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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1881
Page
4
The Freeport Journal and Weekly Inter Ocean offer: pay arrears and a year in advance to receive time through January 1, 1882. New subscribers billed for a year will have credit applied to January 1, 1883. Special arrangement grants a free year of both papers.
Local notices report Germania Fair beginning next Monday evening. Galena citizens attend court as witnesses in Sager vs Wolfe. Depths include town health, deaths, weddings, and plans for a grand ball by Germania Wall Hose Co. plus updates on town figures and a new patent claimant.
Items report teaching assignment for J J Shaffer near Baileyville and legal brief in Galena. Galena attendees include Stoskopf Crain Meacham and Geib attorneys at circuit court. Wonderly couple visit Freeport after wedding. Baptist Society plans festival and oyster supper at Armory Hall. Fry Concert at Opera House drew under a hundred. Gellert Welty returns sick with typhoid from Seward. Baby girl born to Mr and Mrs James W Killion. M M Fenner to continue with Kingman Co at higher salary. John A Davis Post 98 G A R notes meeting December 2 with 7:30 start for officer election.
The caller identified as G M Brown business agent for C H Smiths Double Mammoth Uncle Toms Cabin Company. He is described as pleasant and well traveled, an ex naval officer who served 13 years in the U S Navy and was on Admiral Porters staff during the war, resigning as Lieutenant Commander in 1869.
Reported burglaries target Messrs. Jesse Leigh and Henry Deaner of Harlem and A. P. Goddard. At Goddard's mill a thief escaped with 20 dollars in gold from the money drawer. Citizens suspect the culprits and hope their daylight exposure comes when transients depart.
An advertisement promises a rich treat as Uncle Tom's Cabin returns with new comedy parts doubled by two Topsys and two Marks plus two donkeys and six bloodhounds. Sam Lucas, famed locally, will play Uncle Tom and showcase all his specialties and act as the show’s centerpiece.
Sale bills printed for a public sale by Mr S S J Meyers at Reuben Meyers residence Lancaster on December at 10 o clock a.m. Horses cattle heifers steers shoats wagon and farm machinery to be sold.
Last Sabbath Rev L Meredith of First M Church and Rev T P Marsh of Court Street Rockford exchanged pulpits. Marsh offered a Luke 2:10 sermon on glad tidings and Bethlehem’s shepherds. Evening talk titled How to understand the Bible urged literal and figurative interpretation and spiritual discernment. A news note refers to a saloon brawl at Benders with conflicting accounts and a $500 reward offer.
In Zion a Batchelor citizen John Stahl dies suddenly as life’s grip tightens. Thanksgiving Day union services in Freeport join six churches with Rev L Meredith’s sermon praising national mercy, church and Bible as foundations of prosperity and unity.
Classified notice seeks lodging for a man and wife with Burrell Bros offering delivery of mince meat pure apple butter peach butter and quince butter from a private family address P O Box 1367.
Northwest Michigan apples arrive in packed crates for wholesale and retail at 161 and 163 Stephenson Street. Burrej Bros promotes holiday goods and a sale with substantial discounts on the dollar as they open their new season offerings.
Rio Santos and Java Coffees roasted daily at Burrell Bros. Pleasant asked to take and a sure cure, verdict by the people of Dr. Marshall's Lung Syrup for coughs and colds. Price 25 cents and 50 cents.
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