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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1873
Page
6
A mid 19th century travel fashion note promotes fabrics for journeys: Japanese Tussor silk, durable China silks at a dollar a yard, Linen Batiste with satin stripe, and brown yellow linen. It favors Tussor for comfort and washability, compares alpaca serge and silk suits as cooler for foreign travel, and cautions linen wrinkling.
A fragment from a 19th century piece describes how the Russian or Alaskan inhabitants supplied their posts with provisions before spring sea otter expeditions. It details group division, canoe formation, spear throwing, and the use of gear. The text also nods to post-hunt pelts trade and a funeral anecdote, with Ottawa quotes from Harper's Magazine and other period miscellany.
In Darby Pennsylvania four men planned to scare burglars by releasing a bull dog in a store. The dog attacked its owner when doors opened and the man shot at it from outside. The owner paid double to retrieve the dog after weeks of bombardment hurting barrels and bins and wrecking the shop.
From Paris, the correspondent outlines two paths to dissolve the Assembly. Peaceful dissolution seems unlikely. military dispersion hinges on the army’s secret influence via Benepartists. Marshal McMahon, not a politician, would decide if the army acts and whether it would obey a dictator. his spotless wartime reputation and popular esteem stand behind any decisive move.
A Kentucky elder known as Racoon Smith recounts a Baptist meeting episode in which a would be preacher named Weeks seeks a license. Smith taunts Weeks by reading Romans and declaring his feet prove he is not called, provoking laughter and Weeks’ departure.
A Philadelphia Press anecdote about Swain, once editor of the Public Ledger, recounts a misguided claim of stopped paper that led to a walk from Eighteenth and Chestnut to Third Street. The tale ends with the subscriber’s return to regular delivery and a sad street encounter with a homeless boy prompting a charitable impulse.
Notice in the county court of Stephenson County Illinois to Mary J Waters and Hiram Waters residents of Minnesota that F A Darling administrator petitions for an order to sell estate lands described as SW 1/4 SW 1/4 Section 15 Township 27 Range 7 east of the 4th P M totaling 4780.10 acres minus a 100 foot railroad right of way leaving 8730.10 acres. summons issued for June 1872 to return to the Freeport County Court.
Best and Morgan advertise a large sale week featuring stripe and plain shawls from 2.75 to 5, stripe double faced ottoman shawls at 7.50 and up, lamama lace points and saques from 15.50 to 21.50. New linen and seersucker suits from 4.75, 500 parasols 45¢ to 10, new gross grain and glace silks from 1 up, Japanese poplin 50 or 75¢, mohair lusters and poplin makes, German and Scotch lalls 85 and 40¢, new Gross Cloths and seer suckers 25¢ up, marseilles and piques in new styles.
Offer for 30 days inducements in prices of millinery straw goods ribbons laces and flowers. 500 dozen hats and bonnets in various styles Misses and children's hats. Trimmers praised for taste and elegance. Expanded ladies furnishing department reports strong business and full staff, promising prompt first service and favorable charges to regular customers.
The firm announces full preparation to handle wholesale goods in every department and to match or beat Chicago or St Louis houses in price. It touts over five hundred thousand dollars in capital, cash purchases of every dollar’s worth of goods, and savings on time freight and travel for dry goods and millinery buyers.
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