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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1906
Page
3
In a sparse parlor a grieving widow, Sarah, endures visitors and ritual silence after a funeral. Seth Carlton challenges the praise by asserting her true strength and proposing a future away from saintly duties, buying tickets for a trip to Washington, New York, and Philadelphia to begin a new life.
A springtime social at Hart Manor tests Ralph Reed a racing star and Elsie’s suitor as Squire Hart challenges him on athletic merit. A runaway wagon drive ends with a heroic sprint that saves a child and yields a moral twist about courage and acceptance.
A Paris physician claims a radical operation cured a nervous patient who believed a lizard crawled in her stomach after she supposedly swallowed it to quench thirst. The surgeon used ether, opened the stomach briefly, and displayed the lizard to effect a cure, after which the patient kept the animal as a pet.
A Wend of Abney Park Cemetery near Fleetwood House recounted, with old tales of General Fleetwood and Bridget Cromwell, and a mound once a favored retirement of the Intersance Watts. Tradition claims Cromwell’s body was moved to rest near the daughter’s house. Also notes a Denver clock-gossip anecdote and a health ad urging Kodol For Dyspepsia after meals.
Excurison tickets to Mexico City offered at one fare for round trip from August 15 to September 1 with favorable return limits. Available via North Western Line through Chicago & North Western Railway agents. Read the Journal's want column.
The article notes the probable Japanese origin of the house boat and describes centuries of Japanese pleasure boats used on rivers. It details boat size thirty to forty feet, eight feet wide, with paper screen sides and heavy shutters, a cabin without tents, roof seating, cherry blossom scenery, and a dozen to twenty passengers enjoying a day trip with etiquette allowing on roof viewing. It also includes a humorous anecdote about a man wanting to stop his newspaper for comic page reasons and a brief exchange about love in “The Strong Point.”
By direction of the Stephenson County Republican Central Committee voters are urged to meet at The County Club in Freeport on August 9 1906 at 2 PM to nominate candidates for County Judge Clerk Treasurer Sheriff and County Superintendent of Schools and to select a chairman and committee members Delegates to the convention will be elected at a primary on August 4 1906 between 7 AM and 6 PM in all districts Delegates are instructed for the candidate with a plurality within their district Also listed are township district committeemen and a delegate count for each area plus future conventions for State 13th Congressional and 13th Senatorial districts Freeport Illinois July 2 1906 Chairman R P K Attest Secretary W D Mack
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