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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1869
Page
6
The column covers tax notices, magazine subscriptions for Our Young Folks, arrivals from New York, and various ads. It notes Mrs Ferris selling trim goods, a fire insurance warning, and Krohn tobacco options. It mentions a Young Men's Christian Association meeting and a concert for Prof Leland, plus sales at Packard and local druggists Trent & Stocking.
The column lists a Painter's periodical price current, a German itch ointment ad, a furniture and dress goods market update, lectures by D. W. Thompson for the Y M C A, hoop skirts at Stephenson Street, optics visits by Brown & Co., and notices of marriages and deaths in Freeport Illinois with brief biographical lines.
Market notes list corn at 44 cents per bushel and 37 cents for oats. Wheat No 1 at 1.05 with 462.94, Timothy 2.00, butter 0 per lb, figs 18 cents a dozen, live hogs 7.50, dressed hogs 10.00, lard 17 1s, potatoes 40, hides 10 cents, calf skins 12¼, coarse and fine goods, wash prices 38 cents, unwashed one third off.
A fragment lists numerous names likely from a post office or community notice. The text includes first and last names such as Allen Atchison, Mary Brubaker, Geo Bell, Henry Yohl, Ella Baker, Hattie Mellone, Jennie Reed, Libbie Siford, Louisa Snyder, Julla Moody, and Robert Wardlow, among others, with scattered dates and times.
Advertises fertile wheat land 30 miles south of Philadelphia with rail access to New York and Philadelphia. Highlights high market prices, rapid sale on harvest day, and favorable health conditions for settlers. Visitors can view land by carriage. buyers should bring funds as no holds without payment.
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