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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1877
Page
5
Page lists grain and lumber prices and stock boards with quantities and sizes, plus advertisements for Wood’s mower reaper and Troy washing methods. Includes deaths, marriages, and local notices from Stephenson County with dates in 1877 1897 and names like Froning Rust Bradshaw Warren and family.
Announcement for a grand opening sale of Merchant Tailoring Goods with a display of spring styles for 1877. Describes woolen pants and suits made to order at various prices, cashmere and worsted suits, spring overcoats, and emphasizes quality, stock, and invitaton to inspect. Also lists competing notices for wallpaper and farm implements from local merchants and agents.
A collage of shop notices offers Grover & Baker sewing machines for sale or trade for a cow, feather beds, wallpaper at D Adamsons, Ready Made clothing at Mrs Benson's, Dr Kines New Discovery for consumption advertised with free trial, lumber yard rental at Stephenson Street, Star Clothing House unlaundered shirts for $1, new dry goods and notions, 48 inch black cashmeres and guipierre silks at W A Stevens, and table linens at Stevens all promoting low prices and goods opening this week.
The Fredonia Censor touts Dr Fenner's Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic with a testimonial from Hon Williard McKinstry. It promotes ready-made baby carriages toys and a line of ready-to-wear clothing plus a dry goods and boot store opening. It also advertises music bindery services and blood purification products by RoBack and Swarts Stocking.
Desirable properties offered for sale or exchange include a 32 acre farm near Fort Dodge with a living stream and good crops, a 640 acre Pocahontas County farm with rich soil, and 460 acres in Faribault County Minnesota with rolling prairie. Terms are very reasonable or exchange possible for property near Freeport. Inquiries directed to WwW. G. & WW. Barnes. Also notices of a missing youth in Wisconsin and various tonic and excursion ads are listed.
The Star Clothing House markets new spring suit and pantaloons lines for merchant-tailoring trade at bottom prices. Also, $400,000 loans offered to farmers at 8 1/2 percent, with direct farmer contact urged by D. W. Pomeroy of Chicago. Freeport Shoe Works advertises 23 cents per bushel Time coffee billing, plus cement plastering materials from Freeport Lime Works by Anton Bering.
An advertisement touts the New Family Snurrye sewing machine at 30 dollars, claiming rapid, versatile performance with late improvements, easy operation, and long service. It invites agents nationwide and notes seasonal grocery endorsements, agency recruitment, and a parlor organ offered for sale nearby.
S W Chapman opposite the Monument buys out late partner Col ling and will sell groceries provisions and canned fruits at low prices delivering free to your door. Also ads for dental office move, rental spaces, remedies Castoria and Centaur Lint, and property for sale near State Fairgrounds with various business and repair notices.
Advertisement touts Dr Morris Syrup of Tar Wild Cherry and Horehound claiming no failure. Praises for cures of severe colds coughs asthma bronchitis croup whooping cough and consumption. Notes safety non opium and non constipating with trial 10 cents large 50 cents and one dollar. Sold by Emmert and Burrel agents for Parker Worm Syrup 25 cents.
Cheap John John R. Wagner Agent offers the lowest prices and best goods in town. He has the largest stock of groceries and promises astonish ing low prices. Call at his store to be convinced. The Tobacco House Jacob Krohn remains a popular Northwest cigar resort with Krohn’s Own and Sabrina Havanna blends.
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