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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1899
Page
6
We will sell strictly fresh eggs at 16c per dozen. Argo bulk starch 3c per pound. Fresh oatmeal 2%c per pound. Full line of naval and Florida fruits, apples, grapes, pears, bananas, citrus peels, nut meats, raisins, candied fruit and vegetables listed.
The advertisement claims Dodd's Dyspepsia Tablets cure dyspepsia indigestion biliousness and sour stomach after meals. It asserts a perfect digestion yields a strong body and sharp mind and cites Dr R B Strong of New York City praising the remedy as highly efficacious.
The notice advertises a meat market offering dressed Ducks Geese Chickens and Venison along with Blue Points Lobsters Shrimps and dressed Turkeys. It highlights a finest selection and up-to-date market position in the city.
The notice announces an exclusive agency arrangement for Winslow Rand and Watsons Famous Boston Coffees Curtice Bros Blue Label Canned Fruits and Vegetables and Gordon and Eilsworths Table Delicacies. The unnamed parties secure exclusive rights in connection with these brands and products.
The Southern Railway offers winter season schedules with through sleeping cars from Cincinnati to Jacksonville and St. Louis to Jacksonville. Connections from Louisville through Knoxville Asherville and Savannah. Kansas City to Jacksonville Limited 38 hours. Agents offer excursion tickets to Florida resorts. maps and schedules mailed free.
The C M and St P Ry resumes the Midland Route Tourist Car service from Chicago to San Francisco with a schedule: Chicago 10 35 p m Friday to Omaha 3 55 p m Saturday then Omaha to Colorado Springs 10 40 p m Saturday to Salt Lake City 9 30 a m Monday then Salt Lake City to San Francisco 9 45 a m Wednesday. An optional day at Salt Lake City invites passengers to see nearby attractions. Eastbound car leaves San Francisco Saturdays at 9 30 a m and arrives Chicago Wednesday at 8 25 a m. G H Hearstorn P A T A
From Kimberley and surrounding fronts reports detail Boer and British actions. Casualties include several killed and wounded, fort engagements and artillery exchanges, with movements toward Ladysmith and Mafeking and a new gold tax law retroactive to October. General White sick briefly, Lady Sarah Wilson’s bomb proof shelter in Mafeking features.
Forty four window glass plants with 1700 pots resume operations at midnight in Hartford City Indiana restoring work for 16 000 glass workers in the state and about 1500 in the city where the largest plant stands. Indiana leads the United States in glass production with forty five window glass factories fifty flint concerns twenty five green glass houses and three plate glass factories. The industry is fully under labor union control.
A German mail steamer unnamed in initial reports ran aground a quarter mile off Dun Genees at the southern tip of Went. Heavy seas wash over the vessel as ice boats cannot reach it, leaving passengers at risk. The ship is identified later as the Perotas of the Hamburg American line, from Santos to Rotterdam.
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