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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1881
Page
7
A partial transcription describes a Monday morning scene with a fall, a family returning home on Saturday, a steam mill described as out of repair, and Casperi shipping out to Warren. The text is garbled with missing names and locations.
The Rock City column reports visitors from Pennsylvania Kansas and Freeport alighting from the C M and St P trains. Dr G W Snyder and J H Keagle returned after recent absences. A fresh grave marks the burial of Mr Gerhart Franzen a longtime local settler who died suddenly near the village.
The Ridott area details its origin as Nevada and Cochranville stations, names postmasters, and village leadership. It notes population about 850, key merchants, schools, church, and notable farms and farmers in Ridott Township. The Journal promises further local notices.
Loran in Jefferson County was laid out in 1854 by surveyor B Dornblazer for George Lashell. The village features a Methodist Episcopal and Evangelical presence with a nearby German Reform church, active Sunday Schools led by Robert Aurand and Daniel Spatz, and teachers like Miss Katie Connor. Local commerce includes postmaster George W Frey, the Best House hotel run by E L Best, and a range of trades from blacksmiths to builders. Notables relocating include Dr W F Knowl, noted physician, moving to Waterloo Iowa, while Ernst Baker opens a new residence and shoe shop. Community members hold farms, shops, and roles as supervisors, builders, plasterers, and stock buyers, with ongoing local reporting to follow.
The report details army worm damage on John Bastian’s forty acres of oats and nearby fields with oats left standing uncut. It notes how worms crawl up stalks, bite kernels, and leave bare stalks, threatening farmers’ crops and livelihoods. The piece lists several local farms with active operations and improvements. The Journal correspondent in Florence will share local gossip and news from that village.
A garbled market listing shows items such as butter, butter cheese, lard eggs potatoes turnips onions beans apples cabbage head dried peaches dried apples tallow salt and related staples. The fragment hints at a rural grocery or market inventory catalog for daily provisions.
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