemeyer
B. Brinkman
FE. Jose
W. C. Clark
J.T. Isbell
James I. Neff
Neff
Ald
Dorman
Freeport
J. Pattison
J. Krolm
Porter
Ald. Porter
Porter, Zartman and Taylor
R. S. Crain
O. I. Heard
Louis Stoskopf
H. H. Mynard
David Weary
Horace Meigs
Michael Stoskopf
Taylor
Geo. ‘Ruston
Bridge Street
Evesday
Zartman
Waddell
Wagner
No’s
Ald. Wagner
Adjourned Meeting Adopts Freeport Water Works Ordinance
City council met by adjournment from March 8 1881 with Mayor presiding. The water works ordinance for Freeport was reported favorably by the committee and adopted after roll call Aldermen Dorman Taylor Waddell Porter Wagner voted aye Zartman nay. The council adjourned on motion by Alderman Taylor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J.R. Wagner
P. M
Ald. Dorman
Mrexiina
Dorman
Zartmian
Taylor
Waddell
Porter
Wagner
Freeport
Ald
Dorinten
Zartman
Freeport Water Works Ordinance Discussed March 22 1881
Special Minerrya Tuesday Eve March 22 1881 council met to receive an ordinance on water works water main distribution and to appoint a hydrant locating committee with Aldermen Dorman Taylor Waddell Porter Wagner present. The chair was Wagner. A committee of one alderman and one citizen from each ward plus the mayor was formed to locate hydrants along the water mains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wagner
Dorman
Taylor
Waddell
Porter
City of
Freeport
Freeport Aldermen Adopt Water Works Pipe Ordinance
Special meeting of Freeport aldermen chaired by Alderman Wagner adopts the ordinance regulating pipe distribution for the city water works. Mayor absent. Taylor, Waddell, Porter, and Dorman present. Council adjourns after adoption.
Spoopendyke Dog Visit Sparks Comic Discord
In Brooklyn, Mr. Spoopendyke parades a large shaggy dog into his wife’s room. She fears danger while he jests about hydrophobia and dogs’ nature, then the dog’s appetite and a pie escape trigger a chaotic chase ending with the dog fleeing and the husband fleeing after his trousers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Spoopendyke
Spoopendyke
Beado Pound
Saint Bernard
Brooklyn Hagle
Jones Praises Beef at Boarding House No Appeal to Landlady
Jones comments on the beef served at his boarding house and notes it is not in harmony with his landlady, implying a humorous or strained relation as part of daily life.
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Jones
Northwestern Convention Call for Transport Reform 1881
A call from the Mindrs and Mississippi River and Canal Improvement Commission urges a Northwestern Convention at Davenport on May 25 1881 to press Congress for water route expansion from the Mississippi through the Great Lakes to New York. Delegates include state appointees boards of trade cities Farmers Alliances with officials from Geneseo Davenport Rock Island Moline Muscatine and others.
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Great Northwest
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic Seaboard
Cains
Lakes
Ocean
Congress
Northwest
Rock Island
Minds
Mississippi River and Canal Improvement Commission
Mississippi
Illinois
Clinois and Michigan
Hennepin
Clinois River
Mississippi River
Chicago
la Salle
New York
Atlantic Ocean
Burtis “Opera _ House
Davenport
Board of Trade
Farmers’ Alliance
Farmers’ Club
J. M. Allan
Geneseo
Ill
Ep. Russell
Iowa
Sec’y
T. J. Robinson
Treas
J.S. Camp
Dixon
Til
Charles H. Deere
Moline
John Mann
Muscatine
Press Opinions on Flippant Breaks Between Friends of Conkling and Administration
Albany press frets over casual talk of a break between Senator Conkling’s friends and the Administration. Democratic jabs at General Mahone spark renewed anger among opponents. Syracuse Journal notes Platt may oppose Robertson after Robertson aided anti Stalwarts. Hampton’s recent campaign actions are scrutinized as he regroups after past defenses of his own conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senator Conkling
Albany
Platt
Robertson
Syracuse Journal
Mahone
Wade Hampton
Senate
Hampton
Lee
Jackson
New York Tribune
The Policeman Weekly Debuts in London
A new London weekly titled The Policeman will circulate widely among the city’s pretty servants, signaling a fresh addition to the press scene and potential appeal to domestic readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Mean of Her matinee sparks fashion bonnet ire
Young Mrs. Guffey storms at a matinee chorus trashes a stuck-up Mrs. Diffenderfer for a bonnet, declaring she will never attend another show. The exchange captures neighborhood snobbery and theatrical talk.
