13 Dec 1888
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1888
Page
1
Fragmentary text shows a delivery note for a week’s service by carrier or mall. Mentions stephen: Mart and Chivago Streets and a schedule excluding Sunday. Details are incomplete and OCR garbled.
Fanny Royson outlines a garden party guide with arches lanterns and fairy lights. Dinners, music, dancing areas, and decorative screens create a festive lawn scene. English views compare American and English girls, noting marriage trends and social expectations.
A collage of observations on marriage, jealousy, labor, and social ranks. The text links notions of female envy to factory life, praises steadfast husbands, and recounts anecdotes about women’s courage, street conduct, and revolver-wielding resilience, with scattered historical asides on women’s roles.
Green wood widow Mrs Ghos suffered from a debated heart ailment but found relief after using Dr Mills New Cure. The ad notes chest pain ankle swelling and coughing symptoms and claims the remedy helped quickly. Also advertised are pocket knives sold by Wattison Kryder and a variety of knives for different ages at low prices.
A garbled notice announces portraits of President-Elect and Mrs Harrison issued by M. T. Hyman of Indianapolis. It asks agents to send 2 contantaple for portraits and notes printing quality, with further misspelled lines and ad-like content about a new killer at low prices.
A garbled reminiscence weaves a Boston scene with a merchant and a guest leaving a counting house. A friend requests a hat, a beaver is swapped, and a wife is to receive a new bonnet. Interpolated notes mention the Arkansas timber and Texas bluewood as the strongest and heaviest woods respectively.
A garbled page of old advertisements promotes Dr Saye’s Catarrh remedy with vague claims, lists holiday goods and millinery, and touts W. Bas and other local names. The jumble includes a printer’s error filled call for sealed proposals and a King’s New Discovery cough pitch with trial bottles offered at local drugstores.
The ad invites readers to view a large stock of confectionery including crystallized fruit nuts and ornaments. It promotes pure candy and lists prices from 12 1/2 to 50 cents per pound for mixed candy and 75 cents per box for crystallized fruit. Located next to the Postoffice, by H Roeder.
An old ad claims high pressure modern life causes nervous illnesses such as headaches insanity and hysteria. It promotes Restorative Nery ite from Miss Hrenst as a safe remedy without pain or morphine, available at Swans Bros Drug Store.
Kemnert and Burrell advertise Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best cure for coughs colds and throat or lung trouble claiming rapid relief and prevention of croup. Also notes a sale of boys sleds and a Booker's Arnica Salve touted for skin conditions and piles. Store Mohom and Gri announce vast holiday stock in Freeport and Stephenson County.
An early 20th century ad extols Begga Blood Purifier as unrivaled for purifying blood with a money-back claim. It contrasts cheap nostri and big profits from dubious remedies with this world renowned medicine offered by Biomert Burrell, Druggist, and others.
Holiday goods sale boasting top quantity quality and prices. Customer urged to visit the mammoth store at CD KUEHNER corner Galena Street and Galena Avenue for the finest assortment of furniture and holiday items in the market.
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