Advertising Rates and Local Notices From Historic Paper
A fragmented advertising page lists rates for business cards and notices, with per line charges and advance payment terms. It references Minnesota Flour, Fond du Lac flour branding, and Burrell Bros offerings, noting no discounts and standard insertion rules. The readable bits show price per line, year terms, and several vendors names.
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Os Man Business Carda
Ecohimns
Useric Swal Phinting CO
Fancy Work and Liver Tonic Advertisements
An amalgam of crafts listings and medicinal ads chronicles fancy work like Wax Work Lace Work and embroidery, plus various tonics and remedies. Green's August Flower and Parker's Ginger Tonic are pitched as cures for dyspepsia liver complaints and digestive woes. Freeport merchants Swarts Stocking Enmert Bur sell these products. Rent notices and local business references appear throughout.
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Swarts & Stocking
German instruments and assorted wares advertised in Freeport store
Freeport merchants tout a rich assortment including German accordions violins guitars and pads for sale at low prices plus several seasonal staples like spring and winter wheat flour corn meal and Graham flour. Dr Swayne’s Compound Syrup of Wild Cherry is promoted as a trusted remedy with trial bottles available and references to its Philadelphia origin and medical backing.
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Gretedy
Enmert & Bur
Freeport
Padua
Forp, Roar & Co
Bloomington
Graham
Burrell Bros
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Swayne
Dr. Swayne & Son
North Sixth Street
Swarts & Stocking
Court House
Local merchant offers new goods in fashion and corsets
Mrs C C Wilson of 114 Stephenson Street lists a fresh line of flowers feathers bows laces embroideries silk and linen handkerchiefs lace collars and cuffs veiling worsted work and Zephyrs plus Bosom Form corsets and pattern hats. A Palace fashion push invites attention to a new corset and latest style hats and bonnets for this week’s trade. Also notes an advertisement for Marl burg Bros Seal of Worth tobacco and a testimonial from a Winston Salem man praising London Hair Color Restorer with an order for twelve bottles.
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C. C. Wilson
Stephenson
Germantown
Bortree
Centaur Liniments Offer Human and Animal Preparations
Two formulations, White for people and Yellow for horses and other animals, come with testimonials on each bottle. Available from The Centaur Company at 46 Dey Street New York City or via mail order. Also advertised: Finest Green Rio Coffee 20 cents a pound at Burrell Bros.
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Japan
Burrell Bros
Centaur Commpany
Dey Street
New York City
Piles Itching Piles Cure Praised by Philadelphia Firm
Joseph W. Christ of Rogdel and Christ boot and shoe house in Philadelphia reports severe itching from piles cured by Swayne's All-healing Ointment. Ad urges sufferers to use the product, notes Dr Swayne's Medicines have global reputation, and lists mail order pricing and Freeport availability.
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Swayne
Joseph W. Christ
Rogdel & Christ
Boot and Shoe House
North Second Street
Philadelphia
Dr. Swayne & Son
North Sixth’ St
Freeport
Swarts & Stocking
Court House
Land for Sale in Barton County Missouri Near LeRoy and Fort Scott
For sale 480 acres of prairie land in Barton County Missouri three miles from LeRoy five miles from Finley with a railroad station fifteen miles southeast of Fort Scott. Inquiries to E O Rosenstiel Freeport Illinois The Stepping Stone to Health promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonic to restore vitality and health. Also advertisements for Qu ee Smoke cigars and a dry goods stock opened in 1878 by WM A Stevens at 102 Stephenson Street.
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Barton County
LeRoy
Finley
Fort Scott
Rosenstiel
Freeport
WM. A, Stevens
Stephenson St
Cure That Cough with Shilohs Consumption Cure
Cure that cough with Shilohs Consumption Cure claiming to cure consumption and throat lung diseases. Two doses relieve croup and it promises refunds if untrue. Also promotes Shilohs System Vitalizer and Shilohs Porous Plaster with various prices and sellers Emmert & Burrell. Includes testimonial from C C Best a former presiding elder.
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Shiloh
Emmert & Burrell
The Spring Cleaning Cure Then and Now
The advertorial piece extols Hop Bitters as a purifying, mineral-free remedy for malaria and spring illnesses. Dr Swayne and Son offer Swayne’s Fever and Ague Pills at 50 cents a box, with multiple-box pricing and mail order, plus related salve advertisements and local rental and sale notices for farms, dwellings, and property trades.
Education scholarship offered at Rock River University Dixon
A $100 scholarship is offered at Rock River University Dixon usable in any department. Details available at this office. Also noted are trade advertisements for Mackeral and bulk cider vinegar at nearby merchants and a Mt Car roll Seminary business card among listings.
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Salf
Rock River University
Dixon
Hop Bitters for Spring Health Prompt Workingmen
The notice urges workers to start spring tasks with a health cleanse using Hop Bitters to ward off ague bilious or spring fever and prevent illness. It promotes one bottle per month and hints at additional details in another column.
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Pilbaenas
Minnesota
W. Chapman
Fond du’ Lac
Wisconsin
Kansas
Mus
J. J. Cornelius
Guid End
Carroll St. Freeport
Miye
Parker
Swarts & Eng
H. McPhilips
Tescue
Farnesurance Office
Dr. Burrell
Apply T. Wilcoxon
J. D. Diffsia B
Freeport, Ill
Atates
Cronkrite’s
Qurry
Marburg Bros
Seal of Worth Carolina
J. A. Tynes
Wintson
N. C
London
Express
Reading
Irdsell
Clover Hulsler
Huller
Birdsell
Birdsell Manufacturing Company
United States
Furs? & Bradley
Studebaker
W. dc
J. D. Dirfenbaugis
Brewster House
Wells
Ill
E. M. Tusps & Co
Burrell Buos
J.D. Diffenbaugh's
Buemner
C. H. Little
C. O. D. Grocery
Cor
Frewster House
Bucklow
Coon- Bar
Winslow Township
O. D
Mt. Carroll Seminary
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