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Newspaper

Freeport Journal

Location

Freeport, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Aug 10, 1881

Page

5

Not so Bad Patent Medicine Ad

The ad touts Dr enner's Golden Relief as instantly relieving neuralgia toothache headache and various pains. It claims cures for rheumatism backache kidney disease diarrhea burns and more with sample sold for 10 cents. It notes rising government patent and pension office business via Presbrey & Green attorneys 529 7th st Washington.

Dr.enner Patent Office General Land Office Pension Office Presbrey & Green 7Th St Washington

Ashton Salt and Agriculture Supplies Market Notice

Ashton Salt offered by M V Brown at lower Stephenson street for dairy use. Also advertised are onion seeds and Bucklen's Arnica Salve with a money back guarantee. Emmert & Burrell of Freeport Illinois sell the salve at 25 cents per box.

M. V. Brown Lower Stephenson Street Ashton Dairy Salt Ashton Bucklen Arnica Emmert & Burrell Freeport Carter Carter Medicine CO New York City aT-ly

How To Get Rich And Households Health Secrets

An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as the great secret to riches and health, quoting Deacon Snyder on paying medical bills. It lists groceries and prices from C. O. B. Grocery and tobacco items from Winne-sheik Tobacco Store, with location details in the Northwest.

Snyder Emmert & Burrell

Fitch & Rogers Ice Merchants Offer Purity and Prompt Service

I C and Messrs Fitch and Rogers of upper Stephenson street announce a large supply of the best ice, cut above the city and soap factory, kept pure and clear. The boys are prompt and ready to contract by season yard quart pint or pound. Ice wagons started Monday. orders may be left at Fitch's bakery.

Messrs Fitch & Rogers Upper Stephenson Street Fitch

Warning on Consumption and Shilohs Cure Proclaimed

A stern warning about the deadly disease consumption is paired with a sales pitch for Shilohs Cure claiming to reliably cure coughs. The text touts over a million bottles sold in the past year and urges mothers to keep it available, mentioning Shilohs Porous Plaster for lingering pains.

Shiloh Emmert & Burell

Shiloh remedies advertised by Emmert & Burell

An 19th century ad promotes Shiloh's Vitalizer for dyspepsia and liver complaints at 75 cents with a printed guarantee, and Shiloh's Catarrh remedy at 50 cents with a free nasal injector, sold by Emmert & Burell.

Shiloh Emmert & Burell

Obituary: Mrs Martha Hutchison Dies After Ill Health

Martha Hutchison daughter of Thons Hutchison of Buckeye aged 85 died at her father's house from valvular heart disease. She grew ill after a brief bout of apparent better health and was given morphia and other remedies before death shortly after midnight. The funeral was held Friday at the Hutchison homestead with services by Harris of Dakota and Irvin of Celina.

Martha Hutchison Thons Hutchison Buckeye and Ster W. W Hattison Abernoon Couny Thompson Rs. Harris Dakota Irvin Cerville

Electric Bitters Promise Astonishing Health Cure

The ad touts Electric Bitters as a perfect cure for exhausted constitutions and kidney trouble. It claims 4 per manture speed and urges quick use, with Emm and Burrell selling bottles for fifty cents.

Emm and Burrell

Advertising notice for Besard photographs and sales agents

For Thirty Days Besard Photographs one dozen dollars at Menry's Gallery No 103 Stephen son St Freeport Ill 24 8ff agents and canvassers earn 25 to 50 dollars weekly selling goods FE G Rideout Co 10 Barclay St New York Send for their catalog and terms 22 1y

E. A. Yontz & Co Stephenson Co Freeport Menry’s Gallery Stephenson Stt FE. G. Rideout & Co Barclay

Ordinance Vacates Cemetery Streets and Potters Field

City of Freeport ordinance from 1881 vacates the street along the Freeport Cemetery south side and sections of the potter field. Vacated land is reallocated for burial use and later laid out into lots for sale in the original cemetery plot. Mayor James McNamara signs. City Clerk W C Clark attests. ad for Bromoline product follows.

City of Freeport Freeport Cemetery Potterfield Corporation James McNamara W.C. Clark

Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Promoted

A老 advertises Dr King’s New Discovery, claiming it cures consumption and many throat and lung ailments. It invites readers to obtain a ten cent trial bottle from Emmert and Burrell to prove its merits, noting a typical one dollar bottle size.

Dr. King Messrs Emmert & Burrell

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