Changing Times From the Spinning Wheel to Modern Life
Editor's reminiscence recalls early settlement forests, burning timber for farms, and the shift from home production to modern inventions. He describes spinning wheels, looms, and household crafts, contrasts old and new livelihoods, and laments the loss of ancestral ways as white settlement transformed the land and displaced Indigenous peoples.
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Freeport Journal
United States
North America
State University
Advances in Inventions and Electric Power Use Mentioned
A historic note discusses rapid invention from the printing press to electric power. It cites the typewriter, typesetting, grading rollers, and countless applications that enhance daily life, highlighting the era’s surge in practical technology and progress.
Lena Budget Interesting News From Our Mantle
Local notes from Lena recount visits and returns. Residents and visitors such as Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Hichelberger, Lola Altenbern, Lucy Wilson, Mrs. Geo Schoen, and many others travel between Lena Freeport Chicago Rockford Plano and towns in Minnesota and central Illinois.
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Lena
J. E. Hichelberger and Sons
Freeport
Lola Altenbern
Chicago
Lucy Wilson
Geo. Schoen
M. &. Borland
Minnesota
J. W. Patridge
Ruby Stahl
Grace Marsh
Damert
Fred Munster
J. W. Wetzel
Central Illinois
Libbie Goddard
W. BR. Goddard
J. C. Lampert
G. L. Baldwin
Lucile
Jessie Foster
Plano
Mesdames G. M. Stanchfield
O. J. Wilsey
Rockford
Emma Shoesmith
John Shoesmith
Rockford Man's 102nd Birthday Noted in City Records
Otis Eddy of Rockford marks his 102nd birthday today on North Main Street with visits from friends and Masonic lodge delegates. He is among the oldest residents in the state and the oldest living Master Mason, celebrating eighty years since his initiation.
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Otis Eddy
Rockford
North Main Street
Mr. Eddy
J. Eddy
This Date in History 1565 1595 1609 1814 1816 1828
Key events span 1565 Spaniards land at St Augustine to 1828 Tolstoy born and 1816 treaty abolishing Christian slavery. Other notes include 1595 English expedition against Spanish West Indies, 1609 Hudson found Delaware Bay, 1814 Fort Erie bombardment, 1861 fortifications at Forts Hatteras and Clark, 1896 Zanzibar palace bombardment, 1908 actor Joseph Haworth death, 1905 Bodwin Holmes Jr. implicated in cotton report scandal.
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Menendez
St. Augustine
Drake
Hawkins
West Indies
Hudson
Delaware Bay
Fort Erie
Algiers
England
Leo Tolstoy
Maria Christinia
Spain
Madrid
Hatteras and Clark
N. C
Sultan of Zanzibar
Joseph Haworth
Bodwin J. Holmes, Jr
Real estate transfers in Stephenson County abstract office
A list of transfers recorded since the last report from the Stephenson County Abstract Office in Freeport. Buyers and sellers include KF Slecke to W H Shons, L 2 Bk 4 C E Meyer add, $6 00. J L Winter to A J Stukenberg, L 7 Hawke N add, $3 600. John Sullivan to E G Pratt, L 8 50 ft e48 per SL, $600. Conrad Schad heirs to EF W Brandt L 2 Coltman add, $1 075. Saxby to Dostman L 3 Bk 1 Saxby add, $1 000. F R Guiteau to M S Hart L 9 and 18 ft 10 Bk 4 Guiteau add, $2 000. W E Clay to A E Harnish part SW 1 NW 1 0 26 6 Lor an, $2 800. Conrad Noelle to Hattie McDougal L 4 Bk 8 Stover add, $1 650. Conrad Edler to J F Propy L 4 Bk 4 Waterman Hyde add Freeport, $1 400. J F Winter to Mr N Featherling part L 22 Bk 32 Knowlton 2d add, Freeport, $3 450. Abstracts of title furnished on short notice. Deeds mortgages and other legal instruments accurately drawn money to loan. O Taylor Frick Conveyancers.
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Stephenson County Abstract Office
KF. W. Slecke
W. H. Shons
C. E. Meyer
Freeport
J. L. Winter
A. J. Stukenberg
Hawke & N. Add
John Sullivan
E.G. Pratt
Conrad Schad
W. Brandt
Coltman
Co. M. Saxby
A. M. Dostman
Saxby
W. Freeport
F. R. Guiteau
M.S. Hart
Guiteau
W.E. Clay
A. E. Harnish
Conrad Noelle
Hattie McDougal
Stover
Conrad Edler
J. F. Propy
Sea Wall Safer Galveston Now. Waco Man Recommends Cure
E W Goodloe of Dutton Street Waco Texas says Dr King s New Discovery keeps him well after five years use, curing a cough that plagued him for years. It treats chronic coughs la grippe croup whooping cough and helps prevent pneumonia. Pleasant to take and guaranteed at Joseph Emmert s drug store 50 cents and 1 00 trial bottle free Read the Journal s want column.
