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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1869
Page
11
A long fragment recounts a Mississippi political meeting with carpetbagger attacks and black voters. It includes a narrator’s memories of Democratic figures, race rhetoric, and personal peril amid 1868 election tensions. Also notes tobacco tax rulings, a Chicago sharpers scam, a Bear Swamp fire, and various 19th century notices.
Rich soil near Philadelphia offers farms from 20 acres up at 25 dollars per acre with four year credit. Town lots and acre plots priced to attract settlers as Vineland grows, with railroad access, schools and churches, a mild climate, and strong prohibitions on liquor to protect families.
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