Pioneer stock grower Beebe of Freeport featured
Lord William L Beebe an ademptor stock grower and longtime Seneca Falls to Freeport pioneer is highlighted. The piece traces his 1839 journey from Byron to Grandtour for fifty cents a day plus grain loads, his hard pioneer labor, and eventual ownership of Summit Farm a 170 acre tract. Now fourteen years in stock business Beebe owns 26 head and recently sold a high quality eight month calf for 200 dollars to Michael Lyster of Ogle. Readers are invited to contact Beebe for well-bred stock.
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William L. Beebe
Ft. Beebe
Beebe
Seneca Falls
N. Y
Waring
York Central Railroad
Michigan
Illinois
Stephenson
Chicago
Hoey
West
Summit Farm
Freeport
Ile
Michael Lyster
Ogle
Freeport Public Schools Attendance Report and Local Ads
Attendance report for the month ending April 26 1879 appears amid ads for Mrs A D Ferris goods including bonnets ribbons and new hats. An unrelated marriage notice notes a wedding on March 20 1872 with a Shappy couple and vague personal lines.
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Freeport Public Schools
Freeport Markets Report Bidwell & Co. Update
Freeport markets report from the Freeport Journal A Prior dated Tuesday May 14, 1872 notes Bidwell & Co. activity. Details on prices and trades are limited in the readable text. The item reflects local commerce and merchant movements in Freeport.
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Freeport
Freeport Journal
Market Report From May 13 1872 Commodities and Livestock
Wheat prices drifted, No 2 Spring at 1.5414 1.6014 cash with June and July bids. flour quiet. Corn dull with No 2 at 47 44 48 340 cash or seller May through August. oats quiet, pr 38 39 40 cash and seller June July. rye dull at 91 93 No 2. Barley weak with No 2 at 70 7l. Lake freights 8c for corn to Buffalo by sail. Mess pork closed 12.65 12.80 cash, 12.87 12.90 seller June, 13.10 July. Lard 8 8 9. Live hogs quiet, sales 4.4 4.10. beef cattle active 5.10 6.25 good cows and steers, 5.40 5.90 fat to good, 6 6.75 top for good shipping beef.
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Buffalo
Mess Park
Public auction of Illinois land in Stephenson County
Special Commissioner will sell, by decree of the Stephenson County Circuit Court, parcels in Rock Grove comprising parts of Sections 29 32 30 31 in Township 29 N Range 9 E. Lands include 30 55.57 80 and 36 acres plus additional quarters. Auction Thursday June 27 1872 at 10 am. Terms: one third cash, balance in two annual installments with 8 percent interest secured by mortgage. DAVID ZIMMERMAN Commissioner. Joun Coats Solicitor.
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State of Illinois
Stephenson County
Circuit Court
Said County
Aaron Bolender
Barbara Fisher
Solomon Fisher
Adam Bolender
Levi Bolender
Frederick
Bolender
Elizabeth Maurer
George Maurer
Matilda Kleckner
Jackson Kleckner
John Bolender
Isaac Bolender
Reuben Bolender
Illinois
Rock Grove
Twenty-nine
Ated
David Zimmerman
Joun Coats
Compl
Guardian's Sale of Infant's Undivided Half Interest
Guardian of Ellen and Louisa Mayer, infants, by order of the Chancery Court of Stephenson County Illinois, will sell at public auction their undivided one half interest in the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 11 Township 26 Range 7 dth BP M Florence, Freeport. Sale June 6 1872 at ten o'clock a.m. Terms: one third cash, one third in one year, balance in two years, secured by water and trust debt, not to be sold for less than fifty dollars per acre. Dated May 13 1872.
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Uardian
Ellen
Louisa Mayer
Ander
Chreatt Court
Stephenson County
Ilinois
Florence
Illinois
Freeport
Freeport Art Study Rooms Open January First
Academy of Design Chicago will open rooms over McHenry's Art Gallery in Freeport for scholars in water color India ink postal painting and drawing. Courses include crayon drawing painting and photographic finishing. Scholars admitted anytime through a thorough course at affordable prices.
