Temperance and politics stir Freeport and Rock Island
The Freeport paper highlights a temperance communication inside and notes liquor dealers’ state convention at Springfield. It reports Rock Island mayoral result Thomas Murdoch by 46 votes over Bailey Davenport, plus mentions Rockford’s planned Repub lican editor and other regional notes including elections and new partnerships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Rock Island
Thomas Murdoch
Bailey Davenport
Friends urge Edsall nomination for state attorney general
The friends of J. K. Edsall of Dixon Lee County a state senator at present are urging his nomination by the Republicans for State Attorney General.
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J. K. Edsall
Dixon
Lee County
Senate
Lead mine near Warren yields large取 output in Illinois
The piece notes a newly found lead mine near Warren Illinois producing strongly with a 10000 pound weekly take. It also reports a German family in Reynola township Lee county dying from trichinosis after eating raw pork and provides dense statistics on Illinois Methodist church membership and properties.
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Dixon Telegraph
Reynola Township
Lee County
Four Dubuque youths plan Cuba voyage by small boat
Four young men from Dubuque announce a four year voyage starting on the opening of navigation. They will sail a twenty five by six foot vessel directly to the Gulf of Mexico, stock provisions for six months, and coast along to Florida shores then to Havana.
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Dubuque
Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
Florida
Havana
Grain stocks and future hopes from New York markets
The report lists 2,439,000 bushels of wheat and 680,000 of corn among New York elevators. February 24, 1572 totals reach 28,880,144 bushels at principal points, with 10,755,101 corn and 6,072,687 oats. Utica’s Rutger By Miller forecasts Northwest land burned last fall will yield epilobium fireweed as a cotton substitute, usable for candles, ropes, yarn, and batting.
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New York
Seaboard
Rutger
Miller
Utica
N. Y
My. Miller
The Divorce Law of Illinois Grounds
The article lists Illinois divorce grounds such as prior marriage consanguinity affinity impotency adultery cruelty desertion and habitual drunkenness with two year limits for desertion and drunkenness. Either party may seek a divorce in the circuit court and residency requirements apply unless the ground arose in Illinois.
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Illinois
Arrivals at the Brewster House
A list of recent arrivals at the Brewster House includes numerous individuals and their origins such as Charles City Gardner Gardner Chicago and New York. Names span cities like Milwaukee Chicago Boston Rockford and Manchester Iowa with entries from England and Connecticut.
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Brewster House
Win
Barrett
Charles City
Town
Gardner
Chicago
I. P. French
A. W. Bailey
Dr. Ratliff
Shannon
Chas
Forbes
England
Jerome Blitz
Eugene Blitz
Louis &, Cook
J. S. Bristol
Fred. C. Rogers
N. Y
L. 8
Ifurd
Dubuque
Geo. A. Kincaid
Utica
L. A. Stone
Mer
Winter in Earnest Predicts Spring Yet Hankered
The piece laughs at weather prophets who claimed an early spring. A north easter last week froze nature blue and dumped a foot and a half of snow, followed by hail that layered the ground with ice. Trains ran late, sleighing returned, and water stored for wells became the new needed supply. The sage forecasters are urged to shovel snow and wait for slush to vanish before more forecasts.
Theodore Tilton Lectures On Divorce At Opera House
Theodore Tilton drew a small audience at the Opera House on Saturday evening. He lectured nearly two hours, criticising divorce laws across thirty seven states and contrasting South Carolina with others. The talk praised marriage’s sacredness while inviting disagreement on divorce. A church dispute in Rockford ended with Rev Odgers removed by the travelling elder.
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Theodore Tilton
Ilo
South Carolina
Illinois
J. A. Crain
Crain
Mr. Odgers
Rockford
W. C. Wilting
Dancing and Christianity in the Ball Room Debate
The piece argues dancing is not sinful and can fit Christian life. It critiques church opposition, notes dancing at weddings, and asserts morality rests in conduct, not the act itself. Comparisons are drawn with church sociables and tobacco use, defending ballroom culture as healthy and compatible with faith. A Dakota Farmers Club section follows with meetings, decisions on seed use, beet culture, and farm profitability.
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Ifalsus
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Chicago Court House
Horace Greeley
Stephenson County
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Aurora
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Warren, Ill
Ilinois
M. E
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Cliair
Harrison Diemer
N. A. Sanderlan
Millekan
Freeport
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Alvord
C. Koplin
J. L. Koplin
Northwestern Railroad
Mr. Alvord
Justice Amerling
A. D. Meacham
Non
J. M. Bailey
Embury Social and Literary Society
B. A. Yontz
DeWitt Clinton Ambrose
Sarah Swentzell
Lizzie Bentley
Lyceum
J. W. Carey
C. Kryder
Field, Leiter & CO
Madison & Market Sts
Corner State
Washington Sts
At-Dw
O. J. Shaper
Say
Pater Freeport
Stephenson
Grocerieg
Munn
Court House
Stephenson Street
C. M. Shaffer & Son
Stephenson S
Auditor of Public Accounts
United States
U.S. Internal Revenue
C. Collman
F. Gund
Sec’y
Wm, Polk
Removat
H. Whaler
Spring Street
Stiles, Jenkins & Stover Brothers
Rhode &Webster’s
Bridge Street
F.G. Wynkoop
J. R. Perkins & CO
Mark Twain
Stephenson County Agricultural Society
Ho Oelock A.m
German Insurance Co
German Insurance Company
Lditt F
F, Gund
William Sechrist
Chester TB. Crain
Sechrist & Crain
Irobate Noticia
Jacob _G. Devore
Jacob G. Devore
Loran
Winds
Wly
Jacob Acke
Johnathan Jay
Exchange Street
Knowlton's Bank
Decker Bros
Steinway, Alles & Davis Chickering
Tis. A. Gray
Lighte and
Greil Union
Standard, Loring & Blake
Smith
Cele
Singer Sewing Machines
Herrick’s
Tschunge Street
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