Pilgrim letter from Minnesota voyage reports growth and prices
Special to the Freeport Journal from Duke Calouin Minnesota June 17 1867 describes a steamer up the Mississippi area journey via St Paul Fort Snelling and Minneapolis. He notes Minnetonka lake ahead of Illinois vegetation crops prices and emigration brisk railroads pushing north and west toward a future Minneapolis St Paul rivalry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport Journal
Duke Calioun
Minnesota
Prairie State
Key City
St. Paul
Fort Snelling
Minneapolis
Jsehu
Minnetonka Lake
Pacific Railroad
Minneaopolis
Freeport
Matteson
Stephenson County
Freeport Illinois
R. A
St. Croix
Celebration at Winslow Plans Fourth of July Picnic
At a June 22 1867 meeting in Winslow Alfred Flower chaired and Phil Sweeley served as secretary. The group planned a basket picnic for Independence Day and appointed Levi Robey president and Captain William J Brady chief marshal with Father Ballinger as chaplain. A committee to hire an orator reader and musician was named along with finance and arrangements committees. The meeting invited surrounding areas to join the old fashioned celebration and adjourned. Phalon Night Blooming Cereas ad follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winslow
Alfred Flower
Phil. Sweeley
Levi Robey
Capt
Wm. J. Brady
Father Ballinger
Chaplin
Samuel Gunsaul
Watson W. Wright
Alex. Taylor
Willard W. Wright
Phil
Sweeley
Abraham DeHaven
M. Lincoln
Thomas Rodabaugh
Wim
Elis
Jos
Stites
Cox
Chas
M, Newcomb
Edward Siunt
Levi ‘Thorp
Samuel Robb
Andrew Hinds
King's Vegetable Ambrosia Promises Hair Growth
An advertisement extols D. B. De Land Co. Best Chemical Saleratus with full weights and perfect goods. It then promotes King's Vegetable Ambrosia as a remedy that revives hair roots and induces new growth, claiming it outshines youthfully styled locks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. B. de Land & Co
Marital announcements from Freeport and nearby Illinois
In Freeport Illinois on June 18 a marriage was performed by Revy A W Toucey Mu J M Sarrier of Denver weddings Miss Sophe Carson of Freeport. At the Howard house Freeport by Henry M Barnum Esq William R Burroughs wed Miss Catharine Hamilton of Alleghany County New York. In Foreston Ogle County Il Rev KE Witter officiated as Jabs A Cousrey married Miss Sarah E Sarrit of For Eston Illinois.
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Freeport
A. W. Toucey
J. M. Sarrier
Denver
Sophe Carson
Howard
Illinois
Henry M. Barnum
William R. Burroughs
Catharine Hamilton
Alleghany County
N. Y
KE. Witter
Jabs A. Cousrey
Sarah E. Sarrrit
Foreston
Ogle County
Freeport Market Price List Fragment
Collage of commodity prices and market terms including corn barley flour and molasses with figures like 43 cents and 18 16 per barrel. Deciphering shows references to onions onions young or shelled and oil or grain items amid stray OCR text.
Chicago Market Opens With Mixed Price Shifts Across Grains
Chicago reports small advances and firm demand in flour and wheat while corn and oats fluctuate under speculative control. No 1 spring and No 2 spring show variable bids and wider spreads. rye and barley stay quiet though firmer for some grades. Provisions stay firm with limited pork sales and lard at high ask prices.
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Chicago
North Side
Central
Chicago Live Stock Market Summary
Chicago June 24 market receipts show cattle from choice to prime at 5.40 to 9.00 with fair to good conditions and 6.25 to 8.25 for common to medium. Hogs trade at 4.60 to 4.80 for choices to prime with fair to good, 4.20 to 3.50 for common to medium.
Market notes from New York and western trade figures
New York market reports show price activity across commodities like rye flour whisky coal and various meats. Western and California prices are noted with higher values for some grades and steady to dull movements for others, including mixed western sales and new cash terms for mess and prime cuts.
