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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1906
Page
8
Store ad pledges no risk purchases with money back refunds for unsatisfactory items. Promotes Pride of Freeport emblem or Owl brand Corn 1905 pack per can and quart bottles of pure Maple Syrup priced at 23 cents.
Prominent citizens including Alderman C W Harden J H Staver Captain O B Kling Charles Mellnick and Daniel Manning push a new fish protection association to curb dynamite use and seines in the Pecatonica river. A meeting will organize membership target about one hundred and seek a state fish warden and river restocking with enforcement of fish laws.
News of Day tersely told reports moving pictures will be shown tonight at 8 o clock at the YMCA. The company had an open date and agreed to exhibit. Tickets for the Wednesday night show are valid tonight. Admission with reserved seats is 25 cents for adults and 10 cents for children.
Miss Vera Frye entertained a large group at her home in honor of Miss Bernice Dailey of Chicago last night. About twenty guests attended. the evening featured games and music before refreshments were served.
John Rodemacher of Forreston pleaded guilty in Justice Marvin's court to an assault on Attorney Meinen ten days earlier. He was fined thirteen dollars and eighty cents, including costs.
Mrs. James Farnum after a Tuesday operation at St Francis hospital shows rapid improvement. Miss Sophia Secker resumes duties at KE A Blast dry goods store following a two weeks illness.
W T Caldwell trainmaster for the Illinois Central received word that his son Jack Caldwell in Chicago is the father of a baby girl born this morning.
For coughs and colds no remedy is equal to Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar. It is different from all others better, because it expels all cold from the system of acting as a cathartic on the bowels. Affords immediate relief in Croup, Coughs, Colds, Whooping Cough, etc. Children love it. Sold by all druggists.
William Trembor boarded a morning train for Chicago. W. H. Howe returned from a business trip to Chicago. Edward Harnish is conducting business in Warren today. Mrs. Fred Schelp has gone to Chicago to visit her sister. Mr. and Mrs. John Wagener and family have returned from Waterloo Iowa after spending New Year’s with relatives. John Wagner of Sterling Gust Boehland of Rockford and Charles Pfeiffer of Springfield have returned home after attending a BE. W. clothing house conference in this city.
It invigorates strengthens and builds keeping you in condition physically mentally or morally. Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea and Tablets priced 38 5 cents per package. Joseph Emmert.
Call at Billerbeck s tomorrow for cream cakes and fruit stellas and trin keBs. There is no chance for disappointment if you serve Mrs. Austins pancakes. All grocers sell it. 1 4
The piece recounts how white elephants were regarded in Indo-Chinese kingdoms with grand ceremonies and royal favor. It contrasts ancient prestige with modern times noting Siam’s former pride in a royal white elephant and Bangkok’s modest reception for a present day example, now lacking splendor.
Dr Jean Charcot describes the winter diet of his Antarctic party in 1903 04. Seals killed at winter’s start kept in ice provided steady meat and fat for melting ice. Cormorants, penguins, sheath bills, and fish from open water or ice holes supplemented meals. Barnacles from rocks noted as well.
A fashionable saddler notes the khedive of Egypt owns the costliest saddle at 870000, black leather with abundant gold, a four saddle in one for guiding four royal coaches. Archer the jockey has the lightest saddle at sixteen ounces made in London costing 250. Mexican and South American saddles for generals and rajahs range from 100 to 1000 dollars.
Mrs W Felch of Manchester New Hampshire presents two pages from Sasha 8 Weekly dated October 38 1858 containing Lowell's poem The Courtin in full. The poem is illustrated with a facsimile of Lowell's signature at the end and is believed to be the first publication of the poem.
An address to A Woman's Congress quotes Mr Beeson praising mothers while noting early parenting vexations. The tale of a writer interrupted by his young son at the window illustrates how children disrupt work yet bring pride and humor to families. The text references forestry officials and Hansa, with a playful exchange about Simmy Smith questioning hair.
A Chicago Record Herald quote notes a corporation planning expert accounting reviews to reassure directors about finances as Count von Ringleschnitz seeks marriage to the daughter. Rochester New Hampshire church receives 28933.47 from Solomon Evans estate after seven years of searching for Charles Evans. Dr King’s New Life Pills advertised as a constipation cure for 25 cents at Emmett’s drug store.
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