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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1908
Page
4
Jimmie defends Dolly as Aunt Adra confronts marital choices and financial strain. Adra exposes Dolly’s supposed extravagances, prompting Dolly and Jimmie to reveal their sacrifices for a modest home. Adra apologizes, and Dolly gains new family support, choosing a practical path for their future.
A Century Magazine anecdote recalls Grant during a Long Branch summer ride behind a farmer and his single horse wagon. The farmer subtly outspeeds the ex-president’s professional trotter, then signals with a final quip that Grant recognized the horseowner’s humor and let him pass.
People with kidney issues in Freeport seek a dependable remedy. Doan's Kidney Pills are advertised as the best for kidneys, backed by local testimony from John Smith of 980 West Stephenson Street. He says the pills relieved back pain and kidney weakness after purchase at Emmert's drug store. Sold by dealers for 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co. of Buffalo is sole US agent. remember the name Doan's.
A survey of notable lives includes Taft denying smoking and elected office, Senator Warren owning the nation’s largest sheep ranch, Senator Nixon with vast Wyoming and Nevada properties, Governor Johnson performing diving stunts in Norfolk, and the library chief Hutchinson recalling thirty three years of service. Also noted is Constantina Corsigia’s rise from two cents and a peanut stand to five Greenfield houses, Eli Todd’s failed love life ending in suicide with notes on morphine and landanum, and a sad farewell tied to a revolver marked For Henrietta.
Franklin park in Washington will feature statues of John Paul Jones and John Barry between Thirteenth and Fourteenth and I and K streets northwest. Congress has set aside 50000 dollars for each statue. The listing notes Salem Massachusetts has 1300 dogs and a doubling dog population over five years, majority bulldogs. Erfurt in southern Prussia, a major commercial center with over 100000 inhabitants, is famed as the flower city for flowers and seeds. A New York immigrant hotel on Church to Greenwich streets runs a round the clock veranda where immigrants drink beer and smoke pipes. it houses a bank billiard table and an intelligence office in the basement.
The largest evangelistic effort since the Torrey Alexander mission is planned for London in autumn 1909. Carry Russell Childs of New York was elected president of the National Young People's Christian Union at its Washington meeting. Seattle Methodists plan a large Japanese church and may install Rev. S Yoshioki as pastor. New York churches to gain executive secretaries as assistants to handle routine duties.
The article notes oil engines on farms cut costs compared with horses, cites 1907 as a high year for new industries reported in the south, and highlights U S paint factories and packaging production. It also mentions a large cooperage industry and rising demand outpacing facilities.
Pitchers Check of Cleveland and WIHI left of Detroit use MecGinnity s famed underhand rise ball. Catcher O Connor handles duties for St Louis amid a tough season. Vice President Somers says Lajoie will be returned as manager as long as he stays, for an indefinite period. The season s largest score occurred in Topsham Maine where two local teams combined for sixty three runs against eleven in a single game.
The article describes Mercury as devoid of water and life, a rough desert with three regions of perpetual glare, gloom, and a transitional zone. It argues tidal friction drove Mercury to a final dead state, finishing its evolutionary course earlier than Venus, which has recently approached rest.
William Sharp argues in Century that Sicily, the "Carden of the Sun," embodies Italy's essence more than any other region. He notes Sicily intensifies Italian spirit while echoing Greece and the east, and that knowing Sicily is akin to knowing Italy and possibly Greece.
A boastful critic, Colonel Donovan, voices male social views on women. He hires a homely housekeeper, Mrs Yorgany, who proves sharp and transformative, ending with his marriage to Miss Florence Wood as a practical joke fulfilled.
A French cure jokes about sudden death noting they go to bed well and wake stone dead. An old French lawyer who bought an estate mentions a chapel for burial if spared. A merchant who died suddenly left an unsealed letter and a clerk adds I have died after writing it.
A young lady wrote to novelist Tr Marlon Crawford asking for sentiment and his autograph. The reply read Dear Miss A When you request a favor that is of interest only to yourself please enclose a two cent stamp. There is your sentiment and here is your autograph. F Marion Crawford Collier’s Weekly.
Reset counsels adding eggs and butter to the cake as the inn prepares for a coming storm. The landlady notes that if townsfolk do not venture out tomorrow, they will have to eat the cake themselves. Based on a German source.
A reflective note on language describing it as solemn and living. The author likens language to a temple where the soul of its speakers is enshrined, emphasizing its roots in life, struggle, longing, and endurance.
Yvette Guilbert plans to leave vaudeville while Dorothy Donnelly is set to star in a new Charles Klein play under Pleury G Harris management. Marie Wainwright joins Samson with Williams Gillette, and Gertie Millar plus other London Gallery members bring The Girls of Gutenberg to America.
A clipped joke from the Indianapolis Star notes a wife extracting a fiver per day with a sharp line. She tells their son Willie that she is his nearest relative, yet she implies Jo is his closest. The item reflects domestic quips in a humorous column.
The article notes Constantinople described as the city of hovels with narrow dirty streets and mean private houses, yet the public edifices like mosques and palaces are grand in scale and marble construction. It contrasts private and public architecture and hints at European guest buildings.
A reflective line proclaims each day as a fresh life and each sunrise a new birth, attributed to Sordois, expressing a poetic view on renewal and hope.
A newspaper blurb promotes kidney pills called pinc ules that are said to treat backache lumbago and rheumatic pains by acting on the kidneys. It advertises a 30 days trial for 1.00 with guarantee or money back and lists H. J. Moogh and C. P. Guenther as sellers.
F. J. Burdett, piano tuner, orders equipment from Brown é Dolluteyer and requests contact by phone 0.
Pineules claim direct kidney action with relief from the first dose for backache rheumatic pains and kidney bladder trouble while purifying blood and energizing the system. Sold by H J Moogh and C P Guenther. Trial costs one dollar with guaranteed results.
The Daily Journal announces delivery service extended to every city area for Mea week, offering convenient access to local news for all residents. The move broadens readership and strengthens community coverage citywide.
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