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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1898
Page
6
A local dealer advertises dinner sets in white and decorated styles at all prices, fancy cups and saucers, and an elegant line of after dinner coffees from 10c to a dollar. Great bargains on vases, china, lamps and related accessories. New glassware including pickle dishes, cake stands, berry and jelly dishes, and tumblers. Byers and McCutch en, 120 Galena St.
The Philadelphia Ledger notes that France has 206 holidays in a year, far more than 150 school days. It tallies a 64 day midsummer break, 62 Sundays, ten for Christmas and New Year, 15 for Easter, 52 Thursdays, three All Saints, two Charlemagne days, two for Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday, three Whit Monday, and three for the national July fete, leaving the rest for study.
A person who disturbed the congregation last Sunday by coughing is urged to contact H. J. Moogh Swartz & Fleck to obtain Foley's Honey and Tar for relief.
The Liverpool workhouse can house about 5 000 inmates though half its dormitories are occupied by permanent paupers. It fills rapidly during long strikes. Liverpool’s charities include the Bluecoat Hospital serving 350 children and several orphanages and hospitals. A Danish interest notes honey burial by an Indian tribe and a Swedish exhibit of a pine section from near the Arctic Circle.
An old newspaper snippet promotes Foley's Honey and Tar not as miracles but offering comfort for advanced consumption and asthma and claims early-stage cures. It also advertises Foley's Kidney Cure as a guaranteed remedy for kidney disease. The notice cites H. J. Moogh Swartz & Fleck and hints at upcoming Copley Prints at Brown & Dollmeyers with a date code 11-28d1w.
Winter excursion tickets to Southern resorts including Asheville Hot Springs NC and Florida points go on sale October 15 via Southern Railway. Tickets allow 15 days stopovers and return by May 31 1899. Maps schedules and rates available from agents in Louisville Chicago and connections. Lifdwett-1
OA BT signature appears on a document bearing the phrase you bought and bears the mark of a local agency. The text is fragmented but indicates a procurement or ownership context related to the item described. Further readable details are limited in the fragment.
Indianapolis December 3 National Municipal League closed its sixth session with a paper by Charles Richardson on municipal franchises and a model charter. The group recommended a twenty one year limit on private franchise grants with city ownership reverting on termination and a share of gross receipts to the city. Mayor of Toledo opposed giving franchises at all.
Mayor Jones of Toledo opposes municipal franchises as undemocratic and harmful to progress while arguing cities must decide taxation relief policies locally. Comments from Heyward W. Bemis and leaders of the league reflect debates on franchise length and executive actions amid wage changes at Carnegie.
Bradstreet notes 1898 as a pivotal year with record business volume and expanding exports despite softer prices. Large steel rail orders of 600,000 to 700,000 tons suggest robust export demand, while foreign demand for food remains encouraging though wheat softens. Holiday goods demand rises amid normal business failures, totaling 212 for the week.
A caboose on a Chicago Burlington and Northern freight near De Soto burst into flames from a lamp held by Brakeman Ed Miller. He broke a window to breathe, crawled to the end, opened the door, and jumped from the fast-moving train to escape. The caboose was left with only two hot trucks.
A cablegram from Ete Washington to the state department states the Salvadoran revolution has ended, per the report received in December.
Readable telegrams report Princeton University students held a mass meeting and unanimously voted to abolish hazing. Other items note fraud in Portage poultry deals, deferred recall of American soldiers from Santiago, Michigan election returns for Governor Pingree, and the late John Wodgely’s will leaving $10,000 to his widow.
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