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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1898
Page
5
The advertisement touts top builders in town and country preferring this lumber. It promises better satisfaction with good grade stock, well seasoned and protected under cover to guard against warping from rain and sun, highlighting superior quality.
Wilbur Lumber Co offers Atlas checks on cash lumber purchases, telephone No. 7 listed for contact. The notice emphasizes payment by Atlas checks for cash purchases.
Garolday Goods offers fine leather goods in cases bags purses card cases and toilet sets with mirrors brushes combs and trays. They feature perfumes cut glass bottles automizers leather goods and a large selection of pocket knives razors and manicure sets with Guenther's candies available up to five dollars.
Manila reports cruiser Raleigh returns from Batangas where insurgents run a local government. Americans observe armed forces and note that 40 000 Spanish prisoners are forced to labor on roads under Aguinaldo's orders.
The final day brings a fierce battle for first as Miller of Chicago edges toward victory while Waller of Boston pursues second and Pierce fights for third. By noon Miller trails Waller by 51 miles with 1,963 to 1,912. Hale nears 1,500 miles with a last push planned.
The treaty of peace was signed at 6 45 this afternoon after long sessions and a later recess. Each article required careful reading in Spanish and English and engrossing of the last article in Spanish was incomplete.
A Madrid special reports the cabinet's position is most critical and resignations are expected once the peace treaty is signed. In Fresom Michigan a farmer, Wm Flitchings, killed John Hunt, Mrs Hunt, and their worker Thos Hayward before fatally slashing his own throat.
Misses Tonie Otto Minnie Belman and Louise Whiteside take clerking roles in local stores. Cora Penticoff resigns from Schulz to join E Hermsmeier's. marriage license issued to Weert L Asche and Angeline Lerhart of Adeline. Pastors preach at Free Methodist and Second Presbyterian churches. notes on a child injury and Sunday school events. Y M C A meets at 7.
The Smith D. Atkins Camp Sons of Veterans re elected most old officers led by Captain M. M. Kleckner and First Lieut. Harry Reitzell. A social for G A R posts and Woman's Relief Corps is planned for Friday Dec 30 at Old Temperance hall.
Last night at about 8:30 a boiler supplying steam heat at Geo A Rogers on upper Stephenson street exploded twice. The heating plant was wrecked and residents feared for the house. Damage estimated at 50 dollars. Fire responders arrived but no water was used.
Special weather note for tonight and Sunday calls for milder conditions with westerly winds. A brief exhibition of Copley Prints runs for three days at Brown and Dollmeyer’s, offering a local art display.
The Bryan's Comedians performance last night drew strong praise with four roles by Mr. Streeter including the standout "Grit" a New York street gamin on a pier scene. The Racine Journal notes strong company reception and Germania hall engagement next Monday with reserved seats available at the opera house.
Prompt cash sale offers corn fed hogs at four dollars twenty five cents per hundred and fancy select at four dollars fifty cents per hundred. Prinipe Scrum Freeport advertises neat output with money back satisfaction guarantee and telephone contact.
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