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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1906
Page
4
Thies label issued to the Freeport Journal by the International Typographical Union in recognition of union labor in its mechanical departments.
G A Stemm, John A Wolf, H H Stahl and others travel to Chicago Batavia Joliet and beyond on business. Families visit relatives in Polo Chicago Rockford Janesville and Des Moines. Notables include Dixon and Clinton connections with returns to work in Freeport and plans for South America trip by J Irwin of Stover Manufacturing.
An 80 day clearing sale offers a surplus of 8,000 wallpaper rolls at a great bargain. All deatrabis patterns sold. G. DL. Pars, S-16tf 158 Stephenson street.
Minneapolis Aug 16 Special The retiring commander in chief speaks to G A R veterans during a regular business session after morning reports from committees. He reiterates memorial day observance, memorial Sunday, flag day importance, and praises patriotic societies while noting personal loss.
Commander James Tanner leads the fortieth annual Grand Army of the Republic encampment in Washington. He urges new memberships, calls for stronger pensions for army nurses, and criticizes moral failures among national leaders while defending G A R influence and debating post property and unity with allied veterans groups. He condemns a proposed monument at Andersonville and recounts pension efforts and cautious spending. The executive session excludes nonmembers.
The Woman's Relief Corps convened at 10 am in Wesley M. church with President Adams of Nebraska presiding. Reports show 126,146 members across 2,341 corps. relief expenditures total 58,675 dollars with 1,000 spent on the Southern Memorial Fund and 5,332 to San Francisco sufferers, bringing total since organization over 3,000,000 dollars. The president noted strong patriotic instruction and highlighted needs for schooling in the mountainous South to educate and empower the children of mountaineers formerly allied with the Civil War era.
A Chicago Bureau of Charities appeal asks Freeport residents to host one or more underprivileged children or tired mothers for a two week recuperation. Interested citizens should contact the settlement home board or city pastors at telephone 989 at once, as arrivals are set for August 20 at 11:50 a.m.
Ervin Thomas of Mankato Minnesota arrived in the city with the body of his brother W B Thomas who drowned at Madison Wisconsin while bathing. The boat capsized and he sank, his body found near Sheldon park about three and a half miles away. Funeral plans set in Mankato with floral tributes from Brewster House employees and friends.
Daily shipments of milk depart from Martintown Wisconsin and Winslow Illinois New Line refrigerator cars loaded each morning for a Chicago contract. Cars travel via the Dodgeville route and are placed on passenger train No 82 in this city before reaching Chicago.
A correction notes that last evening's report misstated the result of the Ist. M Bechureh versus Embury game. The final score was Embury 14, Ist. M Bechureh 13.
EE Goodloe of Dutton Street Waco writes that Dr King s New Discovery keeps him well after five years of using it for a cough that plagued him for years Before his experience he suffered a cough that worsened Now it is gone The product claims to cure chronic coughs la grippe croup whooping cough pneumonia prevention Pleasant to take and guaranteed at Joseph Emmerts drug store We offer a trial bottle free with purchases.
Green Bay was blanked 2 to 0 by Freeport as Skopee pitched solidly in his first appearance for Freeport and Ives swung four hits for the Jamers. La Crosse also won, 3 to 0, while Oshkosh topped Eau Claire 7 to 1 and Wausau beat Freeport’s rivals. Beebe’s long Wisconsin baseball arc highlighted the era with notable stops at Oshkosh, Illinois, and Chicago clubs before a St. Louis trade altered the balance of power.
In La Crosse on August 15 Hanford fumbled a bounder allowing Tucker to score the winning run in the ninth. Oshkosh scored two in the fifth after a string of errors and a hit. In Milwaukee and Green Bay notes, Oshkosh defeated La Crosse 3 to 2. In Madison on August 14 Wisconsin locals beat Milwaukee 7 to 1. A Green Bay meeting August 16 secured funding from twenty prominent businessmen to support the team for the rest of the season.
Outfielder Neumann has been released by the Freeport team amid reports his batting was the main cause for the move. The decision ends his stint with the club and prompts questions about next assignments.
Beebe the Hyde Park high school star rose to national prominence as a standout pitcher for Illinois university. He set the American scholastic strikeout record with twenty one Evanston players in Cook county scholastic finals and once shut out the Chicago National League team for eight innings, a rare feat for a collegiate pitcher against major league opposition.
The YMCA baseball team defeated the William Walton squad 21 to 13 in a three inning exhibition last evening. Fox and Folgate formed the battery for the association, while Jasper Munn and Bonn did the honors for Walton.
The Henney-Grobe band performs this evening at Highland Park as the theatre bill expands drawing big crowds. Amateur night next Wednesday is a growing success with many locals aiming for the prizes, promising a special attraction.
Prof and Mrs J R Inman of Spencer Ohio are due in Lena this evening for a brief stop before Prof Inman becomes superintendent of Manchester Iowa public schools next year. Local residents A T Schleder, Rev A J Cramer, Miss Grace Marsh and others arrive or depart for visits, while a lively camp meeting draws about thirty tents to the grounds near Lena.
Historic Place notes Dr EK Fr McKay received a gift postcard depicting Ottawa’s Washington Square as the site of the first Lincoln Douglas debate. The card claims to show the location with the square’s churches and public buildings, shaded by trees, and includes miniature photographs of Lincoln and Douglas.
Children of John Bohen who were thought lost yesterday afternoon have returned home safely. The youngest, about five, separated from her sister near the depot but was found a short distance away and brought back to the family.
At First English Lutheran Church the midweek service opens with song and prayer and a Bible reading on the Divine Will and the Human Will. The hour-long service begins at 7 45 with a cordial public welcome.
An advertisement by Joseph Emmert claims Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea or Tablets cures constipation and bowel issues, headaches, dyspepsia, liver and kidney ailments, rheumatism, and disorders from a sedentary life. It touts the product as the greatest American remedy priced at 35 cents per bottle or package.
Have you idle money United investors can buy city mortgages offering 5 percent interest. Call our office JTAaYLOB FBICK. 2-18dtt
At the C. M. & St. Paul depot a domestic quarrel over a Panama hat exploded into violence between a cook and his wife. The husband was beaten severely by steel gang workers, cut and bruised, then jailed. The wife, injured but less severely, was taken to St Francis hospital as the couple faced drunkenness and disorderly conduct charges.
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