Weather and farming outlook with local notes
The letter reports mixed crop prospects with fall wheat failing and oats promising, potatoes planted well, fruit crops small due to last year, rapid pasture growth, and a favorable overall farming outlook. Local life mentions decoration day, a death in Ward's Grove, and community updates on merchants, schooling, and a land dispute, plus a distant note on a Buddhist priest in Shaoshing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bone
Wm. Blair
Ward's Grove
Theis
Emma
J. A. Furnier
Blair
Ince
Isreal Salts
Samuel Downer
Will Beaver
Beaver Bros
Mt. Carroll
Marshal
Jack
Dan Solt
Jo Davies County
Peter Bishop
Mississippi
Messrs
Wise & Austio
Esquire Klump
Geo. Schlafer
Morseville
Joseph Moore
Dr. Sharp
Albinus Tiffany
Green Co. Iowa
Jo. B. Parkinson
Knox College
Galesburg
Payson
Ill
Vinia Clay
Oviatt
Yellow Creek
Farmer
Canada
Peter Binninger
Francis Taylor
Francis
J. W. Parkinson
Chicago diamond expert warns about fake solitaires
A Chicago diamond expert claims many so called solitaires are composites of small stones glued to look single. He asserts under blowpipe tests they separate, and that not one in ten stones sold locally is genuine. He says most pieces are off color, flecked, or feathered and priced fictitiously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
London
Schuttler
Stover
Knowlton & Brown
Akron
Ohio
Bergman & Dorman
Cure claims for magnetic ointment and bromoline bottle
An advertisem ent-style notice touts Trask s Magnetic Ointment for piles chafing sores chapped hands salt rheum skin disorders burns bruises and sore throat claiming rapid yield. It promotes Dr Marshall s Bromoline as a facial cure priced at 50 cents a bottle with a call to try it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trask
Dr. Marshall
Reliable Seeds Flower Field and Garden Ad
An advertisement promoting Reliable Seeds from Burrell Brothers, billed as the best seedsmen in the United States, highlighting a broad range for flowers fields and gardens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Burrell Bros
How To Get Rich via Economy and Bitters
A short, period style claim touts wealth through economy and using Electric Bitters. Cites a fictional Deacon Snyder quote about avoiding doctors’ bills and achieving health and happiness for a household. Sold by Em mert & Burrell at 50 cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snyder
Emmert & Burrell
Special Town Meeting in Freeport June 15 1881
Town of Freeport voters are summoned to a special meeting at the Pennsylvania House to decide on borrowing eight thousand dollars to build a Pecatonica River bridge. Voting will be by ballot between eight and seven, with the issue “borrow money to build a bridge” or “against.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephenson
Freeport
Chamberlon
Illinois
Pennsylvania House
Pecatonica River
Stephenson Street
Gurden S. Chamberlin
Beightol Becomes Countryman in June 1881 Wedding
In Bryl Baylons Park this city at the bride's father’s residence on June 12 1881 George Beightol of Ogle County weds Miss Mary A Countryman in a ceremony conducted by D B Byers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beightol
Yraylons Park
D. B. Byers
George Beightol
Ogle County
Mary A. Countryman
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Prout Who
Senator Conkling
Zollicoffer
Willow
Aeeti Dh Hangelion
Alia
Shaoshing
Freeport Market
Sue & Porter
Grain Uyers
Eppie
O. G. Battins
Scantlan
Blossburg Co
Graham
H. D. Post & CO
D. Sanford
Warren, Ill
Sens
Erry
Ryu À
W. C. Coup
NEW United
Paris Hippodrome
Coup
Melville
Nathan
Farini
Middleton
Jake
Hagar
Fryer
Okenawaka
King Cetewayo
Hippodrome
TIMES
Sanborn
J. V. Farwell
M. M. Fenner
Fredonia
N. Y
J. MC Phelps
Fenner
St. Vitus
Scephenson County Court
Jacobsell
Gage
Frederick Kohlstadt
Sor
Floyd County
Iowa
Michael Kahl
Jacob Lady
J. A. Crain
J. P.rieger
H.S. Stevenson
Stephenson St
Freeport, I
S. A. Frey
Rosenstiel’s
Brenizer
Rock Grove
Dakota
Stephenson County
Andrew Gochnaur
Wm. Askey
Illama
A. Blade
Brewster House
Pennsylvania
H.D. Post & CO
Portland
Buffalo
Louisville
Milwaukee
Beaver Creek
GEQ
Bordner
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