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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1905
Page
7
Partial OCR of a railroad notice states that freight and passenger trains operate with Sunday exceptions, westbound service carries sleepers only and conches on certain trains. Agent H W Rowley is named, with Madision District reference and Decatu Express line noted.
Chicago timetable notes East and West bound train numbers with parlor car and buffet service. Connections at Rockford Belvidere Beloi t Janesville Harvard Moon and Belvidere for Sycamore DeKalb Spring Valley and All points west. John F Daly, Agent.
Plans call for a steel globe 700 feet tall and 350 feet in diameter to be erected at Coney Island New York. The sphere will rest on skyscraper height legs and house a 25 000 person capacity interior for varied amusements. Elevators will move visitors between sections inside the globe.
J Ogden Armour, a leading meat packing magnate, owns a grand Michigan Avenue residence in Chicago. The Armour beef combine, under his direction, has become a powerful industrial group now under federal investigation.
In a brief Condon Tit-Bits anecdote a head clerk informs a firm chief of a cashier’s disappearance after a street dog fight disperses a crowd. The clerk, seeking tact, reveals the cashier is gone with all the cash, prompting shock and scrambled explanations.
Dr. Washington Gladden condemns speculation as harmful to morals and bank accounts. He recalls Ben Smith and Asa Jones of Pottsgrove, who discuss money and stock tips. Ben seeks the best stock and Asa offers Greenland Improvement Preferred, tempting a loan idea at their walk.
An advertisement claims baldness is reversible using Newbro’s Herpicide a scalp antiseptic. It cites a Butte Montana man who regrew hair within six weeks and promotes samples by mail from The Herpicide Co Detroit with agent Joseph Emmert.
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