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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1900
Page
8
Advertises 10c stockings and 25c to 1.40 apparel items including lace, linen collars, ribbons, dress ginghams, seersucker ginghams, foulard silks, and tailor-made suits. Claims best value at low prices, with "half price" suits from last season and quick tailoring in the department.
Entertainment and meetings listed for Freeport from April 18 to May 15 include Shore Acres at the Grand opera house on April 19 and April 21 election for President and three Board of Education members at Pennsylvania house. Also noted are a St Marys hall ball April 19, Ladies of the Maccabees hall event April 20, Amity society dance April 25, Eastertide at St Marys May 26, Northwestern Homeopathic Medical Association meeting at the Brewster on May 15, and a Republican Senatorial convention in the 12th district on May 15.
Governor Roosevelt and a Chicago and eastern party will pass through Freeport en route to Galena for Grants birthday celebrations on April 27. A special Central train is planned to carry the distinguished visitors, expected to arrive around noon. Grace Episcopal annual parish meeting reported strong clerical, guild, and treasury outcomes with officers elected for the year.
Stephenson County Abstract Office lists real estate transfers since the last report across Freeport Lena Cedarville Rock Grove Florence Winslow and neighboring areas. Notable deeds include Winchell to Frantschy 124 acres for 4997 and Crippen to Fox 189 acres for 12000. The record covers multiple parcels including lots and blocks in Freeport ad Crocker Wright and Guiteau additions with several thousand dollar values.
C W Singlehirst of Galena urges passage of the Grou bill to curb oleomargarine. R R Hitt responds he supports legislation to check oleomargarine’s sale as butter and will refer the petition to the agriculture committee. The letter argues butter remains scarce and the bill favors a creamery trust, urging rights of common people to choose margarine. A notice touts Dr King’s New Discovery free trials offered by Joseph Emmert, with prices and guarantees.
The article lauds James A. Herne's Shore Acres as a near plotless, realist drama, a dramatic sermon without religious words, showing the life of Maine farmers and fishermen. It notes a complete scenic production to be shown tomorrow, and previews Arizona by Augustus Thomas, touring since Chicago debut. It mentions provincial tastes shaping the author’s choices.
Chicago Methodist ministers at a Monday meeting urged abolishing church rules that ban card playing dancing theatre going and horse racing arguing the rules foster hypocrisy and keep members away and that matters should be addressed from a spiritual religious perspective rather than by maintaining the ban.
F A Schulz promotes the Big Store highlighting a perfect line of goods across minor grades. Shoppers have pick, preference, and scope with a broad range to suit and satisfy every customer.
Grand Special Sale offers cream of all flours at 90c a sack and high grade patent flour at 75c a sack. Canned goods include Boston baked beans 8c, red cherries 10c, California white cherries 12c, and red steak salmon 12c per can. Household items include Mohawk soap 25c for 12 bars, 12 bars of soap, lemon or vanilla extract 3c, parlor matches Loc, and other items priced from 4c to 14c. Local grocer Braun & Fitts' butterine at 14c per pound plus various seeds, coconuts, pears, peas, and baking powder all priced to attract shoppers.
White Satin flour guaranteed for the whitest bread with the most loaves per sack at 87c. Good potatoes 25c a bushel. Butterine 13c per pound. Spaghetti 6c per pound. 1776 washing powder 2c per package. Golden Rio coffee 10c. Corn starch 3c per package. Snyder's Sunnyside chili sauce 8c per bottle. Naval oranges 20c a dozen. New onions 1c a bunch. Fresh peanuts 4c a quart.
House furnishing dept offers 40 ft rope clothes lines at 9c each. door stops at 3 for 5c. carpet tacks two boxes for 1c. picture wire 25 yards for 5c. tack pullers top quality at 6c. soldering sets 5c each. knife and shear sharpeners 1c. carpet beaters 5c each. granite water pails 12 quarts 28c. cups and saucers four dozen for 40c. All 25c salad dishes 19c each. All 25c fancy plates 19c each. jelly dishes only 5c each.
Bakery department lists fresh bread three cents a loaf and one day old bread at two cents. Pies and cakes priced at eight cents each. Buns rolls cookies and doughnuts priced at eight cents per dozen. Uneeda biscuits four cents per package. Zweibach three cents per dozen.
Meat department offers surloin steak at 123c per pound porterhouse 124c pound best round 10c pork roast 10c per pound skinned hams 1c to 123c per pound finest breakfast bacon 10c to 124c per pound herring 1c each
An advertisement outlines a looped coupon scheme promising $4.00 worth of groceries for 25c. After buying a two cent coupon and returning it with $1.00, a book of four coupons is issued. The buyer resells those coupons at a price of 25c each, recouping the $1.00, and each buyer forwards coupons to the promoter to buy another four. Once all four are sent in, the promoter has received $4.00 and the participant is entitled to $1.00 worth of goods.
Advertises many Petticoat styles from 79c to 3.00, including Lusterette and mercerized varieties with umbrella flounces and ruffles. Also promotes Ladies percale wrappers at 1.00 to 2.00, washable shirt waists in multiple prices, and white lawn waists with embroidery and lace up to 4.00.
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