Snowbound Streets Inspire Cautionary Verse
Verselete and Tia note how snow and sleet collide to trip unwary feet in winter. The poem wryly observes the street’s icy grip and the need for careful steps amid the meteorological mischief.
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1881
Page
7
Real Estate Transactions in Orrick February 3 1881
Market shows marked improvement with increased sales and loan activity. Major transfers include Boyer to Kaiser 200 acres in Florence for 12000 and Goeke to Schroeder 86 acres in Rock Run for 4789, among numerous other parcels and sums across Jefferson, Harlem, Florence, Waddams, Rock Run, and Lena areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orrick
Wm Boyer
August Kaiser
Florence
Mary Markel
John Wheelock
Lancaster
N C Goeke
Henry Schroeder
Cres
Rock Run
TW Reigle
HC Goeke
Wise
W S Deitzs
Jacob Kraft
Harlem
JH. Addams
Peter Smith
West Point
Alonzo Connell
J J Dunn
Waddamsa
Solomon Young
Emanuel Moore
Dik
Huron
JF Flynn
Charles Haas
A. Mendenhall
Sgm
L Flickinger
Jefferson
Jos. Ankeny
Henry Wittee
Edwin Smith
Benj Kohl
Waddams
Gertrude Eiler
Adolph Kottmann
Kent
Charles Hooper
S A Frey
Henry Liebergesell
Loran
Henry Ricksmeier
August Sundermann
John McCulloch
Maria Rue
Lena
S Kitsinger
Morris Highland
J F Gunther
John Krinbill
Knowlton
Freeport
Kitsinger
Catherine Mayer
Chaddock
BJ Holley
New
ET Perry
P K Smith
Wadams
W G Woodruff
Wm Ackerman
Ridott
John Groff
Helmuth Schroeder
Samuel Diffenbaugh
J H Becker
Jacob Gable
W B Yeoman
Aug Bergman
J H Deaner
Fred, Distelmeier
Jacob Ammon
Philip Holste
John Andleton
Pells Manny
C. M. Hillebrand
SM. Staver
D. M. Staver
Winslow
Charles Elphie
Quack Remedies Endorsed Over Faith in Hop Bitters
Mrs Partington mocks quack nostrums and urges trust in Hop Bitters as cures for many ills. The Boston Globe notes they saved Isaac from fever and calls them a reliable medicine aid despite the regimental claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac
Boston Globe
Atlantic February number presents essays and fiction highlights
The February Atlantic opens with two chapters of Miss Phelps's Friends A Duet and features Rossetti on wives of famous poets, Ely on German Cooperative Credit Unions, Fiske's Aryans question, Poore reminiscences, and White's London piece. Includes reviews, poems, stories, a contributors' club, and books of the month. $4 a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Phelps
William M. Rossetti
la Fontaine
Moliere
Racine
Lessing
Burger
Goethe
Schiller
Heine
Richard T. Ely
John Fisks
Sterling
Houghton, Mifflin & 4
Boston
Releotic Magazine February issue promotes larger format
The February Helectic enlarges its size and reprints valuable articles from foreign periodicals. It features topics from science to literature including The Limits of Human Knowledge by the Duke of Argyll, Rambles Among Books, The Chain of Life in Geological Time, and pieces on English poets, Musset, and Darwin. Published by E. R. Pelton at 256 Bond Street New York. Terms are five dollars yearly, forty five cents a single copy, or one dollar for a three month trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke ‘of Argyll
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Andrew Wilson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Alfred de Musset
Erasmus Darwin
New England
Irish Land League
T. P. ‘Connor
M. P
Mr. Wallace
Grant Allen
Europe
J.theodore Bent
Mrd. Marshall
Austin Dobson
E. R. Pelton
Bond Street
New York
Astonishing Crow Nest Report Near Inskeep Farm
A Lexington PA resident reports a vast crow roost near Mr. Inskeep six miles north of town. He claims 150 million birds uproot oaks and crush smaller trees, with noise so loud neighbors stuff cotton in ears. Cattle and hog remains hang from trees, bones litter the landscape, and shooting is perilous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington
Mr. Inskeep
Noah
Jehosaphat
Inskeep
Frightful Mouse Incites Panic In Newburyport Pocket
An elderly Newburyport woman screamed about a mouse in her pocket. The household restrained the pocket mouth, and the man of the house searched the garment. He opened the pocket to find a detached pocket tape measure unwound with a whirr, not a rodent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport
Mass
Victim Attacked in Pine Bluff House Hailed by Mob
Mrs. Joseph Miller of Pine Bluff Arkansas was assaulted by James Anderson who broke in while she was alone. He bound her and nearly choked her before robbing money and jewelry. A mob captured him and hanged him from a telegraph pole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Miller
Pine Bluff
Ark
James Anderson
Wide Awake for February Frontispiece and Contents
Frontispiece list includes The Roman Boy's Spoils by G F Barns and A True Bet of History with two illustrations, Supporting Verse by Laura Ledyard, Racing a Thunder Storm by Frank H Taylor, A Day in Winter by Mrs L C Wilson, Rocky Fort Chapter IV V by Mary Hartwell Catherwood with four illustrations, and more stories and poems by multiple authors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G.F. Barns
Laura Ledyard
Frank H. Taylor
A. G. Plimpton
Nobody’s Cat
Clara Doly Bate
Tot the Dwarf
Margaret Eytenger
Mas. M. B.C. Slade
Arthur Gillman
Edward Everett Hale
Tionor Bright
Royal Lowrie
Annie L. Jack
Emily Huntington Miller
Polly Cologne
A. M. Diaz
Frank E. Savilie
Never, No Never Ulysses S Grant Emperorship Denied
An exchange proclaims Ulysses S Grant will never be emperor yet remains revered, likening him to Spring Blossom in alleviating headaches biliousness indigestion and similar ills. Advertisement touts price 50 cents with trial bottles at 10 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grant
What do novels teach
From Blackwood's Magazine critics question Trollope and other novelists influence on speech and social behavior. They argue English fiction shapes conversation only subtly, fails to guide readers through life complications, and rarely offers practical examples for romance and marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwood
Trollope
The
Times
Willa
Lydia
Canterbury Architecture and a Cheyenne Blizzard
Excerpts compare English town character to American styles, praising organic growth over planned layouts. A Cheyenne Leader piece defines a blizzard as a Western invention, playful yet harsh, likening it to a meteorological joke that overturns direct paths and leaves people winded and amused.
