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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1896
Page
7
A vintage sale listing shows prices for various hosiery and underwear items for men women and children. Items include men's hose 10c per pair children heavy hose 12c pair ladies fine hose 15c pair underwear sets and various footwear with prices ranging from 89c to 1.43 for ladies shoes and 98c for men’s shoes.
Reverend Sam Jones, famed for his roasts and plain talk, spoke to about 250 at Germania Opera House last night. He mixed humor with a blunt take on life, money, and virtue, urging self reliance and criticizing selfishness in politics, business, and churches, while noting America’s abundance and its moral gaps.
The article outlines dining room styling with polished tables as a tea setting, centered centerpieces, almond dishes, tall blossom vases, mint in colored glass punch pitchers, and fine glassware. It suggests corner shelves, bent iron side lights, and decorative student lamps, plus leather book covers as pew favors and floral candy boxes. It notes color themes of red, yellow and white for winter table decor and decorative landscape or bird motifs on plate centers for formal meals.
Practical tips for young housekeepers cover settings for tea and meals, dining etiquette, simple wedding breakfast menus, and the proper use of cutlery. The piece offers quick soup recipes using tapioca, a novel glass wine jug with two compartments, and a fragrant sachet recipe to deter moths, noting common hospitality decor and attire.
Prepare mashed potatoes seasoned with butter salt and pepper with little milk. Shape into small apple forms, pinch one end, roll in crumbs, dip in beaten eggs, recoat with crumbs and fry in hot fat in a wire basket. Insert a celery piece into each stem end.
The piece notes a Waterford born scholar’s Maynooth chair in Gaelic and the Gaelic revival movement led from New York. It cites estimates of Gaelic speakers across the British Isles, with 1,000,000 speakers in the region, and discusses English predominance, lack of official recognition, and the language’s persistence among rural communities and patriotic Irish circles.
On Saturday the Special Pale will continue at the same prices as the last three days. Every article offered is a rare bargain considering quality. Our prices are matchless. Don't fail to make a guess tomorrow.
P E Cox & Co advertise a large stock of gifts with special Batu-day and Monday sale prices. Silkaline goods, Denime fabrics, fancy fabrics, Swiss table and dresser items, linens, pillows, scarfs, moire splashers, linen tray cloths, wool accessories, handkerchiefs, gloves, pocketbooks, Turkish towels, pin trays, blankets, and comforters are offered at reduced prices. The sale emphasizes early shopping for best selection and discounts up to 10-15 percent on certain items.
Saturday promotions slash prices on oats meal beans potatoes and canned goods. New York imports and calt sold at low per barrel rates. Boston baked beans cherries plums and salmon offered. bulk flour and self rising pancake mix priced to attract shoppers. Candy stock 15000 pounds with discount freight bills. mixed nuts and a carload of Christmas trees also advertised.
Our entire stock of Holiday Goods is on display with greater inducements and larger variety than any city shop. Forenoon trade offers: three grades of paper with each 10 cent purchase, including a neat American beauty dress and lithographic color date. with $1.00, tuck's finest and nobbiest paper doll is free.
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