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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1881
Page
6
A jolly stranger recounts a New Orleans cremation scam experience. He tells how a widow's ashes were mishandled, the furnace workers allegedly sold mule ashes to relatives, and how he ended up keeping a jar of “male ashes” for a stubborn wife.
A Wyebridge writer touts Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil as a cure for throat and wounds. A Missouri child mistook a church communion for beer, causing alarm. Astronomers track the Bethlehem star, noting historic sightings and celestial hints tied to Christ's era, placing it near Cassiopeia in the sky.
The scene recalls a doctor visit where a baby with croup improves after a dose of Thomas Eclectric Oil and a note that V8 will be given again. The dialogue shifts to imperial topics about annexation at Winnipeg and Canada’s stance toward the United States. An aside promotes Carter’s Little Niver Pills as a cure for nerves and dyspepsia.
A long, eclectic column surveys weather, science and society topics. It notes Coleridge’s poetry, kerosene insecticides, patent medicines, railway tunneling on the Mersey, fruit blight in California, and a Paris mint task for Haiti. It reports debts in Texas, the Warner Observatory project, and a Rochester hotel dispute with maids, plus social quips and a Carter’s Little Liver Pills ad.
Dr Frazier's Root Bitters are advertised as a medicinal tonic not a whiskey drink. The ad lists health benefits for liver kidneys bowels nerves lungs and blood and cites a testimonial from Mrs M Martin of Cleveland Ohio praising its efficacy for dyspepsia dizziness weakness and kidney disease. Henry & Co sole proprietors Cleveland Ohio sell at $1 per bottle.
Rail traffic details show trains going south and east with departures from Freeport at 4.00 am and 4.30 am and arrivals to Milwaukee at 8.15 am and 11.20 am. The schedule notes connections to Belvidere and Milwaukee, with R. H. Holder listed as agent. On and after Nov 6 trains will depart as follows for day, night, and freight services.
Evangelical Pleasant Street church led by Rev. D. B. Byers holds services at 10 00 a m and 7 30 p m with Sunday school at 9 15 a m. German Evangelical Emanuel on Oak Street offers services at 10 30 a m and 7 p m with Sunday school at 9 30 a m. German Evangelical St John on Union Street near State Road conducts services at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m with Sunday school at 2 p m.
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