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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1900
Page
8
The Freeport store offers ladies garments and accessories at deep discounts. Percales and dimities drop to 59c 14c and 18c yard while yard wide percales sell for 63 4c. Dress goods markdown to 39c with some pieces previously selling up to 1.00. Millinery features stylish hats from 2.50 to 4.00 with helpful sales staff ready to assist.
A calendar of entertainments and meetings for Freeport residents includes a May 8 dance at St Marys hall by Madam Seton Society. a May gymnastic exhibition at Grand opera house. May 12 Vogel and Cummings minstrels at Grand opera house. May 15 Republican Senatorial convention for the 12th district. May 17 Saengerbund concert at Germania opera house. May 21 Prodigal Father at Grand opera house. May 26 Democratic county convention.
Harry Hines, a young wolf hunter, earned 70 dollars in four days by trapping eight young wolves for bounty. He collected 40 dollars for eight wolves on Saturday and 30 dollars two days earlier, with past captures near Milan and Genoa. He travels from Rochelle and follows farmer tips, sleeping in hay stacks while seeking future bounty opportunities.
The note suggests Freeport risks another season without a team while Sterling, smaller in size, assembles a squad including Figge Meier, Joe Cunningham and Householder from Freeport. The ad then pivots to a trade pitch for Rocky Mountain Tea at 85 cents by Joseph Emmert, contrasting slow business with rapid production.
The article notes Freeporters invest in southern rice lands and predicts U S production will rise in South Carolina Georgia Florida Louisiana and Texas. It highlights improved irrigation pumps milling methods and cheaper local labor making domestic rice cheaper than imports, suggesting widespread growth in the sector.
Boone County Treasurer Vickers leads a cooperative drive to tax personal property mortgages recorded in other counties. Treasurers statewide are notified of nonresident mortgage owners, with lists from Kane LaSalle and other counties showing substantial sums, including one $30,000 loan and another at $7,000 for a resident assessor.
Mrs I B Hunt of Lime Bridge Wisconsin faced a grave stomach trouble and yellow jaundice as gall stones grew worse. After vain medical efforts she turned to electric bitters which cured her stomach liver and kidney ailments. The ad touts bitters as a cure for dyspepsia loss of appetite and related issues priced at 50 cents and sold by Jos Emmaert. Beecham's pills are also advertised for sick headache.
A historical look at door knobs shows a transition from brass to mineral to bronze and now varied materials. Bronze remains the dominant city standard, with prices ranging from a few dollars per pair for Fandadine bronze to higher figures for finer designs, while glass and wood options persist. Architects still order knobs to match specific house styles, reflecting broader hardware diversification.
Mary Y Margeson of Winthrop Massachusetts extols Grape-Nuts as the ideal no preparation food loved by her children. She praises its pre digested formulation and instant serving with milk or cream, claiming it nourishes even the weakest stomach. The product is noted as made by Postum Cereal Co. in Battle Creek Michigan.
Visiting at Dixon includes Dixon Sun Chief Rodemeyer of Freeport fire department and wife. J Bartman and wife of Polo joined Polo friends for an evening visit. Notes touch life, hope and ambition as Rocky Mountain is praised. Also an ad for Men’s Shoes at S AVER’s and a seed sale offer by H J Porter at No. 12 Exchange.
Freeport shop at 51 Stephenson Street offers repairs for bicycles lawn mowers guns typewriters cash registers and any item in need of fixing. Bike sundries on hand and model and tool work a specialty.
We are tearing down and remodeling yet still open at the old stand. Visit us to see extraordinary low prices on new spring and summer goods bought recently for the next ten days.
This week only store offers Premium Checks with every sale and special low prices on Mexican Twister Cigars at 2c each. Also advertised are pie plant 2c a bunch parsnips 10c a peck olive oil 6c and olives 25c bottle Wade's ketchup 7c lemon essence 3c a bottle early June peas 7c a can and Boston baked beans 3-lb can for 8c.
A string of grocery sale items featuring Queen Olives at 25c a bottle, prunes at 6c per pound, White Star flour 85c a sack, white cherries at 1 24c a can, evaporated apricots and Bartlett pears at 12 3c per pound, preserves 8c, toilet soap 10c box, butterine 14c per pound, baking powder 10c, parlor matches 10c, Mohawk soap 25c for 12 bars, lemon extract 3c, crackers 4c per pound, table salt 2c per sack, maple syrup 35c per gallon, uncolored Japan tea 3c per pound, red steak salmon 12c per can, Plymouth Rock peas 8c, tomatoes 7c for 3 pounds, Bartlett pears in heavy sugar syrup 12dce.
Readable ad list for home goods and tools with prices: china horseradish cups 5c to 10c, sugar and creamers 25c, cake plates 18c, glass berry sets 25c, fancy water bottles 20c, fruit dishes 9c, thimbles 2 for 1c, wood frames 9c, large looking glasses 12c, moth balls and Avee boxes 9c, tack hammers 5c, carpet beaters 6c, door stops 3 for 6c, garden tools 2c, 6 ft copper bottom tea kettles 28c, milk pails 4c, clothes racks 38c, clothes lines 9c, lawn mowers 2.25.
Fresh bread three cents a loaf. Bread, rolls, buns, cookies, and doughnuts priced per dozen. Uneeda biscuits thirty four cents per package.
Meat department offers prices 3 to 5 cents below competing stores. Surloin at 24 cents per pound, porterhouse 121 cents, best round 10 cents, shoulder roast 8 cents, rib boiling beef 6 cents, regular hams 3 cents, picnic hams 9 cents, finest breakfast bacon 10 to 123 cents per pound. Herring sold by the each, French table mustard 10 cents per quart.
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