French German Conference Reports Progress on Peace Terms
A Frankfort dispatch says Favre and Bismarck delegates met with Bis marck and Arnim. Agreement on main points was reached and a treaty draft will be sent to the French Assembly and the German Emperor for ratification. Paris dispatches note unrest as Versaillists clash with Communists near Paris.
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Bismarck
France
Berlin
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St. Nicho 3
Champs Elysees
M. Perrin
Blanquin
Favre
Benin
Napoleon
America
Freeport's Rail Hub and Growth Prospects
In Freeport the Illinois Central plans to extend toward Chicago with other lines eyeing routes through the area. A new beet sugar factory attracts capital for about 200,000 dollars, promising 600 jobs as farms supply beets. the court house rises, a German Methodist church is completed, a new gun or "framework" factory starts, and Old Farmers Insurance strengthens. The town bills itself as a budding inland rail center with ambitious projects and economic vigor.
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Chicago Dtening Journal
Mlinois Central
Dunleith
Chicago
Galena Union
Northwestern Railroad
Chicago and
Bell‘ue
Dubuque
Portage
Madison
Oshkosh
Brent
New Court
Nll
Freeport
IIL
Farmers’ Insurance Company
Capitol Removal Debate Sparks Peoria Springfield Contention
In a Danville Times piece, B. C. Young complains about moving the Illinois Capitol from Springfield arguing it would devalue Springfield property and hurt investments. The column notes Peoria Bloomington Chicago bids and warns against a capitol on wheels amid lobbyists and monetary indemnities. A separate item reports a Holden Missouri printer shot his wife and then killed himself, with intemperance blamed.
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Danville Times
Illinois
Springfield
Peoria
Capitol
Bloomington
Chicago
Ib. C. Young
Enterprise
Holden
Burlesque Opera at the Opera House Impresses Local Audiences
A burlesque operatic entertainment played Wednesday and Thursday evenings last week in this city and drew praise from all attendees. Sophie and Jennie Worrell were highlighted as possible headliners on any stage, with localisms woven into a burlesque song. The mayoral jibe and a sharp critique of local politics provided comic fodder, while Captain George A Q Miller received high marks as a diligent post office detective, with recent Chicago Tribune coverage noting his arrest of a woodchopper for theft from a letter and another foe for forging a money order.
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Freeport
Sophie
Jennie Worrell
Mayor Cronkrite
Ed Cronkrite
George A. Q. Miller
Post Office Department
West
Ife
Chicago Tribune
Illinois
Mississippi River
Quincey
Alton
Edwardsville
Miller
Benson
Decatur
Staples and Taney Supply Bargain Prices at City Store
At J. G. Beast's 141 Stephenson Street, Staples and Taney offer goods priced to fit hard times with free city delivery.
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Staple and Taney
J. G
Beast
Stephenson St
Deep dyed scallawag J I Thompson flees to Iowa
A harsh colonial era-tinged notice accuses J I Thompson of being a scallawag who moved from Davis to Iowa without paying his printer's bill. The piece vows punishment by public blame, invoking grasshoppers as a metaphor for scouring away the offender.
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J. I’. Thompson
Davis
Iowa
Large Confirmation Class at Episcopal Chapel
A class of fourteen was confirmed in the Episcopal Chapel last Friday evening, one of the largest confirmations in the city.
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Episcopal Chapel
Paper mail changes require clear office details
Subscribers often fail to specify destinations when requesting mail changes. Without both current and future offices, editors must search long subscriber lists, especially when names repeat at different post offices. Always state both sending and receiving offices to avoid misdelivery.
Prices in Freeport Markets Provide Broad Commodity List
The Freeport market listing shows corn and rye per bushel, oats and barley prices, butter cheese eggs potatoes and onions per unit, dried fruits and salt, flour and meal varieties, meat and poultry rates for beef pork chicken and turkey, hides wool seeds and boards with assorted lumber figures, and hardware and milling supplies prices. The list includes Timothy and Clover seeds, various wool grades, buckwheat, and salt, with unit measurements and price points for each item.
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Lldi
Cccsosseeree
Bacdhias
C. Timothy
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Cyrus H. McCormick
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Leander J. McCormick
A. H. McCormick & Brothers
Conrad J. Fry
First National Bank of Freeport
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Henry Wartman
Frederick Hartman
J.P
Florence Station
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Elizabeth Road
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Oak Street
Lleyn
C. Gatliff
Preeport
Nebraska
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Frei
W. Walker
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Foot Spring Street
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Geneva
Pelton & Bigler
Opera House
Freeport, Il
Butte
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UG. G. Sunborn
David Bent
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