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Newspaper

Freeport Daily Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Dec 30, 1899

Page

3

Bradstreets Reports Holiday Quiet Yet Firm Prices

Bradstreet quotes a holiday quiet and stock-taking dullness in general distributive trade. Reorders to replenish depletions show activity, dry goods appear steady, and industry keeps up with orders. Prices show firmness in cotton hog products copper tin and cereals. iron and steel demand remains strong with little holiday shutdowns. Weekly business failures total 220, down from prior weeks and years, and annual failures reach a seven year low.

Bradstreets New York Bradstreet Pew Isn

Notable Deaths Prompt News From Wisconsin and Minnesota

Ex Representative Michael Griffin head of the state tax commission died suddenly in his office of apoplexy in Hall Claire Wisconsin. Eugene Y Smalley editor publisher of the Northwest Magazine is critically ill in St Paul Minnesota. Helen Smith receives a Christmas gift containing the stolen opera glasses. Loggers benefit from cold weather with pineriles frozen and swamps solidifying in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin. Boutelle praised as recovering at McLean asylum though mental prognosis uncertain. Winfield Randleman express messenger killed in Union Pacific collision at Brighton with seven passengers and seven train men injured.

Hall Claire Wis Michael Griffin State Tax Commission Crithn Tie St. Paul Eugene Y. Smialley the Northwest Magazine Denver Winfield Randleman Union Pacific Brighton Fr. & Hooker Olin, Jr

Chicago Markets Roundup From Dec 2 Grain and Produce Quoted

Chicago Board of Trade quotes show December wheat at 66 66, July 69 56, corn December 80 85, oats December around 22. Produce notes list butter 22c, poultry meats with prices, apples 1.50 to 3.00 per barrel, cranberries 6.00 to 6.75, livestock receipts and price ranges for cattle and hogs. Milwaukee Grain reports Wheat No 1 northern 66 4, No 2 northern 64, rye 53 54, barley 45 46, oats 25.

Chicago Chicago Board of Trade Abe Ido Hale Ieair Texas Milwaukee Grain Milwaukee

Alkali Trouble in Western Irrigated Lands Warns of Damages

The Department of Agriculture reports alkali and seepage as major irrigation risks in the arid West. Excess salts, canal leakage, and high evapotranspiration cause surface salt buildup, threatening crops and land values. Remedies include gypsum applications, drainage, and preventing overirrigation with possible congressional funding. A separate note outlines a simple method to measure tree height using two stakes and a sight line.

Department of Agriculture Wilson Congress

None So Popular Morrow's Kid-ne-oids Gain Favor in Illinois

W R Beebe of Centralia shares his five year kidney illness story and rapid relief after taking Morrow's Kid-ne-oids. The product, described as Yellow Tablets, is sold for fifty cents per two week box and ships from John Morrow & Co. Springfield Ohio with a descriptive booklet on request.

Morrow Illinois W. R. Beebe Centralia Illinois Central Moogk John Morrow & Co Springfield Ohio

Humorous quotes and medical ads in old papers

A collage of jokes, quips, and ad blurbs from Chicago papers includes a child’s question about drawing, a poke at paper collars, remarks on acoustic quality on a telephone, and tidbits about indigestion, whiskey ads, and patent remedies. Also notes census, rabbit meals, and a Dean’s Ointment testimonial from Bowling Green Ohio.

Chicago Post Chicago Record McTawk Chicago Tribune Hardacre Crawfoot Bilkins

No Trouble for Her on Christmas Shopping

An outspoken shopper praises managing crowds with help from her two sons, a former college football tackle and a champion wrestler. The piece mingles into a product ad for Dr Thomas Helectric Oil and local services by Emmert & Burrell and Dr W J Rideout, then shifts to a winter travel pitch touting the Gulf Coast as a mild destination served by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad with through Florida connections.

Gulf Coast Louisville & Nashville Railroad Mobile New Orleans Florida J. K. Ridgely N. W

Grain-O touted as coffee substitute for children

An ad extols Grain-O as a nourishing coffee substitute for kids, claiming it tastes like coffee and costs little. It references general grocer availability at 25e and 26e and notes a Stuttgart area concern about homes with only one or two heated rooms.

Stuttgart

Does It Pay to Buy Cheap Lung Remedy

An advertisement touts Boschee's German Syrup as a universal cure for severe lung troubles. It claims the remedy heals tissues, destroys germ disease, eases inflammation, aids expectoration, and improves sleep. Sample bottles are Emmert & Burrell.

Boschee Emmert & Burrell

Cheap Rates South for Homeseekers and Settlers

On the first and third Tuesdays through October the Southern Railway offers cheap one way and round trip tickets to Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and Florida. Homeseekers pay one fare plus 2.00 for the round trip, tickets valid twenty one days from sale. For illustrated matter rates and details write Ww H Taytosz Louisville A G P A J C Beam Jn N W P A 80 Adams St Chicago Ills.

Southern Railway Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Virginia Florida Southeastern United States H Taytosz Louisville J. C. Beam Adams St Chicago Ills

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