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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1899
Page
13
The advertisement highlights Schoeffel and Brockhausen as a major grocer offering big store and small prices. It promotes extensive savings across groceries and daily necessities with emphasis on value and variety.
An old time store circular touts lower prices on canned goods, coffee, flour, rice, dries, and household items. Items include prunes 4c lb, bluing 4c, pumpkin 3-lb can 6c, peas 6c, tomatoes 8c, Walter Baker chocolate 31c lb, Van Houten cocoa 19c, and soap and tobacco deals. Trade slogans tout money saved with lower prices than competitors.
Advertisement for Schoeffel and Brockhausen listing addresses 133 and 185 Galena Street. Promotes mail and telephone orders with long distance number 257 and promises prompt attention to pocketbooks. Repeats lines about trade and ordering services.
A local store advertises a two day sale on February 1 and 13 with low prices and increasing value. Highlights include Havemeyer sugar for 1.00, mince meat 6c, corn 5c, tomatoes 6c, pears 10c, bacon 9c per lb, boneless codfish 1 24, salmon 10c, blackberries 10c, grated pineapple 1e, syrup 20c per gallon, potatoes 85c per bushel, Boston baked beans 8c, lemons or vanilla extract 10c, macaroni 6c, coffee 8e, Golden Santos coffee 10c, butterine 12c per 4 lb, Minnesota flour, and 75c flour per sack. Fresh bread 8c, amonia 5c, and emphasis on lowest prices without sacrificing quality. The ad invites shoppers to cut living expenses by buying at this store and asserts prices are the lowest with reliable quality.
Freeport clergymen and the Woman's Auxiliary hosted a Y M C A annual banquet in the auditorium with Dr. W B Peck as toastmaster. Secretary Keagle noted membership growth, financial strength, and plans to recruit more members by June, while speakers urged character time and opportunity awareness.
The freshness of a cracker is its foundation attraction. Uneeda Biscuit now comes in a new five cent package promising crisper texture and morning dew freshness. Available at all grocers.
The speaker argues talent varies, but all can sharpen ability through effort. The parable shows three levels of effort and reward, praising hustling, practical optimism, and using opportunities. It contrasts the prudent, ambitious workers with a pessimistic, withheld man and notes latent talent can emerge under pressure.
The passage argues that dreary initial impressions fade as artistic ability yields meritorious drawings and life sketches. It extols gifts like wealth creation, mechanical genius, teaching prowess, eloquence, and laconic truth telling as God given. It urges ambition to use blessings rightly to achieve greatness.
John Griffith appears at the Grand on the 16th in M Anicet Burgosse and Feral's The Avenger a historical romance about a French frontier love story. He previously starred with Keene and Modjeska and gained fame as Memphistophies in Sir Henry Irving's Faust. Kathryn Purnell leads a NY cast. advance seat sale starts Monday morning Feb 18 at Moogk's.
The Illinois Central reports December and six months ended December 31 results. Gross earnings show large totals with operating expenses and net earnings detailed. For the period July 1 to December 31 gross earnings reach about 14.9 million with higher operating costs and net income. January gains rise with $2.30 million gross versus $2.28 million prior year. year-to-date July 1 to Jan 31 gross earnings total about $16.79 million, up from $16.36 million.
W T Foster reports forecasts from Sr Josefsa Missouri noting storm waves crossing the continent from February 12 to 16 reaching the Pacific coast by February 16 and progressing through the Rockies and eastern states with warm and cool waves. Temperature and precipitation expectations are given for the period ending February 27 with thaw anticipated near early February and a return to cold later in February.
Mrs. M Langton of Logansport Indiana shares a long tale of kidney backache urinary disturbances and swelling. She credits Morrow's Kidneyoids yellow tablets sold by A J Moogk and druggists for relief after years of poor results from doctors. Manufactured by John Morrow Co Springfield Ohio.
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