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Freeport Daily Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Mar 19, 1900

Page

7

Easter bonnets and stockings set summer fashion

Paris millinery paths the season with blooms from roses to cyclamen and garlands ready made for Riviera wear. Leghorn hats fade as models grow, while nets and geddo braids shape new styles. Aiming for harmony, embroidery and jet ornaments appear with bold stockings featuring moons stars and checks for a playful summer look.

Leghorn Paris Millinery ‘Trade Review Geddo Paillasson

Long distance call prompts child’s first phone lesson

A wife on the long distance line to her husband in Duluth vents exasperation. Their daughter Eleanor, observing the scene, asks to reach her mother through the device, illustrating a child’s first encounter with telephone communication.

Duluth Hubby Eleanor

Stranded in Yukon Woman Triumphs Through Adversity

The story recounts Mrs. Janes W. Bruner, a pioneer daughter of Ophir Bruner, who travels to Dawson in 1898, faces penniless hardship in Rampart City, builds a home and wealth through trading, mining, and patient endurance, and becomes the first woman voter in Nome. She describes her elegant Rampart cabin, arctic living, and her two Malamarite dogs Sheik and Leeza with their six puppies, the first of the breed in the U.S.

Arctic Circle Klondike Janes W. Bruner San Francisco Ophir" Bruner California Nevada Dawson City Dawson Dutch Harbor Yukon Leelanaw St. Michael Evans Seattle Rampart City Nome Bruner Arctic Sheik Leeza

An Optimist’s Wry Take Sparks Cheerful Wit

A Chicago Record quip defines an optimist as one who can worry more people with irrational cheerfulness than with gloom. The remark frames optimism as clever mischief rather than sincere hope.

Chicago Record

Costs Like Sin In A Book Trade Exchange

A young man protests a book's price of seven dollars and fifty cents and pockets his purse. The elderly book agent retorts that nothing costs like sin, framing a moral over a monetary value in a brief exchange.

Bread From Grocers Used as Horse Feed at Stable

A delivery wagon halted at an uptown stable as two men unloaded barrels of bread in assorted loaves. The stable owner explains the bread is repurposed for horse feed, ground and mixed with other fodder at 40 cents per barrel. Most loaves are a day old but still usable for people, yet unsellable to grocers, per the New York Journal.

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The Elixir Of Youth Veiling At Market Stall

An old lady admires peaches shaded by pink gauze and buys them. Returning next day she asks if veiling is sold there, hoping the pink wrap made the fruit look plump. She muses it might make her look youthful too, like the peaches. London run.

London

Drunken man stares at hotel dining room scene

A soaked, ragged man leans on an iron hotel lamppost and watches well gowned diners inside a dining room. He is very drunk, pale, and hairy as he speaks with pity about their enjoyment in a room of silver, glass, and crimson decor.

Lts New York Commercial Advertiser

One Minute Cough Cure Endorsed By Mothers And Doctors

Mrs Calvin Zimmerman of Millsburg Pennsylvania touts One Minute Cough Cure as a speedy cure for coughs colds croup and sore throat and says it is pleasant for children She claims it cures bronchitis pneumonia grippe and throat and lung diseases and can prevent consumption Dr J J Henna a native of Port Rico notes 288000 beggars in a million island population Rev W E Sitter of New York writes of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure as a panacea for indigestion Wm Orr of Newark Ohio says the remedy saved his little boy from pneumonia and that One Minute Cough Cure is the best medicine in the house

Calvin Zimmerman Millsburg H. J. Moogh J. J. Henna Port Rico Washington Island W. E. Sitter W. Caton N. Y H. J. Moogk Wm. Orr Newark E. C. Dewitt & CO ChicaGo

Wall Paper Sale Cuts Prices to Clear Stock

Wall Paper on hand must be sold to make room for new stock. Prices cut: 25¢ items now 15¢, 20¢ items now 10¢, 12¢ items now 6¢, 10¢ items now 6¢, 8¢ items now 5¢. Graining 20¢ now 12¢. Paper hanging painting calcimining at lowest rates. Estimates furnished. Joan E Apason, 39d2556 Stephenson St.

Joan E. Apason Stephenson St

For Sale residence and business property bargains

For Sale. Very choice bargains in residence and business property and a long list of desirable building lots across the city. Call 209 Float street or City drug store. Money to loan at 5 percent on first mortgages. 2 8dtf Peter Murzgar.

Float Street City Drug Store Peter Murzgar

Doctors to Move into New Quarters About April First

The Fry block council rooms are being converted by carpenters into new offices for Drs Caldwell Stealy and Firestone. They will relocate around April 1st to larger, modern quarters with improved conveniences, replacing their cramped current space.

Fry Carpenters

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