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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1906
Page
5
An item notes Pocahontas coal supply and provides two contact addresses with telephone numbers at Exchange Street and Mechanic Street. The brief listing reads like an advertisement or notice for coal delivery services in the area.
Paris reports say after ministerial meeting Clemenceau will seek parliamentary authority to confiscate Catholic church property and dispose of seminaries. Montagnini secretary of the papal nunciature is arrested and expelled from France tonight, with 5500 ecclesiastical students ordered to show certificates by tomorrow or face conscription. The Rome chamber applauds France’s anti clerical policy.
Mother or sister can gift a pair of fur trimmed felt Juliet slippers. Prices range from 75 cents to 1 dollar and fifty cents at BE. & W. 11l-12diw.
A meeting between Freeport city officials and journeymen plumbers discussed merging the offices of plumbing inspector and city sealer to save costs. The council instructed the city attorney to draft a combined ordinance with a deputy option, with further talks set for December 18. The water company conference was postponed to allow more attendees including Bidwell and Stover.
Washington dispatches report President Roosevelt will send to the Senate today the appointment of John Barrett as director of the bureau of American republics. Barrett, a Freeport resident, has strong support from Secretary of State Root and from his South American expertise. The bureau fosters friendly relations and trade among nineteen South American republics plus Mexico and Central America.
Washington December 11 special report says the senate finance committee will press the president to reveal when Secretaries Shaw and Hitchcock plan to retire before confirming Cortelyou as treasury secretary and Garfield as interior secretary.
Bishop McCabe of Philadelphia, a Methodist Episcopal prelate, was stricken with apoplexy on a New York street. He was transported to a hospital where doctors report his condition serious.
Sert & Haight advertise Ardee Flour as the aim of a fastidious housekeeper seeking perfect baking. It costs a trifle more but guarantees results. Located at 52 Stephenson Street with phones 141 and 12-110d 1 w.
Instructions describe embroidery methods with stamping and lucky number drawwork. Mentions hand embroidery on waist and suw burst skirt plaited for a doll, 25 vts. Card lists 265 Benton street and the name lz ludlw.
Men’s Christmas slippers offered in latest styles priced from 50 cents to 2 dollars at E. & W. 12th?ldiw.
The notice invites readers to a Ford's Jewelry Auction sale at 2 30 with bold claims of big bargains and mentions the Journal's want column for further reads.
Senator Burrows argues the Mormon hierarchy dominates Utah politics and controls Smoot’s senate bid. He cites the 1896 manifesto, polygamy practices, and church permission for candidacy, asserting the hierarchy’s political power and influence over state offices.
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