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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1872
Page
5
Caution about authentic Dr McLane's Liver Pills signatures and warnings against imitations. Clayton's promotes a reversible baby carriage for riding comfort and claims sole agency. Also features a rush on paper hangings with Dolly Varden designs and daily new stock.
Passengers for St Louis and the West and Southwest will find the Vandalia route the best in all respects. Trains of the Illinois Central make prompt connections with this line, making the trip quicker to St Louis than any other route at One Thousand Dollars to loan on good security. Inquire of E. P. BARTON.
Fragmentary timetable lists various trains to the east and connections. Mentions Pacific Express and Galesburg, Mendota, and Night Express times around 11 to 8 p.m. with scattered digits and notes of arrival and departure.
Prof Jules De Lamary of the Reformed Church of France is expected to lecture at the First Presbyterian Church next Sabbath morning and evening. Subject The Catacombs of Rome and the Testimony of the Martyrs in the Epitaphs of the Catacombs. The opportunity will be a rare hearing on a subject of profound interest.
The Great Eastern Menagerie Aviery Circus and Balloon Show is scheduled for Freeport on Thursday May 29. The event draws crowds, with booster notices in local reports.
Since 1856 the Mustang Liniment has grown from widespread advertising to become the leading external remedy for horses across the American market. It is praised in racing stables and car companies, and used by private owners. It is also valued for human ailments such as rheumatism neuralgia sore throat and burns with rapid healing effects.
To reduce stock of cooking stoves we offer some kinds at very low prices and on time. AN warranted to give satisfaction. 1é 48 to Lawver & Burchard.
Bargains in Boots and Shoes advertised at Stavery Snyder’s Sign of the Big Boot Mobdy styles new and good just received phone 16 52 41.
The Freeport Bulletin notes a rising favor for Sour Mash whisky as the season for freemen approaches, while a Dizon Telegraph and Herald line hints that temptations or delirium may strike like all seasons, linking the era to troubling temptations.
A car and its load of acids were burned in Galena last Thursday. In Lowell Massachusetts last year a temperance law existed and 2002 people were arrested for drunkenness.
The Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad along with the Michigan Central and Great Western Railroads have arranged passenger service to the Philadelphia Convention for 25 dollars round trip. Michigan Central travelers will ride via Niagara Falls.
The card of F K Hill Asq attorney at law may be found in another column. He recently arrived from Pennsylvania and comes highly recommended. His office is 117 Stephenson Street second floor in rooms formerly occupied by Burkhard Barton and Barnum.
At the Republican caucuses held in this city Saturday evening, the following named persons were selected as delegates to the County Convention meeting tomorrow. First Ward Chan N Knapp Rufus Kirk Buckley J J Piersol Hayes Wm P Emmert Second Ward Wm 1 Rhodes Buckman Albert Bliss Robert Little C F Mayers J Brown Taylor Third Ward O M Shaffer I Stoske f LS Cowles C J Pry L B Youngs 8 D Atkins
In the State Convention to be held at Springfield on the 22d, K. If. Griggs of this county is a candidate for Secretary of State. Supporters urge that Winnebago, the county with the strongest Republican district, deserves the post and that Griggs is a capable resident of this region. The Rockford Register calls the claim just and reasonable and hopes the convention will endorse this selection.
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