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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1873
Page
3
Meav Markete-Rhodes & Brother offer high quality steaks roasts chops fresh fish and game in season and run the best market in the city. Boots and shoes bargains at Staver Snyder's Sign of the Big Boot features new and stylish imports.
J D Diffenbaugh offers an octavo edition of 20 000 Leagues Under the Seas translated from Jules Verne with 110 full page illustrations. The book is praised as extraordinary and engaging with strong notes of adventure and science. Sold by Gro M Surin & Co at 11 Bromfield St Boston Mass.
M S O'Brien at Stephenson street lists one hundred sixty acre and eighty four acre farms with a spring on site, offered at thirty five dollars per acre, sale as a unit or separately, near Shannon Freeport Florence station Eleroy Baileyville. inquiry to J M Goodhue executor. The piece also critiques local manufacturing investment and praises A G Herrick.
A rural notice reports on a cottage for rent near the Court House, local debates over beer licensing with one saloon closed and another indicted, and concerns that German patrons may avoid town. It also mentions County Superintendent J. F. Kleckner as a prospective Republican nominee, busy harvests with black rust on grain, and calls for improved agricultural chemistry understanding. Broad's Hook Store offers good writing paper at 10 cents.
From Batleyville a harvest note says most farmers will be through soon with stacked grain and yields exceed the average. Baileyville sees fierce beer debates and near impossible neutrality. Frank Miller and C G Bodman open a large stock in Philbrick's old stand with new counters and refreshed interiors, promising success. Louisville Medical College offers Beneficiary Scholarships of 200 each to one student per Senatorial District and per Congressional District, with application through Dean B S Gaillard, beginning September.
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