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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1869
Page
9
Attorneys advertise the sale of five lending deeds and related instruments including quitclaim deeds and mortgages. The pitch markets the forms as carefully examined and superior, suited to descriptions and various lengths, used by leading local law firms and offered at standard rates.
The itemized list promotes subscriptions to the Freeport Journal and other periodicals with cash in advance and post paid delivery. It also notes dealers and ads for local businesses, lumber yards, cigars, job printing, and various product offers, urging readers to act quickly.
Rhodes and Bro on Stephenson street continues to stock meat and game year round now that the game law has expired. A new millinery and dress goods line arrives with hats, cloaks, ribbons, flowers, silks, velvets and fur trims from Boston Dye House. Suxerts and Davis announce fall and winter ladies and children's coats and cloaks with a driven emphasis on low prices and prompt service.
The notice highlights Misses Musser offering dresses and hair services at their Clay and Van Buren corner shop in Freeport Tl Stine Still Ahead, while Stine & Bro advertise cheap coats and overcoatings. Mrs A D Ferris promotes latest hat fashions and Cologne. Various rental rooms over Stine's store are available.
The Lena Star ad section announces Jamun W. Newcomer as agent for Lena subscriptions and ads, with others noting G W Tandy’s boot and shed line and McNamara’s boot styles. Mrs C O Wilson & Co offers new cloaks from a millinery shop, and shoppers hail McNamaras for best prices and unsold terms.
Emily Catherine Holmes, born a slave in Amestown Virginia about sixty years ago, was sold at age twelve and housed in New Orleans until Butler’s capture. She cooked for him and later worked in Berkshire Hotel and the American House. After four decades apart she travels from Massachusetts to Jamestown to visit her mother and brother.
The piece surveys eye scale against nature showing the house fly as median in size among species. It notes Santa Clara County find of giant redwoods over 100 feet in circumference near Visalia, possibly linked to Whitney surveys. Also reports an Artesian well in Bloomington Illinois stuck at 1400 feet, with iron plow fragments wedging the drill.
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