Washington Letter on Currency and National Moments
The Washington Letter notes the growing popularity of silver dollars and the treasury's holdings, with $52,232,840 in vaults and $812,221,010 in circulation as certificates. It reports a boom across industries, rising real estate prices, and bankers urging investors toward real estate paying 6 to 8 percent. The piece describes the Grant unveiling plans, a grand arch, liberty poles, and wide civic preparations in Washington. It also cites railway mail service data, including 59 rail lines, 93 million miles of service, 1.66 billion letters handled, and 980 million newspapers distributed, with 703 thousand errors. It mentions political talk in Massachusetts about Ben Butler and the November elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
New England
Gen. Thomas
Army of the Cumberland
Grant
West Point
Naval School
Annapolis
Seventh Regiment
New York
Roessele
Arlington
Gen. Grant
Washington
Nayes
White House
Railway Mail Service
Lost Cause
Tilden
Pantaloon
Business Maxims. Caution is the father of security.
A compact list of maxims for prudent conduct in commerce. It warns that caution guards wealth, prompt action helps success, and long-winded talk or wasteful habits harm enterprise. Emphasizes receipts, system in business, and careful partnerships. References to Rothschild underscore distrust of misfortune.
Last Will and Testament a Drunkard Tracked in Echoes
A fragmented, somber collection of moral reflections and anecdotes. It includes a ruinous self portrait of a drunkard, ruminations on Washington’s legend via a schoolboy tale, praises to a virtuous woman, courtroom repartees, and a late night water prank. The pieces evoke regret, family loss, and public shame.
Funeral Sermon Derailed by Husband Interjection
In Slawson Ct a funeral service was interrupted when the husband of the deceased urged the minister to focus on the burial rather than his own grief. He told the crowd to "Just throw your heft on the corpse," prompting a pause in the remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Verginny
George
George Sesi
Ali
Adersonville
Slawson
Worthy
Braking train question sparks odd reply and vows to love
A traveler on a down train asks where they would go if brakes failed. The conductor jokes it depends on past life. Dean Stanley fails to rise to the moment performing a wedding for Professor Tyndall with a zoological toast.
Baptists Ask Why Blue Fish Spoil So Soon
A party of Baptist clergymen fishing off Martha's Vineyard debated if a specimen was a blue fish. A native fisherman quipped they are Baptists because they spoil so soon after being taken from the water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha’s Vineyard
Racy Victorian Jokes In Toasts And Train Stop Fare
A lively clipping recounts a bawdy guest claim of being undressed in a room and a crusty toast about fire engines like old maids always ready but never wanted. It also includes a comic railroad pass quip about embracing a wife and the agent’s cautious reply.
Household Cookery Tips and Techniques
A compact guide offering practical kitchen guidance on creams, eggs, sauces, boiling methods, and dough handling. It covers cream types and uses, whisking and boiling eggs, preventing discoloration in soups, preventing lumpy sauces, boiling fowl with yolk-cranched sauces, tea water ratios, pasta tenderness, crust binding with egg yolk, potato freshening, pudding molds, raisin prep, browning sugar handling, frying cutlets and steaks, tepid bread water, and dumpling cooking order.