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New York
June Y
Ohio
St. Louis
California
List of Letters Remaining Unreclaimed in Freeport Post Office 1867
Public notice lists numerous names including Arnold Isaac Bentley John Bowman Lydia Bachtold Santa F Bower William Burrows Fred Brisbin Dora Balser Chas G Bennett Carrie Cody Nettie Clark Lisa Dayton Dustin Fry Israel Faster Mar Frank Buhs Karat Olden Lt Heron Agur Hyatt Jaco Heckard Mall Heller Sabilla Kigster John Trapp Susan Mishler Maria Mittnacht George Mayer Chase Mefadden McKinney P Paddock George Robey John Rippberger Adam Rematy John H Ruby Milton Rowe Peter Reimer Lorenzo Ranney Milner Springs Thomas Smith Mary Shemfield Feanett Snyder Keary Stone William Watson Ale Winters Wid Wansworth FHgury Webster Willian Woodrultt Janes Oliiec Open ceXeepy Sunday daily from 7 AcMouncil Tig B SML on sundays from 9 until 6 M Onies Open on all Holidays Past Thanks wivity Pras smits Atkins P M
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wivity Pras
Stank Stu
Monahan Rouy
Von
American Cooking Stove Advances Promised by Makers
Rew Advertisements tout twenty years of stove making and six years of refinement in the American Cooking Stove. The firm claims to have adopted improvements and secured letters patent, asserting higher perfection, durability, and economy over cheaper rivals. Forsale by H. C. Burchard & Bro. in Freeport and Tilinots in Williamson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheak, Packard, & Co
Albany
New York
H. C. Burchard & Bro
Freeport
Tilinots
Wntme
Lyons Periodical Drops and Reapers Attract Attention
Lyons Periodical Drops praised as a universal female remedy with 100000 yearly sales, offering a fluid, direct action for irregularities. Also promotes the MelchiSedish style reaper novelty, highlighting greater power and fifty percent lighter draught, showcased by agent John Machamnon with Magnolia Water as an affordable toilet scent option.
Dr Schneck Mandrake Pills Promised as Calomel Substitute
Special notices tout Dr Schneck s Mandrake Pills as a safe purgative and alterative for bilious disorders and liver trouble. The ad claims relief from headaches sallow skin coated tongue and general lassitude and promotes the Doctor s image with government stamp likenesses. Sold at No 115 North Sixth Street Philadelphia with wholesale agents listed in New York Baltimore Cincinnati Chicago St Louis and others. also advertises a product for delayed constitutional vitality.
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Poland
Manchester
New England
Daily and Weekly Mirror
Daily
Dr. Poland
George Sweet
M. D
Hanover Street
Boston
J. W. Polann
Burnham, & van Schaack
Chicago
Freeport
Scinxeeckk
Park Row
New York
S. Hance
Baltimore St
Baltimore
John D. Park
N. J. Cor
Cincinnati
Ohio
Waller & Taylor
Wabash Avenue
Ly Collins Brothers
Second and
Wee Sts
St. Louis
Ith & Bth
Wea
Molyr
Madame Thornton locates in Hudson offering marriage readin
Special notices promote Madame Thornton a Finglish astrologist who claims trance insights and a psychometer to reveal a future spouse with marriage date and personality traits. Readers can obtain a certified certificate and a picture by sending hair, birth details, 50 cents, and a stamped return envelope to Madame Thornton, P.O. Box 223, Hudson New York. A second ad touts Circassian Balm promising facial improvements and skin cleansing with a dollar price from W L Clark & Co Syracuse as agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FE. F. Thornton
Hudson
N.Y
Madame Thornton
Ife
Madame II
Onnxton
P.O
Hudson N.Y
Toy
W. L. Clark & CO
Chemists
West Fayette St
Syracuse
Wonderful but True Psychic Advertisement Exploits Matrimony
An advertorial notes Madame Ger Trude Remington, a clairvoyant and somnambulistic astrologist, offering a psychomotrope guided portrait of a future spouse for fifty cents plus a stamped envelope. It promises birthplaces, ages, eye and hair color, and marriage details by return mail. A free circular is offered to both sexes with advice on personal transformation.
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Remington
Gertrude Remington
P. O
West Troy
N.Y
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Booth
Carrington
Pierpont
Merrick
Mr. Bprron
Phalon
Freeport Market
Uber
Chicago Market
ChicaGco
New York Market
Freeport State of Illinois
Mne
Lyons
United States
John J., Lyon
John L. Lyon
Chapel Street
New Haven
Conn
C.g. Clark, & CO
U. S
Canadas
Melchisidh
Court House Square
L. K.schofield
Janesville
Wis
John Machamnon
Sancho Panza
Macbeth
Magnolia Water
Cologne
Cor
Tuy
ONGAN
Mason & Hamlin
Copartnership
Anata
Bolton & Stephenson
Hineness
Baileyville
D. Bolton
S.stepilenson
M. Wilson
Gelkee Morion
Batley Ville
Jaume
David
Rreepert
Jane
Fou
Great
J. W. Polland
Londonderry
N. H
Ftrilmbrold
Isk Helmboln
Christian Burringer
P. C. Drawer
Troy
Brown
Sony Everywhere
Helmbold's
Helmbolds
H. Tl
Helmbold
Helmbold, Burcectist
Philadelphia
Heembolius
Hembgless
Miles
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