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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1899
Page
8
Advertisement outlines low prices for cambric nainsook and Swiss cloth at 12 1/2 cents per yard with 4564 yards offered in widths to 8 inches. Promises newest patterns and exclusive imported styles with insertion to match.
Advertised sale presents multiple lots of women's underwear. Corset covers children s waists and drawers priced 8c each. Lot 2 includes full sized night dresses drawers and corset covers 25c. Later lots feature embroidered lace trimmed gowns skirts drawers and corset covers from 39c to 99c with several higher priced sets and copies from French designs.
Bargain seekers urged to buy White Satin Flour at The Big Store with low prices on whole wheat flour sugar and canned goods. Weekly bakery items fresh bread pies cakes and buttered treats offered with low prices on staples like coffee sugar and soap.
Entertainment and meetings for Fresport residents list upcoming events at Grand Opera House and local halls. Winters company performs January 17, Masquerade ball January 18, Ragnar and danes January 19, installation social January 23, comic opera The Highwayman January 24, mid winter social January 2, seventh annual ball January 24 2, farmers institute January 31 February 1 and Memorial Lutheran spectacle at Grand Opera House.
An old-time railroad knight recalls how engineers once feared signs and omens and believed accidents came in threes. He cites Peoria incidents from decades earlier where a series of mishaps led to a man leaving railroading after a fatal derailment, layoffs, and eventual retirement.
Miss Mollie Gill of Sycamore was in a wreck on the Northwestern road near DeKalb. A Northwestern claim agent, seeking a claim, nearly collapsed when she said she had none. He gave her a $10 bill and asked for a photograph to hang in the office as the only person ever in a Northwestern wreck with no claim.
The junk dealers who occupy the Galena street building formerly Rockey's carpenter shop were arrested on a General Electric company complaint for receiving stolen goods and were released on bail.
Net earnings for November totaled 923,132 down 69,823 from last year. Gross earnings reached 2,563,749 up 0.40 from 1897. Operating expenses for the month rose, but the report cuts off before the amount is given.
R H Wiles of Chicago writes a Freeport friend that Mrs Wiles who fell from a train last Saturday is improving though the wound heals slowly. The cut runs from scalp to skull and only the hair cushion saved her skull from fracture and brain concussion.
The funeral for the late Peter Stentz horn is Sunday at 1 PM from the family residence with Rev. E Brunoehler officiating. Christian Winning’s service is Sunday at 2 PM from St John’s church. Judge Andrew Hinds will be laid to rest Monday at 10 AM in Lena with Rev. depencer officiating.
The newly elected officers of Smith D. Atkins camp Sons of Veterans were installed by Captain Henry Burrell. The camp, though only months old, reports 70 members and a healthy treasury balance. Deputy John Effert installed officers of Stephen A. Douglas encampment No. 100 Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
County Clerk Held submits semi annual report on county residents at Elgin asylum. Forty one patients are listed with all in good or fair physical condition. He also reports on the state industrial school showing Dora Prinkey and Alta St. Clair in good department condition.
The will of the late Dr. B T Buckley filed for probate names son Charles Buckley as heir to a farm in Ida County Iowa while wife Lila A Buckley receives the rest of the estate. The will dated December 8 1887 names executors Mrs Buckley and H M Barnum and is witnessed by H C Burchard and Dr C R Sheetz.
The Haverly’s American European Minstrel company invites audiences to buy tickets for an evening of top performances. The ensemble features Billy Rice Arthur Dening Lew Spencer Neil O’Brien Buck Sheffer and many others with a special vocal department. Grand Opera House. date shown as 18th.
Send your address to H E Bucklen Co in Chicago and receive a free sample box of Dr King’s New Life Pills. The ad touts benefits for consumption, headaches, malaria and liver trouble, claims no harmful substances, and that pills tone stomach and bowels. Local notices report numerous illnesses including grip, sickness, and improving condition of several residents.
A vintage advertisement touts Jungkunz Cough Balsam as a remedy for coughs with a price of 25 cents. The copy targets readers seeking a dependable relief when other products fail.
The Freeport post office lists unclaimed advertisements for January including Ir As Doeming Miss Liley Garman Mrs Charlie Moyers Miss Alice Shattuck Mrs EB S Truman Aliss Emma Aspinwall John Cohn Julius Franks Mr Jaker D Krydov Jacob yor Goo Nelson Andrew Poiffer A Stearns H F Warne Chas p ersons calling for advertised Jan Z Farwell Mra LC Hartwell Mrs Meores Mrs H R Taylor Mrs F L Wardlow Miss Marg ates Clark E 8 Frat George Fisher James Greenwalt John Morris Frod os C Y New Era Pritts Fred Wilcox Ernest N and others. Postmaster SMITH D ATKINS notes this list. A breakfast dish claim ad appears from Rocky Mountain Tea by Hmmert & Burrell.
Ready made sheets and pillow cases in various mills muslin. Monarch Pepperell Utica options priced from 9c to 59c each with hemstitched and special wraps. Includes calico wrappers and percale wrappers with patterns and wide skirts, advertised as value heavy sale items.
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