Rural Affairs and springtime talk in Freeport highlights
Rural affairs stir Freeport with notes on Dolly Varden, weather, beauty of trees, Fourth of July plans, and the Brewster House as a tourist stop. The column mentions agricultural implement demand, a big Turner reunion at Des Moines on June 8, and a rain tally of ten million dollars for the region last week. The Great Eastern Circus comes to Freeport on the 29th, while new hotel ventures and local speeches fill inside pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turner
Des Moines
Mrs Dinwiddie To Return From Camp Douglass
Mrs William Barnes of this city has been visiting her daughter Mrs Dinwiddie at Camp Douglass near Salt Lake City. Mrs Dinwiddie has improved enough to travel home to Freeport with Lieutenant Dinwiddie and Secretary Black. They expect to arrive Friday.
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William Barnes
Camp Douglass
Salt Lake City
W. A. Dinwiddie
Dinwiddie
Freeport
Secretary Black
The Sewer Question in Freeport city council debate
The excerpt argues for extending the Bridge Street sewer rather than rely on a cesspool. It recalls a sewer built sixteen years ago and urges the Common Council to extend it to the Court House to prevent polluted wells and disease, appealing to citizens to support sewer construction.
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Bridge Street
Freeport
Court House
the Common Council
Freeport Zouaves Call to Decorate Fallen Heroes Graves
The Freeport Zouaves invite all citizens to decorate graves per Gen. Burnside's order on Thursday May 80th. The company meets at 64 o'clock P M at the armory in citizen attire and caps, marches to the cemetery without music, holds the usual decoration ceremony, then an address is expected. Flowers may be left at the armory after 8 P M for those unable to attend.
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Freeport Zouaves
Burnside
Grand Army of the Republic
Journal and Bulletin Readers Clash Over Horace Greeley Change
The piece questions which paper altered its view more Horace Greeley. It argues the Journal kept its stance while the Bulletin shifted, accusing the Bulletin of defending Tammany and the Ku Klux as their guilt becomes clear. The Rochelle Register reports thieves in Whiteside county.
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Racine Journal
Horace Greeley
Gratz Brown
Bulletin
Journal
Horace Creeley
Greeley
Geeley
The
Rochelle Register
Whiteside County
Appeal to Horace Greeley to retract editor insult
A public letter pleads Horace Greeley to withdraw his remark that the Bulletin editor wears more ignorance under one hat than any editor. The author notes Greeley’s Freeport visit, urges justice, and cites evolving editor support and a plan to publish Greeley’s retractation. The piece frames political progress and demands a line for publication.
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Horace Greeley
Freeport
Greeley
Greelay
Bulletin
Mr. Greeley
Horace
Tribune
Frespont Journay
May Day Fun At The Bluffs In Pecatonica
Pecatonica notes report a May-day party at The Bluffs with about thirty youths enjoying outdoor games in spring wind. Andrew, the school commissioner, sold his hardware store to A D Stitsel as he returns from Chicago. A fatal accident west of town involved a four year old girl burned by a brush fire. she died early next morning. Dated Pecatonica May 4 1872.
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Dolly Wardens
Andrew
A. D. Stitsel
Chicago
Charles Watson
M. Pecatonica
Semiramis
Pariah
Ancalon
Diadorna
Ninua
Hangling Gardens
Babylon
Strabo
Herodotus
Xerxes
Sacredotal
Shinar
Belus
Jeremiah
Tduween
Amram
Gabalene Range
Edom
Jebel Neby Haroon
Mount
Hor
Aaron
Egypt
Seir
Moab
Wady el Arabah
Halifax
Palmyra
Abishai
Joab
Amaziah
Judah
Jebel Ettyh
Midian
el Paran
Ettyh
Etham
Shur
Kadash
Desert
Gibbon
Sesostris
Cyrus
Pompey
Trajan
Arabia
Augustus
Bulletin hints at reading back files of Fregfort Journal
The Bulletin suggests a Bulletin man may read back files of the Fregfort Journal. It praises such reading as beneficial and refreshing after wading through Democratic exchanges.
