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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1882
Page
5
Fragmented ad text lists prices and items at All Kind of Fruit Confectioner and Merting opposite Court House. Mentions hay linseed oil meal for feed, butter, and teas. Includes odd dealer names and requests for fresh cow buyers.
Barret Bros offers Genuine Pan fired uncolored Japan Tea at 68 cents per pound with exclusive city sale rights in Freeport. Organs and sewing machines accepted as payment for the tea stock, with the largest local selection and cash-buyer incentives at JOHN HEA Opera House near the new Post Office 420. Burrell Bros promotes Maracaibo Coffee roasted daily at 28 cents per pound, comparable to roasted Java.
It Pays to Trade at 110 advertises Pure Sugar products including Standard A and Extra C with prices per pound. The listing mentions Scand wets and Granulated varieties with per pound rates and a Burrell Bros reference.
The ad notes Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds and offers trial bottles at Emmert & Burrells drug store. It laments audience coughing while a preacher speaks, then claims easy relief with the advertised remedy.
Edited by C Dudley Warner outlines a planned ten or more 16mo volumes profiling American authors. Washington Irving and Noah Webster are ready. Nathaniel Hawthorne and others are in preparation. Volumes, 250 to 800 pages, bound stylishly, priced at $1.25 each, to be sold by Charles G Sanborn in Freeport Illinois.
Indians in the Gila Bend area captured a caravan of camels and sent seven large and two small animals east in a car to a Kansas City circus manager. An Egyptian guide was dispatched to oversee the camels travel. The animals are unusually large compared with previous exhibits.
The Burlington Hawkeye notes posters demand recruits who speak English properly, a standard the army applies to privates but not officers, and quips the army remains small while recruiting proves hard.
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