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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1905
Page
8
A list of desired everyday gifts mentioned by winter shoppers includes silk waists embroidered waist patterns table linen linen towels bed spreads wool blankets dressing gowns wrappers under skirts silk shirtwaists dresses walking skirts fur jackets lace curtains portieres and a rug Open evenings this week.
Local store markets goods with low prices and refund policy. Potatoes five cents per bushel, best country lard, Pride of Freeport corn, corn starch, maple syrup, toilet paper, Minnesota flour, and vegetable oils listed with per unit prices. Emphasis on value and satisfaction guarantee to shoppers.
Dr. C B Bradt field secretary for the Presbyterian Foreign Missions will visit Wichita on Thursday December 21. He will address at First Presbyterian Church at 7 30 p m and hold a conference on the Forward Movement at Second Presbyterian Church at 2 p m. The public is invited. The Christian Endeavor World lauds his work in Wichita noting the city’s debt reduction growth and expansion in foreign and home missions over six years.
Washington debates the corner stone date for the House of Representatives with the inscription MDCCCCV versus MCMV. Architects Carrere Hastings defend the long form citing Maple precedent and Harvard Yale and the French institute. Critics favor plain Arabic figures for readability.
Martin Dehn of Buffalo along with Mr and Mrs Loeber and families and Mr and Mrs Charles Weishar with families of Chicago and Mrs Anna Weishar with daughter Julia and son William return to their homes today after the funeral of the late Mrs George J Dehn.
Mrs Dorothy Fetter of Font visits a peat site, peeking at features and observing local processes. The event highlights community interest in regional peat resources and includes brief remarks by hosts about local utilization.
Dot Fink entered pleas of guilty in circuit court on fifteen indictments for a disorderly house and illegal liquor sales. She was fined 25 dollars and costs on each count totaling 890.40, with payment turned over to the circuit clerk. She plans to leave the city after subletting her building. Hagel Chapman faces similar charges and may plead guilty soon. James Malone of Galena faces a separate case for a confidence game, represented by Tiffany and Eckert.
Chicago letters say the Federation of Labor asked the Methodist Episcopal church to back printers in a long running dispute with the Western Methodist Book Concern at 57 Washington street. A boycott on Methodist publications was urged until a settlement. union members within the church were told to follow union guidance. The Book Concern, owned by the church but managed by E. R. Graham and H. J. Jennings, faced an eight hour day demand after a strike of compositors began three months ago. Arbitration was cited as favored by the Rock River conference at Freeport.
Wanted a position for a year or more a fit elderly man is handy on boilers and able to do general work in boiler rooms. Also offering rooms for rent furnished suitable for light housekeeping at 108 Douglas Avenue. Boarding at 76 Exchange Street. Scotch Collie pups for sale by S Wiltshire for Christmas.
Fragmentary OCR indicates names like Phi Rg and Graham and mentions officers in abatite of such Concern. It references employing the fore of Union printers formerly connected with the establishment, but specifics are unreadable.
Attorneys Crain and Baumgarten returned from Chicago where they requested a receiver for Natural Carbon By-Product Co. F. W. Feke and party went to Sioux City Ia on the same mission. Crain asserts the federal court in Sioux City lacks jurisdiction in this district.
The Hamburg American Steamship line assigns the five decks above the hold of the new steamer Amerika to famous statesmen. After Roosevelt Washington Cleveland and Franklin, memory failed to supply more names, so Kaiser was added with reluctance by the nomenclator.
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