Bargain Hosiery and Fabrics Offer Big Values
A local store promotes low prices on hosiery, lace, collars, ribbons, ginghams, crepons, foulard silks, and tailor-made suits. Highlights include stockings at 25¢ a pair, hose supporters at 19c, laces at 5c yd, linen collars for 6c, ribbons 15c yd, ginghams from 6c yd, crinkle seersucker from 10c yd, crepons from 75c to 1.40, foulards from 75c to 1.35, and suits at half price, emphasizing best value for money.
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Taille du Nord
Coming Events in Freeport April to May
Entertainments and meetings of interest to Freeport residents list events from April 18 to May 15. Highlights include Shore Acres at Grand Opera House April 18, May 1 Northwestern Homeopathic Medical Association meeting at Brewster, April 21 election for President and Board of Education, April 25 Amity Society dance, and May 15 Republican Senatorial convention 12th district.
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Freeport
Shore Acres
Grand Opera House
St. Mary’s Hall
Ladies Sodalities
Ladies of the Maccabees
Board of Education
Pennsylvania House
Arizona
County Board of Supervisors
Court House
St. Pius All
Amity Society
Blust’s Hall
Mary's
Northwestern Homeopathic Medical Association
Brewster
Under the Big Dome public estate notices and petitions
Public notices list multiple estates with actions including claims allowed, inventory and will recording, appraisers bills, decrees for sale, distributions, guardianships, bonds and letters issued. Entries mention Frederick Bartlett John Showalter John Frybarger Gideon Brown Matilda Brown Maria Shinkle Sophia Youngblut Jas OBrien Henry Vehmeier Mary Brown Nathaniel Churchill Wm McCalmon Chas Brant and others with various court orders. A separate line references Joseph H Vincent good moral character certificate. A stray remark about Genuine Rocky Mountain Tea appears.
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Frederick Bartlett
John S. Showalter
Henry Hoyman
John W. Stocks
Wagner
John Frybarger
Gideon B. Brown
Matilda S. Brown
Maria J. Shinkle
Sophia Youngblut
Jas. O’brien
A. T. Isaacs
Charles Thiele
Thiele
Fred K. Boeke
Henry Vehmeier
Mary A. Brown
Nathaniel Churchill
Wm. McCalmon
Geo. S. Smith
D. B. Bobb
Chas. Brant
Joseph H. Vincent
Catherine A. Murphy
Elocutionist Jennie Potter Dies After Long Illness
Jennie ONeill Potter, famed elocutionist once of Chicago and Freeport, died in St Luke's Hospital New York on April 17 after a protracted battle with cancer. She had hoped to sing again and was comforted by a bird that finally sang before passing away. Her death follows months of hospital refuge as friends and physicians struggled with her prognosis and her belief in possible recovery.
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New York
Jennie O’neill Potter
St. Luke’s Hospital
Wisconsin
Miss Potter
Jennie Potter
Chicago
West
Ust
Doan’s Kidney Pills Prove Backache Cure Claim
Public testimony from Mr. J. Beaver of 55 Fifth avenue supports Doan’s Kidney Pills as a remedy for kidney trouble and backache. He says doctors could not help before using the pills, and after treatment his kidneys and general health improved. Pills priced at 60 cents per box, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole agents.
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Dean
J. Beaver
Fifth Avenue
Joseph Emmert
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo N. Y
United States
Doan’s
Joliet Businessmen Plan County Fair Next Fall
Joliet business men propose a county fair to revive the event after years of abandonment. The effort aims to boost business and farming interests with a new spirit of enterprise in Joliet. A Silver Medal Contest will be held at Memorial Lutheran Church on Wednesday April 18 at 8 pm with music and no admission fee, though a collection will be taken to cover expenses.
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Joliet
Memorial Lutheran Church
Dr Kings New Discovery and Shoe Fitting Advertisements
Public notices promote Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption and related throat and lung cures with free trial bottles and guaranteed refunds. An ad from Winslow & Co proclaims shoe fitting by proper dimensions for comfort. A notice states a medical practitioner will resume practice at a new address with office hours listed.
