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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1874
Page
5
Advertising rates listed for 2002 include small square ads and feature pricing. The notice directs readers to send communications to Journal in Illinois with a yearly subscription and pricing around two dollars for ads. Names Thomas Breed & Hawa are listed as proprietors.
Partial ad fragmenting farm notices, dairy market pleas and a pasture cow reward. Mentions Ruston’s new depot on Ste Street and a price seek for butter eggs rags tallow beeswax. Contains a reward notice for a red and white cow missing since July 17.
A damaged market notice lists land for sale in the engon County with a spring on site and proximity to the court house. It promotes wallpaper, portrait photography, a foundry and mill, machinery repair, and insurance services with various local agents and listings for loans, goods, and tailor services.
Notice announces sale of a billiard table in good condition on reasonable terms by Hotann & Bro at 100 Stephenson Street. The city warns of redemption of city orders No 4,454 to No 5,070 and indicates interest terms and a cutoff date of September 10, 1874.
Clayton offers paper trimming from morning to night with no charge for trimming. Buy your paper from G. M. Clayton.
J D Diffenbaugh unveils his large hat signaling a feast of peaches and assorted fruits. The playful toast hints at a harvest celebration with community gathering and bright summer produce.
Twenty five years experience in the Watch and Jewelry business promises satisfaction. All work warranted. Those with fine watches or jewelry to repair are asked to call Firrety and Baarxerp at 189 Stephenson Street opposite the monument.
Reports from the Northwest praise Stover and Snyder's new gentleman shoes at the Big Red Boot. The Stover wind-mill by Woodmanse is claimed superior due to high production and large shipped quantities.
Diffenbaugh offers peaches and other green fruits at bottom prices at No. 3 Fry's Block, promising bargain rates for shoppers seeking value.
The advertisement proclaims Clayton's as the top source for wallpaper and window shades in the city. It promotes 2000 acres of world class land for sale in purchaser friendly tracts. Also notes J D Diffenbaugh as the northwest peach man and mentions candy prices at 15 cents per pound with other goods in proportion.
An advertorial note laments premature hair loss among women and men in the city. It claims Ayer's Hair Vigor removes the condition and sometimes restores hair color to its original shade.
The next term begins Wednesday September 16 1874 at the Institution for the Education of Feeble Minded Children in Jacksonville. Pupils should arrive on time but not earlier. Applications are numerous. send pupils only after notification by the Superintendent of admission.
To the Ladies, a combined scoop and sieve with six grades of wire cloth for pumpkin, fruit, catsup, and jelly. Easy to use, praised by journals. Two canvassers wanted, apply at this office.
Thieves stole 5354 boxes of peaches from J. D. Diffenbaugh’s Fruit and Confectionery. The theft occurred from 7 AM to 9 PM. A reward of 25 cents per box is offered for the return of the peaches.
A small blaze caused a slight scorch to a four frame building at the rear of Fehley’s turning ship. No injuries were reported and responders contained the incident quickly.
About forty people from both towns attended the Polo game where the local club triumphed by six or eight runs despite intense heat. The writer praises Polo hospitality, the public library, and local progress while urging residents to support editor Clinton’s printing press expansion and settle arrears to aid the newspaper’s growth.
Twenty head of young Lincolnshire rams from O M Saxby’s stock imported by Eells and Douglas London Canada offered to improve Stephenson County flocks. Also boots and shoes display at Giant four doors below Stines corner. German Methodist camp meeting in Freeport District at Buena Vista starts August 20 with Bongey and Rice boarding on grounds.
Col James Mitchell long influential Freeport figure dies after a two year decline from spinal illness. A 1826 pioneer settler on Fever and Plum rivers he served as Winnebago County Clerk and mineral lands superintendent before founding Stephenson County Bank in Freeport which never closed. He stood 6 feet 4 inches, led a chivalrous life, faced illness with patience, and received family prayers and last sacraments before passing. Nathan Ford named manager of Missouri Valley Life Insurance Dakota branch in Yankton. praised for work and character.
Personal notices mention Charlie Smith Esq of Florence taking no action within ten days and other local figures like Lew Wil St. Louis and Wm. Hempstead of Galena. Visitors include Lane G. G. Alvord and Rev. Hullhorst, with town news on a courthouse, a St. James Hotel guest, and remarks on Doctor Lawyer’s departure plans to St. Louis and New York. John McKibben and George K. Oyler are cited as happy residents.
The marriage of Jay Wilbur and Effie M Lincoln was held at the bride’s parents home in Christaln Hollow Illinois with Rev. J B Best officiating. The notice also invites local readers to a moonlight nine mile ride to Babb’s Grove and an upcoming ice cream and peach festival hosted by Lutheran church.
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