26 Dec 1888
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1888
Page
1
Local notice outlines weekly by carrier rates for the Freeport Daily Journal, detailing delivery options and timing. Includes address for Journal Pointing Company at Stephen Street and Chicago Street, Freeport, Illinois, with publication date December 1, 1888.
A crowded Freeport column recaps Christmas and New Year happenings. Residents, visits, and social notes include Miss Mamie dergran, Miss Mabel Pom, and Mrs. Hogeph Koenig hosting kin, Prof. Joe Gibler's orchestra dance in Warren, and Mayor Berguian's Christmas generosity. Chatter covers travel, engagements, illnesses, and community events across Rockford, Beloit, Cedar Rapids, and nearby towns, with local humor about gifts and a rural accident involving Dr Caldwell and a buggy.
Christmas in Freeport was muted with stores closed and streets empty. In the evening churches glowed with lights as programs showcased Sunday School choirs, recitations, and gifts, including a Santa appearance and a missionary quilt gift to a family.
Stearns County coroner conducted an inquest Monday on the bodies of Willie Tregary and Walter Lindsay, two youths who drowned in the Pecatonica River Monday afternoon. Walter Lindsay’s body was recovered about 2 pm. Both families lived on Stearns Street. Funeral services were held that afternoon with Dr Jenkins and Rev W C DeWitt officiating. Mrs Adam Miller, an elderly resident, is noted for proudly carrying a gold headed cane given at Christmas by relatives.
Obituary notes Thomas W. Me At es born April 12 1812 in Washington County Maryland married Mary Brinham February 1 1838, lived in Clear Spring then Illinois 1868 to Polo where he died December 25 1888 at his home. He leaves a widow eight children and the funeral will be held at his late residence Thursday at 1 oclock. The article also mentions connections to Mrs W I Kellogg and Freeport visits. Also includes ad copy for Dr Bull's Cough Syrup and Laxador.
Tax collectors urge taxpayers to call at once to pay taxes. Henry Brann, the collector, asks subscribers to report missed deliveries and omissions to ensure careful delivery of each paper.
Holiday notices advertise elegant watches at C B Swees and a great sale of millinery goods at less than cost on Monday December 17. Miss M E Bordner promotes holiday goods and urging customers to call and examine them at Moore & Grin. The item also urges purchases for Christmas gifts and mentions Moore & Gere and repairs at Washington Avenue, with attention to various holiday offerings.
A bustling array of gifts and goods appears for the holiday trade at Dirksen's crockery, Borwer & Son, and Freaport's Sign of the Horse. Also advertised are Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy and Beggs Cherry Syrup with local druggists promoting prices and availability. A Baptist Sunday School cantata at Germania Hall offers a 10 cent admission for nonchildren, with tickets reservable at Moogk’s drug store.
A fragmentary 19th century notice asserts Mrs A Johnson of Toledo suffered shortness of breath cough and chest pain before being cured by Dr Miles New Cure sold by Swarts.
D E Adamson is listed as a fresco painter sign writer paper hanger and decorator with an office and shop under Chamberlin's store Fry's block Freeport Illinois Hebe
A claim extols Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood Maker as the world’s best for purifying blood, urging readers to buy from Primert & Burrell, Druggists, with a money back promise if the bottle fails to work.
Noted reports claim cures for headaches fits nervous prostration heart conditions St Vitus Dance insanity and sleeplessness with Dr Miles Restorative Nerving A brain and nerve food praised for easing worry nerves and overwork Swarts Bros offer trial bottles with no opium or morphine.
Advertises Beggs Cherry Cough Syrup as a safe relief for children with coughs claiming it prevents serious lung illness. Credits Komert & Burrell as druggists and asserts superiority over cheap, dangerous remedies.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve advertised as the best remedy for bruises sores ulcers rashes chapped skin and piles with a money back guarantee. Box price 36 cents sold by Emmert and Burretl.
A unanimous verdict by W D Sult a druggist from Bippus Indiana and Abraham Hare a Bellville Ohio druggist testifies that Electric Bitters relieve rheumatism liver kidney and blood diseases. Dozens of testers claim cures at 50 cents to 1 dollar a bottle sold by Emmert and Barrell drugstore.
A selling note urging readers to avoid ordinary pills for liver and bowels and to use Miles' Pills M P. It promotes samples free at Swarts Bros and presents Miles' as the safest and surest remedy.
A local woman credits a remedy labeled Dr. Klog's New Discovery for Consumption with relief from a seven year struggle that included a severe cough and sleepless nights. After two symptoms eased, she reportedly slept through the night and used a full bottle. The ad notes W. O. Hammeh & Co of Shelby, NC offering a free trial bottle at Emmert & Buerell's Drug Store.
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