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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1881
Page
6
A Galena M E prayer meeting adopted a ten minute social handshake period after the hymn. Congregants rose and greeted each other to encourage attendance and friendliness. The piece suggests a visiting committee for Sabbath services to greet strangers and invite return. Kate Renel signs.
The column reports new lodges in Davis on May 4 and Dakota on May 12 and ongoing initiations in Galena. It details functional leadership under Uriah Copp, remarks on 80 plus lodges since September in Hingis, and a Wisconsin gain of 60 members. It previews further notes from New York, Topeka, and New Hampshire with promising temperance work.
A Russian story reports a workman accusing colleagues of twenty five blows with a stick. The magistrate dismisses the men as not blameworthy, while a writer argues drunkenness is worsened by home habits and class example matters. He urges the upper classes to set a better example and judge leniently.
An appeal invites lodges to submit news and spicy articles to boost JOURNAL circulation. A trial club is encouraged. four months cost fifty cents, and a G Y T column may appear in every issue. Send subscriptions or communications to Freeport Illinois address.
A Picayune critique rebuts the idea that women lack political or medical influence, praising their keen study of medicines. It asserts that women select Hop Bitters as the best, keeping families healthy at a nominal cost and proving such old-fashioned views baseless.
A collage of brief items including fashion notes, a circus quip, a poker anecdote, a song creator, Gen Pillow’s daughter, a Mammoth Cave discovery, Mexican War veterans, Canada’s governance, the Czar, Boston theater outreach to the blind, a cave-day joke, and a Liver Pills ad promising relief from Sick Headache and Indigestion.
A collage of spoof ads and brief vignettes notes patent remedies for constipation and piles, a political quip about the Viceroy of the Celestial Empire, court rulings on stock margins, jokes about Jay Gould and a jackass investor, misadventures in journalism, and light sketches of Clara Barton, Kentuckian heirs with quirky names, arson legal quirks, and a Canterbury student prank at a Quaker meeting.
A playful letter conveys deep affection from a devoted suitor to a young beloved. He speaks of loving her more for faults than virtues, framing love as boundless and sincere across intimate terms. The tone blends whimsy with tender devotion.
A local directory lists numerous churches with pastors and service times across denominations including German Evangelical Roman Catholic Zion Episcopal Baptist and Free Methodist. It also notes city officials mayor city clerk treasurer attorney marshal street commissioner surveyor and aldermen across wards with names and offices.
Clerk I F Kleckner, Treasurer W W Hutchison, Recorder Dan Brewster, Sheriff Captain Stewart, Surveyor Hiram Shons. All county offices are in the Court House.
Board members Wm. O. Wright W. G. Barnes and H. J. Porter with Superintendent Chas Snyder announce the office in the High School building and hours from 8 to 9 o clock a m for public access.
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