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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1899
Page
4
A fragmented item notes mail matter status and a subscription issue. The fragment references Freeport and indicates mailing handling or class designation. No clear names, dates, or events are readable enough to specify.
A string of social notes shows residents and visitors moving between Chicago Rockford Iowa Falls Clinton Sterling Cedar Rapids and Texas. Names include F Hildreth W Harter Mrs J Strohacker Dr Kleckner J B King Chas Blass Chas Steffen John Guyer John Baymiller H E Croft J R Leigh Mrs Church SB Shipley Mrs Taylor J H Snyder Geo J Dehu and others with errands visits and seasonal travel plans.
Morning service filled with city ministers addressing church and city duties. Otrom led opening hymn, prayers by Rev Kramer, and talks by Axtell Dunn Burling Holden Kramer Schultze and the Salvation Army captain. November decust work totals, revival at Chadwick gains followers. Miss Nible praised. Pastor Dickens seeks rapid growth.
A 1899 Freeport gathering featured colonial costumes and a quilting bee at John and Clara Fair’s home. Ladies wore ancient gowns while men arrived to share a New England feast, then a quiet wedding occurred near Warren. Community clubs and socials followed with prizes and music.
Last Saturday Mrs. White of Woosung lost 80 white turkeys believed captured by tramps or railroad workers and placed in a box car before departure. A deputy could not reach Dixon in time. only turkey feathers were later found at Am boy. Drovers' Journal notes Frank Heckman of Rock Falls IL sold six cars of top Western sheep to Swift at 450 head, after sixty days on feed for a 20 pound gain. Bellevue clamshells yield $8–$20 per ton. Muscatine hosts many shellers. Mrs. Amelia E. Sanford, 63, Bloomington IL, treasurer of Illinois WCTU, passed away. Simeon Coe’s fox chase ends with a mounted gray fox. Warren Leader reports Chas. Mill, long known as a crack shot, won a Thanksgiving $100 match against J. J. Stauber of Streator.
Feather pillows should be washed once a year on a sunny day. Fill a tub half full with near boiling water, dissolve Gold Dust Washing Powder to make a strong soda, wash one or two pillows by pushing and rubbing until clean, rinse in clear water, wring and hang to dry. When dry, shake well to restore lightness and softness.
The Sick List notes Chris Kubauiska laid up with rheumatism. Bucklen's Arnica Salve is advertised as a grand cure for eruptions boils cuts bruises burns chapped hands chilblains and piles. Sold by Emmert & Burrell druggists at 26 cents a box with a cure guaranteed.
For the football game at Madison on Saturday December 9 the Illinois Central Railroad runs a special train leaving Freeport at 9 30 a m and arriving Madison at 11 80 a m. Return after the game reaching Freeport about 6 30 p m. Round trip tickets priced at 1 85.
Coroner Currier held an inquest into A T Marshall Illinois Central fireman’s death near the Yellow Creek bridge. Testimony from Engineer Taylor and Conductor Crossen described the fatal head injury, likely from the bridge brace while Marshall stood in the gangway watching the train. The jury ruled death by compression of the brain from striking the bridge brace. The article notes accompanying Indian relics found at the fort area.
Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup touted by Emmert & Burrell as a remedy for neglected colds to keep men and women healthy and vigorous into old age, a bold claim from a medical patent medicine advertisement in a historic newspaper.
John Versoll, a state relic hunter, plowed near Shullsburg and uncovered a unique collection of Indian relics and remains from the old fort and Gratiot trading post era. The Gratiot Grove settlement, pivotal on the Galena Chicago route, housed furnaces hotels and about 100 inhabitants before the Black Hawk War. Heavy spring rains exposed more artifacts.
A festive seasonal ad highlights a broad meat department with plump turkeys geese and ducks. The grocery section offers celery cranberries sweet potatoes dates figs raisins assorted nuts oranges apples grapes and sweet cider for holiday meals.
General Superintendent E S Averell and Frank Hill arrived from Chicago and secured a three years lease on the Jacob Becker building opposite the Brewster house to establish an independent United States Express office. Joe Johnson, son of Richard Johnson, named agent here after previously serving as cashier. Averell praises his business training and social prominence. The move aims to deliver prompt efficient service at low rates for merchants and shippers.
The New Grocery at 123 Galena St promotes a Grand Special Sale with low prices on Peaberry coffee two pounds for 2d, 10 pounds buckwheat 35c, salt 12 for 5c, Havemeyer sugar 20 pounds for $1.00, oysters 20c a quart, Sugar Loaf flour 90c a sack, butterine 18c per pound, salt 6c sack 2c, extracts Bc, dried peaches 8c lb, celery 10c a bunch, maple syrup 12½c a pint, Gold Dust 4-lb 1be, crackers 4c lb, Plymouth Rock peas 8c can, Boston baked beans 8c can, urging quality and honest prices.
A local sale advertises 50 men's 20 ounce blue serge suits priced at 8 75, with other suits cut from $15.00 to $10.98 and $6.48, plus 60 ulster overcoats in black or Oxford at 4 75. Boys’ reefer coats at 1 39, warm caps at 23c, fur coats, fleeced underwear 38c, gloves 19c, boy sweaters 69c and suspenders 8c while stock lasts.
Mr J E Lilly of Hannibal Missouri recalls a near death from typhoid fever that progressed to pneumonia and lung weakness. He credits Dr King’s New Discovery for a swift revival after one bottle brought relief and a full recovery. The medicine is advertised as a rapid cure for throat and lung troubles with regular bottles priced 60 cents and one dollar and trial bottles free at Emmert and Burrell's drug store, guaranteed.
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