Cruel Treatment of Coolies in Dutch Islands Trade
The Shanghai Sin Pao exposes harsh conditions for coolies employed in the Dutch islands of the Straits. Tattooed on arrival, never released, denied letters or medical care, fed one pound of rice daily, and buried under banana trees when dead. Ransom is refused and deaths exceed ten thousand since the trade began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Ile
Mule Drives Better Than Horse Says Reverend
A fragment quotes Rev. Murray claiming a mule outdrives a horse. The writer recalls a horse refusing to pull and entering the carriage seat, joking that a mule would give an easier ride to the cemetery. The mood is humorous and reflective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rev. Murray
Mr. Murray
Derrick
Church listings and service times on Pleasant Street area
A list of local churches with addresses and service times. Includes Evangelical churches on Pleasant Street and Oak Street, German Evangelical at John’s and Exchange, German Reform, and multiple Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Roman Catholic, Zion Episcopal, and Baptist congregations. Each entry notes pastor names and Sunday School times, with morning and evening services, typically around 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. and 7 p.m., plus noon or 12:00 p.m. Sunday School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Street
West of Exchange
Sunny School
Emanuel
Oak Street
Pleasant
Hneister
Union Street
Corner State Road
Hoffmeister
Methodist Episcorpal
Embury
Exchange Street
Williams
Young
Methodist Episcopal
Stephen Const
Northeast Corner Cherry
A. W. Jewett
Chicago &J
Corner Spring
Hiller
Presbyterian—First
Stephenson St
Cor Walnut
H. D. Jenkins
Presbyterian
Cor Pleasant
J. Giffen
Presbyterian—Third—German— Exchange
Secor Pleasant
E. A. Elfeld
St Joseph
St Mary’s Irish Union
Sts of Mary
Mangan
Baptist- Stephenson
Cherry
Cooley
Chicago
Co& N
N W
Vial C
LC BR Raven
I Eastern
URE Western
Vie
Monroe
Wis
Cedarville
Orangeville
Qoneeco
Shuey’s
Buena Vista
Grove
Damascus
McConnell
Smith
Atkins, P.M
Cronkrite and City Officials Listed in City Offices
Be L Cronkrite mayor proclaims Cronkrite’s grocery store on Stephenson Street and lists office locations for city clerk treasurer city attorney marshal street commissioner surveyor and aldermen by ward, with names such as Irvin Crane Kuehner Zartman Porter Wagoner among the board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BE. L. Cronkrite
Cronkrite
Procery
Stephenson Street
Trembor
Fry's
H. Ratz
Barne’s
J.C. Kean
Fry
Chamberlin
Rogers
Josef
County Officials and Education Board Contact Info
List of county officials including Kleckner County Clerk W W Hutchison Treasurer Danl Brewster and Sheriff J R Leigh. Board of Education President F Bartett with Wright Barnes as Superintendent Chas C Snyder in High School building with office hours from 7:30 to 9 oclock am.
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Kleckner
W. W. Hutchison
Treasuer
Dan’l
Brewster
J. R. Leigh
Court House
McNamara
Stephenson St
Benet
Illinois Central Time Card Train Schedule Fragment
Choppy OCR shows freight and day pass times for trains westbound and stops at Freeport with departures and arrivals in mixed lines. Mentions night and freight services with specific times and notes Saturdays excepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Teave
Chicago
Freight St
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. Epiron
Ben Butler
Massachusetts
Bay State
Ben
Phaks
Shell
Rothchild
House of Rothchild & Co
Fourth Street
Dean Stanley
Professor Tyndall
CLTY
Williame Street
Corner Union
Wernley
Public Schools
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R’y
Racine
Milwaukee
Biee
Chicago & Northwestern
Freeport Post Office
Business Garde
Williams & Babcock
Steffen & Bangasser
Hettinger Hall
Ilinois
BANKS
First National Bank
United States Deposteery
C. B. Sidwell
F. Defornst
the Second National Bank
Thompson Wilcoxon
Jacob Krohn
Wm, Young
David Neidigh
John H. Adams
Michael Sawyer
Alfred H. Wink
Jonn Kenegy
Pells Mann
John H, Addams
L. W. Guitaey
Cashier
W. H. Taggart
Munn’s
Kingsley & Mills, Dentists
Hison’s
Sopposite
Second National Bank
W. S. Caldwell
Wilcoxon Opera House
Esther W. Taylor
James I, Neff
J. H. Stearns
Neff & Stearns
Bailey & Neil
Attorneys AT Law
Illinois
E. L. Colby
D. B. Schulte
At &8
R. Pelck
Insurance
Insurance Agency
WM. Trembor
Fry’s Block
Riephensen Street
Fverpool
London & Globe
Ennsylvania Fire Ins. Co
Insurance Company of North America
Philadelphia
Phoenix Ins. Co
Springfield
Springfield Mass
Continental Ins.Co
N. Y
Girard Ins. Co
General Land Office
Jeremiah Dean
Western Star
C.F
Odd Fellow’s
W. W.krape
C. P
Y Geo
LOWIS
Scribe
Swarts & Stocking
Popular Drug Store
P.&. Thomson, J. D. Bethel
Fm, Thomson
Thomson & Sons
Broadway
P. O. Box
J. R. Perkins
Bridge St
van Buren
Journal Office
Family Newspapt
the Journal
Bill Heads
Tendin Publican
Journal Printind
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