Elopement Sparks Family Shuffle In Mount Vernon
A miller with five children ran off with another man's wife who cared for four. They fled from Rosstown to Loudonville before catching a western bound train. The miller and his wife moved into the other man's home with two children and began caring for his four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Rosstown
Loudonville
City Church Directory Listing For Local Congregations
Comprehensive directory lists multiple denominations with addresses around Pleasant Exchange and Stephenson streets. It names pastors such as Rev Byers Huelster Hoffmeister Taghburne Mere deth Kalvelage Sweet Cooley and Ferris plus service times, Sunday schools and venues across Evangelical German and American churches in a single city section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evangelical
City Officials and Ward Aldermen Listing
Mayors Cronkrite and city officers listed with titles and office locations. Warren C Clark city clerk in Council Rooms Fry's Block. D B Breed city treasurer. J H Stearns city attorney. E S Chamberlin city marshal. Hoenkemeier street commissioner. YF E Josel surveyor. Aldermen: Ward 1 H Dorman TL Waddell. Ward 2 I 8 Zartman J Brown Taylor. Ward 3 J R Wagner H OJ Porter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E L Cronkrite
Cronkrite
Recen
Stephenson Gt
Warren C. Clark
Fry’s Block
D., B. Breed
Journal
J H Stearns
Neff & Stearns
E S Chamberlin
H Hoenkemeier
YF E Josel
YF E Josel, Office Court House, Aldermen
H Dorman
TL ‘Waddell
Zartman
J Brown Taylor
J R Wagner
H OJ Porter
County Officers and Office Locations
County officers listed include Clerk F Kleckner Treasurer W W Hutchison Recorder Dan'l Brewster Sheriff J R Leigh Surveyor Hiram Shons. All county offices are located in the Court House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F Kleckner
W W Hutchison
Dan‘l Brewster
J R Leigh
Hiram Shons
Court House
Public Schools Board of Education Officials and Hours
Public Schools announces officers Wm. O. Wright president W G Barnes and H J Porter board members Superintendent Ch C Snyder with office in the High School building and office hours from 7:80 to 9 0 oclock a m.
Rail Road Time Table and Train Schedules
The page lists rail schedules from Sinois Central and Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul lines, detailing trains westward and eastward including passenger and freight, with times for Freeport Chicago Racine Milwaukee Belvidere and connections. Agent signatures and notes appear for routing and interchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago & North-Western Railway
Expresa
Chicago
Council Bluffs
Denver
California
Winona
Minnesota
Central Dakota
Sioux City
Nor
Nebraska
Yankton
Chicago, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Gon's Lays
R. IE Stolder
Freeport
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Real Estate Transactions
Releotic Magazine
Canterbury
England
United States
Richard Grant White
Cheyenne
Cig
Costiguzini
Washington
Penn
Oglethorpe
Georgia
Declaration of
Indepenter
Lord Cornwallis
City Directory
St. John’s—Union St
Cor State Road
C Hoffmeister
Williams St
Corner
Wernley
Methodist Episcopal
Wiliams
Taghburne
Stephenson St
Northwest Cor Cherry
Louis Meredeth
Chicago St
Cor
Rey Hiller
Presbyterian—First
Cor Walnut
Rey HD Jenkins
Presbyterian—Third—German—Exchange
See
Cor Pleasant
E A Elfeld
West of Exchange
C L Kalvelage
St Mary’s
Public Schools
Sinois
Freigh la
Chicago & Northwestern
Chica
Ako
A. Re
Fresport
Milwaukee
Yvia Belvidere
Belvidere
Milwauee
R. Lh, Holder
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Jay Pass
Wreighe
Cave Stock
Fredgit Ig
Beloit
Janesville
Wanten, Ag & Co
Cushing
Thom Dearborn
Hodder
Journal Printing CO
Freeport, Il
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railway
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Raney
Delaware
Hontice
Jounell
Creston
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Inomoned
Avens Point
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Winnesots
Soctery
Dakota
Northwest
Oshkosh
Rock Island
Davenport
St. Paul
Minneapolis -Ortonville
Minn
Iowa
Mitchell
Flandreau
Sioux Falls
D. T
Beathoay Company
Merrill
Gen'l
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Mas
W.cg. van Horne
A.v.h.carpenter
J.H. Page
Gan
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Minwavuen
St. Paul Ry
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Freeport Il
Chicago & North-Western
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Sioux Creigton Diweit City
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CHIGAGO_& NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY
Freeport Post Office
Ofice
Chicarra
Ant Hough
Vila
Throng
Way Mall
Vin & NW
Ivy Northern
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Undertaker
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Ade Dresa Stixson &Co
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