Burrell’s Column Fragments Include Verse and Rural Anecdotes
The piece mixes poems by Holtman with historic quips on nationality and taxation, jokes about Kentuckians, and a Presbyterian tale of two boys praying for corn. It closes with Burrell’s advertisements for brushes twine and willow ware at 115 Stephenson Street.
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Annual Stephenson Co Bible Society meeting in Freeport
The Stephenson County Bible Society held its annual meeting at First Presbyterian Church Freeport with German and English addresses. Rev. A Lord highlighted the need to supply Bibles in the home, the Southern States, Freedmen, and Arabic and Spanish editions abroad.
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Freeport
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Mr. Willing
M. E. Church
A. Lord
American Bible Society
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Union
Mexico
South America
Florence area street name garble sparks confusion in readers
A fragmented OCR text from a Florence area page lists multiple place names such as Lancaster and West Point along with odd spellings like cecseese and Ridotteesssseseaes. Readers face difficulty deciphering streets and locations due to corrupted characters.
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Florence
Cesssaves
Lancaster
Suas Bilver Creek
Winslow
West Point
Davis Aug. 1805 Celebration for Returned Soldiers of Co B
In Davis on August 12 a grand dinner honored the veterans of Co B 26th Illinois or 26th TH who served in the second war for American Independence. Citizens filled schoolhouse tables with baskets and festive fare as Captain Layser led a march to the feast amid music and cheers. Local speakers and ladies’ singing followed, praising the Union and the valor of the “boys in blue.”
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Layser
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Mara
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Freeport
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Stockholders approve strong finances at Stephenson Insurance
At a stockholders meeting held on the 14th the Stephenson Insurance Company praised its current financial condition and unanimously passed a resolution commending the recently elected officers. The meeting notes mixed crop damage reports with a lecture announcement by Rev. Archison at Dakota on Sherman and Reconstruction.
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Daxkora
W. D. Archison
M. E. Church
Dakota
Sherman
Georgia
Carolinas
South
Treasury vows to cover all soldier debt as revenue flows rise
The Treasury reports ample funds to discharge every dollar of soldiers indebtedness aided by revenue receipts exceeding one million daily and new certificates of indebtedness. McClellan linked as a railroad engineer candidate earning ten thousand dollars yearly. Teans rail network totals four hundred miles with new stock needed. prewar paper count drops from eighty five to thirty three. Mirabeau likens French to children sowing seeds. Oil City News cites 1457 oil companies with capital near 869 million. A 1854 Connecticut blue law dating kiss case fined Sarah Tuttle and Jacob Newton twenty shillings each.
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Internal Revenue
Department
Congress
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New England
Atlantic Cable Network Faces Likely Failure
A report indicates the Atlantic Telegraph Cable failed after laying seven hundred miles of line and later twelve hundred miles, with no signals from ships received. The next issue will announce the result.
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Atlantic
Life of Lincoln by Raymond draws wide library interest
Two weeks after canvassing Raym ond's Life of Lincoln an advance copy is seen printed on fine paper with 810 pages and all state papers. Many copies subscribed, delivery soon. A tragic Lake Huron collision last Wednesday sank the Pewabic with 175 aboard, 75 to 100 lost.
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Lincoln
Tts
Lake Huron
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