09 Feb 1881
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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1881
Page
1
Teas freshly arrived from garden grown stock offered at 10 to 80 cents per pound, cheaper than statewide options. Also featured are best card photographs at McHenry's Gallery No. 105 Stephenson Street Freeport, Illinois, priced $1.00 per dozen.
A salve promises cure for cuts and sores with money refund if not satisfied. Emmert and Burrell advertise 25 cents per box in Freeport with address and phone. Burrell Bros' grocery offers fresh produce, canned goods, meats, fish, imports, and crackers at low prices.
A historic advert urges readers to treat coughs and consumption with Shiloh’s Cure claiming it never fails and has sold over a million bottles in the past year. It touts relief for croup and whooping cough, and recommends Shiloh’s Porous Plaster for lame backs, side or chest with Emmert & Burrell as sellers.
An 1880s advertisement bundle touts Shilohs Vitalizer for dyspepsia and liver complaints with a printed guarantee, and Shilohs Catarrh remedy offering a nasal injector free with each bottle. Also notes a note under caution of $100 and local agency ads for Ashton Dairy Salt and grocery items.
To delight visitors, Burrell Bros advertises New Formosa or Garden Grown Spring-leaf Japan tea with consistently lower prices. It promotes roasting coffees Rio Santos or O G Java as superior and fresh daily, and lists fresh nuts like almonds and filberts with low prices and no old stock.
A dense OCR of a market page showing stock, boards, timber, flour and meal, oats, hides, wool, coal, lime, and tobacco with various unit prices and quantities. The fragment includes items like common boards, joists, cedar poles, flour grades, middlings, bolted meal, oats, corn, hides, wool, lime, stucco, and coal with assorted price points and measurements.
A historical advertisement touts Electric Bitters as the cure for impure blood and all stomach liver kidney and urinary ailments. It claims they soothe nervousness and related complaints where other remedies fail and notes a fifty cent bottle price at Emmert and Burrell.
Fresh and good candy being advertised at low price per pound. It highlights fine fancy mixed candy and cream mixed candy with prices around a dime to sixteen cents per pound, noting availability at Burren Bros. and Pye Stick candy.
At Novelty Iron Works on Spring street between Walnut and Galena Avenue fifty tons of old iron will fetch the highest market price in cash Mora an Bros Proprietors. Syrups We can beat the world on low prices and good goods Extra Corn Syrup 45c a gallon. c. C. D. Srorn.
Two car loads deliver choice varieties Greening Spitzenburg Spy Baldwin King Seek no further, Steel's Red and more. Place orders now at Burrell Bros with our usual low prices.
A drug advert proclaims Dr King s New Discovery as a remedy for coughs colds bronchitis hay fever asthma chest pain and lingering throat lung diseases. It claims wide physician use journal recommendations clergy and press endorsements and offers trial bottles at ten cents and regular bottles at one dollar sold by Emmert Burrell in Freeport.
Chicago extols Electric Bitters as the great western metropolis of America in health, claiming superior value over all rivals. The ad asserts intrinsic worth and promises efficacy where other cures fail, with Emmert & Burrell selling bottles at fifty cents.
A brief advertorial note promotes Dr Fenner’s Improved Cough Honey to treat head cold or cough. It claims relief in one hour and offers a sample bottle for 10 cents. Gly
In WERREN PA March 20 1878 a letter from REV. R. M. WARREN testifies that Blood and Liver Remedy Nerve Tonic and Cough Honey have provided greater benefit to his family than any prior medicine. The note claims Dr Fenner's products relieve cough within an hour and promise cures for various ailments. Sold by Emmert Burrell with other advertisements for Anti Morbific liver and kidney remedies.
A No 1 hand who understands all general blacksmithing sought. Married or single, good wages and good chance for a skilled workman. Inquiries at Burchard Scott's in Freeport, or by letter to Qo E Studebaker Florence Station Stephenson Co Nl 46 w4.
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