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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1869
Page
14
A fragment from the New York Herald recounts Mormon dissent in Utah with Mrs Stenhouse of the Salt Lake Telegraph excommunicated and criticizes Brigham Young as a strong but controversial leader. The piece notes mutinous currents, settlement hardships, and polygamous ties affecting family and politics in the Mormon community.
A fragment from a New York note highlights a model boarding house run by a male proprietor in a ratty Baxter Street area noted for cleanliness and affordable meals. It praises cheap dining and decent service while humorously describing umbrellas stacked after an April shower and a literary note on Wilkie Collins and the Yeovil marriage case link. The piece blends urban satire, social class observations, and a brief literary update from current periodicals.
In Naples coral jewelry attracts American buyers with lower prices and varied products. Value hinges on color size and texture. imperfections guide carving into faces or flowers. Prime pieces are large, perfect masses with symmetrical forms, used in brooches and bracelets, valued for perfection rather than ornament. Doctor Aollane notes the shift from floral to plain massive specimens.
The famed Republican Wigwam once on Lake and Market streets Chicago burned to the ground last Saturday. Built in 1860 to host the National Republican convention, it cost 6000 and could seat 15000. It helped Lincoln’s nomination and later was sold and repurposed for commerce.
In Eaton Rapids Michigan a drug clerk George Watson repelled three armed men who demanded whisky. He fought them off injuring one who lay bleeding while the others fled. the incident hints at robbery as their motive. A second feature laments the nuisance of life insurance agents and relentless solicitation.
The New Orleans Picayune reports Col J H Alexander, a notorious deceiver posing as a government agent, escaped custody on the Great Republic. He was seized after a $500 revenue-case affidavit but slipped away twice more, with letters hinting at suicide and plans to move to New York. Alexander, about 45, five feet eight, with Jewish features, German by birth, spoke broken English and had a fine demeanor. Authorities fear rings involved in revenue fraud may have spirited him away to avoid disclosures.
A reflective meditation on the idealized woman as the best in the world. The speaker praises a wife’s kindness devotion and memory, comparing her eyes to boundaries of the world and recalling a lifetime of love and faith. The piece closes with a church incident about a mistaken alms theft and a trial.
In a wartime anecdote General Sherman and General Howard share a joke about a medical powder. The tale follows the weary march through Georgia and the humorous misunderstanding as Howard’s tent receives a “seldlitz powder” ruse.
Accompany all night trade on this railway with baggage checked through and fares as low as by any route. Pickers via Erin Railway can obtain tickets at principal ticket offices in the west and north.
An 1860s prospectus extols Vineland New Jersey as a prime fruit and Wheat land market town south of Philadelphia. It touts soil quality, climate, rail access, shipping to New York and Philadelphia, abundant schools and churches, and strong public welfare protections for settlers to attract buyers and settlers.
Advertises Vineland New Jersey as a fertile, accessible farm land with early plowing, mild winters, and rapid wealth from settlement. Claims hundreds of orchards and vineyards, abundant timber land, and easy travel by carriage. Promotes investor patience, ready boarding, and detailed routes via CH. Landis.
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