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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1867
Page
5
The notice lists advertising rates by column width and length for the Nonpareil, detailing prices per inch and per column, including recent changes. It notes a daily fee of $5 per year for extended service and a 50 cent per line surcharge for all over the counted number.
The poem revels in March winds as loud, comic forces that batter windows and noses yet usher in balmy spring. It contrasts their boisterous, thundering mood with violets and daisies emerging and hints at corn, wheat, and birds to come.
A devotional verse depicts a starving heart's prayer to Christ for sustenance and strength. The speaker seeks mercy, restraint from evil speech, wisdom, and trust in God to guard treasure and guide through hunger’s temptations. The text contrasts earthly scarcity with spiritual sustenance and divine presence.
A serious and fatal riot occurred at Carlisle Pennsylvania on Saturday morning with citizens fighting soldiers. Nationwide Fenian excitement grows as troops are organized. relief is being sent from Nashville to Chattanooga flooded areas while rescue efforts continue. The Senate continued debate on the supplemental reconstruction bill.
A jumble of short notices reports crises and curiosities from past years including cider tanks exploding in Buffalo crimes in Normandy and Brittany a jewel hoard found in New Orleans a rich European family facing auction and a missing man in Wisconsin. Additional items cover Prohibition in Iowa a Ohio editor’s humor and patent notices from 1867 plus various local incidents and rumors across the era.
A jumbled page advertises tobacco and clothing firms, boarding at Al C Bray, medical services by Dr Lyon, Whitaker poems and books, Whitmer Snow Bound post, real estate and cheap groceries, Mayer & Sons oysters and baked goods, Broad the books and stationery dealer, and various sale offers. Includes boarding house, doctor's visit, suit making, and local shop promos with multiple names and addresses.
Sechrist has just opened a splendid stock of spring and summer goods for men’s and boys’ wear at M. Lovers No 89 Stephenson Street. Call and see it and eat there at once.
An old advertisement from Little City Crockery and Glassware lists a wide stock including crockery china, plated ware, mirrors lamps kerosene oil and various houseware. It touts a large assortment of toilet ware sets in new styles, table mats ser v ers and other home用品 items and mentions kerosene oil priced at 70 cents.
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