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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1896
Page
4
A local store advertises a remnant sale featuring silks wool dress goods cotton dress goods muslins gallcoes dress linings table lining odd towel underwear and more. Goods are marked in plain figures and arranged on center tables with no pieces. The note thanks customers for the strong Christmas trade and invites more shoppers.
Special bargains in groceries include holly and holly wreaths along with fresh celery and lettuce at low prices. Fresh oysters daily at 200 a quart. Christmas candies starting at 5c. Various candies and cocoanut products from Arbuckles Lioncoff Shepps and Dunham's. Coffee pails and baking essentials advertised. Fruit and produce items priced per pound and per box.
A fragmented December through February social schedule lists events in Freeport including dances by the Go Home Harry club and Eureka pleasure club, a Gordon Comedy Company show, pupila and Mrs Lota Powell Bates recital, Hoyts Bunch of Keys, Red Men installation, Len Salisbury orchestra, Bancroft the magician, Sousa's Band, Wang, and a county farmers event, with venues at Germania opera house and Blust's hall.
Miss Lou Enters a visiting friend in Chicago. W H Irvin spent Christmas at Apple River. Numerous locals in Freeport and nearby towns hosted guests for the holidays. A busy schedule of meetings, concerts, weddings, and charity events fills Christmas week with social visits and community happenings.
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