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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1874
Page
5
Multiple notices seek agents for a paying business at 110 Stephenson street Freeport. Advertisements promise new goods at low prices and urge patronage for Misses McCool Knipscheld and associates opening rooms near Elson's Jewelry in April. Also promote fresh oysters and wallpaper stock with various vendors.
The County Superintendent announces a 1874 school fund distribution totaling 13 461 50 to Stephenson County townships. Township treasurers receive allotted amounts from the Second National Bank after March 28, with bond renewals required for expired guarantees.
Local ad promotes Medicated Baths at 131 Stephenson Street and notes business profitability. An agents wanted listing appears for a Freeport address at 110 Sephengon Street.
Advertisement touts a fresh supply including Windsor scarfs square handkerchiefs and ties. Promotion claims Ayers Pills purify morbid humors for clearer heads and bodies.
Swengel reports receiving a large stock of remnants and prints with good length and quality. A New York supplier offers liquid gas for teeth extraction, marketed as pure and tested by chemists, claimed as popular and safe for eastern dentists, with high prices noted. Diffen & Co advertise Chicago sales from No 8 Fry's Block.
Disjointed lines reference temperance crusade against liquor sellers and a large grand jury. The fragment suggests talks on wages, death, and domestic life, with calls to watch, plows, and factories as social themes.
An advertisement lists Medicated Baths at 131 Stephenson street Freeport and urging patronage for cleansing the skin and opening pores. It also promotes work agents at 110 Stephenson street and various services by Mrs H C Bray and Taynor & Aspinwatt including abstracts of titles deeds mortgages wills and land office work.
The ad touts Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a powerful blood cleanser that smoothes pimples and eruptions after weeks of use. It cites cures from scrofula to salt rheum and claims full recovery may require multiple bottles, with testimonials including Mrs A W Williams praising the remedy.
Advertisement notes a leading wallpaper stock at Clayton's in Freeport and calls for agents, with address 110 Stephenson Street. The terse notice emphasizes sales potential and local availability.
I K Scofield plans a retail sale ground for nursery stock as soon as the season allows on Van Buren street between Stephenson and Galena. W R Shirey of Ridott and John V Farwell travel to select spring stock for daily invoices. First invoice opens Saturday. Shirey promises low prices at the Post Office Ridott Illinois.
Local event this day features a large heated display involving Black pigments, with scattered notices from Meena WALEGR about the showcase and related activities.
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