Oct. 3 1881 Connell Proceedings City Council Meeting
The October 3 1881 regular session notes read by Mayor with Aldermen Bartman Taylor Waddell Porter Wagner present. Reports on September finances police fines city scales cemetery taxes and street labor. Ordinances adopted including sidewalks and a special collector. Resignations and appointments of city officers recorded. Special meetings follow for funds and an October 25 election result declaring A J McCoy elected Alderman Third Ward for the unexpired term.
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Bartman
Taylor
Waddell
Porter
Wagner
H. C. Burchard
City Cemetery
Ald. Waddell
Ti. Janssen
Spring Street
Ald
Fire Department
F. E. Josel
Ald. Taylor
Ald. Porter
Ch&nsw.rr, Co
Treasury
Committee On Finance
J. R. Wagner
P. M
G. W. Owler
J. P
St. Joseph Cemetery
Finance
G. W. Oyler
John R. Wagner
D. F. Shirk
N. Gartman
Jona Boynton
F. Baker
City of
Freeport
Ald. Wagner
Joseph Edwards
Stephenson Street
Taylor Avenue
Sirs Purinton
Freeport Gas Co
Bas
J. W. Potter
Whos, Carr
John Sehlett
John Koehler
S. I. Taylor
Ditto
Council
A. V. Richards
Wm. Parks
Dragging River
R. Sheridan
James Manion
Siemon Siefert
W. A. Knipschild
St. Comr
C. B. Brinkman
Aldeee
Seth Mann & Co
Sanford & Rowell
J. F. Rodemeier
Calaboose
J. Edward
George C. Weaver
J. Edwards
Elias Perkins
Perkins
City Scales
Engineer Weaver
Pottersfeld
Nortman
Stoskopf
W. C. Clark
New York House
H. J. Porter
Tlartman
A. J. McCoy
Peter Muldoon
Pleasant Parish
Phillips
Ald. Stoskopf
A.J. McCoy
Animanaly
The New Senate Changes in Membership
The article notes Senate reshuffles after the last spring session with resignations from New York’s Conkling and Platt and successive successors Warren Miller Lapham Burnside Aldrich. It mentions earlier changes from Blaine Windom Kirkwood and lists current Republicans Democrats and independents. It also surveys the tooth manufacture industry in Providence with details on factories, materials, processes and costs.
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Senate
New York
Messrs. Conkling
Platt
Warren Miller
Lapham
Conkling
Burnside
Nelson W. Aldrich
Blaine,Windom and
Kirkwood
Providence Journal
United States
Paris
Puget Sound Leads In Regional Shipbuilding Growth
Ten years of growth show Puget Sound, Humboldt and Coos Bays outpacing San Francisco in ship production. Current forecasts estimate about 11 000 tons this year across Puget Sound Humboldt and Coos Bays, with old measurement totaling 7 500 tons new. Carter s Backache Plasters praised for quick relief of backache dyspepsia and chest pains in 25 cent packages sold by Emmert & Burrell.
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Puget Sound
Humboldt and Coos Bays
San Francisco
Humboldt and
Coos Bays
Carter
Cartier
Emmert & Burrell
Arlington Minstrels Cheer With Warner Cure
In April last twenty four members of Arlington's minstrels were taking Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure. It made them happy.
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Arlington’s Minstrels
Warner
Superstitions and odd beliefs in colonial West Indian lore
A collage of magical beliefs and folk lore from the West Indies and early American notes. It cites eye water from a piebald horse to gain sight of jumbies and other beings, curses tied to pregnancy, and remedies and omens tied to weather, plants, and metals alongside a 1880 Ohio testimonial and brief notices on steam navigation and Hop Bitters advertisements.
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Atlantic
Pacific Navigation Company
Royal Mail
Plymouth
Adelside
South Australia
Suez Canal
Indian Ocean
Adelaide
Red Sea
Cotopaxi
Balm in Gilead Eclectic Oil Offered Across Land
An advertisement claims Thomas Eclectric Oil provides a universal remedy for internal and external pains and inflammation. It promises affordable pricing and widespread availability through every dealer in the land.
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Gilead
Dr Frazier's Root Bitters Medicine Advertisement
An 19th century medicinal advertisement touts Frazier's Root Bitters as a strictly medicinal diuretic and tonic for liver kidneys bowels and blood. It claims benefits for dizziness apoplexy dyspepsia fever and ague dropsy skin diseases scrofulous ulcers and weakness in both genders. A customer testimonial from Mrs M Martin of Cleveland praises rapid improvement and health. Sold by Henry & Co at $1 per bottle.
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Frazier
Dr. Frazier
M, Martin
Cleveland
Henry & CO
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Mhone
Davis
Alabama
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James L. Pugh
Arkansas
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James D. Walker
California
James
Fa Tey
John F. Miller
Colorado
Henry M. TW Dler
Nathanial P. Hill Conneonicut
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Jos. R. Hawley
Delaware
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Thos. F. Bayard
Florida
Wilkinson Day
Charles W. Jones
Georgia
Reng. H. Hill
Joseph H. Brown Illino
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John A. Logan
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W. B. Allison
Kanbas
Preston B. Plumb
Mississippi
Ly C. Lamar
Ji . George
Missouri
George G. Veat
I. M. Cockrell
Nebraska
C. H. van Wyck
Nevada
J . P. Jones
James G. Farr
New Hampshire
B. H. Rillins
Henry W. Blair
New Jersey
J. R. McPherson
Wm. J
Nelson W.aldrich Bouth
Carolina
AL. C. Butler
Wade Hampton
Tennessee
Isham G. Harris
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Coke
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Morrill
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WM. Mahomi
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Washingtonville
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Kendall
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Stephenson CO
Chicago
OUR Portrait Gallery
Freeport Journal
WEB Ocean
Inter Ocean
the Journal
Freeport, Ill
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