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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1881
Page
5
Advertisement notes fresh onion seeds guaranteed by the Ib. with cash on delivery at a local grocery. It touts Standard A Sugar at 10 cents per pound and other items at proportionate prices. Also promotes oats meal and two cakes of toilet soap for 10 cents per box.
De Morgan Bros Bitf Proprietors advertise fifty tons of old iron for cash at the highest market price. Sale location at Novelty Iron Works on Spring Street between Walnut and Galena Avenue.
An ad touts Dr Fenner's Improved Cough Honey as a quick remedy for head colds and coughs. It invites readers to try a sample bottle for 10 cents and promises relief within one hour.
The Laboratory for the manufacture of Electric Bitters in Chicago is praised as a great enterprise providing many jobs. Its extensive sales astonish and demand outstrips supply due to proven merit and affordable price of fifty cents. Sold by Emmert & Burrell.
A dated notice promotes the O. D. Grocery as the largest fullest best and cheapest store in the Northwest located opposite the Brewster House. It advertises Rio Coffee at 1214c per pound pure Java at 25c per pound and prices for prunes dried apples peaches raisins tea starch and fresh fruit and vegetables.
Fitch and Rogers, ice merchants on upper Stephenson Street, announce a large stock of top quality ice cut above the city and away from the soap factory. Their wagons are out on rounds since Monday, ready to fill contracts by season, yard, quart, pint, or pound. Orders may be left at Fitch's bakery.
The advertisement touts Shilohs consumption remedy as the most successful cough cure with guarantees and low prices 10c 50c and 1. It also promotes Shilohs porous plaster Vitalizer and catarrh remedy with nasal injector sold by Emmert and Burrell. The 30 year auction era style notes guarantees and tested cures for cough indigestion and dizziness.
A sales notice extolls Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption curing coughs and throat and lung ailments. It promises proof with a trial bottle for ten cents or a full bottle for one dollar at Emmert & Burrell's Drug Store in Freeport. It also promotes Anti-Morbide for liver and kidney issues.
Agents and canvassers earn 25 to 30 dollars weekly selling goods for E. G. Rideout & Co. at 10 Bar clay Street New York. Send for their catalogue and terms. Also advertised medicated Nest Eggs at the C O D Grocery claim to kill lice on chickens with top flour brands and prices.
Almost new phaeton offered for sale featuring leather upholstery wooden wheel fenders and leather top. Inquire at the office for bargain price. Also canned fruits and vegetables in endless variety available at Burrell Bros.
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