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Bulletin
Fregfort
Vandalism at Court House Sparks Marshal's Guard
A group of youths swaggered into the Court House last Sabbath and defaced several nearly finished rooms with charcoal marks. To prevent a recurrence, Marshal Dryer stood guard at the building all day yesterday and again last Sabbath.
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Courthlouse
Marshal Dryer
Spring improvements boost local industry output
Among the spring improvements we notice that Messrs. azen and Morgan have set up a more powerful engine in their foundry. Messrs. Snyder and Upp have erected an addition to their pump factory. The Torrent engine is again in working order.
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Messrs
Telscopic Views from Mount Seir and Ancient Lands
Friendly reader travels a panoramic survey of biblical and ancient sites from Mount Seir toward Palmyra and Babylon. The narrative names Mir es Seba, Dead Sea, Mount Nebo, Palmyra, Babylon, Belus temple, and Nimrod era ruins, with historical notes on Nebuchadnezzar, Zenobia, and Xerxes, ending with reflections on Edom and desert peoples.
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Fiden
Mount
Seir
Judah
Mir-es-Seba
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Asphaltites
Dead Sea
Henderson
Edwards
Sodom
Gomorrah
Admah
Zeboim
Pentapolis
Callirrhos
Lieut. Lynch
Mediterranean
Guy Lussac
Nebo
Moses
Syria
Arabia
Tadamora
Palmyra
Palmtrees
Solomon
Zenobia
Odonatus
Aurelian
Italy
Durah
Nebuchadnezzar
Naval Power and Yemen’s Reductive Effort Echoed
The article notes that only naval power could claim success against Yemen, referencing Mohammed’s holy standard and a kingdom once a Persian province with seven Homeritas princes. It ends with a farewell from Freeport, dated May 11, 1879, signaling a weary reader’s final reflections before night.
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Yemen
Mohammed
Choaroes
Freeport
Lena Items shows town growth and curious finds
The Lena item notes heavy rains refresh the town, rising trade including 149,100 eggs shipped to New York and Philadelphia, and extensive tobacco storage. It reports horse shipments, new building plans, a mud puppy specimen, lectures in physiology, Republican caucus delegates, liquor license support, and local social events while mentioning transport and a Galena saloon case.
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Algo
W. Clark
Ee York
Philadelphia
Minnesota
Lena
S.J. Dodds
Fisher's Dam
Thomas A. Smith
Thomas A
N. Ford
N. Perrin
H. G. Fowler
Chas. Waite
P. H. Kaufman
James McFatrich
William Andrews
E. T. Perry
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rural Affairs
Dolly Varden
Brewster House
H. C. Burchard
W. G. Barnes & Co
J. H. Prescott
the Exchange
Polo
Stephenson County
Fulton
Zouaves
Charley
O. Burchard
Freeport Journal
Grant
Madison
Wisconsin
Army of the Tennessee
Galesburg
A. al. Keigwin
Presbyterian Church
N. Keigwin
Burlingame
Kansas
E. E. Wise
Ford & Wise
Chinton
Polo Press
Gann
Warren Sentinel
Falcon Journal
General Assembly
McHenry
Allen
Princeton
Mellenry
Oneco
Orangeville
Illinois State Dental Association
Kingsley
Mills
Burrell Best
Clayton
Sanford and Mann
Stephenson Street
Mason
Brown
Smith
Nathan Ford
Illinois
Congregational Church
Ford
Mt. Labanon
Holy Land
Yankton Press
E.A. Yontz
Circuit Clerk
Wm. Polk
Yontz
Pecatonica Items
Aotatio Cholara
L. A. Mhaba, M D
Perescopite
Mount Seti
Maroot
Pietro Della Valle
Nimrod
Cush
Babel
Cumadoaté
Euphrates
Bagdad
Chaldea
Noah
Australia
Davenport
C Go Street
van Buresa Street
Livingstone
Robert Glaister
England
Galena Gazette
Galeng Street
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