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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1908
Page
5
An eight year interval sees leap year plans as young women map a charm offensive to win bachelors. Rules emphasize calls, flowers, notes, and gifts while avoiding office hours and knee-kissing, with memory books tracking suitors and a prepped stock of meals to woo the wary deer.
C O Hidridge of Empire Georgia extols Dr King’s New Discovery as the best remedy for coughs colds croup and throat and lung troubles. He has used it seven years and says it quickly cures croup attacks for his children. Sold under guarantee at Joseph Emmert’s drug store 50 cents and 1 dollar trial bottle free.
The Yeoman property including house lot and barn on Pleasant St between Pine and Locust streets will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder on Saturday January 4 1908 at the premises. For details contact R J Carnahan attorney at law 133 Stephenson St.
For Your Engagement Book notes a Gounod greet oratorio titled Redemption presented Friday evening with a leading soloist lineup, a 40-voice chorus, and Gibler's orchestra. Tickets are 25 cents.
Joseph M. Galtes brings The Vanderbilt Cup to Grand Opera house tonight after success on Broadway and in Chicago. A cast of sixty, famed beauties, and musical numbers headline a sprawling stage show satirizing an automobile race with vivid set pieces including the Marjorie Wellington hotel lobby and a yacht club. The climactic scene features two 90 horsepower racing machines speeding across the stage in a dramatic, realistic effect.
The Bijou program features the Four Masons as the week's main draw with strong competition from Fritz the Yodler whose German character drew hearty encores. The Prentice Trio, Billie Hines, and Hank Smith add variety, delivering one of the best Bijou shows in Freeport with an amateur night promised tonight.
The last two days of the week at the Majestic present A Race for a Million. An automobile races a train to record a deed for a wealthy mine. The film blends comic and tragic moments with mountain scenery and centers on a gambler and a miner in a fight over a rich mine.
The production What Women Will Do opens at the Grand Opera House on Wednesday January 8 with matinee and night shows. The play promises thrills sentiment comedy and song with Paris and English shore settings and lavish scenery. It is touted as the greatest hit of the season and a must see for patrons.
A Freeport druggist Joseph Emmert urges readers to try Vinol claiming it is the best cod liver oil based tonic and strength creator. He asserts Vinol contains medicinal elements from fresh cod livers without oily gut upsetting content and offers money back if it fails.
A special train of thirty stock cars passed Waterloo bound for Chicago from Omaha led by Conductor K L Wilson and Engineer Wight. After leaving Waterloo, the crew had seven hours left in the sixteen hour run time mandated by the new law. They aimed to reach Freeport to avoid an eight hour layover and arrived at 12:00 o’clock, making a fast run comparable to passenger trains.
Wood Fry, receiver for Rob inson Manufacturing, will depart for Kansas City next Monday to review the Cogsaltodate at Dipre Inent Company, a subsidiary of J.T. Rob inson Manufacturing. Receivership affairs progress as quickly as possible, but no definite report on the company or its branches is yet available.
The Daily Journal announces a site wide delivery option priced at 10 cents per issue with a three week period. Readers across the site can request home delivery or pickup, highlighting affordability and broad access for a limited promotional window.
Rev E B B McKay leads Garfield Boulevard Methodist Church on Chicago's South Side after a five year Freeport pastorate with record growth. The 750 member church plans a rectory site near Emerald Avenue, aims to expand in five years, and features a 600 pupil Sunday school, a strong Ladies Aid, and a multi-choir offering under Prof George L Scherger.
The record notes Benedict Arnold born in 1740 and died in 1801, Washington’s 1777 Princeton surprise, Arnold’s 1780 brigadier-general appointment, Rev. Jacob Duche’s 1798 death, born 1737, Toronto Parliament buildings burned in 1825, James A. Tawney born 1855, and the 1895 Paris Degregration of Dreyfus.
Sunday school officers were elected Thursday evening at Salem. E. F. Holtzman was named superintendent with Daniel Molter as assistant superintendent. Chas. Dorsey secretary and Rollo Billing assistant secretary. Robert Jones treasurer. Earl Stout librarian and Arthur Shreve assistant librarian. Rollo Billing organist with Nettie Jones as assistant organist. Frank Farnam chorister. Cradle Roll superintendent Mrs. Geo. Lubbers and assistant Mrs. Wim. Widman.
The Minors Commercial Hotel Men's association met in Rockford with S L Friedley of the Brewster house and J C Landon of the Clifton house in attendance. Officers elected include President J H McCreery of Springfield, Vice President Captain C L Hicks of Bloomington, Secretary and Treasurer C H Van Valkenburgh of Springfield, and an executive committee comprising Dick Townsend of Peoria, R Cadle of Shawneetown, and S L Friedley of Freeport.
W W Carvill and Frank P Hixon secured an injunction to stop La Crosse Wisconsin from converting an old schoolhouse into an auditorium for the German North Western Saengerfest. The case claims the move is illegal and would disgrace the city while noting a plan to build a magnificent structure and donate it to the city. the event is expected to draw about 10,000 Germans next July.
Jacob Springer of West Franklin Maine reports higher health after using Dr Kings New Life Pills. He states they keep his stomach and bowels working properly and promises a refund at Joseph Emmert's drug store if the pills disappoint on trial.
The Polo Poultry and Seed Corn association announces its fifth exhibit on February 8. Membership in the American Poultry Association backs the event and entry money will be paid out in four cash premiums of 40, 30, 20 and 10 percent. Judges Shellabarger Warnock and Martin will award ribbons. The neat, attractive premium book will be mailed on application to Dr L A Beard secretary Polo Illinois.
Lee Slater Overman born January 3 1854 in Salisbury North Carolina. He graduated Trinity College in 1874 and taught before serving as private secretary to Governors Vance and Jarvis. He practiced law from 1880 and held multiple legislative seats. He became speaker in 1898 and later US Senator in 1903 after party caucus and electoral contests.
Freeport promotion asserts Mi-o-na tablets cure stomach weakness and indigestion. Claims include relief from giddiness, brain fog, heartburn, sleeplessness, and nervous trouble after meals. Endorsed by Wm. F. Jungkunt with a guarantee that the 10 cent box costs nothing if it does not cure.
A nostalgic promotion touts The Tribune Farmer as a trusted weekly source for practical farming knowledge. It highlights expert-written columns, latest agricultural improvements with text and pictures, and college research, plus features of interest to women. Subscriptions cost $1 for introduction or annual access.
During reconstruction Wil son Caldwell a negro janitor at the University of North Carolina was elected justice of the peace in Chapel Hill. Professor Smith a faculty member and father of future Georgia governor Hoke Smith killed a dog belonging to a village black man and Caldwell fined the professor, delivering a judgment that contrasted race and status. A later Virginia newspaper reprinted a verbatim notice showing a firm dissolution between partners with a satirical twist.
A marketing note touts Father William’s Indian Tablets as a popular female remedy for pale weak nervous delicate women. It claims the tonic strengthens nerves, adds flesh, improves gait, brightens eyes, and clears the complexion. Tea or tablets priced 20 cents, sold by Co P Guenther & Co. druggists.
Proposals for general contract to convert the former Cer man Fire Insurance Building in Freeport Illinois into a Cosmopolitan Life Insurance Association office will be received by the association. Drawings by Bullard Bullard Springfield Illinois may be obtained at the Freeport offices. Each bid must include a 3 percent certified check payable to W. O. Krape conditioned on furnishing an acceptable bond and entering a contract if awarded. Proposals due by 12 o clock noon January 24. Secretary Chas Keck and President W O Krape reserve right to reject any bid. Bullard Bullard architects.
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