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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1874
Page
5
Special notice to farmers offering cash market prices for butter eggs lard rags tallow beeswax and related goods at Ruston s New Depot on Stephenson street and advertising wall paper and window shades at Clavion s with a rush in the city.
Twenty five years in the watch and jewelry trade promises satisfaction for repairs. Call for warranted work at Firtetp Brainerd, 139 Stephenson Street, near the monument. Also ads for Tandy’s shoes, KF Bartlett goods, and a carom billiard table from Hoxtranp & Bro., 100 Stephenson Street.
At the Union Gallery over Elson's Jewelry, McHenry offers greater inducements in Photographs Ambrotypes Tin Types and more than any other local gallery. We can recommend his work in every instance. Call at McHenry's for a good picture.
SPECIAL NOTICE urges Stephenson and nearby counties to view Stine & Bro and Peterson & Temple's offerings on Galena street. It touts a wide range of garments from casimores to beavers, plus furnishing goods, hats, and latest novelties. The notice promises superior workmanship, a guaranteed fit, and lower prices due to favorable recent stock purchases.
The Chicago Exposition features over five hundred paintings from European and American artists in a vast display. The manager adds a Pope Pius IX portrait by G. P. A. Healy to the art gallery. One ticket grants access to the entire building including the power hall and floral hall.
Clayton's Wallpaper Trimming Machine operates from morning till night offering free trimming of your paper. Stop in to have your paper trimmed by G M Clayton and take advantage of this free service.
Milton residents G. M. Clayton and J. W. Mathews promote a trimming machine for paper, claiming free trimming services from morning to night. The piece blends in a testimonial for Hale's Cough Cordial and Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, urging readers to seek relief from coughs and lung issues.
A lead in a Kentucky Public Library fundraiser asks if fifty dollars invested in the last Grand Gift Concert will yield a strong return by the November 80th result. It mentions Dauntless Base Burner as world best and notes sale at Stephenson Street.
My new stock of Ready Made Clothing has been bought at prices that will insure to the purchaser a saving of 25 per cent. Unusual bargains in Boy's and Men's Suits and Overcoats. Call, Wa, Watton, Blue Front, 104 Stephenson street.
C G Sanborn will remove his book and news depot to A W Ford's old store at 108 Stephenson street around October 10, offering blank books, school books, legal blanks, albums, stationery, memoranda, pocket books, ink stands, stereoscopes, views, games, croquet sets, gold pens and newspapers. Broad's sells wall paper at low prices and a sidewalk advertising note is discussed.
The third Grand Excursion to Iowa and Nebraska from Aurora and Mendota departs October 21 1874 with C H Reeves as manager. Tickets to Beatrice or Sutton Nebraska and return cost 17 dollars while a Mississippi River trip via Town to East Plattsmouth and return is 18 dollars. Tickets valid for 20 days with return on any train. Buy early or tickets may sell out. Applications and tickets available at post offices or by mailing O H Reeves Aurora Illinois.
Notice of newly opened stock of fall dry goods carpets and ready made clothing at Wall Watton Blue Front 104 Stephenson Street showing large selection with prices cut by over twenty percent since the market decline. Lecture series by Freeport's Lecturing Association featured Prof. Griffith discussing elocution and readings including Bella Poe's Raven and ventriloquism sketches followed by tales and a French flea remedy anecdote.
In about a week or ten days I will open for one week about one hundred new styles of ladies imported cloaks. They are expected by steamer about the 18th, giving ladies wishing fashionable cloaks a great advantage. After the week the remaining stock will be returned to the importer. Notice will be given of their arrival by William Watton.
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