27 Dec 1888
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1888
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription options for Freeport Daily Journal including weekly rates and delivery details. It lists pricing, delivery address on Freeport Street, and notes on terms and location for mailing and publication.
Weekly drill notes mix with local holiday events and fade into mentions of merchants offering shovels and sleds. A notable item: Tockford merchant tailor John P.D. Corltrey declares failure for 20000. Various church gatherings, a Weber Quartette, and the Opera Company perform the Mikado amid a brisk social season.
Dubuque residents report counterfeit five dollar bills in circulation with most examples revealing uneven purses where the frame revenue stamp joins the note. A bank teller discovered one note while counting money and feeling a raised join. Subscribers urged to report delivery failures to ensure prompt service.
A Minneapolis dispatch describes Dr Carver's second day of shooting at the Washington Rink. He faced arm pain and fatigue yet rebounded with rapid fire later, completing 19 286 shots and 988 misses. Despite equipment issues and a four-rifle limit, wagers of up to 50 000 hung on his record as telegrams of encouragement arrived from across the country.
The eighteenth annual report of the Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners for 1888 cites sixty one roads reporting. Total miles and new road activity rise while operating expenses taxes and interest increase. Net income available for dividends across twenty eight roads shows a surplus, with several lines in receivership. Chatsworth disaster noted with casualties.
The Baptist church scholars presented a Christmas program led by a skated pantomime The King of the Land of Nod and a Cantata The Watts Christmas The performance featured Wilbur Cracker as King May Pardo as Queen and young performers as dream court figures The audience applauded the charming scenes and the youngsters final good night routine despite a stormy evening
The piece argues the New Year is a fitting time to reform bad habits and improve, dismissing ridicule over swearing off. It urges starting now rather than delaying, noting reform can begin at any time and should be pursued to improve the coming year.
Ad note for Bowner and Son 89 Stephenson Street about men s wine slippers in stock with prices and a holiday closing on Christmas day. Includes garbled text and unclear sale details.
The page offers antique stove and carving guidance for a boiled turkey, detailing wing and leg separation, breast dissection, and serving order. It also lists elected officers of the National Union, promotes Dr Yull's Cough Syrup, and advertises barness and other goods with prices and items for sale.
Advertises repair services for locks knives guns revolvers at Frerronr Cycant Works on HY Washington Street. Also promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy claiming it cures ordinary colds and warns of neglect leading to chronic illness, with a note that 60 cents is the price.
Opal and diamond rings attract buyers at SWEET'S while Moore & Grrl and Dirksen's Crockery offer sleds and cheap coasters. Various local shops advertise holiday goods, tax collection notices, and decorative items, urging residents to visit Freeport, Stephenson Street, and surrounding avenues for gifts and decorations.
A woman in the county suffered long term organ damage after a tangling illness. She endured seven years of tests and nearly died before using Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption. After the first dose she slept, and with a full bottle she fully recovered. Luther Lutz. Emmert and Burrell's Drug Store offers a free trial bottle.
Mrs A Johnson of Toledo showed heart disease symptoms including breathlessness chest pain and coughing. After doctors gave up she recovered following treatment by Dr Milea New Cura sold by Swarta Bros.
A druggist in Bippus Indiana testifies Electric Bitters are the best remedy for liver kidney and blood diseases. A Bellville druggist adds that it is the best selling medicine he has handled in 20 years. Abraham Uare and thousands more report relief and cures, with bottles priced 60 cents and 160. Beymert & Burreld drugstore offers it.
An old promotional notice urges readers not to use ordinary pills on ill livers and bowels and touts Miles' Pills as the safest cure. It claims superiority over generic remedies and directs readers to a sample at Swarts Tiros.
Cough remedy claims to stop coughing immediately and to cure colds and croup. Emmert & Burrell, Druggist, and Des Moines company tout high sales of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best made. For sale by Emmert & Burrell.
Advertises Dr Miles Restorative Nervine as a new brain and nerve remedy for headaches fits nervous prostration heart trouble St Vitus Dance insanity and sleeplessness. Claims wide spread success and offers free trial bottles at Swarts Bros drugstore. States the remedy contains no opium or morphine.
How can parents tolerate repeated coughing and strain from children while offering cheap dangerous medicines, when BEGGS CHERRY Cough Syrup can relieve with fewer risks. Emmert and Burrell, Druggists, urge switching to this remedy for lung fever or consumption concerns.
An 19th century ad touts Bucklen Arnica Salve as best for bruises ulcers salts rheum fever sores and many skin eruptions with promise of piles cure or money back. It claims full satisfaction or refund and notes price 44 per box sold by Emwert and Burrell.
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