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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1905
Page
3
Patient details severe contagious blood poisoning causing skin eruptions throat ulcers and hair loss. After failing standard doctors remedies, the subject credits 8.9.5 as restoring health and ending illness. Case notes cite prior decline and eventual full recovery with the medicine.
Rock Island timetable shows freight and passenger services to Freeport Davenport and Mt Carroll with No. 83 and No. 4 connections to Chicago Milwaukee routes. Chicago Great Western lines connect to Dubuque Minneapolis St Paul Des Moines and Kansas City while Brewster house ticket offices serve Freeport departures. Daily express and special trains operate with limited signal stops and baggage through service.
Reduced rate excursion tickets will be sold Aug 9 to 20 with return allowed until Aug 21. Trains stopping at the camp grounds include weekdays eastbound Nos. 200 202 204 220 and westbound Nos. 201 208 206 291. Sundays eastbound Nos. 220 200 210 and westbound Nos. 209 211 223. Apply to Chicago & Northwestern agents.
Tickets for the Rockford Chautauqua Assembly are offered at reduced rates via the North Western Line on August 22 and 29. Sale is limited to certain dates and certificate terms, with restrictions applying to agents for salvage and North Western Road.
In a tense scene Helen Erving backs Bob Carson as Henry Herrick presses him to take the vineyard superintendent job at ten thousand a year. Carson agrees after Helen suggests a social pairing with his future wife. Herrick’s motive and Carson’s fate become tied to a quick signature.
Vermont experiment station reports on breeding disease resistant potato varieties and the role of hybridization in increasing vigor. Dakota Red and Monterey show vine resistance and low rot, while many Mexican types produce small, marketable tubers. Proper fertilization and tillage boost vigor and disease resistance. The article also describes onion weeders and notes use of pyrethrum and hellebore as insecticides.
The Philadelphia Ledger urges giving all horses on the place at least a three weeks rest in the fields to improve hoof health and purge old grain from their systems. It notes rested horses need less grain, while daily workers should receive grain diets.
A quirky exchange describes a performer Diggs praising his wife a wonderful vocalist who can hold an audience for hours. Biggs interrupts and Piggs joins in noting she would cradle and rock it to sleep after the performance.
A reflection on Dutch women's caps reveals wealth signaling through gilded Krullens and pearl ornaments. Volendam is praised for cleanliness and distinctive headpieces, while smaller towns show cap meanings indicating marriage status and religious ties. The article also mentions coca chewing, Bismarck memoirs, and a notable waltz anecdote.
A writer notes that wasps are unusually dainty in dress and uses a magnified view of their legs to describe tiny apical spurs and teeth forming a comb like tool. The article details a seven step grooming sequence including leg strokes across the face and neck, wing alignment, abdomen stroking, and finally each leg drawn between two others to restore neatness.
A monkey appeared at the Bank of France in Paris seizing a package of scrip and fleeing. Tevis was captured after a long chase with the animal, having chewed up seven thousand dollars in scrip before capture.
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