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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1897
Page
7
An advertisement extolls natural grains meat and fruit for healthy blood and warns coffee or tea harms digestion. It promotes Postum Cereal Coffee as a safe pungent hot drink that can replace coffee, claiming it strengthens red blood and improves well being.
Send your address to H E Bucklen & Co Chicago for a free sample of Dr King’s New Life pills. The pills ease constipation and headaches and aid malaria and liver troubles. They are vegetable and do not weaken, but tone stomach and bowels. Regular size 25c, sold by Emmert & Burrell.
Quall urges buyers to act quickly for 86 inch Penangs at 63 cents with more than half sold. He promises big interest and notes the woolen hosiery gate, all items moving fast.
Pearl City records frigid morning at 24 below zero and notes a busy week with hog shipments and school wood supplied for three years. Local families travel, crowds attend dances and gatherings, while accidents and illnesses punctuate a harsh winter.
Friday brings a Ladies Sale with six clerks ready for private appointments. A general clearing sale follows the auction, offering odds and ends from stock at starts around 40 to 50 percent, with goods guaranteed at 60 cents on the dollar.
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