19 Jan 1885
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1885
Page
1
Extra Fine Oysters 25 Cts per Can and other goods fill a vast store. Fitty tybbs Oliie sweet Cider jade bbls Choice Apples extra packing long keepers S2.49 to S400 per bbl. Our Candy and Nut department offers top picks. 5 10 and 25 cent counters hold Christmas presents. Prices that astonish all. Largest Store West of Chicago Calch and look through the store.
A garbled newspaper fragment promotes billows disorders Patriel pills as a superior cathartic, sugar coated and sold by Emmert & Burrell in Freeport, with testimonials from a prominent Des Moines businessman about Chamberlain's Cough remedy. It markets Bosanko's Vile Remedy for piles via The Ur. Bosanko Medicine Co, and lists various stoves and goods from Bartlett Hardware, Pose & Co, and Post & Co, in a sprawling rural ads page.
The ad highlights Pure Maple Syrup, Sweet Cider, flours, coffees, chocolates, canned goods, olives, pickles, seafood, cheeses, and fresh produce. It proclaims superior quality and price, claiming the staple line cannot be equaled in the West. Signed LL b , Post & CO.
Advert shows unscrupulous dealers tout remedies for coughs and colds as equal to Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup priced 60 cents and 100 sold by Hochel Monuk Blaine's Book. It notes citizens lacked seeing the agent for Lcenty Vers Us Congress and mentions publisher re-sending another man FC Perkina of GalPen amid a dubious campaign.
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