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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1870
Page
7
The Freeport Journal thanks county friends for aid in growing subscriptions and notes the weekly circulation near two thousand. With harvest over and farmers earning more, the paper aims to reach three thousand subscribers by January and asks current readers to recruit neighbors.
The piece highlights Reconstruction progress under Congress and Grant as proof of Republican vitality. It notes restored insurrectionary states, enforcement of amendments, strong revenue gains, debt repayment, retrenchment, tariff and tax reductions, increased banking circulation, and pension reforms. It also includes unintended local items and human-interest notes.
The piece lists measures enacted by the last Republican Congress to aid Union soldiers, including quarterly pension payments, preserving discharge papers, reorganizing the Marine Hospital Service, simplifying account settlements, providing artificial limbs, restoring pay and promotions, transferring funds to soldiers homes, extending bounty claim deadlines, safeguarding pensions, donating condemned ordnance for monuments, protecting national cemeteries, and offering land allotments with railroad benefits. It argues Democrats opposed these appropriations, praising Congress as a grateful ally to the soldiers.
A speaker argues talents and wealth are gifts from God to be used generously, not hoarded for self. He warns that ignoring conscience leads to remorse and urges pursuing holy uses of one’s abilities. The text blends religious reflection with quips about money and virtue.
The Boston Transcript notes Dickens on private vice and tenderness. General Sherman plans a Des Moines visit for Iowa soldiers reunion and tours Indian country including Omaha Fort Laramie Leavenworth then to St Louis. He aims to meet Red Cloud and Spotted Tail before returning to Washington in October. A Louisville girl Tda Woodruff resurfaced after disappearance, detailing escape from servitude. Dr Ordway of Portland faced a near fatal ether incident during an operation on a man named Andrews.
The Opera House audience packed to see Cvent Affairs M Kean Buchanan in Richelieu with strong praise from the St. Paul Press. Critics call Buchanan masterful and the company superior, delivering the best dramatic showing Freeport has seen. A Republican caucus report notes lively support for Burchard. A Soldiers Reunion is set for Wilcoxon's Opera House with music, oration, songs, and a social dance afterward.
The Freeport Zouaves impressed on Sunday with a handsome appearance and advanced drill under Capt Hulburt. The local paper urges public support for the young company, noting its healthful training, potential city prestige, and planned participation in the Stephan sson County Fair with a hoped for premium.
Ready at Chamberlin's Nut Store No 09 Fry's Block a large stock of buckskin and kid gloves also advertised fall hat styles in silk and felt for the season.
A compilation of multiple 1870 notices announcing candidacy for Sheriff of Stephenson County subject to Republican County Convention. Includes Solomon G. Stover Lena July 1870, Charles Clingman Cedarville July 12, 1870, John W. Pickard and others from Freeport Ridott Harlem Aug 1870. Also bids for State Representative subject to convention with several voters signatures.
Unclaimed mail list for Freeport Post Office dated August 30 1870 includes names such as Mayer Benedict Anderson Meredith Bake Bunker Clark Noland Connor Heatt Dealtry Brith Ehl Stevens Gardner Hahn Trop Anson Ward Hayes Weather Kelley Wendige Leltzall Johnson Wever Lowery Whitcom Lyons Whittaker Manton Yon and others. Office hours posted daily 7 am to 7 pm with Sunday 8 am to noon and holiday reductions. note sales and proprietor names Dynaks Opera House.
Price list from Freeport markets dated Aug 30 shows grain and provisions including corn oats rye butter cheese lard and onions, flour items and meal products, beef pork and poultry quotes, wool hides seeds and lumber materials with unit prices and per hundred weight or per pound figures. Numerous items listed with varied rates for local buyers and traders.
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