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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1875
Page
5
Numerous small notices advertise knitting and sewing services, machine sales and repairs, barber services, hair work, and various shops in Freeport Illinois. Promotions include cotton goods, candies, family Bibles, fur lined goods, and hair treatment offers with prices and contact points.
Mr H F Perkins plans a spring start in marble fills with a carefully chosen stock and guarantees satisfaction. Also noted are low priced broken candies at Diffenbaugh's, Owning fresh oysters by J D Diffenbaugh, and Gold Pens from Todd Co. at Ford's Jewelry Store with Augusta and Arnold’s writing fluids and other shop offerings.
An advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as a cure for coughs colds chest and lung diseases. It urges readers to buy from Swarts and Stocking with sample bottles at 10 cents and regular bottles at 75 cents, claiming rapid relief.
Report notes a dramatic world history of war casualties with a long illustrated citation ending with Dr. Dick. The piece reflects on vast numbers and moral concerns, framing January 1875 school reporting amid a sermon on human suffering.
A. W. Ford announces relocation to the corner of Stephenson and Chicago streets offering an immense stock of watches clocks jewelry diamonds silverware silver plated goods cutlery spectacles gold pens and more. Every article guaranteed as represented with engraving free and watch repairs warranted at 94 Stephenson Street corner of Chicago Street.
Nashua Telegraph recounts the alleged murder of Dartmouth graduates A. B. Long and Frank Perkins in Louisiana. Long, once a promising jurist, was killed by White League members while Perkins, then steamedship agent, offered $5,000 for the killers and was shot, his body left in the street. The piece notes lack of investigation and indicates Perkins died pursuing justice.
The Illinois case is used to mock Pennsylvania's House and its presiding officer as the inexperienced man exposes blunders. Chicago Tribune and SpringField Journal comment on lucid intervals and the urge to caucus to tie him up again, while editors urge overlooking seriousness and focusing on humor in the politics.
This item reproduces two acts: one authorizes a thirty thousand dollar seed distribution to grasshopper ravaged areas funded from unappropriated treasury funds and signed December 17 1874. The second grants relief to settlers on public lands damaged by grasshoppers allowing absence from lands to July 1 1875 and extending final proof and payment deadlines by one year, approved December 28 1874.
Public sale of farm tools and stock scheduled for Thursday the 18th at 2 miles west of Freeport. Conducted by A Dunn and B Dunn.
The Townsend case reports a Democratic jury fining him ten dollars for murdering Sehbold, a United States Ranger who cheered for Brooks during the Brooks Baxter dispute. The newspaper argues murder in the first degree would have been verdict elsewhere, and praises the decision as making Republican lives safer in Arkansas.
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