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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1908
Page
2
A feature on how flat and apartment living replaces traditional homes. Tenants join a cooperative system sharing bulk purchases and services, paying one monthly check covering rent, utilities, repairs, and upkeep. Privacy is high, with social interaction minimal unless desired, while upkeep is handled by landlords and specialists.
Friends of Samuel Hamlyn report the family has moved to Oregon and settled in Grants Pass in the heart of fruit country. The Rogue River crop is abundant with large apples harvested this year. A Grants Pass paper notes Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft will receive Spitzenberg apples from Will Scoville and W. L. Robertson.
A testimonial from Mrs. Scott Best of Ordway Street Freeport Illinois endorses Doan’s Kidney Pills as a proven remedy for kidney trouble. She details relief from back pain headaches and general weakness after using the product from Emmett’s drug store with Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as the agents. The ad urges readers to remember the name Doan’s and buy from dealers at 50 cents.
A compact history rundown lists events on this date: Washington’s army wintering at Valley Forge in 1777. a Wall Street fire destroying a block in 1804. Indiana’s statehood in 1816. 19th century treaties and political shifts. Notable deaths include artist Benjamin Champney born 1817 in New Ipswich, Mass.
If you have any furs you would like to have matched let us send them for you into the factory at a big saving in price. We will be responsible for your furs. Grorgck G. Luppaing, Central Dry Goods store, 187 Galena St. December 7.
Cedar Rapids completes seven months under the commission plan, abolishes ward lines, and moves to the island site for a new city hall. The old hall is sold for 66500. funds cover the island purchase, with no bond issue or tax hike promised. The five councilmen and a mayor set salaries, daily meetings, and rapid petition responses, running city operations like a corporation.
Mra Michael Bloom age 80 reports long feebleness wheeled in chair with lung infections and cough. After using cod liver Vinci she gained strength, walks a quarter mile, and can do most chores. Endorses Vinci for aged and weak people, with money back guarantee by JO8. Emmert, Druggist, Freeport.
Daniel Sully, praised as a premier priest role actor, will perform in The Matchmaker at the Grand on Thursday December 15. The three act comedy drama is set in a small Idaho village and features strong western characters and modern staging.
Bertha Kalich continues her successful engagement in Cora a Parisian theatre life comedy at the Grand Opera House Chicago Critics praise Kalich for emotion and versatility and laud Frank Gilmore Pilar Morin Ernest Stallard Henry Wenman and others for brilliant work The production is acclaimed as one of the season s most artistic and elaborate with matinees only on Saturdays.
The Rev H P Armstrong will be installed as pastor at Middle Creek Presbyterian Church. He arrives from Cimarron Presbytery Oklahoma and will be installed by presbytery ministers from Freeport area. Sermon by Rev J H Boose and charges by Rev D A Williamson and Rev M S Axtell. Women members serve noon dinner. church forms a rural farming congregation with a history of recent pastoral changes.
Dr Robert Koch born December 11 1843 at Klausthal Hanover educated at Gottingen. After medical degree he studied germs and around 1880 identified germ for cattle diseases and consumption. His work led him to head the German cholera commission to Egypt and India where he discovered the cholera coma bacillus and earned 100000 marks reward.
The article traces Dr. Koch’s rise as a bacteriology pioneer and hygiene professor at the University of Berlin. It notes his honorary professorship and directorship at the New Institute for Infectious Diseases in 1891 and his role at the International Congress on Tuberculosis in Washington after a summer visit to America.
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