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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1899
Page
5
The notice proclaims heavy pre Christmas sales in bakery and meat sections with prices like bread 4 loaves for 7c, pies and cakes 7c each, buns 7c per dozen, and various meats from 7c to 10c per lb. All goods guaranteed as represented with a money refund option.
A list of events in Freeport includes a Powwow show at Binat's hall, various college openings, a grand opera event, dances, lectures, and a masquerade under fraternal auspices. Also noted are church services, a week of prayer, and a public installation ceremony.
Newly elected officers of W. J. McKim post G A R will be installed tonight and officers of John A. Davis post with the Woman's Relief corps will be publicly installed next Friday at G A R hall. The program includes songs prayers speaking and installations with Rev C E Dunn J D McCaughtry and Capt H S Aspinwall among participants.
A Browntown Browntown nightclub brawl at Trickle’s hotel after a Friday dance left Frank Gavigan of Jordan badly injured. About a dozen Jordan men and six Browntown youths fought a ten to one clash, shattering the bar, tossing chairs and glass, and driving the Jordan party from the saloon. Gavigan needed bed rest at the hotel with Dr H A Rouse in attendance, while rumors spread of a Jordan woman struck amid the chaos.
A Beecham's Pills advertisement reports a factory in St Helens Lancashire turning seven million plus pills daily, curing constipation with no signed testimonials, and an annual sale of six million boxes, labeled the most popular remedy on earth. The clipping also notes local fruit offers and a hair work service in Stevens Street.
A holiday sale attracts shoppers with tricots velvet coverts and fancy check backs at prices from 5 to 8 dollars. Hem stitched silks embroidered handkerchiefs from 10 cents, scarves and mufflers priced up to 1 dollar, and boys and mens wear including reefer jackets, neckwear, and chest protectors offered as affordable holiday gifts in Freeport.
Men’s tennis gowns at 60c for 9c. wool hose two pair for 25c. ladies fleeced vests and pants 25c. All-wool blankets cut from $3.50 to $2.49 and $6.00 blankets to $4.49. 48 ready-made suits at 40c on the dollar. Silk lined options. Ladies all-wool mackintoshes $3.98. men’s caped mackintoshes $1.49. Few holiday goods left. none to be carried over.
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