Advertising Rates for Nonpareil Newspaper Columns
Rates listed for advertisements include per line pricing, single and multiple insertions, with a ten cent first insertion and five cents per additional insertion. Black type costs twenty cents per line for first insertion. contracts require 32.00 per year in advance. Proprietors note no discounts on inscription and provide columnar rates for various ad sizes and durations.
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Womstress
Chatids & Cy Proprietors
Trial of Oil Stoves by Fire Marshal Endorses Adams Westlake
Chicago Fire Marshal Benner and officials witnessed stove tests led by Prof. Lambert. All models failed except Adams Westlake Wire Gauze Non-Explosive Stove, which withstood explosions and ignition attempts. Lambert and Benner declare it the only safe stove despite broader risks from other makers. Bartlett of Westlake & Co emphasized agent availability.
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Fenner
Lambert
Chicago Tribune
Adams & Whistlake Manufacturing Company
A. A. Lambert
St. Ignatius College
Adams & Westlake
Lis
Oe Board of Underwriters
Board of Underworiters of
Chicago
Sonal
St. Leviaitius College
SORT EST STERN COLLEGE admits both Ma Thorauet and cheap
The document lists admissions for various departments including science German art and music, with a plan to offer programs over 13 weeks. It notes weekly fees from 3.50 to 4 and mentions a yearly catalog and auditor details, with treasurer WM este in Naperville.
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Wm.este
Naperville
At Cost Sale on Watches and Jewelry in Freeport
An 1877 Freeport ad promotes a 20 day at cost sale of watches jewelry clocks and silverware from A W Fern Jeweler corner Stephenson and Chicago Streets. The notice promises genuine goods and honest representations as the stock shifts for a business change. It also includes a pasted Forepaughs circus announcement with favorable press quotes from the Pittsburgh Daily Post about the show.
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A.W. Fern
Stephenson and
Chicago Streets
Freeport
Adam Forepaugh
Forepaugh
Pittsburgh Daily Post
J. S. Fifgeld
Stephenson &J
Ills
Capitol Bitters Promises Strength and City Trip Preference
A fragment from 1872 promotes Capitol Bitters as strengthening and health preserving, urging readers to visit New York City for remedy and vigor. It cites testimonials from Wesleyville and Freeport endorsing the tonic and its perceived benefits for appetite and systemic weakness.
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New York City
Fenners
Wesleyville
M. M. Fenner
Fredouin
Ut P
Capitol
E. Gothen
Emshert & Burrell
Freeport
County Superintendent Candidate Request to J E Philips
West Point and surrounding townships citizens urge J E Philips to stand as County Superintendent of Schools of Stephenson County Illinois subject to Republican Convention. They list dozens of signers and vows to elevate teaching standards and improve schools if elected. Philips responds gratefully, accepting candidacy and committing to labor to raise educational quality. July 11 1877 Lena Illinois.
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J. Pinttaps
A.M
Weo
West Point
Stephenson
Ilinois
J. E. Philips
Woman Earns 100 Dollars in Gold Quietly
Connecticut woman clears 100 dollars in gold in one month by taking orders for Buckeye Cookery. She plans to introduce the book in Freeport and other towns, offering sample pages for one cent postage. Commissions are liberal with agents netting 1 to 5 dollars daily for Buckeye Publishing Co. Marysville Ohio.
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Freeport
Lena
Davis
Cedarville
Winslow
Ridott
Bucckeye Pesitisme Co
Marysville
Ohio
Stomach Bitters Said to Boost Digestion and Blood
The text promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for obstructed digestion. It claims the tonic improves digestion, blood quality, and body vigor, citing stimulation of gastric juices and better assimilation of food, with quick health improvements.
Suttons Consumption Cure Promises Quick Lung Relief
An affordable range of remedies touts Suttons Consumption Cure as a sure cure for consumption and lung ailments. The ad claims rapid relief for coughs, hoarseness, asthma, whooping cough, and general debility, with prices from 30 cents to a dollar per bottle. It promotes additional products for digestion and urinary issues and lists Emmert & Burrell as sellers.
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Sutton
de Suvionu
Emmert & Burrell
It Pays to Trade as Me Finest Green Rio Coffee
An old classified like ad extols Green's Avatist Frown for indigestion and dyspepsia with claims of 2,460,000 bottles given away. It touts two doses as sufficient and lists sample prices and drugstore availability. Also promotes various sugars and painting supplies from local merchants.