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Academy of Design
Chicago
McHenry
Wheaton
Best & Morgan Introduce New Shawls and Linens Line
Best and Morgan showcase a large sale week featuring stripe and new style shawls from 5.00 to 89.75, double faced Ottoman Shawls at 7.00, Llamma Lace Points and Saques priced 15.50 18.50 and 21.50, Linen Victoria Lawn Stripe Seersucker suits from 4.75, plus 500 parasols in varied styles from 0.45 to 10.00, marking an expansive new line.
Garment Fabrics Sale Offers Wide New Silks and Textiles
This week buyers find new lot black Gross Grain and Glace Silks from $1 and Japanese Poplin at 60 and 75 cents. Silk warp Pongees and Black Alpacas with Mohair lusters, poplin makes from 30 to 75 cents. Enlish German Scotch raiding varieties at 40 cents. Gross Cloths Seer suckers from 25 cents up. A vast line of Mar seilles and Piques in fresh styles.
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Marseilles
Millinery and Hat Sale Promises Unseen Inducements
For the next 30 days offers in Millinery Straw Goods Ribbons Laces and Flowers at unprecedented prices. 500 doz Hats and Bonnets in Rough Ready Marine Regetta Dolly Var den Swiss Milan Pedil Italian Leghorns Misses and Children hats. Trimmers in this department boast finest taste and elegance as new lots arrive in Ladies Furnishing Goods.
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Rough & Ready
Marine
Regetta
Milan
Prompt to Prioritize Regular Customers at Our Store
The speaker notes an enormous department with no time for paving and store work. The workforce focuses on ordering work, advising regular customers will receive first attention. In-house purchases and services promise superior service and favorable charges, while they remain willing to assist all customers where possible.
Wholesale promise to undercut rivals in Chicago and St Louis
A wholesaler announces full readiness in all departments to supply goods at the lowest prices, boasting capital over five hundred thousand if needed. They pledge cash purchases of every dollar’s worth of goods and claim substantial savings for wholesale dry goods or millinery buyers, including time, freight, and travel costs.
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Chicago
St. Louis
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A. D. Ferris
Itice
Ype Ltd
Stenhin
Illand
Ephenson Street
Ills
Mus
A. D. Fexuis
Veland
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Joliet
Elle
Lena
Alvording
Udgond
Prin Saneoe
Jawking
Ttnle Bengon
Mitchells
Fulding
Oeeeeres
Russell Teereeee
Alvor Stearda
Nurner
Atyorp
Bidwell & Co
Breen
Todecco
Cessssesceerseecasense
Sanford
Chicago Market
Commissioner's
W. G. Barnes & Co
Galena Street
H. P. Bigelow & Co’s
Stephenson Street
Sandwich Manufacturing Company
W.G. Barnes & Co
Singer Sewing Machine
Estey
L. Hall
M. E
Zanesville, C
Estry
Estry Co
Geo. B. Thompson
Berwick
M. BE
Harry Horner
Joel Darting
Alleghany Quartette
Pittsburgh
Annie E. Wells
Dundaff
R. G. Williams
Castleton
WM. Jackson
Somerset
D. B. Byers
Estry Ongar
Ord c& Wise
Special Relief Committee
Chicago Tribune
Singer Manufacturing Company
Wheeler & Wilson
Howe
Grover & Bakerdi
Wilcox & Gibbs
Florence II
Finkle & Lyon
Blees
Alma
Wilson
Western Empire
Manhattan
Davis
Elliptic
Singer “New
Stinger Manufacturing Company
Wheeler & Wilson Co
Grover & Bakers. M. Co
Weed 8. M. Co
Howe Machine Co
Wilson 8B. MM. Co
American B. H
G. F. Thompson
Union
Pe Singer Machine
John Hea
Opera House
Equitable Life Assurance Society
The
United States
City of
H. L. Jennison
Washington Street
Dearborn and
Washington Sts
Mishuba
Shannon
Mnols
Philadelphia
Standard Farm Machinery
B. Mishler
G. M. Clayton
Brewster House
Sugt
Academy OF Art—Something
Best & Morgan
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