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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1906
Page
6
At Maston Weentry the golf tournament opens with a fancy ladies pin and a rich bachelor owner. Tom and Joe discuss Mary Benson and curate Morse’s score while Sloan wins the ladies pin with a forty five handicap. Sloan flees the club, returning a year later after Miss Benson marries Miller.
An excerpt discusses England dialect diversity with examples from Somersetshire and Punch. It notes common grammatical eccentricities, cites a mason foreman exchange about gaffer and eye expressions, and recalls a farmer’s reply about his daughters' marriages illustrating dialect variants.
Westminster Gazette reports a curious epitaph on a Newmarket area tomb set with a dripping pan. It memorializes William Simonds who died March 1 1763 at age eighty, claiming he loved a sop and dripping pan though he could not eat, ending with the pan at his head for sop to the last.
Almost every family needs a reliable cure for colic or diarrhea at some time. Dealers with years of experience recommend it. It has thousands of testimonials and physicians praise its effectiveness. It saved lives before medical help was available. It costs a quarter. Buy it now.
Voters are reminded primaries occur tomorrow with polls open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The notice lists ten districts detailing where to vote from Stephenson and Whistler streets through Freeport landmarks, with voting places at Cherry street, Dittmar's livery barn, Kraft house, New York house, Brown's hotel, Emerick's barber shop, Secker's store, Foy's store, Hotel Metropole, Gabie's store, and adjacent street routes.
A gasoline motor yacht traveled 18 655 miles in five seasons through U S coastal and inland waters. Its longest voyage lasted 6 256 miles starting from New Orleans up the Mississippi to the Great Lakes and Erie Canal, down the Hudson to New York, then back via Atlantic coast and Gulf to New Orleans.
A wry exchange imagines a condemned bridge speaking of its fate as the river rushes underneath. The old structure quips that its piers bear the weight of judgment, blending personification with a reflection on ruin and endurance.
The Servian press comments on King Pall amid hostile rhetoric and accusations of crime. A Pall Gazette correspondent cites a controversial Geneva-linked morality, while Otadibina defends an article about a bloodied appearance and alleged malignment, asserting continued factual exposition.
Secretary Shaw will deliver two speeches in the town gubernatorial campaign. Henrik Ibsen's widow intends to publish letters from her husband gathered over time. Colonel Charles F Echols, recently abroad, is in England on a continuing mission. Dr Isadore Dyer notes many Americans suffer from leprosy. Queen Alexandra owns a set of sixty photos, each self-portrait decorated. A monument to Judge Albion W Tourgee was dedicated at Maysville New York with Mrs Tourgee present.
An excerpt from the Atlanta Constitution laments the poor’s suffering in harsh seasons. It contrasts famine and cold with the rich’s comfort, describing hovels, bailiffs, and the bleak darkness that haunts the wretched while wealth rests secure and unfeeling.
A Brooklyn advertisement for Black Berries offering wholesale and retail sales in crate lots with daily morning deliveries. The dealer invites orders to be delivered when wanted at the market or the day of order and provides contact via New York Racket store phone 6065.
A new descriptive volume on South Dakota and its resources and opportunities is published by the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. It covers Lyman County and the Missouri River region opened to railway extensions. The book can be mailed for two cents postage. F A Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
The Chicago and North Western Railway offers reduced excursion tickets to the Northwest West and Southwest with standard and sleeping cars and reclining chair cars. Tickets go on sale June 1st for destinations including Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo Salt Lake City Hot Springs Deadwood Lead and Custer with round trips at low rates and flexible return limits valid through September16 or October. Apply to Chicago & North-Western Ry agents for details and schedules.
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