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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1879
Page
4
The old Journal will relocate from its current office to the basement of the new post office building behind the Opera House on Van Buren street. Readers are urged to visit once settled, and subscribers should pay up. Also notes social events, religious services, hunts, concerts, and community notices from November 1879.
J C Frisa in Freeport Illinois recounts a daylight hay sale that ended in loss. He identifies suspect Kepler and an accomplice Mitchell and Kepler’s alleged associate Keeler. He claims a premeditated scheme to steal his hay, seeks wider notice and warns merchants to protect themselves.
The article touts Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgative Pellets as a modern replacement for harsh pills. It claims they are sugar coated and larger than mustard seeds, made from concentrated vegetable extracts, and promise to cure all stomach liver and bowel irregularities.
Special Notice states a large lot of goods bought at the Stettauer Bros. & Co. sale in Chicago will be opened at the end of this week and again next week. Buyers are urged to inspect cottons and woolens before they are cleared out due to recent price advances. Signed WM. A. Stevens.
Clearance of blankets flannels undershirts and domestics offered at old prices with no advance payment required at Read's in the Opera House Block. Local shoppers urged to take advantage of the exclusive old-price sale today.
For pianos organs guitars violins sheet music or anything in musical merchandise call on F. W. Brainerd 108 Stephenson street He has for sale the celebrated McCammon piano one of the finest instruments later placed in the market.
Customers urged to buy the Kalo Meda articles on exhibition at Stevens Store as the most desirable pieces are being disposed of and no more will be available this season. Cape Cod and Wisconsin cranberries offered by Burrell Bros.
Seeley and Read advertise the largest stock of cloaks and dolmans in the city. They seek fresh cows at 34-2 address for J B Currin attorney in Benson. Underwet prices lower than last year noted.
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