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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1905
Page
2
The label honors the Freeport Journal for employing Union labor in its mechanical departments, as issued by the International Type radical Union.
The piece jokes that yellow fever in New Orleans will run its course until Jack Frost comes with his snowy beard. It laments repeated costly attempts to reach the north pole, citing 4000 lives 200 ships and $109000000 spent, and questions the purpose of such expeditions.
Hon Robert KR Hitt congressman from this district has improved health after a summer in New London Conn and will be home before Congress reconvenes The old settlers annual meeting will be held in the grove near Cedarville on Wednesday August 30 The officers report a splendid program United States Senator Albert J Hopkins will deliver the principal address Attend the Cedarville gathering on the last Wednesday in August
Speaker Cannon accepts invitation to preside at the installation of Edmund J. James as president of the University of Illinois on October 17. A member of the Federal Commission of Education will speak on the national agreement in relation to education under the land grant act of 1862. Cannon, adopted son of the university, holds an honorary degree from Illinois.
Rumor says two vacancies may occur in the office of superintendent of public instruction before Bayliss’s term ends and that Governor Deneen will fill the post. Bayliss might leave to head the Western Normal at Macomb, with Henniger recently vacating a post and new trustees urging his acceptance.
Paul M. Morton quit as Secretary of the Navy earning eight thousand a year to lead Equitable Life in New York at a hundred thousand. He is praised for consenting to a salary cut to eighty thousand, yet a further fifty thousand cut would leave thirty thousand a year as president of the bankrupt firm, a level considered unaffordable for policyholders. The piece argues high mutual insurer salaries rob policyholders.
President Mitchell of the United Mine Workers and David Wilcox of the Delaware and Hudson coal firm state contracts with miners do not expire until April. Mitchell seeks a peaceful renewal, noting the costly 1902 strike as a warning and suggesting a strike remains a dreaded last resort.
Automobiles are increasing in Freeport with many costly touring cars owned locally. Rockford holds more notable auto ownership. The Moline factory is selling many machines in Freeport. The local Freeport auto plant started late but trade grows and demand will not slacken for years.
The author argues that buyers need not be swayed by stylish or costly cars. A plain well made, inexpensive automobile is desirable, with the car's enduring presence and widespread demand for affordable machines anticipated.
The author argues typhoid causes more deaths than yellow fever each year and calls for clean water and pure food as a constant civic duty. Emphasis is placed on the link between filthy urban conditions and disease, urging measures to improve sanitation to end illness from either disease.
The Springfield Kentucky Bun quotes an editor praising a Kentucky woman with romantic, expansive imagery. The piece quips about eastern Kentucky mountain women and suggests the praise may be spurred by state lore or liquor, hinting at local attitudes and regional stereotypes.
The Freeport Woman's Club, a longtime society of notable local ladies, meets regularly to discuss uplifting topics and advance women’s rights with intelligence. It contributes positively to the city’s moral and civic life, earning praise from supporters who celebrate Freeport as a model city.
The Vinton Iowa Eagle urges educating the public to treat grafters the same as common thieves. It argues that dishonesty in public life has long been opposed by the people and cites Grant’s crackdown as proof that rascals should be prosecuted, whether senators, clerks, or department workers.
The piece contrasts England’s shrinking consumption of beer and spirits with rising US liquor spending. It cites 1904 and prior years, noting higher beer taxes in England and stronger liquor revenue in the United States. Figures show US spirits spending at 5,058,548 dollars with a 148,497 increase, tobacco and tobacco products at 45,659,910 dollars with a 1,004,101 rise, reflecting broad taxable consumption.
Editor Morris Emmerson notes a mixed picture of U S senators wealth. Many are well off from copper, granite, insurance, law, mining and coal investments while several are comparatively poor. Overall most senators are middle to upper middle class with few truly rich.
President Roosevelt at Chautauqua New York calls for strong supervisory and regulatory authority over large interstate corporations. He favors decisive enforcement of existing laws, warns some wealthy firms evade aims, and urges swift additional legislation to ensure fair competition and protection of the public workers and smaller competitors.
The piece argues ordinary citizens need not fear a hypothetical butter trust that could corner creameries and raise prices. It contemplates a scenario where such a trust might improve quality, but suggests broader capitalist forces would prevent market harm.
A historical opinion argues that a butter trust delivering superior butter at half the price would benefit the public and make stockholders wealthy. It asserts bad trusts would be punished, while a sound, value-driven trust would expand consumer welfare. The piece notes a bomb incident near the sultan of Turkey, warning of ongoing security concerns.
A historic note cites an English firm manufacturing muskets modeled on British soldiers’ arms and selling them to American visitors as souvenirs. The text argues against separate man and woman rights, asserting women’s rights are human rights and that both sexes rely on each other for progress in society.
A witty exchange between an old gentleman and a boy named Ostead. The elder urges maturity and usefulness, while the boy resists, saying he does not want to be useful because his father stays home and helps with chores. The humor turns on domestic roles and parental guidance.
A clergyman walking on a Sunday finds boys playing baseball in a vacant lot. He berates a struck out boy about Sunday work, asking what his father would say. The boy retorts that his father is playing shortstop.
The exchange asks if a man has the right to spit and answers that he has a right to breathe live express his opinion kick work vote pay taxes and find fault with what he dislikes. The piece notes he should exercise rights like a gentleman.
