Breenton's Sale and Chancery Notices Itemized
Saturday January 21 1882 listing includes sale of real estate under a master sale notice by Hochel Mongk druggist Pixley optician and chancery notices. Names Wm. Watton Reeley to Real Dry Goods Wirt Benson embroideries.
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NEW Advel
B. A. Bradahirr
Breentor
Hochel & Mongk
Pixley
Optician
Chancery Notice
Myde
Wm. Watton
Wirt
Benson
Embroiderien
Freeport Republican and Chicago Weekly Herald Offer
A special arrangement offers a free one year subscription to the Freeport Republican and the Chicago Weekly Herald. The deal covers both publications for a full twelve months.
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Freeport Republican
Chicago Weekly Herald
Public notices for Chicago Weekly Herald and Freeport Republican
Two Republican papers the Chicago Weekly Herald and the Freeport Republican advertise combined subscription for 2.00. Subscribers in advance receive Dr Kendall's horse book Sar Now is the Time to Subscribe.
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Chicago Weekly Herald
Franks W. Palmer
Iowa
Chicago
Freeport Republican
Chicago Journal clubbing rates advertisement
An old reliable Chicago Evening Journal promotion offers a one year subscription deal including the Freeport Republican and the Chicago Journal for 2.25 dollars. The notice emphasizes freshness and newsy content without scandal, edited by Hon. Andrew Shuman.
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Chicago Journal
Andrew Shuman
Freeport Republican
The
Unanimous Call Amid Scoop For Disaster Details
A columnist urges swift consensus while noting a major Hudson River railroad disaster. Twelve lives are said lost as cars burned after the crash and nine people are confirmed dead in the flames.
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Hudson River
Guiteau Trial Drags On Amid Prolonged Remarks
The Guiteau trial moves slowly as old man Scoville speaks at length this week, berating Grant and Conkling and making himself look foolish. The proceedings are expected to extend for several more days, with the likelihood of Guiteau facing the death penalty remaining.
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Guiteau
Scoville
Grant
Conkling
Davidge Questions Guiteau Over Divine Inspiration Claim
Prosecuting counsel Mr. Davidge challenged Guiteau’s claim of divine guidance in the Garfield murder by quoting James 1 13 15 to expose the logic of temptation. The bible passage argues God does not tempt and that sin leads to death.
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Mr. Davidge
Guiteau
Garfield
James
Beecher Denies Eternal Punishment In Sermon
Rev Henry Ward Beecher astonished his congregation by denying eternal punishment saying punishment will conclude after it can no longer do good or be made everlasting He argued annihilation or no punishment if it fails to achieve benevolence and reason and conscience justify clearing God's wrath of such belief
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Henry Ward Beecher
Macon
Dem
Vicksburg Herald
Mississippi
Bourbonism
New South
Fort Wayne
Missouri
State Immigration Society
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
Iowa
Kentucky
Miseouri
Reappointment Drive For Freeport Postmaster Grows
Over sixteen hundred mail voters in Freeport signed a request for the postmaster’s reappointment. The group includes ministers lawyers doctors bankers merchants manufacturers mechanics railroad men and many more. The note ends with thanks for the prompt and generous support.
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Freeport Post Office
Toledo hotel to offer chapel for Christian guests
A proposed Toledo hotel plan replaces a traditional bar with an 80 seat chapel for religious services. The builder aims to cater to Christian travelers, believing hotels temptations are strong. If finances permit, he will proceed without risking bankruptcy.
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Toledo
Boston tempera ed coffeehouse project forms with leaders
A long discussed plan for a tempera ed coffeehouse in Boston has formed with Governor Long James Freeman Clarke Bishop Paddock Phillips Brooks and Edward Everett Hale joining wealthy business leaders. The aim is to outdo grog shops by offering handsome rooms reading smoking billiards to attract patrons and wage the battle on the enemy’s ground.
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Boston
Governor Long
James Freeman Clarke
Bishop Paddock
Phillips Brooks
Edward Everett Hale
Congress backs pontoon wagon bridge at Dubuque
Congressman Hawk urged the Pontoon wagon bridge across the Mississippi at Dubuque before the Secretary of War. The Dubuque Daily Times reports Secretary Lincoln has opened consideration and received several site applications beside the railroad bridge. The bridge construction was authorized by Congress in 1875. A board of engineers will be convened by order of the Secretary of War to study the proposed site.
