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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1900
Page
7
An advertisement urges consumers to choose Marshall's Best Flour for its balance of quality and efficiency, arguing that buying cheap goods without regard to value is unwise. It claims the flour is rarely equaled and never excelled, presenting it as a superior option among flours.
A Freeport note tells how Maria Buaxe of Amboy reports rapid relief from a month of arm and shoulder trouble after four magnetic treatments at Gregory and Mary Gregory and wife. She credits the healers with a full cure and invites correspondence.
For a few days only the shop will offer strictly fresh eggs at 16c a dozen and Argo bulk starch at 3c a pound. Fresh oatmeal is 2½c a pound. The store stocks a full line of naval seeds, Florida oranges, bananas, pears, Concord Maligna and California grapes, New York apples, green onions, radishes, celery, lettuce, tomatoes and sweet potatoes. Nut meats, fancy lager raisins, candied pineapple, cherries, citron, orange and lemon peel, and more are available.
Meat Market promotes a wide selection of poultry including dressed ducks geese and chickens along with blue points lobsters shrimps and venison. Dressed turkeys priced at 11e per pound.
The advertisement claims exclusive agency rights for Winslow Rand Watsons Famous Boston Coffees Curtice Bros Blue Label Canned Fruits and Vegetables Gordon Dilsworths Valuable Delicacies, detailing authorized distributorship in select markets and product categories.
Jan 1 Lewis Morrison stars in Frederick the Croat at the Grand opera house. Jan null Freeport chapter Eastern Star elects officers. Jan 12 Sons of Veterans camp installation of officers. Jan 17 18 Stephenson County Farmers Institute at the courthouse. Feb 6 Under the Red Robe at the Grand opera house.
A Pleasant social affair marked the twenty fourth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Kluck near McConnell on Saturday December 30. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Kreps Arbor Hill Town and many neighbors and friends. The event featured gifts and warm recollections as the couple nears the remainder of life's journey. The neighborhood children hosted New Year festivities at the G. W. Shippy home welcoming 1900 with a decorated tree, recitations and a village kitchen party with games and treats.
Frank Death sustained a painful eye injury while shinny on the river as a ball struck him. Patrick Mooney, a Illinois Central coal shure employee, fell and injured head and arms. W A Merrifield left for Madison and other cities to meet big jobbers, noting the Stover Manufacturing company just closed its most prosperous year.
Prof A Vernon Hart, famed in the west for remarkable cures, has drawn strong demand for his services and is seriously considering opening a sanitarium at Freeport or another convenient location to treat various ailments.
Schools resume sessions after vacation reporting strong turnout though a noticeable number of pupils stay home with mumps. The reopening marks a return to class routines as health and attendance influence daily operations.
The Freeport Social club will hold an important meeting tonight at Germainia Hall. All members are requested to attend.
Cherry vamp will hold a meeting tonight to install their new officers and to ballot on twenty new candidates.
The engagement of Al Zapf of Boston Massachusetts and Miss Jane Gallo of this city has been announced. The hardware stores of Freeport will close evenings at 6 oclock here after excepting Saturday evenings.
J H Morrison and Lerozette Seeockey of Rock Run issued marriage license. Includes note a related union barber shops plan to close Sunday and a generic ad copy for Dr Thomas Electric Oil. Emmert and Burrell listed.
A satirical note explains 1900 is not a leap year and thus brings no extra opportunities for dear girls until 1904. It outlines the four-year rule for leap years, noting century years must be divisible by 400 to qualify. The piece ends with a promotional jab for Rocky Mountain Tea from Emmert & Burrell.
The 16th annual meeting of the State Beekeepers association will be held February 7 and 8 in the Wisconsin State Capitol at Madison. Prominent beekeepers Jennie Towle and Ada Pickard will attend, with G W York of Chicago delivering From the Hive to the Table. Excursions, displays, and a spring management debate are on the program along with exhibits by American Biscuit Co and others.
A sale offers all goods at a great sacrifice with a listed assortment of groceries meats and provisions at low prices. Customers are invited to read the list and visit to take advantage of saving opportunities.
By order of Grand Commander Eminent Sir James B. McFatrich a central inspection is set for February 21 1900 in Freeport. Eminent Grand Warder Albert F Schoch will attend with all district commanderies Galena Mt Carroll Dixon Sterling Galesburg Mendota Princeton and other eminent commanders invited. The morning covers records and rooms the afternoon includes a Red Cross dummy and a real candidate with a final Temple ceremony.
Geo William of Manchester Michigan relates how his wife, once unable to turn in bed for five years, recovered after two bottles of Electric Bitters. The ad claims the remedy cures nervousness, insomnia, melancholy, headaches, backache, fainting and dizziness. It touts 50 cent bottles, guaranteed, sold by Emmert and Burrell.
A local ad promotes reduced prices on staple items including oatmeal 2c per lb, best laundry starch 2c per lb, California prunes 5c per lb, cheese 12.3c per lb, rock salt 3c per package, rice 3c per lb, buckwheat 33c per 10 lb, Japan tea 30c per lb, maple syrup 38c per gallon, Golden Rio coffee 8c per lb, Fairy soap 1 bar with a 1900 calendar for 5c, Snyder’s chili sauce 8c per bottle, salad dressing 10c per bottle, pepper sauce 8c per bottle, mustards 3c per bottle.
Bakery department price sheet lists fresh bread at 3c a loaf and day old bread at 2c. Buns rolls cookies and doughnuts priced at 8c a dozen. Pies and cakes 8c each. Zweibach 3c a dozen. Unceda biscuits 4c per package.
Seventy five cent wool riderdown sacques and 59c for 75c wool items. Underwear sets, jackets, collars, and fascinators offered at deep discounts. Children and men's garments, camel hair and fleece lined pieces, with prices from 10c to 2.75 for select coats and wrappers. Numerous reductions across sacks, vests, drawers, and stockings.
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