A garbled passage suggests a rural setting with a telephone, a mail drop by the gate, and scattered items like books and papers in a library. It mentions boys, bias toward enterprises, occasional holidays for workers, and a boss with girls, hinting at farm life and labor dynamics, though details are unclear.
The government aims to establish a large breeding farm in southern Livingston County. Indiana Creek farm has been raised and prep work begins, with construction to start. This farm would be the most extensive in the district and it is hoped to supply a substantial portion of horses needed by the government.
The Pair department store in Chicago passed into the ownership of Mrs. J Lehman widow of the founder. She purchased from Otto Young fifty one shares valued at about 3 million dollars. The transfer makes two major Chicago department stores owned by women, including Mrs Mollie Netcher in the other case.
A Boston store owner, widow of a $5,000,000 property, faces a sensational note of endurance. In Bloomfield a trolley stopped from a blown fuse, but a woman aboard produced a spare hairpin, averting a blockade. The anecdote extends to a belief that a hairpin might fix a mid ocean liner failure with a woman among the passengers.
A colorful sketch portrays a perpetual complainer who haunts streets and stores, contrasted with a blunt joke about marriage. The piece shifts to agricultural forecasts for 1905, predicting record corn yields nationwide and in Illinois Iowa, with oats and wheat also rising.
The general assembly enacted a law against practicing law without a license and representing oneself as a lawyer. Anyone doing business in court without authority may be fined 25 to 400 dollars and imprisoned. The piece notes that some licensed individuals are not true lawyers.
The Sherman brothers were given money for a week’s board during a shooting trip at a farmer’s house near Lancaster Ohio. John Sherman, already showing financial acumen, offered to pay but the farmer refused, saying the Sherman sons would always be welcome. John then kept the wagon, stayed another week, and did not pay.
A Decatur man decries double taxation after taking $6000 cash listed for tax on April 1 then investing it in real estate on April 12 and paying the year’s taxes again. He sought relief from the board of review, which offered no remedy.
Like Artemus Wari, who sacrificed relations for country, Ballington Booth recalls a woman who testified to her conversion while with the Salvation Army She admitted vanity in TV fashions silks jewelry ribbons and laces but chose to renounce them for salvation saying she waved them to her sister.
A recent writer urges youths starting at three dollars a week to heed that high salary roles grow faster than supply. A business leader says capable staff cannot be trained quickly enough to match business growth. Today’s mechanic or bookkeeper could be tomorrow’s general superintendent. The idea there is always room at the top is presented as sound.
An old adage about the poor farmer fades as many towns of five hundred or more now host a bank. Farmers hold substantial deposits, with many banks showing balances of tens of thousands, some three times that, reshaping the view of the average farmer’s wealth and standing in these communities.
A fragment describes George Washington's head gardener from a European kingdom who worked in royal grounds. He emigrates to America leaving his wife behind, and homesickness for his beloved wife stirs prayerful longing.
Washington faced illness and despondency as a servant’s eye ailment worsened and plans to ship to the distant country were revealed. An apparent reconciliation occurs when his wife arrives, surprising him during a moment of weakness. The Galesburg Democrat notes unease at idle wealth and contrasts it with workers who toil long hours yet sustain modest lives.
Read like a fragment from verse and a rural mishap. A narrator recounts a departing, a tighting fire with Aerosens, and a boy named Johnny who mishandles a gun after a mule pushes him through a roof, ending with Johnny unable to clean guns. The piece blends refrain phrases with a fatal accident and a school truancy note.
A Mattoon interview quoted Hon. A. H. Jones pure food commissioner stating Governor Deneen will not run for United States senator and is very likely to seek re election as governor. The editor notes Jones reaffirmed this, easing political anxiety about a rumored senate bid.
The Washington Star quotes Governor La Follette forecasting a major clash between the two old parties in 1908. The piece suggests Democrats may back the Republican candidate and Republicans may back the Democratic candidate, but defection will not sweep either side. Both parties are likely to survive the contest as they have a strong hold on life.
A fable shows revenge backfiring as the stag outwits the horse yet the horse becomes a drudge. Then notices warn of a labor shortage with workers scarce in carpentry and trades while youths abandon apprenticeships for desk jobs and street vending.
The passage contrasts large insurers 1892 earnings with legal costs. Equitable premiums $58.6M, legal expenses $165k. New York Mutual Life premiums $60.15M, legal expenses $347k. New York Life premiums $73.38M, legal expenses $255k. Six smaller firms had combined premiums $60.94M, legal costs far lower.
Arch bishop Chapelle of New Orleans dies amid yellow fever outbreak after a brief illness. His death saddens Catholics and the general public, who had prayed for his recovery and upheld his high standing in the church. The sudden loss is felt across the country, despite early hopes for his restoration.
A reflective piece contrasts John D. Rockefeller's philanthropy and disciplined faith with calls to banish sensational family skeletons from public debate. It recounts a Confederate boy's wartime post office raid, Johnson and Grant’s pardon decision, and a Railway Age hypothetical on Governor La Follette versus Mr. Fish, highlighting tensions between wealth, morality, and political discourse in Bloomington Pantagraph.
The cor respondent notes yellow fever is not contagious between people but involves germs in patient blood. A certain mosquito type in hot climates bites the patient, carries the germs to its glands, then injects them into a healthy person. Mosquitoes survive days to weeks and can be shipped in cargo, explaining outbreaks in northern points.
The speaker challenges readers to examine their circle of young, unmarried men and assess who can financially support a wife and family raising a broader social issue about marriage readiness and economic capability.
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