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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1908
Page
3
A blind man relies on a chained Spanish spaniel to navigate a street crossing on Chestnut Street, drawing curious bystanders as the dog signals the curb. The Philadelphia Press notes the odd scene while Puck adds a wry quip about debts.
A medical advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as essential for restoring the feminine system and preventing illness in new mothers. It cites testimonials from Mrs M Gilmer of West Union South Carolina and Mrs Paul Oliver of St Martinsville Louisiana praising recovery and healthy babies, and claims thirty years of use as a standard remedy for female ills with thousands cured.
A Missouri man testifies before Judge Landis on a marriage bureau case tied to Miss Grey. William Grable, once a colorful Chicago visitor, says his wife search through Miss Grey’s agency proved successful and he bears no grievance against the operator. Government lawyers hoped Grable would bolster the prosecution’s claims.
Hobart Chatfield-Ch Chapman Chatfield-Taylor reports a Chicago man believes a double, from Pittsburgh, has been arrested there as Teobart Chiatfield-Taylor posing as him and defrauding hotels and stealing a car. The prisoner gave the name Tie 2 Carter and awaits Chicago guidance.
Mascoutah leader Philip Troth aged sixty, civic figure and president of Welb Col compat, shoveled street snow after a storm. He fell ill with pneumonia at home, later dying after the event. The town notes his civic pride as snow removal that night washed away. Council paid him 60 cents for the effort.
In Springfield and other Illinois towns petitions seek to determine district boundaries as 95 percent of townships in the central area vote on reform, with Chicago rumor of a closing petition and Danville, Elkhart, and other locales noted. A separate incident reports a man named George Butts attacking a bartender after a dispute over a loan, and a misappropriation case tied to a bank inquiry in Denton.
A Washington Star snippet captures a quarrel between a dressmaker and her patron about a man who applied the car window principle to safes and vault doors, making them burglar proof. The exchange is muddled but highlights the clever security concept and mixed dialogue.
The Freeport Theosophical Society meets Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. First Church of Christ Scientist holds services at 229 Stephenson Street with Sunday masses at 11:00 a.m. and midweek readings. Salem Evangelical, St Marys, First M E, Oak Street Evangelical, First English Evangelical Lutheran, Second Presbyterian, Christian Church and other local congregations announce sermons, Sunday schools, Y P A activities, prayer meetings, and communion preparations for upcoming dates.
Two centuries ago a merchant fearing Mediterranean voyage risk enlisted a friend to share the risk. They drew up a contract with guarantors, starting underwriting at Lloyds coffee house in London. The idea spread, risk was shared by more patrons, and the maritime agency grew into a global insurer still linked to the coffee house name.
George Eliot and Montesquieu reflect on the torment of completing major books. Flaubert endures self chiding and fevered labor as he battles perfection, while Turgenese notes the touching struggle and long writing sessions.
For more than fifty years the face manufacturing firm Messrs Thomas Adams & Co of Nottingham England has required all workers to attend a daily morning service. The company runs a chapel beneath the warehouse with a fine organ and a choir of employees. A local clergyman preaches each morning about half an hour, three sermons weekly.
A fragment notes that scandal brings attention and currency in banking, with a quoted exchange about banks not like scandal and its effect on public interest, reflecting editorial tone of Baltimore American.
In London Tit-Bits a wife asks her husband for £2 this afternoon in exchange for allowing him to grumble about her extravagance to the value of £8. The playful bargain centers on domestic frugality and humor.
A two month old girl suffered eczema turning head and face into sores. After various measures failed, Cuticura Soap, Ointment and Resolvent were used for two months, transforming the child. She shows no signs of eczema at age two. Mrs. H. F. Budke of LeSueur Minnesota reports the cure in 1907.
Travis Bates of Hamburg Arkansas reports relief from a severe skin humor after using Cuticura Soap Cuticura Pills and Cuticura Ointment. He credits one vial of pills with curing the condition and urges the remedies for sufferers. The advertisement promotes Cuticura products and a free book on skin diseases from Potter Drug and Chemical Corp Boston Mass.
A fragment presents dialogue about Howell Rowell and Fowell, noting one may be dead long before a fire is detected. The passage underscores how unobservant the men could be and hints at a delayed awareness of danger.
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