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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1867
Page
5
BK C Dwight and Co offer wholesale and retail watches clocks and silverware at prices lower than Chicago and competing with Freeport. Visit Stephenson Street Freeport Illinois to compare. Call and satisfy yourselves.
Terrifying swarms of flies menace people and livestock as a patent remedy touts Dutchers Lightning Flay-Killer promising quick, sweeping relief. Ad warns against imitations and sells nationwide for six cents, urging buyers to beware.
A man nearly fell into a building under construction by Mr Litt le, another man survived a throat cut attempt in Rockford, a homeless man was housed in a dry goods box, an express train accident injured none, a drunk man fell between train cars, a brewer’s wagon horse ran away but caused no damage, and various political hopefuls seek county treasurer positions with horse shows planned by Prof. R P Hamilton and Meyer at the fairground featuring Dexter the horse.
In Chicago Thursday Gen Dornblazer made purchases for the Joilet penitentiary and reports progress at the prison. His family has joined him in Joilet and will reside there permanently. The Bulletin editor has been laid low by fever and ague for days but not deemed dangerous. A social gathering at Mr Oscar Saylor's celebrated Mr and Mrs Taylor's silver wedding anniversary with about 450 guests including a Rockford party.
Letters from Griggs of the Rockford Register invite Freeport editors to a baseball game between printing offices, with both sides to field editors or printers and no professionals allowed. The note promises a season highlight event and urges railroads to run extra cars for excursionists.
The Lena Star quotes a domestic lecture full of blunt humor about husbands and ignorance, then shifts to local items. It reports a Union versus Resolute baseball game score, grain shipments, a horse theft arrest near Lena, a new threshing machine patent, temperance meeting notes, editor Scroggs’ health, and a call for readers to send local news including accidents and crops.
An advertisement touts the Mason & Hamlin Cabinet Organ as now perfect in construction and moderately priced, claiming it offers ornament and education for youth, plus an inexpensive social resource. It also mentions King’s Vegetable Ambrosia as a hair restorative praised to reverse time’s effects.
GQ EX. Little importer offers crockery china glassware and tableware opposite Brewster House. Self sealing glass jars with glass stopper claim easy use no corrosion. Jars come in pint quart and five quart sizes with corks optional. Jelly cans stone colored and jelly jars in glass advertised at low prices. Large stock and variety emphasized with lowest prices.
Joking advises shoppers to visit J E Staver's Store on Stephenson Street to view an immense stock of home made calf or kip boots and shoes sold cheap for cash only. Located west of Chicago, Staver’s sign promises value with constant stock kept on hand.
Local notice advertises sale at Freeport farm one mile north of town offering about three hundred head of fine sheep and lambs with estimated 5 lb shear per day. Also available full blood American Merino bucks and agricultural implements including Manny Patent reaper mower and sulky corn cultivator.
SASH DOORS and MOULDINGS by Emmert & Pattison announce machinery-made frames and custom planing. Freeport Agricultural Works hosts orders with prompt attention and guaranteed satisfaction. Plantation Bitters touted as a tonic for dyspepsia and stomach ailments. J Mayer & Sons advertise groceries, baked goods, oysters, and cream for festivals. Oysters undersold by D Diffenbaugh. Solley Cultivators and buggy wheels offered by Burchard Brothers.
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