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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1908
Page
6
Polly and Merriman stage an April Fool prank that tests trust in their marriage. Merriman suspects Polly will leave with his baggage, while Polly plans a playful ruse by pretending to depart. The ruse backfires as Polly hides and returns, revealing the joke was mutual and promising to curb such tricks in the future.
A stage driver greets author as they discuss the craft of writing and balance with other means of income. The driver admires the writer’s work and notes the reader’s interest in the author’s first book before the new one. The exchange reflects pride in literature and practical life.
After the 1864 war, Prince Bismarck toured Sleswick to gauge public feeling. He found villagers amused by dogs named after him. He asked a shepherd boy if all dogs in the land were named for Bismarck, receiving the reply in German that it was only pig dogs.
A London Express item notes a Glamorganshire draper leasing shop space to a butcher and issuing a festive season handbill. It touts tripe and trims, sausages, and cottons, with cheap pins and pigs feet as gifts, urging customers to be in time for holiday offerings.
A countryman visited a fire insurance office to insure his shop and household effects. When asked about village fire facilities, he replied after a pause that rain was the only means of extinguishing a fire. London Mail
In Peoria stock yards district on April 17 a small fire was fought when a man attempted to wet a stack near a cattle shed holding 4500 cattle from Nelson Morris Company of Chicago. Fire hoses were cut by arsonists while the shed stood a quarter mile from a fire main. Police confined the blaze, hay losses were significant, and one suspect was captured.
Pension Commissioner Warner announced widows on the pension roll will not have to apply for the increase from SS to st2. Agencies are to implement the boost automatically, with the first payment of the increase due May 4.
Alfred O. Crozier of Washington told a banking committee that the Aldrich currency plan is a gambling game from start to finish. He described the proposal as dangerous and driven by gamblers with interests reshaping the financial system.
In Columbus a freed convict Beschton, released after three years for forgery and linked to a bank fraud that led to a bank failure, reunites with his aged mother at a railroad station before boarding a train to Toledo.
April 11 in Sulhywu Oklahoma Sam Porton and Osborn framers were arrested accused of belonging to a whitecap gang. They allegedly rode to a farm and horsewhipped a man until he collapsed, with injury described as severe. Police report the assailants tied the victim to a tree and attacked him.
A French column west of Ain-Seera in Morocco is heavily engaged with Arab forces. The daylong battle featured cannon fire, but officials have yet to release detailed results or casualty figures.
Quotations from Chicago markets show May wheat at 0.020, July 0. and Sept. at 0. The report lists corn futures with May, July, September prices and cash sales for winter wheat, oats, and other grains. Cattle, sheep, and hog receipts and bid ranges are provided, with live poultry and hay prices noted alongside.
William Williams ex-commissioner of immigration and New York lawyer, longtime Alpine club member, climbed Swiss peaks and joined a Mt Elias Alaska expedition. He writes in May Scribner that mountain climbing is a sport for reasonable men with hazards similar to vigorous outdoor ventures. Illustrations feature Alpine views the finest ever reproduced.
Young players entering spring training weigh unsigned contract bets and minor league farm options against big league salaries. The piece notes drafts cost about 500 dollars and that players may trade stability for later raises, with prospects like pitcher Johnny Summers gaining attention from Hughey Jennings and Detroit.
Frank Bancroft proposes a six club winter league on the Florida east coast with St Augustine Ormond Seabreeze Orlando Palm Beach and Miami. National league teams would send drafted players to Florida in January for two months to evaluate young talent and prep veterans for spring. Each club would pay nominal salaries and Florida towns cover expenses to provide year round baseball and reduce manager workload.
About 10 000 spectators in Chicago witnessed Frank Gotch of Iowa defeat George Hackenschmidt after more than two hours of wrestling. Hackenschmidt quit and surrendered the world championship, unable to counter Gotch’s grip and leverage. The decisive moment came when Gotch lifted Hackenschmidt and applied a toe hold while delivering a stomach pump, ending the bout without a fall.
M Lazareff, a leading Russian turf figure and last year's Russian Derby winner, engages American jockey Herman Radtke to ride his horses in St. Petersburg. Lazareff also runs a stable in Moscow where Wingfield serves as the principal jockey.
A Kaiser guards his revolver daily, claiming lifelong certainty of assassination by an antiarchist. He vows a stern fight for life, planning to weaponize provide for those who would fell him, and to satisfy the fall of his assailant.
A woman recalls discovering her husband’s sanity and marriage, noting his weekly income of six dollars and identifying the moment she learned he was misrepresenting his finances.
A child in a flat asks about life in a house without a janitor and a big war to play in on rainy days, recalling memories from Washington Lierald.
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