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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1881
Page
5
Advertises fifty tons of old iron at highest market cash price paid by Mora and Bros, proprietors, located on Spring street between Walnut and Galena Avenue.
An old advertisement promotes Dr Fenner's Improved Cough Honey as a cure for head cold and cough. It offers a sample bottle for 10 cents and urges trying the product to relieve a case in one hour. The snippet reflects period marketing language and product claim.
Chicago hailed as a western metropolis and Electric Bitters praised for intrinsic value. The advertisement touts the remedy as ahead of all rivals and promises it can cure where others fail. Emmert & Burrell offer the tonic at fifty cents a bottle.
A fragmented advertisement lists prices for coffee prunes dried fruits and produce at 1217c per pound for Java coffee and 25c per lb for prunes. It mentions dried apples peaches raisins sugar and fresh items including peaches blackberries tomatoes and tea. The banner claims the largest fullest best and cheapest store in the Northwest at the C O D Grocery opposite the Brewster House.
An old style advertisement proclaims New STout New Lake Herring New California Salmon and New Mackerel available in kits quarter barrels or half barrels. It touts the best quality and the lowest prices and urges using Anti Morbific, described as the great liver and kidney remedy, with a note to see another column.
I C. and Co Mensis Fitch Rogers, ice merchants on upper Stephenson street, announce a bigger stock of pure ice cut above the city. The firm guarantees cleanliness and prompt service. Ice wagons have begun rounds and contracts are available by season, yard, quart, pint, or pound. Orders can be left at Fitch's bakery.
An 19th century style ad offers Shilohs Vitalizer at 1 75 cents with a printed guarantee and a free nasal injector with Shilohs Catarrh remedy priced at 50 cents. Emmert & Burrell sell both products promising cures for dyspepsia liver complaints catarri diphtheria canker mouth and headache.
A promotional notice extolls Dr Kings New Discovery as a rapid cure for consumption and related throat and lung diseases. It claims worldwide reputation, physician endorsement, and journal approval, with trial bottles priced at ten cents and regular bottles at one dollar, sold by Emmert & Burrell in Freeport.
Advertising notice offers earnings of 25 to 50 per week for agents and canvassers selling goods for FE G Rideout and Co at 10 Barley Street New York. Send for catalogue and terms with reply copy.
A brief item notes medicated nest eggs sold at the C. O. D. Grocery said to kill lice on chickens and highlights BuRRELL Bros offering flour at low prices. A comical exchange follows a rejected suitor and a pet mice, where a man asks for reasons and the woman retorts I see the villain in your face.
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