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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1907
Page
3
A young couple's blackberry foray turns dangerous when Martha is menaced by a man who tries to seize her. She escapes to a deserted cabin, hides from pursuit, and a gunfight between pursuing men ends with both criminals dead. Billy discovers the scene and helps Martha home. The incident yields prize money that funds the couple's new home.
Lady Dorothy Nevill recalls the Second Duke of Wellington as clever and witty yet politically aloof. Dressed in a soft felt hat and voquelaure cloak with goggles, he wandered C rystal Palace guarded by officials. An usher questioned his judging of donkeys, he proclaimed himself a judge and was finally invited to judge, amid amusement.
Describes elephants terrorizing Indian districts. Elephants destroy granaries and houses, killing a woman and child, injuring a woman at a ford, and crushing a cradle, then lifting the mother unharmed to continue raiding for grain.
A friend notes Popley has not owned his car long but manages it well. Flo is praised for steering through crowded streets. Another voice confirms Popley’s experience with a baby carriage, implying familiarity with small, maneuverable vehicles.
New York Jan. 5 The Interstate Commerce Commission opened a long inquiry into the Mann lines and modern consolidations among railways and steamship firms. It disclosed that Union Pacific Southern Pacific Oregon Short Line and Oregon Railroad and Navigation share almost identical leadership with Harriman as president in each case. The Southern Pacific also controls Pacific Mail Steamship and Occidental and Oriental Steamship with Portland and Asiatic lines. An Atlantic route from New York to New Orleans linked to Morgan Line is shown under Southern Pacific. A 1903 San Pedro Los Angeles Salt Lake traffic pact restricts rate changes without Southern Pacific consent.
Union Pacific and Chicago Rock Island Pacific railways share control of Chicago and Alton for ten years from 1904 with alternating leadership. Union Pacific holds significant shares across Illinois Central, St. Joseph and Grand Island, and other lines, while Oregon Short Line invests in Baltimore and Ohio and Milwaukee and St. Paul stakes. Total holdings across key lines amount to $108,208,748, all acquired since July 1, 1906.
Union Pacific showed a July surplus of 1 million dollars and Oregon Short Line declared a 50 percent stock dividend to Union Pacific and contributed from its assets to the purchase money. Minutes reveal Harriman actions ratified by a committee, with authority to borrow for Union Pacific without limit. Discourse ends with noted misstatement.
A vintage endorsement notes mothers give Kennedy Luxative Cough Syrup to children who favor its pleasant taste. It touts honey and tar, calls itself the original laxative cough syrup, and claims to drive the cold out through the bowels while conforming to the national pure food and drug law. Sold by all druggists.
Local piano tuner J. Burdett advertises services at Brown and Dollmeyer's shop and via Bay area phone, inviting customers to place orders for tuning and related piano care.
A Farriman to George J. Gould communication quotes Harriman noting that the current era has seen less construction of destructive competitive transportation lines yet significant spending on improvements and new facilities. He argues these efforts protect public and shareholder interests by better conserving existing systems.
Disaster aboard the Lindholmen, sailing between Christiania and Bergen off Farsand, as a gale rages and the ship bursts into flames. Thirty passengers flee crowded quarters, with four trapped, one drowned, one driven mad, and lifeboats damaged. The captain steers the burning vessel ashore to save the rest and crew.
A mob in Midway, Alabama lynched a Black man for attempted rape of Miss Morrell King, daughter of a prominent banker. He was captured after a night intrusion, confessed, and was hung from a tree, with bullets fired. Separately in Washington, the omnibus claims bill faced a five hour session in the house but stalled after removing $820,000 in French spoilation claims.
The Interstate Commerce Commission begins a rigid inquiry into the Baltimore and Ohio wreck at Terra Cotta D C and the Southern Railway disaster at Sawyers Va that killed President Samuel Spencer and seven others Commissioner Clements leads the inquiry while the Terra Cotta coroner also conducts an inquest into the accident and deaths.
Washington Jan 5 Secretary Hitchcock orders Commissioner Richards to notify special agents receivers and local land office registers that the Feb 25 1885 act to destroy illegal enclosures and obstructions on public lands will be rigidly enforced after April 1 1907.
Andrew Johnson, held on a murder charge in City Marshal Frisbie case, is positively identified as the man sought for the Rio Chande station hold-up at Leadville and the shooting of Station Agent Dale and for participation in a Malta Colon train robbery several months prior.
The Official Gazette reports copies of Kakome, the Japanese socialist organ issued in Berkeley, California, have been confiscated and its circulation in Japan banned. The paper urged the assassination of the Japanese emperor and President Roosevelt.
President Jones of the University of Illinois chairs the Rhodes scholarship commission for Illinois and announces exams for Rhodes scholarships will be held at Northwestern University in Chicago on January 7 and 18.
King Edward, guest of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, is enjoying pheasant shooting and appears more robust than at some previous time.
A large ore consignment valued at $1,000,000 arrived at Sleby Smelting Works from Goldfield. The shipment filled three box cars and was handled by consignor Jane Cale.
An advertisement claims food undigested due to lack of essential digestants and imbalanced juices. It promotes Kodol For Indigestion as a vegetable acid solution that digests what you eat. The ad asserts Kodol conforms to the national pure food and drug law and is sold by all druggists.
Harriet M. Burbank teaches piano at Studio 36 on Grove Street. Contact details are incomplete with a stray code 9-adtf.
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