Entertainments and Meetings in Freeport
City listings for January and February show dances and entertainments across venues. Highlights include masquerade balls at Blusts hall, Heart of Maryland at the Grand, and multiple dances hosted by local clubs and societies, plus a hospital fundraiser and a 50th anniversary celebration for Excelsior lodge of Masons.
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Freeport
Blust
Blust’s
B. of I, 1
Auxiliary
Union
Germaniatall
Central Commandery
Masonic Hall
G. Hall
Martha Washington Garrison
Normandy
Grand
St. Francis’ Hospital
Maynard's Hall
Excelsior Lodge of Masons
Methodists Set May Chicago General Conference
The Methodist Episcopal Church gears up for its general quadrennial conference in Chicago starting May 2 at the Auditorium with ten evening sessions. Seven hundred delegates will attend, with hotel rates set at two dollars daily and a central Chicago guarantee fund of fifty thousand dollars backing logistics and travel savings of about ten thousand dollars. A reprise of the Omaha 1892 and Cleveland 1896 lecture courses is planned to entertain visitors and raise convention funds, featuring speakers such as Congressman Dolliver and Governor Roosevelt1986.
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The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Chicago
Studebaker
Methodist Church
Old First Church
Clark Street
S. M. Merrill
Wabash Avenue
New Book Concern
Omaha
Cleveland
H. C. Jennings
Dolliver
Iowa
Maude Booth
Roosevelt
New York
John R. Lindgren
Chicago Appello Club
Chicago Methodist Social Union
John Farson
Chicago Methodists
Senator Homer F. Aspinwall Eyes State Treasurership
Warren Leader states that Senator Homer F. Aspinwall has decided to run for state treasurer. The piece lauds his Northern Illinois roots and senate record, arguing he is popular, influential, and well suited to the position and party honors.
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Aspinwall
Warren
Homer F. Aspinwall
Northern Illinois
Senate
The Sick List Improves and Several Ills Reported
The Sick List notes Marjorie Verbeck is improving while Adolph Osten contracts mumps and George Murphy suffers a severe rheumatic attack. Carrie Hahn is listed as ill.
Holden Comedy Tonight at Germania Opera House
A Good Play Tonight. The Holden company will perform Knobs of Tennessee this evening at the Germania opera house.
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The
Holden Comedy Company
Knobs of Tennessee
Germania Opera House
Electric Bitters Backed By Idaville Man
Victims suffer stomach liver and kidney troubles and listlessness with loss of appetite and nervous headaches. J W Gardner of Idaville Indiana proclaims Electric Bitters restored his strength and appetite. Price 50 cents at Emmert and Burrell’s drug store with guarantee.
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J. W. Gardner
Idaville
Ind
Emmert & Burrell’s
Winslow Fair Draws Big Crowds and Showcase
Winslow Jan 23 large turnout for the Winslow fair with stand room limited. Exhibits include 200 plus fancy work items such as sofa pillows doilies and lace, and 60 to 70 grain entries. Quilts rugs canned fruits and a bakery fill the hall while the children’s map work and a Babes in the Woods program delight guests. Prizes awarded in pastry with names of winners listed.
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Winslow
C. C. Tyler
Wm. Steeve
Eddie Gerber
Little Katherine Gage
Roy Gage
Mertie Richards
C. Pease
Milton Sandrock
Mary VanMatre
Michels
J. Wright
W. H. Wickwire
Sandrock
Taken This Month Keeps You Well All The Year
Local ad promotes Rocky Mountain Tea as a greatest tonic. Made by Madison Medicine Co. price thirty six cents. Emmert and Burrell listed as distributors.
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Madison Medicine. Co
Emmert & Burrell
The Heart of Maryland Presented at Grand Opera House
The Grand Opera House hosts David Belasco's The Heart of Maryland for the city's first and only performance on Friday Jan 26. The play blends war realisms with a poignant love story featuring Maryland Calvert who sacrifices for her lover amid conflict.
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Grand Opera House
David Belasco
Heart of Maryland
Maryland Calvert
Maryland
New York
Dr King New Life Pills Advertised Health Boost
The sales pitch touts Dr King New Life Pills as a busy mighty marvel, claiming each sugar coated pill converts weakness to strength and fatigue to energy, enhancing mental power. Priced at 25 cents per box and sold by Emmert & Burrell with a listing for a china painting lesson by Mrs Tl V Brown at 7 4 Clark Ave from 1 to 5.
