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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1879
Page
5
The snippet lists various advertising rates and sizes with numeric figures, likely detailing costs for display ads, classifieds, and regular placements. It shows multiple price points and measurements, indicating a rate card for advertisement purchases.
Notice from Freeport City Clerk announcing redemption of City Orders up to No 12055 with interest ceasing on the 20th inst. Holders are urged to present orders at the City Clerk's office for payment and collection. Also mentions dress goods opening and a Washington patent and land claims services by Presbrey Green and W S Graff.
Taffy on a stick becomes a note of local shop history as J. R. Smith steps into the role succeeding Diffenbaugh, signaling a new era for the confectionery display and sales in town.
Nent gentlemen's furnishing apartment displays complete spring styles now. Visit to examine the selections. WM. Walton offers wares including sugar cured hams, smoked meat, pickled tripe and pig's feet at Burrell Bros.
The notice lists Norway Spruce, Scotch Pine, White Pine and Austrian Pine sizes and prices, along with sugar cured hamsters per pound and Bonanza brand flour offers. The fragmented prices show 6 to 8 feet trees and various smaller sizes with per sack and per pound rates.
The late Wm Wise homestead on Walnut Street opposite Dr Stearns residence will be sold on easy terms at a bargain with Alfred H Wise as contact. An appeal invites all with digestive ailments to Emmert Burrells for a free trial bottle of Dr Kings California Golden Compound and notes its strong effects. County Treasurer W W Hutchison offers jail orders numbers 111 to 121 with interest stopped March 19 1879. Burrell Bros advertise tea price savings on quality samples.
The house on Jackson street now occupied by F C Welch. Enquire of S W Reigard at Walton's. 39 31ng
Advertisement touts Dr Kina's New Discovery as a universal throat and lung remedy. It claims millions of bottles used in a year and offers trial bottles for ten cents and full sizes for one dollar at Emmert & Burrell in Freeport. The notice also promotes Favorite Stoves by Burchard & Scott and dried peaches at four cents a pound along with Burrell Bros Bonanza sugar deal.
A dialogue imagines a lady desiring clear skin and being advised by a friend to use Hop Bitters. The advertisement promises pure rich blood and blooming health as the route to beauty, noting personal use as evidence.
A Rochester New York note reports a baby’s permanent cure of protracted bowel irregularity using top Bitters by its mother. The message claims the remedy also restored the mother to perfect health and strength and invites readers to see another column.
Chemists and physicians praise Dr Price's Special Flavoring Extracts as the purest. The product is daily increasing in popular favor. Housewives seek the most delicious flavor for cakes puddings and pastries and will use Dr Price's Extracts.
An advertising notice touts Parker's Ginger Tonic as a reliable remedy for coughs colds sore throat bronchitis and consumption if used early. It claims to cleanse blood build tissue fortify the system aid digestion and renew energy, with agents Swartz & Stocking as sole local distributors. Also promotes gilt edge green Rio Coffee and dried peaches sale offers at Burrell Bros.
Reverend George Hi Thayer and his wife credit Shilohs Consumption Cure with saving their lives. The Christian minister of the M E Church and his spouse praise the remedy as highly effective for lung diseases. Doctors Matchett and France of Bowuinson, Ontario note the product’s sale at Emmert and Burrell.
Striving to help readers, the ad urges relief from indigestion and liver complaints with SaiLon's Vitalizer. It promises a free trial if it does not cure or relieve symptoms, noting a price of 75 cents and sales by Emmert & Burrell.
For Lame Back Side or Chest use SHILOHS POROUS PLASTER. Price 25 cts. Sold by Emmert and Burrell.
The Unique Perfumes made by Dr Price are favored for handkerchief and toilet use. Floral Riches is noted for its rich fresh flowery scent, surpassing other colognes. Dr Price's Pet Rose and Alista Bouquet are highlighted among his extracts.
Retired East India mission informed physician offers a free receipt for a vegetable cure of consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and throat and lung affections plus nervous debility. He will mail full directions in German French or English to any requester with stamp and newspaper name. W W SHERAR 149 Powers Block Rochester NY. 23-38%. 1)-e0W
An editorial warns against adulterated baking powder and praises Dr Price’s Cream Baking Powder as the pure choice. It argues merchants who sell quality products retain customers, grow trade, and earn more than those who promote cheap substitutes.
Joseph W. Christ of Roedel & Christ reports severe itching piles cured by Swayne's All-healing Ointment after many prescriptions failed. Ad prompts readers to buy via leading druggists, Dr Swayne's Medicines firm, with mail orders and Freeport availability noted.
J A Tynes of Wilson North Carolina reports his wife healed from a ten to twelve year dry tetter scalp condition with London Hair Color Restorer. He says hair regrew and stopped shedding after using the product, and he sent eight dollars for a dozen bottles by express. The remedy sells for 75 cents a bottle, with Dr Swayne Son as proprietors in Philadelphia.
Dr Swayne and Son advertise Swayne's Fever and Ague Pills a mineral free remedy for malaria related fevers. Sold 50 cents per box with discounts for multiple boxes and mail order available. Address 820 North Sixth Street Philadelphia and street location listed.
An item in the business cards section highlights Mt Car Roll Seminary among local institutions. The short listing notes the school’s presence amid other educational offers and business listings.
The Centaur Preparations include two kinds the wark for human use and the yellow for horses sheep and other animals. Testimonials wrap around every bottle and can be procured from any druggist or by rail from The Centaur Company at 46 Dey Street New York City.
An advertisement for Hucklen's Arnica Salve promotes a money back guarantee of satisfaction for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and skin eruptions. Price 25 cents per box. Sold by Emmert & Burrell, 35-6m.
The advertisement touts Choice Teas at 75c per pound and coffees at 20c, cheese at 10c per pound and 2 pound cans of corn at 10c per can. It promotes new Raisins and Plour sacks, with low grocery prices and a corner location opposite Brewster Trouse, C. O. D. Store. Dr Marshall's Lung Syrup, a 25 cent cough remedy, is sold by N A Draper in Freeport.
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