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E. W. Goodloe
Dutton St
Waco
Tex
Dr. King
Joseph Emmert
The Musical Director of Venice and Grand Opera Tonight
Amusement items introduce Mr Charles Nitschke a German actor musician once with Breslau opera house and Theodore Thomas orchestra He now appears at Grand Opera house tonight in The Musical Director of Venice Also at Grand Opera tomorrow night His Last Dollar starring David Higgins and Eleanor Montell under Starr Nicolai company with a Kentucky Wall Street plot and a horse racing twist
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Venice
Charles Nitschke
Nitschke
Breslau
Selissia
Theodore Thomas
Mr. Nitschke
Grand Opéra House
Starr & Nicolai
David Higgins
Eleanor Montell
Grand Opera House
Wall Street
She Looks Good to Father at Grand Opera House
A new musical farce comedy opens Friday at the Grand Opera House featuring S. W. Pascoe’s latest success She Looks Good to Father. The road hit is praised for fast action and constant laughs led by Mr. and Mrs. John T. Powers.
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Grand Opera House
S. W. Pascoe
John T. Powers
J H McCracken Dies in Pilot Grove Iowa
J H McCracken a 74 year old Pilot Grove township resident died suddenly August 14 at his home from heart disease while in an orchard. He served in the Union Army and moved through Illinois Iowa and finally Montgomery county settling on his farm. Survived by wife and two sons Ellis and Willis plus several relatives. Funeral August 17 at the McCracken home with Rev T K Hunter officiating. burial at Pilot Grove Presbyterian cemetery.
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Biddick
J. H. McCracken
Pilot Grove Township
Cass County
Mr. McCracken
Huntington County
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Union
Waynesboro
Iowa
Blackhawk County
Hardin County
Montgomery County
Kansas City
R. Lower
Lenu
Omaha
A. F. Bower
Clyde Thomas, II
J. Nelson
A. Ashburn
Carl Stinson
Pilot Grove Presbyterian Church
Red Oak Sun
Tolstoy’s 78th Birthday Noted for Russian Influence
Prominent Russian novelist and social reformer Count Leo Tolstoy born at Yasnaya Polyana on August 2. He studied at Kazan University, joined the army, fought in the Crimean War, then turned to literature producing War and Peace Anna Karenina and Kreutzer Sonata. His moral and political views brought clashes with authorities.
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Leo Tolstoy
Yasnaya
Poliana
Tolstoy
Kreutzer
America
Plan Maps of Illinois Topographic Surveys Progress
Illinois topographic work by United States and Illinois geological survey teams advances across Daviess, Lake, Page, Sangamon, Menard, Madison, Clinton, Jackson, Williamson and Saline counties. Elevation tablets placed every three miles mark elevations aiding railroads, mills, and public works.
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Washington, Dispatch
Illinois
United States Geographical Survey
H. Foster Baine
Illinois Geographical Survey
Ilinois
Wabash
Mississippi Rivers
St. Louis
Springfield
United States
State Geological Survey
Daviess
Lake
Page
Sangamon
Menard
Madison
Clinton
Jackson
Williamson
Saline
W. J. Lloyd
Tallula
GC. L. Sadler
Breese
J. G. Staack
Waukegan
Wheaton
L. BE. Tucker
Hay Fever Prevention With Hyomei Inhaler Ad
Wm F Jungkunz promotes Hyomei as a preventive for hay fever with daily use for two weeks before symptoms. If needed, use six to seven times daily for relief. No stomach dosing. inhaler delivers medicine to air cells. Outfit costs $1.00, refills 60c, guarantee offered. Also notes Nickel Plate summer tourist fares Chicago to Canadian and New England points with sale dates September 14 and 17.
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Wm. F. Jungkunz
Nickel Plate Road
New England
Chicago
Adamas Street
Very Low Rates to Boise City Excursion Tickets
Very low excursion rates to Boise City Idaho offered via the Chicago and Northwestern line. Tickets good August 10 31 and September 1 with favorable return limits, in connection with the national irrigation congress. Apply to Chicago and Northwestern railway agents.
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Boise City
Idaho
Northwestern
National Irrigation Congress
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
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Rockport
SARSD
Galena St
Geo
Enneng
Prop
Buster Brown
Wm. Walton
Sidttwit
Belle City
Reeves
Bergman, Hawke & Co
Exchange St. Yarorat
Court House
Saldwin
Oxfords
F. A. Schulz
Freeport Gas Light and Coke
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