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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1900
Page
8
A Freeport store promotes a brief sale on ladies wrappers, shirt waists, dress goods and fancy silks priced from 39c to 4.00, highlighting percale lawn prints, yard wide percales at 63 4c, dimities at 14c and 18c, with millinery stylish hats and polite sales staff ready to help.
May 8 dance at St Marys hall under Madam Seton Society. May 9 gymnastic exhibition at Grand opera house. May 9ee Cummings minstrels at Grand opera house. May 15 Republican Senatorial convention 12th district. May 17 Saengerbund concert at Germania opera house. May 21 Prodigal Father at Grand opera house. May 26 Democratic county convention.
The well known Geo H Adams appears at the Grand Opera House in Muldoon's Last Picnic with his two grown daughters assisting in a grotesque country life comedy. Adams, a former Humpty Dumpty of Forepaughs, explains the New Year start with Miss Tonina and Miss Lily joining in the Irish farce.
An old English volume notes it took 150 years to fashion a noted beauty. In contrast, local press claims quicker fashion with Rocky Mountain Tea. Price 85 cents, seller Joseph Emmert.
Chas G Robson of Saxon Illinois has stepped down after forty five years as postmaster. He received the commission July 1 1855 under Montgomery Blair. He plans to move near Scranton Iowa to start anew and will sell stamps only when necessary.
Evergreen trees remain essential in landscape work providing cheer and shelter. Norway Spruce leads in windbreaks and ornament with American White Spruce noted for denser growth, sustaining demand on farms, public grounds, and estates.
Report of private sale of personal property approved and ordered recorded for Mary A Morrison estate. Several estates file notices, appraisals, inventories, and bond actions. Claims listed include payments to C J Dittmar and others. Beechams pills cure sick headache.
Illinois orchardists advance spraying and orchard care as spraying outfits and copper sulfate orders rise. Officials and horticultural society members report growing demand for spraying implements, signaling spraying as essential for a strong fall apple crop.
Mrs I B Hunt of Lime Bridge Wisconsin faced gall stones and jaundice with worsening illness until Electric Bitters cured her stomach liver and kidney ailments. The ad touts the remedy as a wonder and urges readers to try it at 50 cents with druggist Jos Winmert. Also promoting lawn grass seed and a closing out sale by H J Porter at No 12 Exchange Street.
Freeport Model Works offers bicycle and lawn mower repairs and fixes guns typewriters cash registers and other items in need of repair. Bike sundries on hand. Model and tool work a specialty.
We remain open at the old stand and invite customers to visit for ten days of extraordinary low prices on new spring and summer goods recently bought for the season. Come in despite minor inconvenience and save on many items.
A local advert declares a limited time sale to clear stock for new goods. Shoppers can make purchases this week and receive Premium Checks with every sale, exchanging them for valuable gifts as part of the promotional trade.
A dated advertisement lists low prices on soap 12 bars for 25c lemon or vanilla extract 3c per bottle crackers 4c per pound salt 2c per 5c sack maple syrup 4 gallon can 35c per can Japan tea 385c per pound red steak salmon 12k per can Plymouth Rock peas and 3-lb cans of solid packed tomatoes 7c and Bartlett pears 12k in heavy sugar syrup.
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