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Hawk
Secretary of War
Mississippi River
Dubuque
Grant buys pew in New York church as aristocracy grows
The Methodists, once primitive, rise in city circles as General Grant purchases a pew in Mudi con Avenue Congregational Church New York for 1000 with annual rent 180. His pew sits at the Elders Circle. A S Grant Jr also buys the adjoining pew. Other buyers include IF A Palmer Broadway Bank and Russell Sage. Sixty pews sold, priced from 1000 to 400 each.
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General Grant
Mudicon Avenue Congregational Church
New York
J. P. Newman
A.S. Grant, Jr
Ingersoll Speaks At Child's Coffin Short Address
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll delivered a brief remarks beside the coffin of a neighbor’s young child. He warned against prophesying a future of pain, suggesting death can give value to life. He urged loving here and now over distant imagined futures.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Rumor on Porter and Logan Heighten Senate Watch
The Boston Journal hesitates to credit a rumor about Fitz John Porter and General Logan. Logan says he will not abandon his Senate seat, and the Chicago Tribune dispatch notes Logan’s cautious stance on the Porter matter, while Grant’s political shifts remain unexplained and not yet disclosed.
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Boston Journal
Fitz Johan Porter
Generil Logan
Alluke
Grant
Senate
Letter for 25000 draft misdirected to Belfast bank
A draft for 25000 sent from the Dead Letter Office in Washington to the National Provincial Bank of England Belfast England was marked return to sender after the English Post Office could not locate the recipient. It was later found to be intended for the Provincial Bank of Ireland Belfast Ireland. The Wall Street bank that actually received it faced questions from Post Office officials and bank officers who doubted the address.
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New York
Washington
National Provincial Bank of England
Belfast
England
Bank of Ireland
Ireland
Wall Street Bank
Addroms
Auh
Democratic party in the South doomed says Louisiana congressman
Congress man Millis of Louisiana declares the Democratic party dying nationally from timidity and divisions. He notes South states like Virginia and others are fractured, predicting the party’s collapse if the South breaks up, with New Orleans exemplifying a hostile public climate toward Republicans.
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Democratic Party
South
Congressman Millis
Louisiana
Virginia
New Orleans
Morsla
Political commentary spans reform and immigration themes
Opinion excerpts attack racial injustice and Bourbonism in Mississippi, warn of血shed political upheaval, and praise General Logan’s career and 1884 Presidential prospects. The column links reform, public sentiment, and loyalty to Republican ideals across state and national issues.
John A Logan born and early life noted
John A Logan born February 9 1826 in Jackson County Illinois. He attended common schools and served in the Mexican War rising to First Lieutenant. He studied at Louisville University graduating in 1852, became a lawyer, served in the Illinois State Legislature, was prosecuting attorney, and elected to Congress in 1858 and 1860 before resigning to join the army as Colonel of the Thirty-Third Illinois by September 1861.
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Illinois
Belmont
Logan
Fort Donelson
Pittsburg Landing
McPherson
Atlanta
Sherton
Savannah
Fere
Howard
Mexico
Congress
United States
Democrats
Independents
David Davis
Orlesby
Senate
12Th Street
Washington
Calumet Avenue
Lake Michigan
Chigo
John A. Logan
Jackson County
Louisville University
Iinois i
Attomney
Thirty-Gret
Edward Coles and Illinois Free State Fight
Hon E B Washburne recounts Edward Coles the Virginia born abolitionist who moved to Illinois and freed his slaves en route to Edwardsville. Coles campaigned against slavery in Illinois leading a bitter 1820s battle against a pro slavery convention and defended anti slavery measures despite partisan hostility. He later served as governor and died in 1868.
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E. B. Washburne
Congress
United States
France
Chicago
Edward Coles
Illinois
Virginia
Albemarle County
Patrick Eary
Jefferson
Madison
Randolphs
Hampton-Sidney
William and Mary College
Washington
Vere
Iginia
Viginia
Duran
Coles
Senate
House of Representatives
Washburne
Kansas
Nebraska
Governir Coles
Project For Convention
Free State
John M- Peck
Jackson
Supreme Court
Cole
Lafayette
Paris
Congres
Bowe Tae
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Histori Society
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Honey
Albany Express
Senator Logan
Ilinois
Priam
Keptor
St. Domingo
Northwest Territory
Russia
Baltic
Scotland
Wales
Edwardsville
Brownsville
Louisville
Pittsburg
Ohio River
Ilinvia
Monroe
Rog
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