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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1899
Page
4
Advertisement touts free urine examination and cures in neglected cases. Claims no experiments or failures and informs that incurable patients will be told. Offers treatment by mail or express with preferred personal consultation. Communications are confidential and medical services extend to the United States. List of questions furnished free. Address omitted.
The New York Tribune promotes the Daily Weekly and Semi-Weekly editions with prices cited. It highlights weather, market reports, war stories from Spain, Questions and Answers, letters from London and Paris, science and home topics, and an illustrated Friday supplement praised as magazine quality. Sample copies, club offers, and the Tribune Sunshine Society are noted.
The North Western Line offers home seeker's excursion tickets February 21 March 7 and 21. Tickets provide favorable time limits to numerous points in the West and South at exceptionally low rates. For details contact Chicago and North Western Railway agents.
Washington February 11. House debate on the sundry civil appropriation closed with discussion of revenue deficits and expansion. Hepburn announced a Nicaragua canal amendment to the bill authorizing 115.7 million for canal construction, with the president allowed to negotiate with Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Other action included pensions for Letitia Tyler Semple and ex Senator John M. Palmer, while General Palmer’s needs drew note of near blindness.
Washington February 11 details emerge as General Miles and the Commissary General’s Department prepare to submit a large volume of official reports to the court of inquiry convening February 15. Both sides compile material to support their positions. General Ragan remains at the War Department, handling routine duties through assistants while gathering information for the case.
The formal copy of the treaty of peace with Spain, ratified by the senate last Monday, was signed by President McKinley and Secretary Hay at 2 35 yesterday afternoon in the Executive Mansion library. Attendees included Mrs McKinley, Secretary Hay and daughters, and other invited guests. The document was placed in a crimson velvet case and sent to the state department for transmission to Madrid.
Washington reports that the War Department has prepared a full list of dead still interred overseas and will move bodies to the United States. About 300 next of kin have asked to personally arrange private burials abroad. Unclaimed remains will receive honorable interment at Arlington.
A river steamer P D Stages collided with a pier of the Johnsonville bridge on the Tennessee River. It drifted past Metropolis as Cowling landed it six miles below with lower deck six feet under water. Casualty rumors vary but likely three. Other briefs note Missouri and Illinois moves on asylum condition futures ban, Illinois Press awards, and a Boston shoe machinery consolidation with $25 million capital led by Sidney W. Wington.
City Comptroller Robert A Waller of Chicanzo is seriously ill. Vernon and Cedar counties Missouri report kified crops. A Chicago mill plan claims the finest cereal combine in the world. Rather Judge founder of St Marys Hospital Dawson City Alaska dies of pneumonia. Mrs Martha Cumback dies Greensburg Indiana heart failure aged 66. Six hundred fifty miners in Choctaw Coal Co Indian Territory strike. Bluefields governor arms against Nicaraguan government. Rising confined to region. Explosion at Baxter Stoye Mansfield Ohio fires causing 100000 loss. Oxford University accepts chess challenge from American universities with condition tweaks. Mrs Burton Harrison granddaughter of Lord Fairfax ancestors of Thackeray's Virginians. Engagement announced Lispenard Stewart New York and Romola Dahlgren granddaughter of Admiral Dahlgren. Amalgamation plans for major US wool manufacturers under way. American Methodists mission house Hiramae district China burned by mob. Rev R P Alexander in charge seriously burned along with wife.
Bradstreet’s reports improved distribution of heavy winter goods at retail amid a cold spell while spring trade slows. Lead ing staples stay firm with January gains, wheat rises on snow lack and cold, cotton strengthens on demand and prices, iron and steel show strongest weekly advances, lumber weak by weather, leather and hides firm, wool steady, woolen goods improving, and US business failures at 193 this week.
A letter from Monastyrschin reports that Turgusos tribespeople found a cloth cabin and three bodies with one head crushed near the Timur peninsula in North Siberia. Police head toward the site to verify if they are aeronauts Herr Andree and his companions, who left Dane's island on July 11, 1897 to cross the North Pole.
A health notice discusses female-specific illnesses caused by liver and bowel disorders. It claims constipation causes much sickness and that Beecham’s Pills offer quick painless relief. The ad promotes 25 cents at drug stores.
An advertisement extols Foley's Kidney Cure as reliably treating kidney and bladder diseases. It cites H. J. Moogh of Swarts & Fleck as a supporter and notes a separate report on Adriatic bird hunting where Italians catch migratory swallows by the hundreds of thousands, describing nets and hunter spies making enforcement difficult.
An advertisement from Swarts & Meek and Freeport Licur & Fue Co notes Foley’s Honey and Tar provides relief in late stages and claims to cure in early stages. It also warns that extreme cold may affect gas service and requests customers report issues for prompt restoration.
Mrs A C Thomas advertises hair work services at 255 Galena Boulevard offering a range of styles and fittings. The notice highlights specialized treatments and personal fittings for clients seeking custom coiffures.
Chicago reports two deaths from extreme cold with a barefoot unidentified man found on Halstead Street. Dozens suffer frostbite while weather moderates locally but worsens elsewhere across Datbury Pittsburg Philadelphia Columbus and East Liverpool. Reports include Ohio navigation halted by a floating tree and 27 below in Charleston W V.
In the chamber of deputies on February 11 the government tabled a bill sending all trial revisions to the full court of cassation, an anti Dreyfus measure the government had risked its life on, and it passed.
Macon Georgia February 11 discharged Second Ohio soldiers rob multiple stores and blame falls on Colonel Kuert. Washington February 11 Secretary Gage and wife depart for Chicago to attend funeral of a relative. Oskaloosa Iowa February 11 Henry K Fortune frozen to death. Weather forecast from Washington predicts clouding snow and continued cold across Indiana Illinois Michigan Wisconsin and Iowa with brisk westerly winds.
Milwaukee Feb 10 Hogs estimated receipts 16 000 market active and firm with pigs at 3 75 to 3 85 for hogs 3 65 to 3 92 for light mix and 3 70 4 50 for rough packing and shipping lots Cattle receipts about 4500 strong with quotes 5 45 to 6 05 for choice to extra steers 4 60 to 5 30 good to choice 4 25 to 4 60 fair to good 4 00 to 4 50 common to medium 4 90 to 4 10 butchers steers 4 10 to 5 45 fed western 3 25 to 4 60 feeding 2 00 to 10 cows 2 60 to 4 85 heifers 2 50 to 4 25 bulls oxen stags 3 40 to 4 80 Texas steers 4 00 to 7 25 veal calves Sheep and lambs receipts about 7000 active with Westerns 3 10 to 4 43 natives 2 85 to 4 50 and lambs 4 00 to 6 05 Wheat No 1 northern 72c No 2 northern -c Oats 30 to 90c Rye No 1 northern 58 to 44c Barley 2 614 to 4c sample 48c
Through the North Western line excursion tickets will be sold February 6 through 12 at very low rates with return passage valid until February 28. Reduced daily rates also apply to principal winter resorts in the United States and Mexico. Full information from Chicago and North Western Railway ticket agents.
Local dressmaker advertises children's clothing as a specialty and notes inquiries at 89 Douglas Ave, inviting patrons to inquire about garments and fittings.
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