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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1906
Page
7
Train listings show passenger and freight services with times and constraints. No. 1 and No. 40 routes run west with sleepers and coaches respectively, daily except Sunday, under agent H. W. Rowley. Additional notations include freight and passenger service references with scattered timings.
Daily and Sunday service details for east and west bound trains from Chicago to Freeport and intermediate points. Includes departure times, parlor car notes, connections at Rockford Belvidere Rod ford and Beloit, and agent contact John F. Daly.
Samantha Sanders pursues a thrifty life in New Rochelle, pursues a cuckoo clock on Thirteenth Street, and confronts her estranged fiancé Hiram Shell in a tale of longing, hunger, and unlikely marriage plans amid a bustling New England atmosphere.
Graham Saunders avoids slights but recalls the squire’s request to note glass positions on the north porch at 6 pm and 8 am for three days. He calls it a sharp hint to someone with a sensitive streak, recognizing the implied social pressure over meals and invitations.
Caspar Whitney describes trapping a herd of elephants driven into a graal where docility ends on confinement. The animals ram, spray water, blow dust, trumpet, and squeak as calves. In England, a motor driver in East Wolseley was fined $115 for passing a cart on the wrong side.
A stalled train in a blizzard prompts a man and a troubled woman to flee. The woman secretly helps a porter guide her to a lonely cot where a baby lies motherless. She contemplates returning but leaves, sending the porter away as telegraph wires fail. The next day she reappears with an excuse, the incident eroding trust between them.
Governor Toole selects S J B McDermott of Helena as state coal mine inspector for a four year term. McDermott, previously an assistant auditor at the capitol, will earn 2000 dollars annually with 1000 dollars for expenses. He prepared through study while in service. The Bank of France cellar contains 800 barrels of silver coin stored there.
The photo from the recent annual maneuvers of the French army shows a bicycle company drawn up in square order facing cavalry. Each company holds about sixty men in peace, rising to a full hundred in wartime, with bicycles carried on shoulders when crossing rough ground.
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