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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1869
Page
12
An advertisement promotes a world renowned stove with dual front and rear regulators for steady all winter heating using coal. It claims low fuel use and easy daily firing. Also listed is CLOUD HOTEL near Fifty Second Street offering extensive accommodations, modern amenities, and central access to transit.
The Lena Star announces enlarged circulation and promotes G. M. Clayton’s Cottage Colors and Strictly Pure White Lead paints. It highlights affordable home paints, jewelry bargains, and a local agent in Lena for subscriptions and ads, urging readers to visit Clayton’s and local merchants for deals.
The page lists land for farming and garden use, a two-story house with well and cistern, and various items for sale. Also advertised are books, sculpture, church lectures, creams and sodas, gold coin pledge, and photography services with marketing pitches and prices.
Misses Musser offer switches curls frizzetts and chignons at reasonable prices with hair work done to order and dispatch. They can be reached at their residence corner Washington and Van Buren streets. Rowell and Sanford advertise building lumber at low prices on Wy-20ryl Rowell & Sanford.
The ad boasts a steam printing office with the county’s best presses and material stock promising cheaper, better, faster work. It also promotes a “Great Mash Up” at J. D. Diffenbaugh's Candies offering more sticks for ten cents and New York apples by the barrel, plus canned goods of all kinds.
The new bath and laundry rooms in the basement of the old Presbyterian church at Stephens Street and Walnout Street near the corner are almost complete and will open this week. They offer comfortable baths with warm or cold water at all hours, catering to both ladies and gentlemen with reasonable terms.
Meat Man offers fresh meat and fish while Rhodes and Bro advertise a meat shop near Commercial block. Wisconsin and Michigan Lumber Yard back of the Howard House claims lowest prices. Rownin & Sanvorn promote a spring stock of brushes and cleaning items at G M Clayton's storefront.
A fragment discusses absinthe's dangers tied to wormwood distillation and high proof alcohol. It lists alleged symptoms including tremors, weakness, hallucinations, speech difficulties, and progressive mental and physical decline, warned as a general poisoning of the system.
The text quotes Henry Ward Beecher arguing ecumenical unity while critiquing papal authority. It then cites Copperhead accusations about Patent Office clerks, refuted by The Washington Republic, attributing changes to a July 1 reform mandating office-based writing. A Cape May private letter describes Miss Borie rescuing a drowning Baltimore youth.
A Bloomington woman, once steered toward marriage and teaching, defies norms. She sold stock her father left, bought furniture in New York, then built a store worth 30,000 dollars, a house valued at 10,000 dollars, and a 50,000 dollar real estate portfolio through persistence and independence.
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