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Burnett, Bros
Green
United States
Trade goods for Nebraska land bargain offer
Readers in Freeport may trade a stock of goods for land in Nebraska from 500 to 1500 acres. Apply at the office. Get Smith Bros. to paint your roof with Gray's Elastic Roof Paint, the best in the world. Entire stock of Wall Paper and Window Shades selling out at cost to make room for fall stock. D. Adamson, 89 Stephenson St.
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Freeport
Nebraska
Smith Bros
D. Adamson
Grand Excursion To Southwest Kansas Details
Kansas. My next Grand Excursion to Southwest Kansas will leave Freeport Wednesday, July 25, at 1 20 p m The excursion will pass through Topeka Emporia Florence Peabody Newton Watchison Sterling Great Bend Larned to Kinsley For excursion rates land circulars etc apply in person or by letter to L H(e) Wa rrison District Agent A T & S FR B 817 Perry St Davenport Iowa
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Kansas
Freeport
Topeka
Emporia
Florence
Peabody
Newton
Watchison
Sterling
Great Bend
Larned
Kinsley
L. HE. Wairison
Perry St
Davenport
Iowa
County Surveyor's Card for service orders at clerk's office
County Surveyor PF KE Josrn of Freeport Illinois invites requests with time range township section and day wanted. Swarts Stocking opposite the courthouse advertise plows cultivators and other farm machinery repaired on short notice. Bindery at the Journal Office offers neat cheap durable binding.
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Josrn
County Survey
Wonse
Freeport
Journal Office
Local merchants push low prices and fresh stock
W. IL Bannerer advertises boots and shoes worth 5000 dollars, promising unbeatable prices and urging customers to compare with rivals. He endorses W. W. Robey as the place for teas coffees sugars syrups canned fruits and other goods, claiming purity and door delivery and boasting lowest prices in Freeport and vicinity.
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W. W. Robey
Knowlton
Robey
Freeport
W. IL Bannerer
Opera House
Prices Down Way Down and Goods the Best
Cheap John Wagner offers the lowest prices and best goods in town. Wagner’s long grocery experience assures customers of value and quantity. Call at his store opposite the Brewster House to be convinced. A $1 Scholarship in Rock River University Dixon good in all branches. Also advertise parlor and chamber sets at No 89 Staphengen St upstairs. Vent Kornie store for rent warehouse $1 and $92 Galena Street inquire W G and Barnes.
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John
R.wagner
Brewster House
John Wagner
Hud
Rock River University
Dixon
Ofice
Staphengen St
Vent & Kornie
Farmers Co operative Agents Offer Farm Implements And Mills
A Stephenson County farming cooperative announces a full line of farm implements from a wagon rake to a threshing machine, sold on merit. They advertise Freeport City Mills on the Pecatonica River for sale cheap on easy terms and note local agents Wenster & Brothers of Freeport Illinois. Also touts Dr King’s New Discovery for throat chest lung diseases with testimonials and agents Rement & Benen and Burkell Do’s for flour and vinegars.
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Stephenson
Stephenson County
Farmers’ Co-operative Association
Freeport City
Pecatonica
Wenster & Broors
Freeport
Ilinois
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Bedrse
Mare OY
Stern College
Berkshire
West
Zoological Department
Martyn W. Goopars
Swarts & Stocking
Elias Stamm
D.W. Sausman
G. A. Bowes
B. Clapp
C. A. Bucks
N. Ward
A. N. Stahl
H. McEathron
W. W. Hall
Charles Ferrell
S. J. McKee
J.N. Wise
J. McFatrich
L. M. Grigsby
Miles White
J.T. Leamon
Abraham Weaver
H. 8. Emrich
Thomas Carey
Wm. Howard
J.T. Balcorn
I. B. Hinckley
Edward Goettle
A Munnw
M. B. Taylor
D. Blodgett
A. W. Tall
N. Carr
J. Anson Clark
C. Roush
F. Damert
D. Machamer
E. P. Stahl
Win
E. Bowker
Tra Pickard
Rev. N. Carr
B. McCreary
David Hayes
Geo, Shoesmith
Warner
Barrell Bros
Stephenson St
Easter & Co’s
Burrell Bros
Court House
Menese
Emmert & Burrell's
Guiteau
A. Cathy & Co, Cor
Broadway
Eighth St
New York
Wiarehouse
Galena Street
W. G
W. Barnes
Chint's
Little Banner
C.H. Little
da Costa
Emmert & Burrell. Com
Parker's Pleasant
Rement & Benen
Brown & Vail
Pord's
Tarbox Block
Cor. Stephenson
Preepart
Easter & CO
Quart House
Burkell Do's
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