The City of Mexico a Coming Resort
The 1883 fashion trend favors a trip to Mexico City with its marble halls and Montezuma palace. Writers praise the Mexican capital as beautiful and delightful, likely to become a year round resort for Americans with a travel time under forty eight hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
City
Curiosities of New Mexico Exhibit Noted in Santa Fe Store
Albert Call jewelry shop on San Francisco street displays a round sandstone weighing about 850 pounds believed to be a water-formed mass. Also shown is an alabaster specimen from eighty miles away and a large white stone from a natural tunnel or culvert within thirty miles of Santa Fe. The tunnel, about six feet in diameter, is coated with stone on all sides, with a hollow sound heard when walking above it. A petrified cactus, eight inches by five, is also exhibited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Albert Call
San Francisco Street
Gailsteo
Old Advice on Health and Spring Blossom Trial Bottles
Readers are urged to seek preventive care and relief for indigestion and head troubles. The ad promotes Spring Blossom Pride with trial bottles for 10 and 50 cents, presenting the product as a remedy for common ailments and a means to maintain youth through wise aging.
Carter's Little Liver Pills Claim Relief for Various Ailments
Advert shows Carter's Little Liver Pills promising relief from sick headache drowsiness nausea dizziness side pain and more. It attributes complaints to a torpid liver and constipated bowels and asserts pills restore function. One pill per dose forty in a vial priced 25 cents sold by Emmert & Burrell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carters
Carter's
Emmert & Burrell
The Right Sort of General in Clinton Sr Buffalo
Jacob Smith of Clinton Street in Buffalo says Spring Blossom serves as a general medicine for indigestion biliousness bowel and kidney complaints and blood impurity disorders. He reports high efficacy. Price is 50 cents with trial bottles at 10 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Smith
Clinton Sr
Buffalo
Grateful Women Praise Hop Bitters Remedy
The Courant notes how women gain benefit from Hop Bitters, claiming it addresses chills and fever, indigestion, liver issues, periodic sickness, headaches, back and kidney pain, and fatigue with despondency, praising its effects and recommendations.
Illinois Central Time Card Trains Going West and East
Chicago to Milwaukee and Westbound timetable lists arrivals and departures for Freeport Racine Milwaukee and other points. Freight and live stock trains identified with times and notes on days and connections. Agent J A Carron notes schedule details and connections at Beloit for Janesville and Lanark Junction limits.
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Freeport
Racine
Arc
Sena
Beloit
Janesville
Lanark Junction
J. A. Carron
Ag.t
Frei
la Salle
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago
Stogport
Milwaukee
Belvidere
Miwan
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Yortei
St Council
Treasury
Ald. Waddell
Wayven
J. D. Wareham
Thos. J. Bowers
J. W. Koch
Frank Taggart
Hil
Arno
Took and Ladder Co
Miller
Bergman & Dorman
John Moritz
John Grossman
John Wogan
Brandt
W. Barry
John Kohler
Vreeport Telephone Exchange
Simon Einstine
Elmer Ernstine
Julius Sigges
G. Wuenkemeyer
J.B. Kenepy
C. Flachtemeyer
Gurchard & Scott
Seth Mann & Co
Freeport Gas Light Co
Herold & Steffen
Michael Herold
Elizabeth McKim
Lax
J. i. Wagner
P.M
D.C
C.J. Fry
M. Hettinger
W. G. Barnes
Jas.s. Drake
Ald Taylor
Meerina
Corneil
7 Co
Prédent
Ald Wagner
Cuatoter
Sallie
Galveston
George S. Seney
Metropolitan Bank
Brookyn
Methodist Episcopal Church
Switzerland
Alpine Club of
Italy
Germany
Austria
England
France
United States
Rhode Island
Cam
Warnock
Syracuse
Boston Post
California
Eall de V
Whitehall
General Mahone
Norristown Herald
R. H. Holder
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y
Phosphat
St. John
N.B
William Bayard
Epwin Bayard
Twalker
Joan Beriyman
Johnson
Lurgs
Wire
George Keater
T.W Carrot
Wharping
Aaron Alward
Brunswick
Cushing
Thomas & Coe
Dearborn Street
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