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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1875
Page
7
Friday and Saturday crowds packed Best's spacious Freeport store rooms. Gas lit windows highlighted cashmeres silks and lace with a grand millinery display by Mrs Wid. Visitors admired hats bonnets feathers and ornate ornaments while monotony of dry goods decor drew many to the second floor.
The letter urges Freeport farmers to cultivate beets with furnished weed and machinery and to arrange with banks for delivery costs. It argues the venture could build wealth in Northern Illinois, inviting readers to contact O. H. Rosenbauer & Co. Freeport for details and to discuss its importance.
The iron wedding of Busby and Mrs Busby of Trenton New Jersey drew 120 guests who arrived with flat irons. The couple noticed a prank but saw a local overstock of cheap flat irons fueling the joke. Two hundred thirteen irons plus a holder and a cow bell were given before the couple ended iron wedding plans. Busby and wife will skip a public silver wedding. A new Republican paper, the De Witt County Gazette, is noted as spicy.
The Sterling City Guards will have the post of honor in the grand procession at the Northwest soldiers reunion in Chicago on May 12 13 and 14. The celebration is planned as the largest ever held.
In Wysox Carroll County on Thursday April 1875 at the bride’s father residence Rev R Brotherton officiated marriage of Bimeon J Istchor to Miss Viola Smith both of Wysox.
In OnIGADO MARKEY on April 26 bids faltered as wheat dipped with slight gains in No 2 mixed at 746 and 7440 sellers noted. Barley stayed steady and beef, hogs and other grains showed cautious trading with limited activity and prices easing from prior levels.
A testimonial from Mrs. L. Cuareasa of Lorain County praising Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for curing a six month long severe scrofula and chronic catarrh with goitre disappearance. The letter argues against mercury and iodide mixtures and extols plant based cures. It notes widespread sale and asserts safety and efficacy.
Three years after its US introduction from Germany the cough remedy Dr Rosenees German Syrup reports 300000 sample bottles distributed annually and nearly 1000 druggist letters praising sales. The ad urges readers to visit Swarts Stocking Emmett Burrell to obtain a 10 cent sample bottle and a 75 cent regular size.
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