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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1878
Page
5
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Advertises Minnesota Flour and Chapman's Fond du Lac Wiseman Flour for sale at gate Goodhue's Book Store Minnesota. Kans White Winter Wheat Flour offered under our own brand with guarantee equal to or superior to competitors. Price listed as 1.79 per sack. WenReLL Bros.
A crowded clipping lists various crafts and goods offered by local shops including fancy work in wax, lace, crochet, embroidery, and other crafts, with suppliers like Mars. J. d. Cornelius and BURRELL Bros promoting new goods, prices, and subscriptions. It also markets hair care products from Charles F. Goodhue and Dr Swayne s Wild Cherry Syrup, with locations and sales details.
A Freeport advertisement touts a wide range of school books writing papers inks and blank books plus newspapers and periodicals. It also notes newly received German accordions violins guitars and Padua strings offered at very low prices by Forp Rose Co.
An endorsement letter from J A Tynes of Wilson North Carolina touts Louden Hair Color Restorer for stopping hair loss and restoring growth. The ad copy proceeds with multiple product notices including Dr Kings California Golden Compound and Shilohs remedies, offering trials and guarantees.
Centaur Liniments offered in two kinds for humans and animals with testimonials on each bottle. The Centaur Company 46 Dey Street New York ships by mail or druggists. Also 20 cent coffee at Burrell Bros and Mystic Waterproof circulars promoted. Products priced about half of recent years. Sale limited to TM Walton's.
Joseph W. Christ of Roedel & Christ promotes Swayne's All-healing Ointment as a cure for piles and various skin diseases. The ad urges readers to buy by mail from Dr Swayne & Son in Philadelphia, pricing 50 cents a box or three for $1.25.
The column extols a tidy housewife caring for family health with blood cleansing and purgatives to ward off spring maladies. It features promotions for Hop Hitters and Cronkrite's Ultimatum Flour, with a humorous testimonial about wife and neighbor praising Cronkrite's product.
Dr Swayne and Son advertise Swayne s Fever and Ague Pills a mineral free remedy for malaria origin fever intermittent and remittent fevers pledging equal effectiveness to others and offering mail order at 50 cents a box three boxes 125 six boxes 250. Also Bucklen s Arnica Salve praised for skin ailments with sale by Emmert and Burrell and local rental and sale notices for houses and a 160 acre farm in Winslow township with trade options.
A mixed page notes a $100 scholarship at Rock River University Dixon with contact details. Various ads promote groceries threshers spring tonics Hop Bitters home sale rental a six room house near River School House Alten.
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