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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1878
Page
4
Local docket shows Goodhue facing judgments totaling 6086.35 with no disposition yet. venue change possible. Community notices recap church gatherings, temperance debates, peo ple’s socials, a Freeport Literary Society formed, and Bridge Street High School scholars hailed for lofty aims. Also reports a saloon window incident and Company C belts arriving. Embury sociable’s music praised. poems and a new Houghton volume discussed.
The fifth annual ball will be held at Hettinger's Tul Tuesday evening December 24. A celebrated Racine band will play and Brewster Hovey will serve supper. Also notes on Western Star Encampment No. 26 officers elected for 1879 and various court actions against tramps and burglaries.
Hon M D Wathaway of Hochelle and Wm B Hoover of Logansport Und Journal were in the city last Wednesday. J G Corrie, formerly of Freeport now of Clinton Iowa, visited friends Thursday. C Buckman insurance adjuster for Armorican of Chicago returned from an Eastern trip and smiled on us Monday morning.
A speech argues that postwar Southern elections were marred by fraud and violence aimed at black voters. The speaker compares white voting power in the South with the North, contending the Fourteenth Amendment should curb such abuses. He calls for an impartial Senate inquiry and cites state-by-state representative allocations to show systemic inequality.
Local ad copy promotes Silk and Linen handkerchiefs at Seeley and Read, plus children’s gloves and three button gloves at Mrs Benson. It lists raisins currants and flour prices, loan offer on farm land via Box 650 Freeport, Illinois, and Walton’s bragging largest assortment of fancy goods in the city.
12 pieces of 48 inch Black Cashmeres from a large importer sold at least 25 percent below current city prices. No. 29 priced at 94 cents per yard, No. 76 extra fine at 139 dollars per piece. WM. A. Stevens urges early examination at 118 Stephenson St. Also Michigan Winter Apples in three bushel barrels from Barrell Bros priced at 1.75 to 2.25 per barrel. Jacob Witter, landscape photographer, offers city views and building portraits with prompt, first-class service.
The notice highlights a wide variety in Black Lace 8CARFS offerings and bargains on fresh oysters from Baltimore with special party prices. It also promotes Corn Syrup from Freeport Refinery, a Christmas music selection by Burreryt Bros, and a large assortment of handkerchiefs and embroidered items. WM. WALTON emphasizes price savings and cash pricing. An insurance company annual meeting is announced for January 6, 1879 in Rock City.
The Johnston estate offers 80 acres of land three quarters of a mile west of Freeport for sale at low price with terms available by inquiry at the late John B Johnston’s Freeport residence. Also listed are canned foods and a fraudless listing for wigs and puffs made from combings at Opera House Block Freeport Lis.
A garbled late 19th century page lists marriages TCHLER FOY and ICHLER FOY in the cit, deaths near Freeport Illinois with ages, and unclaimed letters. It also contains a stock market blurb with Wheat, Quorn, Barley, and hog product prices, plus local shop notices and a sales ledger from Cloaks SEELEY & READ and Liniment Todide sold by Emmert & Burrell.
Fragmentary OCR lists many commodities including wheat oats flour lard beans apples peaches dried fruit wool coal timber and meat. The jumble shows prices units and vendor terms but readability is poor with numerous garbled words and stray characters. The itemized fragment resembles a rural exchange or market ledger entry rather than a narrative report.
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