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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1908
Page
2
Discussion urges readers to seek corporate security over personal sureties, advising to visit the nearest American Surety Company of New York office to obtain a fidelity or contract bond quickly and without red tape. It urges immediate application when a bond is required.
The Rockefeller Bible class loses members after John D. Rockefeller Jr's retirement. Attendance falls to about sixty on Sundays at Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, with urges for Rockefeller to resume leadership. former leaders include Governor Hughes. The board seeks teachers as New York schools suffer teacher scarcity and expands exams.
A small circle discussed new food laws and label descriptions. Two manufacturers, opposed to labels, tested consumer reading by sending clearly marked items with misleading or humorous labels to shoppers, showing many did not read labels.
David Miller will give a public dance in Lexington hall Monday evening January 18 inviting all. Management promised best possible. Music by Gibler's orchestra. Admission for ladies twenty five cents 24e. Dance begins at 9 o'clock. lw
Mrs Frank Donahue of Kokomo Indiana writes that her infant suffered a widespread itchy skin outbreak beginning on the hands. She used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment nightly, washing with lukewarm water, and within three to four nights the boy was fully cured. She recommends the remedies for others with skin ailments.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Ointment for facial care along with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Resolvent, urging morning and evening applications for all ages. It markets internal pills and a book on skin diseases, offered by Potter Drug and Chem. Corp. and distributed worldwide.
New York fashion notes describe blue shades, pale gloves, and velvet or lace opera coats lined with fur. Striped broadcloth tailors smart outfits with drooping shoulder lines, toques, turbans, and plumes. crepe ondine and marquisette brilliante fabrics appear. Fur coats, Empire silhouettes, long cling skirts, Paquin wrinkle, and elegant lace waists feature alongside white satin wedding gowns and bridesmaids’ chiffon. Florence Palabianiss.
The Man of the Hour returns to the Grand Opera House next Tuesday night with a special company led by William A. Brady and Joseph R. Grismer. The production is praised as a substantial hit of the season, rich in laughs and absorbing love interest, presented as a strong, convincing, and engaging dramatic vehicle.
Sufferers of rheumatic pains and neuralgia are urged to write for a free home treatment by Mrs. M Summers of Notre Dame Indiana. The remedy claims to banish uric acid from blood purify and tone the body and requires no climate change for cure.
The Daily Journal announces citywide delivery available for just 10 cents per week. The notice emphasizes affordable access, covering all city neighborhoods and encouraging new subscribers.
Beginning Sunday through Tuesday the Majestic screens the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere. The reel shows Green Dragon Inn to Old North Church to Charlestown and Lexington events with dramatic narration. Revere signals, evades capture, and warns townsfolk as a nation’s fate is dramatized.
A 1200 pound steer dressed under packing house rules yields rib 165 pounds loin 115 pounds round 105 chucks 100 plates 123 shanks 45 flanks 24 suet 25 kidneys 2 tongue 4 hide 00 oleo 25 gleostearine 2005 tallow 25 hair 3 cheek 00 brains lips 40 heart 35 tail 125 sweetbreads 24 tripe 50 fertilizer 274 hoofs 75 percent shins 24 neat's foot oil 7 raw homes 0 blood 0 total 6 pounds. Independent packers call figures conservatively sourced. Parts used for slides feather from tallow soup grocer ine butterine lubricator blood albumen fertilizer stock food hoofs buttons hairpins fertilizer tankage refuse fertilizer stock food from oleo oil butterine and compound lard from intestines sausage casings brewers’ huse
A farewell party was given for Misses Mary and Ella Moss at their home two and a half miles northwest of town. About forty young people from nearby areas attended a lively evening of dancing, games, and music, followed by a late supper. The Mosses will move to a new home northwest of Freeport next Thursday, and friends express best wishes for their future. Attendees included Walter Turner, Ira Fauver, Henry Moss, Mary Moss, Mayme Moss, Julia Moss, Elva Fauver, Elsie Switzer, and many others from Berlin Winneshiek Scioto Mills Freeport Ridott and surrounding countryside.
It is very important to health to give relief to the stomach promptly at the sign of trouble. Take something once in a while after meals, something like KODOL for Dyspepsia and Indigestion. Sold by Wm. F. Jungkunz, druggist, Stephenson St.
Local shoe shop offers a daily price drop with largest discounts today. On Saturday, shoes priced at 4 dollars were cut to 8.36 dollars and 3 dollar shoes to 2.52 dollars, in a promotion attributed to Schmidt Wachlin and Pfeiffer.
A short notice states taxes will be collected at Bokemeier and Lapp’s shoe store every Saturday for two months. It mentions agent Henry Peiur as the official collector.
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