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Dr. King
Joseph Emmert
Winslow & Co
Schulz Big Store Offers Wide Line of Goods
F A Schulz proclaims a perfect line of goods at the Big Store with all minor grades represented. Shoppers have pick preference and broad scope, ensuring satisfaction from the wide range available.
Grand Special Sale at Golden Palace Flour and Provisions
A historic advertisement lists numerous low prices on flour 90c a sack patent flour 75c a sack Boston baked beans 8c a can red cherries 10c California white cherries 124c 12 bars Mohawk soap 25c potatoes 25c a bushel parlor matches 10c lemon or vanilla extract 3c prunes 6c lb fresh crackers ginger snaps by the box butterine 14c lb 3-lb can California Bartlett pears 124c flower seeds 2 packs Plymouth Rock peas 8c a can coconuts red steak salmon 12hc a can salmon 10c can and other goods.
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Golden Palace
Boston
California
Braun & Fitts
Plymouth Rock
Grocery Department Bargains From Local Market
White Satin flour guarantees the whitest bread and more loaves per sack at 87c this week. Good potatoes 25c a bag. Butterine 3c per pound. Spaghetti 6c per pound. 1776 washing powder 2c per package. Golden Rio coffee 10c. Corn starch 3c for 5c. Snyder's Sunnyside chili sauce 8c per bottle. Naval oranges 20c a dozen. New onions 1c a bunch. Fresh peanuts 4c a quart.
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Snyder
House furnishing dept sale items list
A compact listing from a house furnishing department includes 40 foot rope clothes lines at 9 cents each, door stops three for 5 cents, carpet tacks two boxes for 5 cents, picture wire 25 yards for 5 cents, tack pullers best out six cents, soldering sets five cents a set, knife and shear sharpeners one cent, carpet beaters five cents each, granite water pails 12 quarts at 28 cents, cups and saucers per dozen 40 cents, all 25 cent salad dishes 19 cents each, all 25 cent fancy plates 19 cents each, jelly dishes at 5 cents each.
Bakery Price List Trade Card
Fresh bread three cents a loaf. One day old bread two cents a loaf. Pies and cakes eight cents each. Buns rolls cookies and doughnuts eight cents a dozen. Uneeda biscuits per package. Zweibach three cents a dozen.
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Uneeda Biscuits de Pkg
Zweibach
Meat Department Price List From Local Market
Meat department offers surloin steak for 123c per pound Porterhouse steak 124c per pound best round steak 10c per pound beef roast 10c per pound skinned hams 1c to 12c per pound finest breakfast bacon 10c to 124c per pound herring sold at 1c each
How to get 4.00 worth groceries for 25c coupon plan
A promotional scheme offers 25c to buy a coupon which is then returned with 1.00 to receive a book of four coupons. Sell those at 25c each to recover the 1.00, then those buyers repeat the process. When all four coupons circulate back, the promoter claims 4.00 in goods for the participant.
Special Low Prices on Petticoats and Waists
Ladies find deep discounts on fatteen and silk striped Petticoats from 79c to 3.00 with umbrella flounces and ruffles. Choice of six styles including Tousterette and mercerized Petticoats, plus white lawn and percale wrappers, washable shirt waists, and a range of waists priced from 50c to 4.00 in assorted colors and finishes.
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F. A. Read
Colu Hartfords
Stormers
White Flyer Mussals
Redlinge
Chainless
Ramblers
Ideals
Snells
Hudsons
Sewanees
Noxalls
Ensigns
Redlinger Bros
Matt and Jos
Redlinger
S. Galena Ave
Bicycle Hospital
Sweet & Hea’s
Jewelry
Galena Street
Blust
Madison Medicine Co
Jennie O'Neal Potter
Elocutionist
Entertainments
Will County Fair
Beecham
Emmert & Burrell
Stephenson Street
Freeport, Ill
Brown & Dollmeyer
Stats Bank
Maynard
Mattings
Maynard’s
F. A. Schulz
Grocery Department
Bakery Department
Meat Department
S. Hermsmeier & Son
Galena ST
Telephone
SeSesath Sade
Schulte & Siecke
Barrow
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