Correct the Enrollment Lists Local Notice
The Enrollment Board will meet at the usual election sites next Tuesday to ensure every Republican voter's name is on the enrollment lists.
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1866
Page
7
The Enrollment Board will meet at the usual election sites next Tuesday to ensure every Republican voter's name is on the enrollment lists.
The Dixon convention for Lee Ogle and Whiteside counties met on the 16th inst nominating Hon Daniel J Pinckney of Mt Moris for the State Senate Pinckney has long served in the lower house and is praised as a capable advocate for public interests
A persuasive note claims the Democratic party now seeks votes while opposing the war and labeling foes of Lincoln as Democrats. It argues the Union Republican party includes almost all wartime supporters and declares only two national parties exist today.
A bulletin notes Col. Turner never looked better than in this campaign, contrasting with his past career and shaping readers’ view of his current efforts.
A Chicago correspondent extols Freeport as a model western city noting liberal education and ample schools elegant churches thrifty business houses and substantial insurance. He praises palatial residences and hospitable citizens and mentions the Brewster House hotel and three railroads including Chicago Burlington Quincy with future improvements in railway transport.
Kentucky Grand Lodge adjourns with 333 lodges represented and 30 new ones created. Leipsic prints a cheaper 14 000-sheet hourly cylinder press. Grain stocks at Muscatine and Davenport awaiting river flow. U S District Court Louisville prosecutes distillers. high conviction rate. Politico chatter in New York district and Fenian activity in Albany. Mount Hood study claims Volcano status and height. California silk and tea ventures advance. Odds and ends on editors, emigration, and upcoming political shifts.
The piece warns that adopting the constitutional amendment would settle the rebel debt and prevent its replay in politics and markets. It argues repudiation would protect the country from debt being paid to speculators, and cites past actions and bonds in England as risks. It ends with a brief ad for Phalon's Night Blooming Cereus perfume.
A compact aphorism notes that a wife can be a man's greatest fortune or his harshest misfortune, reflecting on marriage as a defining influence in a man's life.
An 19th century advertisement touts Dr Schrwece’s Mandrake Pills as a liver relaxant and purgative with claims of safer effects than mercury. It lists symptoms like biliousness and headaches, cites two doctor portraits on a government stamp, and notes sales through druggists with a 25 cent price and wholesale agents in major cities.
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