Regular Meeting Minutes 1881 City Officials Appointments
Regular meeting April 4 1881. Aldermen Dorman Taylor Waddell Porter Wagner present. Minutes approved. License transfer for J W Hollister approved with bond to Fred Bender. Treasurer and auditor reports read and filed. Fire marshal, police, and other officer reports reviewed. Election canvassed and officers elected. Adjourned to April 5 1881. Special meeting April 18 1881 appointed engineers and police officers. Salaries set for engines No 1 and No 2 at 55 per month. Various appointments and confirmations for city officials and staff. Mayor James McNamara in chair with new officers sworn in.
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Seasion
Dorman
Taylor
Waddell
Porter
Wagner
J. W. Hollister
Stephenson and
Chicago
Red Bender
Ald Wagner
Fred Bender
Treasury
Ald
Ald. Waddell
Ald. Wagner
Committee On Finance
J. R. Wagner
John R. Wagner
Chamberlin
John I. Rodemeier
R. Sheridan
City Police
Jas. Work
Simon Seifert
Ald. Porter
J.W. Barnes & Son
Jacob Paul
Bergman & Dorman
D. Adamson
Jacob Waldecker
Henry Siefert
D. Kuehner
Freeport ‘Telephone Exchange
John Wagner
John Musser
A. McMilan & Smith
Sanford & Rowell
Lod Ts
J.P. Rodemeier
ABC
R, Sheridan
Jas
Simon Siefert
Jas. Manion
Joseph Edwards
B. Huenkemeier
C. B. Brinkman
F. E. Josel
W. C. Clark
J. H. Stearns
Wagner Ssc Erseseernsereeces
James McNamara
Warren
Clark
D. B. Breed
J.C. Kane
W. A. Knipschila
Jacob Hartman
Nee Stoskopf
W. If Wagner
Zartman
George Wolf
Q. E. Heard
H. F. Hawke
A. Braisted
J. A. Sheetz
Robert Bell
H. N. Mynard
N.C. Baker
R. M. Keever
Leonard Stoskopf
N. W. Nieman
I. & Zartman
Third Ward
D.S. Rohrer
Horace Meigs
M. Stoskopf
B.S. Stoneman
C. Franz
John Kerch
John C. Kean
B.S. Chamberlin
F. EK. Josef
Wim. A. Knipschild
James NecNamara
Dorman, Wagner
Hartman
J. Hartman
W. H. Wagner
Louis Stoskopf
Stoskopf
Freeport Journal, Bulletin, Budget and
Anzeiger
Sexton
J. F. Rodemeier
Richard Sheridan
James Manion
J. Boyington
N. Gartman
George Fpiersol
J. Baker
Alderman Porter
J. M. Baker
Alderman Hartman
D. F. Shirk
Hartmant
Stoskopf, Taylor, Porter and Wagner
B. Brinkman
D. B. Steck
A. Rogers
J. Siefert
City Council Adjourns After Referencing Sexton Duties
The council votes to refer compensation of the City Sexton to the Committee on Public Grounds and requests a report at the next regular meeting on additional duties if a salary is approved. No further business, meeting adjourned. Attest: W C Clark, City Clerk.
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Taylor
W.C. Clark
A Brave Confederate's Devoted Wife and Gordon Tale
George Alfred Townsend of the New York Tribune recounts Mrs. Gordon, a Georgia lady with admired features and a bold history. She rode with General Gordon and the troops, bore a child during a Petersburg offensive, and rushed from Richmond to Winchester amid battle. Gordon, wounded at Antietam, greeted her with humor in Winchester while blood and injuries marked his return.
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Johnny Boquet
George Alfred Townsend
The
New York Tribune
Gordon
Georgia
Petersburg
Napoleons
Romanoffs
Antietam
Richmond
Winchester
Mollie
Woman Outwits Ticket Agent With Glittering Buttons
In a Iowa station a clever woman tricked a railroad clerk who joked about legal tender. She paid 24 cents with shimmering pants buttons, then later repeated the stunt with a new supply of buttons. The tale spotlights the clerk's power and a rival claim to authority.
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Cleveland
Iowa
The
Republic
Mischievous Buffalo Girls Disguise Themselves for Bernhardt Event
Two poor Buffalo girls lacking funds for orchestra chairs used charcoal to blacken faces and muffled themselves with cloaks to sit in the upper gallery. Their disguise failed as observers noted their non Negro coloring and they were taken to the police station and sent home.
Women’s Medicine Skepticism Refuted by Family Health
The piece argues that women’s careful study of medicines, especially Hop Bitters, proves their sagacity in keeping families healthy at low cost, challenging the bachelor’s earlier dismissive sentiment. It portrays women as wise health decision makers and notes Hop Bitters as a preferred remedy.
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Picayune
Autobiographical quip on Mr Carlyle and a double
The speaker recalls a passage from Carlyle’s autobiography mentioning “T. Carlyle, advocate” and describes errors and deceptions from age fifteen onward. He notes selling Carlyle’s pamphlets as his own and exchanging letters, even once hosting an ambassador in Berlin in his stead, a foolish vain moment he recalls as Antichrist in seriousness.
Carter’s Little Liver Pills Advertisement Claim
An old time ad promotes Carter’s Little Liver Pills claiming to cure sick headache and prevent recurrence with one pill per dose. Sold by Emmert and Burrell and available at druggists.
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Carter
Emmert & Burrell
Swiss Families Hired Amid Newport Watch Factory Demand
A Newport Kentucky watch factory brings forty Swiss families from Europe to fill skilled work on fine gold cases due to a shortage of native labor. The arrival underscores the plant’s push for high quality production and reliance on foreign expertise.
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Newport
Europe
Eclectic Oil hailed as cheapest cure for croup and lung diseases
A claim highlights Thomas Eclectic Oil as the most economical remedy needing only a small dose to cure. It is praised for use in bathing the chest or throat, internal intake, or inhalation for croup, diphtheria, and lung ailments. A Vienna statistics director notes 60,303 of 102,881 centenarians were women.
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Bureau of Statistics At
Vienna
Europe
ALOR
Trains Westbound and Eastbound Schedules Released
Train times list Westbound and Eastbound departures from Freeport and Milwaukee via the Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. Includes day and night passes, freight and live stock movements, connections to Racine Janesville and Lanark Junction, with agent J A Cotton noted.
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Freeport
Chicago
Milwaukee
Belvidere
Milwauke
Beloit
Janesville
Lanark Junction
J. A. CotTon
Ag’t
Journal Ad Offers Annuals to Prepaid Subscribers
The Journal remains the county’s favorite Republican family newspaper with wide circulation. Subscriptions cost 1.50 in advance or 2 if paid at year end. All who pay arrears and a year in advance receive a handsome illustrated Journal Annual containing calendar, reading material, and statistical tables.
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Union
Club Rates for Chicago and New York Papers
Advertisement offers prices for Chicago or New York papers including the Journal annual and weekly News. It invites correspondence from responsible locals and counties and promises prompt reception and appreciation.
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Chicago
New York
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