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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1875
Page
4
Readable items from Carroll Mirror and neighboring papers cover corn planting efforts and spring weather, local business notices, post office moves, road law copies, and urban improvements. Highlights include charity events, temperance moves, fire department plans, and upcoming parlor shows with local personalities and venues.
Preparations are underway for a May 25 and 26 1875 fair and festival at Wilcoxons Opera House to benefit the Young Men's Library Association. The event features supper, drama, music, tableaux and a spelling school conducted by Horatio O. Burchard and I F Kleckner with a prize for best speller. Admission 26 cents, supper 25 cents.
A Reform Club temperance base-meeting at the Opera House featured Rev. Mr. Conwell and Rev. Mr. Hardin, with Mrs. Kellogg delivering admonitions to youths and young women about avoiding drink, its dangers, and the social evil, framed by singing and prayers.
An ease and fluency seldom equaled by the best speakers, Rev. Mr. Byers, after the singing of beautiful niece, pronounced the benediction, and the large audience then reparred to their several homes.
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