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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1909
Page
1
Snow followed by clearing tonight with a cold wave in Illinois. Saturday will be fair and cold. Iowa sees fair tonight and Saturday with a cold wave in the east. Wisconsin reports fair in the west and clearing in the east tonight with Saturday fair and a cold wave.
The Associated Press reports a severe storm across the Midwest and south causing washouts severing telegraph lines west and north of Chicago. Trains abandoned in northern Iowa, a 72 mile gale in Kansas City, damaged streets, injuries, and widespread freezing temperatures extending to Texas.
American Consul Arthur S. Cheney and Mrs Cheney were honored by a throng and Italian society representatives as their bodies were taken from the arriving steamer to Grand Central for shipment to New Haven for burial after the Messina earthquake.
George W. Perkins and Oakleigh Thorne of New York bankers testified before a secret senate judiciary committee session today. The hearing examined the president's authority to permit United States Steel to absorb Tennessee Coal and Iron Company.
Those attending Mrs Cheney’s recital next Tuesday will hear a soprano soloist who is a friend of Minnie Davis, the public schools music supervisor. Mrs Cheney teaches at the National Summer School of Music in Chicago and Miss Davis has completed training courses there, highlighting the school’s growing reputation for training teachers for public work.
The Woman's club will meet Saturday afternoon with the topic Palm and Pyramid led by Mrs A J Goddard. Mrs Shelp will sing during the session.
Amid heavy rain, Mayor Dittmar blasted the Civic League as he defended a proposal to fund public improvements on South Galena avenue and Broadway. He vowed to present the ordinance to the city council, offered a price cut and a contract process, and accused critics of graft and cowardice while recounting past city actions.
The Galena Avenue and Broadway property owners formed an association after a 1908 city hall meeting where the mayor dismissed their input. A planned 1909 meeting showed a changed attitude, offering speech liberty if the improvement ordinance passed before the mayor’s term ended. The group asserts no ties to the Civic League, existing solely of local property owners.
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