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Dr. King
Emmert & Burrell
China
Tl. V. Brown
Clark Ave
For Sale 200 Acre Iowa Farm Near Independence
Advertises a 200 acre Iowa farm for sale near Independence in Buchanan County. Seeks exchange for Freeport property. Marked as Gox 81 Independence Iowa. L-22d1w.
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Iowa
Independence
Buchanan County
Towa
Freeport
Gox
Names Not an FMidication. Horses and their odd names
A New Orleans horseman at the National discusses how horse names can mislead expectations. He cites General Shafter Kitchener Joe Wheeler Julius Caesar Ellen Terry Tom Sharkey Spurs Brisk Gold Standard Populist Yuba Dam Old Tank Swamp Angel and notes performance sometimes contradicts the moniker. The ad ends with a Beecham’s Pills tag.
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A. C. Scheney
New Orléans
General Shafter
Kitchener
Joe Wheeler
Julius Caesar
Ellen Terry
Tom Sharkey
Spurs
Brisk
Yuba Dam
Swamp Angel
Flour and grocery sale at Schulz Cash Grocer
F A Schulz the Cash Grocer advertises low prices on flour and groceries. White Rose Hour flour at 85c a sack, Big Chief flour 65c, Oatmeal 2c per lb, pancake flour 4c for 2-lb, potatoes 25c a bushel. Coffee Golden Rio 8c lb. Mohawk soap 10 bars 25c. Butterine 12c per lb.
Bargains at Five and Ten Cent Counters
House furnishing Dept offers large tin bread raisers at 35c each, flour selves 9c, clothes bars 88c, and leak proof paper tubs for ingle ibe each. Come and inspect bargains in china and glassware.
Bakery Price List from Historical Shop
Fresh bread three cents a loaf. One day old bread two cents a loaf. Buns rolls cookies and doughnuts eight cents a dozen. Pies and cakes eight cents each. Zweibach three cents a dozen. Need a biscuits four cents a package.
Meat Department Offers Low Prices on Prime Cuts
Advertises a meat department with prices below competitors. Surloin steak 124c lb, porterhouse 2c, round steak 10c, beef roast 8c, boiling beef 6 and 8c, pork roast 8 and 10c, pork chops 10c, leg of lamb 10c, lamb chops 10c, front quarter lamb 6c, finest breakfast bacon 10c, spare ribs 8c, pork sausage 3 lbs for 25c, skinned hams 10c, herring 1c each. Guaranteed satisfaction.
Free Demonstration of Yuco Breakfast Food Sample
A free demonstration this week promotes YUCO, described as America’s great breakfast food sterilized from Red River valley hard spring wheat. The sample event invites all ladies to try the product, sold at 18 cents per package or two for a nickel.
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America
Red River Valley
Price Drop Deals on Jackets and Capes
Bargain rack items include misses and children's jackets reduced from 3.00 to 1.50, 34.00 jackets to 2.00, and 35.00 jackets to 3.00. Plush capes offered at 6.75 or 7.50, now 5.00. Rough cloth capes cut to 3.00 from 5.00 and 2.50 from 4.00.
Auction of Canned Goods Discounts Noted
A list of grocery prices shows a 3-lb can pumpkin priced at ten cents per can, a 3-lb can solid packed tomatoes at seven cents, a large 1pint bottle of catsup at six cents, a 3-lb can Jersey sweet potatoes at ten cents, and Plymouth Rock brand peas at eight cents per can.
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Jersey
Plymouth Rock
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Dee
F.a.read
Ags
Dunham’s
G. A. Huenkemeier
Stephenson Street
Morning Telegraph
Sunday Telegraph
Globe
Daily Telegraph Co
West 42d St
Methodists
W. W. Krape
Woodstock
the Heart OF
Hood
Beecham
F. A. Schulz
Bakery Department
Meat Department
Stephenson Street Mall
Perpetual Dairies
Brown & Dollmeyer
Stata Bank
Maynard
Maynard's
Court House
Hoffman’s
Hermsmeier & Son
Galena
Boston
California
Braun & Fitts
Swift
S. Hermsmeier & Son
Galena ST
Telephone
Ee Eng
Schulte
Siecke
Galena Street
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