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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1867
Page
5
The piece argues that gossip corrodes society with a moral warning about meddling in neighbors affairs. A separate report recounts a runaway carriage incident destroying a buggy and injuring Mrs Porter with Dr Potter escaping unharmed. damages estimated near 500 dollars.
The Paris tribunal heard Baroness de Boucha val defend her pet Chihuahua-like Mexican dog named Linda. A workman with a bulldog killed the dog, a police sergeant escorted her to the commissaire, and a man offered ten francs for the dead animal. The baroness rejected 4000f in Baden and the jury fined 900f, donated to the poor box. The dog, a zoological curiosity, proved hard to acclimate to northern climates.
A black night on Hill Street and Lorimier avenue saw Phil Ryne driving Walt Hitchcock's grays in a two seated carriage when a horse fell into a gully near Third Street. After the mishap the team reared and capsized the carriage then bolted on a wild gallop through Dubuque.
A mosaic of local notices praises Krehn the tobacconist and Krehn’s cigars a new opera house sales pitch at CHOSBY, and favorable prices from M. Louer. It lists Green fruit from J Mayer and Sons, a reversible stove by Emmert & Stibgen, school furniture patterns by Cauldron Kettles, and Hides buyers Cavanagh Wright Co. The piece also promotes oysters from J Mayer, coke supply, and Michigaga apples. It ends with a sales push for Coe remedies and Helmbold extracts.
An advertisement from Crocker and Little Tinporter selling silver plated Britannia tinware and tableware contrasts prices at Mental Arithmetic. It tempts readers to compare costs, claiming a $1.88 saving on ten dollars and invites customers to see the proof. Also offers cracked milk pans, rocks, and butter jars at six cents per gallon and hogsheads for 75 cents each.
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