16 Aug 1907
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1907
Page
1
S J Small orders general strike for commercial telegraphers with unsigned contracts. Gompers meets leaders as rail telegraphers and cigarmakers rally for no arbitration. Wire improvements resume on AP leased circuit. Board of Trade sees activity and hope grows among firms.
One hundred check girls walk out in sympathy with telegraphers strike. Non union operators on the eleventh floor faced walkouts and restaurant workers followed as union actions spread. President Stall prepared to call a general strike of telegraph operators in the United States and Canada.
Dispatches report ongoing telegraphers strike in New York and nearby areas. Executives of Western Union and Commercial Telegraphers Union express optimism while Attorney General tests postal contest. Officials discuss the potential impact on service and connectivity amid the labor dispute.
At the Opera Houses a vaudeville bill by amateurs promises clever routines and bright specialties. Li and his country band perform their famous street parade. Montgomery and Stone, formerly the scarecrow and tin woodman, present The Red Mill for the first time in Chicago, a Herbert and Blossom musical comedy. Charles Dillingham sponsors the production, known for top class shows.
The Bijou showcases a strong final three days with Manager Hopper listing attractions. The highlight is the Great Deodato from Italy, famed for feats of legerdemain that astonish audiences in Freeport and beyond.
The program highlights Ed and May Wood ward as comedy sketch artists with a farmer life stunt. Tops and Topsy perform with an acro bat and an educated dog. Ben Dawson delivers a clever sketch, including a blackface routine.
The Commercial Telegraphers' union of Indianapolis votes to abide by any decision by President Small regarding the settlement of the strike against Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies.
Conditions in the telegraph strike situation in the Pittsburgh district are considerably improved and all business, both commercial and press, is being handled without delay.
State board papers reveal a sealed envelope from 1886 marked Contract of C J McKay with Girard Title and Trust. It bears an injunction to open only July 4 2000 to apply proceeds to the state debt and an order by ex-Governor Hoyt. Officials kept the envelope sealed.
A massive explosion at a dynamite factory in Germany killed several workers and injured many more, with twenty women among the employees caught in the blast. Fire followed the detonation, prompting authorities to order evacuations from nearby areas as rescuers battled flames and feared further collapses from stored explosives. Dozens remain unaccounted for.
John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers arrives from Chicago for his first anthracite tour since illness. He holds a conference with the three district presidents to discuss the coal regions situation.
Notice from City official Po Cutler to the nation government reports California and Arkansas fruit dies fruit cured with sulphite shows the fruit is wholescare when cooked. Kansas City will accept the sulphite fruit for wholesale use.
A vague dispatch from Superior Wisconsin notes a troop movement en route to the Iron Range. The report claims a plan to weed out inn workers who have caused trouble, with a focus on replacing dissidents during the strike period.
German press representatives meet in Peoria on August 16 to discuss cooperative journalism and future coverage plans. Delegates from several newspapers are expected, focusing on shared reporting standards and cross publication opportunities.
Uncle Si Haskins performed at the Grand opera house to a full Mt. Sterling audience. The show featured superb specialties including lifelike bird and animal imitations praised as the best heard in these parts. The Republican notes the act on April 6, 1906.
Tempest and Sunshine, a dramatization of Mary J Holmes novel, comes to the Grand Opera House on Thursday August 22. A four act production with new scenery and a company cast for each role promises heart gripping scenes and surprising climaxes.
The Missouri Girl, a hit last season, is booked for August 20 with strong theatregoer praise suggesting a large crowd. Manager Raymond promises a cast superior to prior years and a new scenery set painted by Jean Goulet, a leading French artist from Paris.
Rural comedy Si Plunkard starring J. C. Lewis will be at the Grand Opera House on August 21 with all new features including a working threshing machine and other novel ties. The show has been entirely rewritten and reconstructed for the current season and will be presented.
The annual convention of the Vierman American Press Association of the Northwest and the German American Press Association of Illinois will convene in Teoria for three days beginning September 20.
The Time the Place and the Girl by Will M. Hough Frank R. Adams and Joseph E. Howard opens in our city on August 16 staged by Ned Wayburn. The show features novelties and the Dixie number 1 with a Virginia mountain setting in three acts of refined comedy and songs.
Baseball scores dated Aug 16 show results across leagues with teams such as Chicago Philadelphia Boston Brooklyn New York Cincinnati Detroit Cleveland Chicago and St Paul Columbus Kansas City Milwaukee Louisville Minneapolis Toledo Omaha Denver and Des Moines. Highlights include Chicago 5 Philadelphia 1 and Brooklyn 8 Brooklyn 0 in others.
The ship, classed at 5000 tons, is built for 21 knots speed and bears the name Bayan in honor of the earlier Russian armored cruiser sunk at Port Arthur and later refloated by Japan.
Baltimore August 16 Harry Tt. Bearmin agent for the Bay View brewery was arrested by Deputy U S Marshal Zimmerman on using cancelled revenue stamps on beer barrels. He was released on $500 bail awaiting a hearing set for August 20.
Seattle on August 16 reports George Everett alias Burton alias Murrson attempted to dig out of the jail. Jailor Corning spotted the effort saving the man who is wanted for burglary in Rockford Illinois and in Detroit.
A Burlington Denver to Chicago train derailed near Russell Iowa injuring eleven. two may die. Front mail coach derailment caused the crash as passengers suffer head wounds, fractures, and internal injuries. The train, traveling about fifty miles an hour, carried most of nine cars. Additional item notes a unique willow-tree summer home in Worcester Massachusetts with two rooms and a duck roof.
In Los Angeles on August 16 the city’s founding anniversary was celebrated 126 years after the Spanish padres established the settlement under the aegis of the Society Larrauna de Los Angeles.
Aug 1 report from Niel states the new German turbine torpedo boat No. 137 reached 39.9 knots under forced draught and established the German navy record.
Washington reports the Cuba yellow fever situation with Chief Surgeon Taylor noting Private Roland Shepperd of the hospital corps at Cienfuegos died last night. No new garrison cases, two new cases in the city.
Kodol for Indigestion and Dyspepsia is a vegetable acid preparation that contains the same digestive juice found in a healthy stomach. It digests what you eat and is sold by Wm. F. Jungkunz at 5 Stephenson Street.
The eighth annual National Negro Business League session continues in Topeka Kansas with Booker T Washington presiding Looker T Washington leads the meeting A Mexico City war forecast is dismissed as unlikely in Washington The Cot tondale Alabama cotton mill burns causing about 300000 in losses The First State Bank at Lucila North Dakota is looted for 500 after a safe is blown open Frost at 42 degrees damages potato crops near Manistee Michigan The International Typographical Union is in session at Plot Springs Arkansas
Chicago audiences will see George Ade’s latest farce Artie at the Studebaker Monday evening August 19. The play introduces new types distinct from The College Widow and The County Chairman, with Artie the flip office boy and Mamie Carroll returning as the Emporium saleswoman.
The widow of New York architect Stanford White is to wed Charles Mellini, his business partner, in London next month. Also noted are a Boston session, a Russia Japan amity treaty, a $6 dividend per share, labor settlement in Belfast, and a grain elevator and livery stable fire in South Orange, New Jersey causing $150,000 loss.
A Freeport testimonial urges use of Dean's Kidney Pills to relieve backache and kidney symptoms before serious disease. Mrs. G F Kurtz describes rapid relief after using the pills and recommends them. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY is named as the U S sole agent with the price of 50 cents. Remember the name Doan's.
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