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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1905
Page
2
An advertisement asserts that a plant’s poor growth comes from a canker and that dandruff and baldness stem from a hair root germ. It promotes Newbro's Herpicide as the cure, claiming it destroys the germ and yields healthy hair. It urges purchase via druggists and a 10 cent sample offer through The Herpicide Co.
Fielding averages for Wisconsin Association clubs are issued by President Powers. He notes players filled multiple positions, with 36 pitchers showing varied service beyond pitching. Beebe Oshkosh, Stremmel and Schulzowski Green Bay excelled in multiple infield and outfield roles. others covered catcher, first base, and outfield with diverse assignments.
An old advertisement claims Indigestion can be easily overcome with Kodol Dyspepsia Cure. It states the remedy digests what you eat, rests the stomach, relieves heartburn belching and sour stomach, and helps transform foods into rich red blood. Sold by all druggists.
The Freeport Water Company announces that the semiannual water bills are due January 1, 1906, at 191 Van Buren Street. A ten percent discount applies to bills paid in full on or before that date. Offices will stay open evenings between Christmas and New Years.
F. J. Burdett, a plato tuner, orders from Brown & Dollmeyers or calls phone number 1-406. This brief notation notes a supplier interaction and a contact method. The entry highlights a tradesperson arranging service with a local firm.
Five thousand copies of the latest sheet music priced at 19 cents per copy to be sold at Albertson and Btemom's located at 78 Galena Street. The sale details appear in a brief local notice from December 21.
The Rev. Frederick Thompson, about 65, has been removed as Warden of the Rock River Military academy after a month of faculty concerns and a monitored investigation yielding sufficient evidence for dismissal. The notice sits among other ads and local items including a music sale at Albertson & Stemm’s.
A brief note promotes Mrs Austin's pancakes as a delightful breakfast option for crispy mornings. The message references reading the Journal's want column dated 12 31 for more details.
City Sunday schools arrange varied Christmas programs at First Presbyterian and Salem churches. Giving Christmas at First Presbyterian invites baskets for the needy with gifts collected Saturday. Salem Church features a sequence of recitations songs and a morning and evening program culminating in gift distribution and a pastor’s address.
The St Johns Sunday school presents a Christmas program Monday at 7 30 pm featuring organ preludes songs by the school choir and infant class declamations by Clara Melerkort Cora Kimpmeier Esther Hermsmeier Louise Dittman Leah Beine and others with a pastor's address by Rev F Halke and a closing prayer.
The Trinity Sunday school plans a 7:30 p.m. Christmas program featuring a sequence of preludes, opening chorus, scriptural readings, invocations, and multiple recitations and solos. Student performers include Edna Sensenbrugh, Lester Minnior, Carrie Spangler, and others with dialogues and climactic chorus Diadem.
A Christmas concert at Embury Church features morning and evening programs. Dudley Buck Choir performs Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning with arrangements, and the Nazareth Church Choir and Cravideria Intermezzo pieces are scheduled. Violin obligato by Marl Tluenkemeier and Flora Mayer accompanies There Were Shepherds. lantern slides illustrate Lead Kindly Light Hark the Herald Angels Sing and The Holy City as sung by the choir and Mrs Shelp.
The Sunday evening service lists a Voluntary Anthem and readings. Berthold Pours conducts Sing O Heavens and prayer by Pas er, Willard Smith gives the welcome, with congregational hymn and a Primary class Snowflakes performance. Adam Geibel I Bring You Good Tidings, Delbert Zimmerman recites, sixteen girls perform Emmanuel, Puaster delivers an address, Patty Stair sings Kurk What Means Those Angel Voices, Lilllia Girehhofer recites, hymn and benediction conclude the program.
The Illinois Association of County Superintendents of Schools will hold its annual meeting in Springfield on Tuesday. The program lists: 1:00 p.m. opening. 1:40 p.m. president's address by I F Edwards of Dixon. 2:00 p.m. What We Are Doing in Cook County to Improve the Country Schools by P A Downey of Chicago. 2:30 p.m. Needed School Legislation by J M Pace of Macomb. 3:00 p.m. How to Improve the County Institute by Hon Alfred Bayliss of Springfield. 8:30 p.m. Benefits Derived from New Country Schools by Cyrus Grove of Freeport. 4:00 p.m. The County Superintendent's Problems by J E Whitchurch of Salem.
J McKenna of 47 American Street states he will not be responsible for any debts contracted by his son John McKenna.
The report claims passenger runs between Waterloo and Freeport will be pooled soon, though many doubt it. Now crews run east on No 2, back on No 1, east on No 1, back on No 3, east on No 4 and back on No 6. Changes aim to use engines 1031 and 1022 on runs 1 and 2, with other tweaks possible but not definite.
An medical ad claiming perfection in the physical comes from allowing Nature to act. DeWitt’s Little Early Risers expel putrid matter and bile to restore liver function and improve complexion. Sold by all druggists.
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