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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1875
Page
5
All kinds of Sewing and Knitting machines are offered for sale or rent at favorable terms. Repairs on short notice with satisfaction guaranteed. Also shirts made to order. Office over Knowlton & Sons bank Freeport Iowa. Agent I S Westeruine.
Unsafe for sale advertisement offers hats caps and gloves at cost at Dawson's Dollar Store for thirty days to clear spring stock.
J D Diffenbaugh offers W A Reddings none such favorite brands by the gallon or case of can with fresh goods direct from Baltimore at prices as low as 25 cents per can.
Promotes Boschee's German Syrup as a universal throat and chest remedy for coughs severe colds and lung diseases. Urges readers to visit Swarts & Stocking for a bottle with a sample offered at 10 cents or a full size at 75 cents.
M S O Brien flour and feed dealer on lower Stephenson street informs old customers and the public that a recent fire did not ruin his business. He is now stocked again with Minnesota and Iowa flour and new Buckwheat Flour. Druenner and Son offer ten bed spring sets from 2.60 to 12.00.
For Sale. I offer my residence at the corner of Lincoln Avenue and West Street. The house has 11 rooms plus store rooms and pantry. Two parlors with sliding doors, cellar, 28 by 80, cement floor and frost-proof, with a well and cistern. Barn, fruit, evergreens, shrubs. Lot 195 ft on West Street and 170 ft on Lincoln Avenue. Terms 500 down, balance in five yearly payments of 150 with interest, or discount any time payments 5 percent. Feb 16 1875. DS Baewsran.
Headline notes fresh candies and White Counter varieties sold at 20 dt per pound with other goods offered proportionately low at Diffenbaugh's. Shoppers flock to this store for value across the display.
An advertisement extols Robey and Hutchison's grocery and provision line as a well regulated store with courteous clerks and the purest goods at the lowest living prices. It promises prompt home delivery and urges customers to drop in and leave their orders.
The Union Gallery operator McHenry in Freeport advertises photo services at Elson's jewelry store location. He promotes ambrotypes tintypes ferrotypes and general picture work. Prices are described as low and prompt responses guaranteed.
J Weinar announces an improved grooming machine for combings, promising neat roots and rapid, satisfactory results. He guarantees quality at low prices and buys sells and exchanges hair, inviting interested customers to call.
Good boarding can be obtained at Mrs. T. J. Bowers on the corner of Walnut and Clayets in the Tarbox Block.
Levi Roser will sell at public sale at his residence one mile west and three miles south of Andrews Mills Loran on the old De Vore farm at 10 o clock a m Wednesday March 10 1875 cattle implements a reaper and mower and other farm utensils Terms as usual St Rote will sell at his residence one half mile east and two miles south of Dakota on Friday March 12 1876 at 10 o'clock horses cows threshing machine corn cultivators and other farm utensils Terms as usual
While visiting the Henry Becker gallery above Staver and Snyder's boot and shoe store, we noted many improvements and found the gallery in excellent condition. We wish Mr Becker success in his business ventures.
Mr J S Lehman warns that his stock of handsome carpets will vastly grow this and next week. He keeps increasing his offerings in the city and invites customers to visit for the best selections and prices.
Hon Schuyler Colfax will deliver his famous lecture on Abraham Lincoln in Rockford on Friday evening March 19. Local residents wishing to attend may secure seats by writing after March 11 to Brown's Hall Rockford. Tickets including reserved seats cost 50 cents.
The Chicago Post and Mail shows faster growth in circulation than any Western newspaper. It is praised as the best and cheapest with rates: Daily $0.68 and Weekly $1.65 per year, postage paid.
Bargain notice advertising hair mattresses priced at B11,00 available at D Kuguxeg and Son's. Details read as a simple storefront promotion from a local supplier.
A mixed batch of ads and notices. A. W. Ford relocates to Stephenson and Chicago streets offering watches jewelry and engraving with warranty. Diffenbaugh's markets discounted candies and oysters. Milledgeville Circuit hosts a donor event raising a hundred dollars. Schuyler Colfax to lecture on Abraham Lincoln in Freeport with advance seats at 50 cents. Rochelle residents misinterpret an earthquake shock that was a large blasting explosion. Otto F. Kuehn to sing with Saengerbund Orchestra. tips to protect trees from mice by packing snow.
The Saenger Bund Orchestra will present a highly anticipated concert tomorrow evening with the Male Chorus and tenor Otto Kuehn of Milwaukee. Admission is 35 cents, 50 cents for reserved seats, and the program is praised for its past quiet, orderly entertainments led by E Balloff and a full roster of musicians.
Report shows February 1875 Freeport Public Schools with 1305 enrolled and 268 tardinesses, attendance percentage 81.4. Also notes a tragic wall collapse at St Andrew's Orthodox Church in New York last Thursday evening killing six and injuring many.
T K Best announces spring millinery with Dry Goods sold in England Scotland Ireland and the United States. New side band prints offered at 8 cents. Best claims 17 years in millinery manufacturing buying selling. Scarlet Flannel priced at 250. Stock to reach 25 thousand by March.
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