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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1906
Page
8
A historic note recommends giving Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at the first sign of hoarseness or a croupy cough. It claims the attack may be warded off and asserts the remedy is safe and curative.
John F. Daly, Agent, presents east and west bound train times with connections at Rockford and Belvidere. Details include parlor car service on Nos. 202 204 206 and No. 3 for east bound, with cafe and buffet options and Sunday variations. Connections extend to Beloit Janesville Milwaukee Madison Sycamore DeKalb and western routes toward the Pacific Coast.
A Wisconsin Indian once told Captain Hawley at a Brookfield tavern he hunted a fat deer and would get run for a reward. Hawley searched but found no deer. When accused later the Indian admitted a double truth and one lie, declaring two truths to one lie very good for the Indian.
A health advisory urges careful eating to avoid dyspepsia and bowel trouble and recommends Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a pure digestive tonic. It claims to aid stomach liver and bowels with no bad after effects and offers money back if it fails. available from druggists at 50 cents and 1 dollar.
William Clement offers guided tours for prospective land buyers every Tuesday in Canada, touting the country as a secure investment and praising Canadians as the best.
A doctor recalls a patient who asks for eye removal to match a lover with a green patch. The ruse ends in a wedding, as patches give way to two clear eyes and a bittersweet twist. Henry Eb. Gilbert delivers a macabre moral about love and appearance.
An advertisement describes Kodol as a digestive aid for tired stomachs and sprained ankles alike. It claims Kodol rests the stomach, matches National Pure Food laws, and is sold by druggists. The ad mentions Harriet M. Burbank, piano teacher, Studio 36 Grove St. 94dtf.
A rapid collection of diverse items from wages in India to herring lifespans, wolves in Russia, frogs sold in London, early Yiddish typewriters in New England, court swallows, Chinese railroad dangers, and imperial rail car guards. Notes include Jerusalem's Ramalah resort, dahlia revival, and Vermont governor Palmer Bell defending capital punishment.
E C DeWitt & Co of Chicago states Kodol prepared in their laboratory conforms to the National Pure Food Drug laws. They claim the digestant aids indigestion and stomach troubles and that its large demand would outpace supply if more sufferers knew its virtues. Available from all druggists.
The Daily Journal is offered for delivery to any part of the city at a rate of ten cents per week.
The article describes a convenient head gate for private ditches at canal edges. It details a wooden box or pipe conveyance, dimensions of about twenty by seventeen inches, and a gate built from two boards with a threaded steel rod and a welded band. A cast iron hand wheel, cross timbers, and locked chain nut control raising and allow partial or full closure.
An Orange Judd Farmer writer argues beet pulp, from expanding beet sugar production, is a valuable stock feed. Experiments show pulp equals corn silage on dry matter, saves hay, boosts milk yield, and supports lamb gains, with recommendations to start feeding pulp early in the period.
Nebraska reports a marked increase in winter wheat production. Fifteen years ago winter wheat accounted for about 15 percent of total wheat, and now spring wheat bears a similar share of annual yield. Nebraska ranks second in winter wheat production after Kansas.
French smallholders rear pigs on dairy byproducts and kitchen slops for months and finish with grain in the last two months to save feed costs. Kennedy’s Laxative Cough Syrup advertised as a bowel mover and mucous calmer claims no opiates and compliance with Pure Food laws. J Burdett piano tuner listed with Brown & Dollmeyer orders.
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