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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1878
Page
5
Ad rates listed in a chaotic OCR snippet show various prices and codes for display and classified lines. The fragment references different sizes and timeframes with placeholders and brackets, indicating an old newspaper rate card layout.
One thousand homeless after a March fire in Hot Springs destroys about 150 buildings mainly wooden structures. Loss estimated at 300000 dollars with 25000 dollars insured. Many hotels survive including Arlington Grand Central Sumpter Avenue and Waverly, while only the Hot Springs House goes to the flames. Aid urged for the poor.
The text extols Hosetter's Stomach Bitters as a purely vegetable elixir endorsed by physicians. It claims efficacy against malarial illnesses and associated stomach liver and bowel affections, detailing regularity and vigor as protective effects and denouncing quinine as dangerous and insufficient.
A call for a pure, affordable family newspaper outlines goals of religious and secular news, moral improvement, agriculture, finance, and literature. It lauds the New York Observer as a model and invites readers to subscribe for 3.15 dollars yearly, with samples sent free. The ad stresses independence from sect or party and urges daily value for households.
The notice promotes Lena Institute with a spring term beginning April 8 1878. It highlights reasonable tuition and self reliance instruction, urging interested individuals to apply to J. E. Pups for circulars and details.
Notice outlines Crocker intention to offer a monthly sale of small building lots in his addition near Western Kines to enable buyers of modest means to purchase desirable property on easy terms.
An advertisement warns the American public about dyspepsia and liver disorders claiming urgent relief from Green's August Flower. It urges readers to try a 10 cent sample, notes millions of bottles distributed, and states the medicine is sold by Swarts & Stocking and by druggists across the Western Continent.
D H Sunderland advertises two large field rollers for farmers to inspect before buying elsewhere, inviting calls to compare and purchase.
For sale notice offers best quality corn syrup at 50 cents a gallon from Burrell Bros. Also a rental listing advertises a house on Clark Avenue with eight rooms for sale or rent, inquiry directed to O. Taylor.
Seed Potatoes available from farmer JOHN GOCHENOUR in Freeport Illinois at $1 per bushel. Half the price of competing potato men, offer limited.
Mayor Jacob Krohn proclaims a special election on April 1 to decide borrowing three thousand dollars to buy twenty acres adjacent to Freeport Cemetery. Voters will cast for issuing bonds at eight percent interest over ten years to fund the land purchase with city council bonds.
Notice states that on March 13 1878 voters in Freeport Stephenson County Illinois will decide if Freeport should be incorporated under a 1872 act and amendments, and whether to adopt minority representation in the City Council. Polls open 8 AM to 7 PM at Tremont House First Ward Pennsylvania House Second Ward New York House Third Ward. Jacob Kromi dated February 7 1878.
An 1864 alpine avalanche scene contrasts midsummer views with midwinter bleakness and links to a medical pitch. The text promotes Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery with Pleasant Purgative Pellets as cures for coughs consumptive symptoms, plus a testimonial from Jason C. Bartholomew of Linn County Iowa praising recovery and a purchase offer.
Spring Wheat Flour quality guaranteed at 1.25 per sack and Minnesota Wheat Flour at 1.40 per sack offered by Burrell Bros. in a local advertisement urging purchase.
Old established nursery advertisement offers evergreen varieties and ornamental trees from the late E Ordway estate plus Miner plum and cherry trees. Stocks to be sold, with six months credit on sums over five dollars. Also listings for fruits and nuts at Diffenbaughs and multiple patent medicines from local druggists.
The notice lists sugar prices with quantities in pounds and dollars. 14 pounds for one dollar and 12143 pounds for one dollar are shown, along with 1143 pounds and 11 pounds Yellow C Sugar and 10 pounds White Extra C Sugar and 10 pounds Standard A Sugar for one dollar each.
An advertising notice claims Shilohs Consumption cures coughs and lung troubles with a money back guarantee. It promotes Shilohs Porous Plaster and Shilohs System Vitalwer with prices from 10 to 1.00 dollars and lists Emmert & Burrell as sellers.
The fragrance Hackmetack is sold by the firm Emmert and Burrell. The scent is described as popular and fragrant in advertisements.
Many children have coughs and colds and need care. A bottle of Dr Marshall's Lung Syrup is sold for 25 cents by N A Draper.
A meeting of the stock holders of the Stephenson County Farmers Cooperative Association will be held at Grange Hall in Freeport on Tuesday March 12 1878. All stockholders are urgently requested to be present. Ira Crippen President.
The Rock River Seminary in Mt Morris Ogle county reports a large term with Spring session starting March 18. A special teaching course costs 45 000 per term of 13 weeks and the principal will be at the Brewster House Freeport on March 9 to discuss the program. Catalogs are available from N C Dovaverry.
Cor Jackson and Walnut Streets F C Wenen. Property listing notes three lower rooms and one upper, indicating a multi room arrangement at a city intersection with owner contact.
Spring Wheat Flour offered at 1.25 per sack at 8. W. Chapman’s with emphasis on bargain pricing and location.
The proprietors authorize all county agents to refund full price if one fourth of a 506 bottle fails to prove all claimed benefits for throat and lung diseases including asthma chronic sore throat consumption and more. Exmert and Burrell druggists endorse the guarantee and report growing success for the remedy.
An advertisement urges remedy for coughs and colds using J. D. Dittenbaugh's pure hoarhound and barley candy. The tone promises quick relief and promotes the confection as a simple household cure.
Visit the C O D Grocery at the corner opposite Brewster House to see new stock and pricing updates. The ad invites customers to inspect arrivals and compare value.
The advertisement promotes hats gloves robes and ladies furs at cost. It highlights apples sold by barrel bushel or peck at Boston prices and is signed by J. D. Dipfenbaughivs in the notice.
Storefront near Brewster House emphasizes abundant pure cider vinegar and apples on display. Local shoppers note plentiful quantities and favorable pricing as seasonal produce arrives.
An advertisement claims Dr Kina's New Discovery cures coughs colds asthma bronchitis and throat or lung diseases with hundreds of permanent cures. Emmert & Lorrell's Drug Store offers a free trial bottle or a regular bottle for 1.60.
A 160 acre farm near two I R R depots in Winslow township offered for sale or trade for city property. Inquiries directed to the office. D Adamson advertises wall paper and window shades being sold out at cost at 89 Stephenson Street.
Pure Gagolene for cleaning kid gloves with full usage directions offered at Swarts and Stocking's Drug Store opposite the Court House. Also advertised is White Lead and Linseed Oil at bottom figures from D Adamson.
The Cheapest And Finest Parlor and Chamber Sets at No 89 Stephenson St upstairs at Dienv Korenta presented with machine oil at low prices. Adamson's showcases all kinds of oil and hardware accessories at basement level.
A brief notice claims asthma relief through a timely application of the Great English Remedy, asserting rapid and certain relief.
A $100 scholarship at Rock River University Dixon is good in any branch or department taught. For particulars call at or address this office.
Over 11 000 square feet of floor stock displays a wide range of furniture. The ad promises the finest parlor and chamber sets at greatly reduced prices for 60 days. Also offered are bound volumes of Harper's Magazine at two dollars per volume at Sanborn's.
A brief note directs patrons to smoke the American Popular 5 cent cigar at JD DI PreNpaven's shop, indicating a casual tobacco purchase location and price.
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