01 Aug 1896
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1896
Page
1
A ten day sale offers discounted fabrics and accessories with many items cut from regular prices. Black Strort 64 in. cloth, 1.00 from 1.25, Brintrantine 60 in. 69c from 85c, and other silks, serges, challies, and dress goods reduced. Includes table linens, shirts, hosiery, ties, and girded wares with many items down to 5c and under.
20 pounds Havemeyer & Elder's fine granulated sugar for 1.00 with no limit on dollars' worth. Large apples at a penny per peck. Armour's corned beef 8c per can. Wild cherry phosphate 20c bottle for 8c. Fresh bologna 6c per pound. 2 pound can sweet corn 4c per can. Cooked ham 16c per pound. Laundry starch five pounds for 14. Three pound can baked beans 8c.
A promotional catalog style notice touts deeply discounted ladies garments including linen lawn suits, skirts, blouses, vests, and parasols with bold markdowns. Menswear and stamped linens join summer specials as the ad urges readers to compare prices before shopping.
An argument condemns free and unlimited coinage of silver at sixteen to one. It warns of a global shift to a fiat or silver standard, potential gold withdrawal, currency collapse, and severe harm to American workers. It asserts gold as fixed, universal money, and labor must be paid in stable one hundred cent dollars.
A New York Times excerpt surveys ancient and cross cultural weighing customs. It notes penny slot baby hefting, Indian temple gifts matching donor weight, and Brittany prayer trials weighing the sick. Eskimo practice uses a stone under a headrest to judge recovery prospects.
A Boston Transcript note recalls a clergyman who, as guest of a college president, walks at dawn through a quiet village. He encounters a shabby man peering into shady places, who laments with sadness that all the establishments are closed up.
A 14 year old boy bears facial injuries after explaining Jim Green’s mother is dead and that he let another boy strike him to help Jim feel better. The exchange shows the boy’s attempt to ease his friend’s sadness by taking licks himself. The report references Pearson's Weekly as the source of the anecdote.
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