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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1898
Page
8
The article highlights very long skirts with heavy stitching as the fall and winter preference. It describes a dainty thick French broadcloth waist to replace wraps, with tartan and plaid trims, steel gray and green color harmonies, and elaborate blouses in velvet and broadcloth.
Fashion notes describe princesse gowns with braided hems and guimpes, fitted backs, and elaborate sleeve braidwork. Paris models show hip callections and rich autumn color combos, while fur coats and capes display fichu trimmings and cape collars amid Lux winter stock.
A smart fur coat with a single rever at the left shoulder is described alongside one-piece cut basques. The piece notes affordable furs like mink and otter, silk and plush looks, and repeats of seasonable styles. Paris fashion houses favor braiding and spangling silk velvets for gowns and wraps.
The article discusses how women could look well dressed by studying how colon and costume relate to materials and accessories. It warns against relying on fashion dictates and the modiste’s taste, noting many produce grotesque results. It urges women to distinguish grotesqueness from individuality and refinement.
The Philadelphia Press notes a new home decor trend with canvas work in cross stitch on cushion covers. Rich color graduations and complex designs use 10 to 16 shades of worsted, often finished with ribbon ruffles. Exquisite blue and violet schemes illustrate the revival of grandmothers coquetries.
A Freeport readlike testimonial extols Morrow's Kidneoids as a cure for kidney backache. George Towman, barber at Main and Franklin, recalls severe pains and costly prior treatments before using two boxes. Within a week his condition improved. his backache disappeared and nerves steadied. He claims many customers were advised to try the remedy. Kidneoids are sold as yellow tablets for 50 cents a box at drugstores including H. J. Moogh's in Freeport and at John Morrow & Co. in Springfield, Ohio.
Practical tips to beautify plain doors by painting only the panels with upward flowing designs and transfer ornaments for those who cannot draw. Also a home remedy note from the Housekeeper column suggests camphor for early cold symptoms with sugar and warmth.
A dainty home luncheon featured spinach served plain to preserve its green color. The pile of greens was crowned by a hard boiled egg carved to resemble a water lily, with the white petals cupped and the yellow yolk styled as the pistil for an elegant counterfeit presentation.
A description of a draped piano with a deep wooden frame and yellow silk curtains. The mirror frame features willow sprays, water lilies, and swans reflected on the glass. The scene is praised as cool and charming and noted as inexpensive.
The text advises drying lead pencil writing over a teakettle spout to prevent rubbing and praises Dr Wood's Norway Pine Syrup as a household remedy. It notes Emmert & Burrell as a source for cowan and colds and claims the current royal crown of Great Britain was made for Queen Victoria's coronation from broken earlier crowns.
An 1898 page fragment advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio with cautionary notes on mercury content and authenticity. It also lists a fortune teller moving to 182 Galena St and announces a Chicago Great Western holiday excursion ticket sale for December 24 25 26 and 31 1898 and January 1 2 1899 with return by Jan 4 1899. Additional lines promote painting supplies from S M Kaisinger Milledgeville MI and camera gifts from Gruentuer & Co at Galena St and Galena Ave.
The advertisement states Foley's Honey and Tar does not promise miracles or cure all diseases. It claims to provide comfort and relief in advanced stages of consumption and asthma and to spray cure in early stages. Endorsed by H. J. Moogk, Swartz & Fleck.
The article extols blood as the key to health, linking disease to impure or impoverished blood. It advocates Dr. Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery as a cleanser and purifier that enriches blood, strengthens digestion, and builds solid flesh for robust health.
England faces job losses as the new cigarette making machine 18 rolls 500 to 800 cigarettes per minute, with Liver pool announcing 1,600 girls to be dismissed and others affected in additional cities.
An advertisement promotes Grain-O as a nutritious coffee substitute for kids. It claims Grain-O is made from pure grains and tastes like coffee when prepared properly. The copy emphasizes health benefits and affordability, noting it is sold by grocers in one pound packages.
Professor Marinelli compared Austrian surveys of 1828 with Italian surveys of 1898 to show a 204 square mile territorial gain for Italy over 70 years. The delta’s advance into the Adriatic accounts for roughly one six hundredth of Italy’s territory at the earlier date. Pain in the chest with a cold signals possible pneumonia and Chamberlains Pain Balm on the chest offers relief. Chamberlains Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy also ships from Emmert & Burrell as a dependable, safe treatment option.
Leave Chicago on February 9, 1899 under J J Grafton. Includes Mardi Gras in New Orleans and major sites of old New Mexico. Dining car, all express included. Limited space, secure early. For pamphlets, contact Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
On November 1 15 December 6 and 20 the North Western Line will sell home seekers excursion tickets to many points in the West and South at exceptionally low rates. For tickets and full information apply to agents Chicago North Western Ry.
The Prudent Investment Co bonds of St Paul Minnesota are offered secured by tax certificates as collateral. Bonds dated Sept 1 1898 run five years at six percent interest semiannually paid at the bank. Sold in 100 and 500 increments with two percent premium yielding just over five and a half percent to buyers. Bankers advertise bonds totaling 76000 and claim safety. Excursion tickets to Omaha sold Tuesdays and Fridays at one fare plus 2 for round trip limit 16 days. 9-Adw J.B. Swearr Agent.
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