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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1899
Page
7
A Trooper feeds starving refugees while a beauty with blue black hair and two men, a brave lover and a jealous youth, court her. The girl rejects the suitor, and a gold ring is dropped and retrieved, symbolizing shifting loyalties amid misery and longing.
In a Mexican town, Trooper Mills pursues a girl Manuela who warns of a suitor’s threat. José follows, stabs Mills at the bull ring, and dies next day with a stiletto in his heart. Manuela vanishes, Mills is left wounded, and José’s body and ring are found. New York News.
A Chicago Record item mocks a frontier living claim about Cousin Amanda moving west. It notes she might adapt by learning to throw a lariat and keeping her children at home. The piece uses a light humorous tone to comment on frontier stereotypes.
A brief note from the New York Press promotes cod liver oil as a beneficial tonic for the household. It appeals to a spouse to take the remedy, using affectionate language toward the home.
Clergymen and Congregational church members in Topeka watch Central Congregational church progress under a changed Apostolic Creed. Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, pastor, says essential features were kept while obsolete words were dropped. Sheldon, famed author of In His Steps, notes his books sold over 500,000 copies and are often introduced to readers by him reading a chapter weekly to his flock.
A Washington Post report notes Connie Gilchrist, once a star and wife of the Earl of Orkney, is losing her sight. She left hunting due to blindness, recently toured South Africa, has no children, and is estranged from friends and theatre society, housed among her husband’s kin in a county where relatives complicate her social position.
Lieutenant Winston Churchill son of Lady Randolph Churchill and grandson of an American mother won fame in South Africa as a war correspondent. He rode an armored train toward Ladysmith with Dublin fusiliers and Durban volunteers, but their force was trapped near Colenso. The train derailed and was shelled, leaving Churchill and teammates prisoners after battle.
In Diamondville Wyoming 600 miners struck for higher pay. After a short shutdown a mob of 800 women and girls armed with weapons forced operators to flee. Miners were dragged from the pits and attacked. one man was shot. A small deputy force was overwhelmed. further clashes expected as the company plans to resume operations.
A London report from December 44 describes a Weymouth tested invention that steers any craft by another wave via wireless telegraphy. The model tracked the wave and could follow straight paths and figures. If future tests succeed, the Admiralty may adopt it, claiming applicability to torpedoes mines and other destructive devices without visible guidance.
London dispatch reports Cape Town dated yesterday: Colonel Kokowitch notes Bechuana police captured the Boer laager west of Kimberley on November 28 and that communication with Kimberley by searchlight from Modder River is established. Casualties at Modder River total 47, with 73 killed represent the dead. Pretoria reports twelve burghers killed and forty wounded at Belmont on the western border.
A peculiar disease is attacking cattle nearby causing rapid bloating and death within an hour. Julius Jacobson, five miles south, has lost four cattle to the plague, with other farmers reporting similar losses. The illness is prompting conservation measures among farmers and stockmen.
Washington dec 4 the war department made public general Otis report on operations in the Philippines up to aug 1 a 273 page volume with an appendix of minor reports and a chronological recapitulation of events since Otis took command. Christian Selenew in the Divorce Court Omaha nebr dec 4 mrs John W Scott sues for divorce alleging her husband forced Christian Science treatment for a sick child prompting their departure from home to seek proper medical care for the child.
At Indianapolis on December 4 the Methodist college presidents discussed the American university concept. Bishop Lurst leads the movement. most funds toward a $5,000,000 goal are pledged. The history building stands completed at a cost of $225,000.
The Yiddish author Abraham Cahan lives near the uptown ghetto and edits a Hebrew scientific periodical. Besides teaching and writing on the East Side, he crafts newspaper pieces about its peculiar people. Born in Russian Lithuania, about 87 years old, he is a native Baltic son and a well read Talmud scholar. He arrived in the United States around 1886 and once taught German Russian and Hebrew while learning English at an East Side evening school.
Washington reports assistant secretary of the interior Webster Davis left for a three month trip to South Africa sailing from New York Wednesday morning. He will spend part of the time in the Transvaal Western Football Championship. Madison Wisconsin officials sanction Wisconsin Chicago game to decide western championship next Saturday.
A Chicago Record quotation notes that reading aloud is a lost art and that getting people to listen while reading aloud is also a disappearing skill, reflecting a cultural shift in public speaking and listening habits.
William J. Bryan visited ex-Governor Hoge in Galveston and traveled to Lake Surprise for a duck hunting trip, departing early yesterday morning after arriving Saturday.
In Dubuque Iowa authorities report the season's first snowfall last night as a cold front moves in and a blizzard warning is issued. Roads may become hazardous as strong winds create drifting snow and reduced visibility. Local residents prepare for winter conditions and transportation disruptions.
Miss Iray writes a novel and Justus Lathrop of Westfield left 15000 to D I Moody. William M Everts Hives lives in near seclusion in New York. The Coats promote restoring old cathedrals for the Church of England. Dr Gurney Spalding of Niagara County N Y is the youngest sheriff in the country. Mer Merry del Val named president of the Pontifical academy for priests of noble lineage. Adelina Patt plays the zith er banjo for intimate friends. Quartermaster Rudolph Melrtens, who steered the Olympia, is being honored in Charleston S C. Grand Duke Constantine has translated Hamlet into Russian verse for private court production amid mourning.
A discussion on pricing shows no single price advantage. public choice favors better article. If both rival articles are equally presented, consumers compare and favor the superior item. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is cited as dependable for coughs, colds, and croup with Emmert & Burrell as distributors. London police force details and sorghum sugar content analysis from Oregon are noted.
Dr. C J Bishop of Agnew Michigan reports three severe pneumonia cases treated with Foley's Honey and Tar in the past month with good results. H J Moogh W F Jung kunz Co note. The French navy stalls a new wireless telegraphy system between lighthouses along the coast.
An ad touts Boschee's German Syrup as a top remedy for severe threat and lung troubles, claiming it heals tissues, stops inflammation, aids expectoration, and ensures rest. Sample bottles are offered at Emmert & Burrell. Also notes bread habits vary by country.
An ad touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder for shoes and foot relief with 25c price and trial mail offer. A separate brief notes Mrs Eunice Slade of Walpole New Hampshire turning 100 on November 38 aided by her son Major Lucius Shade. Also mentions a cough remedy offer and a claim about Kansas farms run by women without men.
Chapped hands cracked lips and rough skin are advertised as quickly cured by Banner Salve, touted as the most healing ointment in the world, priced at 25 cents. The product is marketed by H. Jd Moogk, W. F. Jungkunz & Co.
A January 23 departure from Chicago of a vestibuled Pullman palace car tour to Mexico City and other major Mexican cities returns to Chicago. Limited to first class, tickets include all expenses, under Beau Campbell, general manager of the American Tourist Association. Agents of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway handle maps and tickets.
The Southern Railway announces double daily fast trains to Florida for the winter season with through sleeping cars from Cincinnati to Jacksonville and from St. Louis to Jacksonville. Connections via Queen and Crescent route, Plant system, and Kansas City routes offer through service to southern resorts. Free schedules and booklets available by mail from Washington and Louisville agents.
Madison line trains depart to and from Madison with several mixed services. Freight trains run daily except Sunday and Saturday. Chicago departures include No 147 at 7 05 am No 149 at 10 20 am and No 151 at 4 25 pm. Freeport and other connections show various numbers and times.
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