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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1880
Page
5
The Empress rises at six during longer days to attend mass in a private chapel near her apartments. She then visits the stables with her sister the Queen of Naples beside an old Irish attendant, training horses to jump bars and to fetch items. Screen doors for sale by 3497 Sanford & Rowell.
A new spring attachment is praised and displayed at the Triumph showroom. The sale includes cultivators from Furst Bradley Weir and Buckeye harvesters and mowers. Readers are invited to visit the warehouse to inspect the tools and hear about threshers engines and clover hullers.
Farmers and Working Men's The New York Clothing House promises 15 to 20 percent savings on all purchases rich or poor. The ad touts low prices first class styles and honest business. It urges customers to wait until next Saturday to see light colored suits at bottom prices and to come early to avoid the rush.
Out of town customers and visitors to Freeport are urged to visit the local establishment. The notice mentions Lt widl paying to buy clothing, signaling a sales or promotional event.
An 1878 advertisement column touts Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and throat lung diseases with trial bottle offers and high cure claims. It also promotes Dr Fenner’s Golden Relief for neuralgia toothache headache and other pains, along with Blood and Liver Remedy and Nerve Tonic testimonials. Mrs Dora Weidner reports recovery after using Fenner products.
Economy advertised by a merchant boasting the largest goods in stock. A sales pitch invites readers to visit the store and be shown prices for potential bargains, claiming superior value and a variety of options for purchasing or nodding.
The notice promotes Silver Japan Tea Dust at 28 cents a pound and a cheaper sugar at ten cents per pound. It also advertises moving and raising buildings by Jacob Shanea with service across the county and pickups at Damascus or Sciota Mills. Shilohs Consumption Card and Shilohs Porous Plaster are marketed by Emmert & Burrell for coughs and chest pains.
The letter from J. G. Starkey praises Shi loh's Vitalizer for curing Dispersia and Liver Complaint after years of failure with other remedies. It notes the product costs 75 cents and is sold by Emmert & Burrell. Also touts Simloo's Catarrh Remedy at 50 cents with nasal injector, sold by Emmert & Durrell.
A critic claims that women’s careful study guides medicine choices and praises Hop Bitters as the cost effective remedy keeping families healthy, contrary to old bachelor sentiment.
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