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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1909
Page
6
A playful exchange shows a city nephew guiding his elder relative through fast moving plans in town. The uncle jokes about lightning rides and quick stops at a shoe parlor, shave, lunch, and express, then halts, calling himself old.
The Isthmian games on the Corinth isthmus featured athletics horse and chariot racing plus poetry and music contests. Prizes were wreaths of parsley ivy or pine and honored the victor his family and city, according to the New York American.
Watt Mason in Emporia Gazette describes a tranquil dawn over Cedarcrest with goats, cows, hens and sheep at rest. Hired hands gather cockleburs while a doctor rides by and ducks call out. The owner has sown the farm to beans as the village wakes.
Inhabitants of Venus would face extreme timekeeping challenges. The planet rotates with no day length, has no moon for a month, and orbits nearly circular with axis perpendicular to its orbit, resulting in no year.
Chicago inquest on the Lake Michigan wreck heard that nearly all could have reached safety on the muck pile beside the crib but fear prevented escape. Witnesses described the fire, blocked water, and a panic that kept workers from the refuge, with relief funds raised for survivors.
Rev Robert Morris Kemp former rector of St Chrysostoms church was held to the grand jury after charges by church choir boys. Judge Blake found reasonable doubt but ordered appearance before the grand jury. penalty ranges one to twenty years. bonds set at 2300 dollars.
The jury in the wireless telegraph has proven practicality of wireless telephony and inventors push to show voice transmission without wires. Frederick Collins demonstrates daily at the Coliseum electrical show how easily the voice is transmitted without cables to visitors.
Thomas R. Lyon, noted timber lands holder in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Minnesota and formerly Michigan, died at his home in Chicago at 72 Astor Street. His wealth was estimated at five to six million dollars in financial circles.
Elgin January 30. Thomas Brown an attendant at the Illinois Northern Hospital for Insane was discharged for misusing and roughly handling a patient under his care. Brown was a special employee with only one patient to care for.
Governor Deneen met in Chicago with political chiefs deeply interested in the senatorial deadlock. The leaders’ meeting, held January 30, was to continue that night as they seek a resolution to the stalemate.
Attica’s small burning ground holds the grave of Nathaniel Grigsby who died in 1890. A former second lieutenant in Company G, Tenth Indiana cavalry, he was an ardent Republican who stood by the GO. P. at all times even in death. The epitaph reads on his tombstone.
An old advertisement promotes Foley's Honey and Tar as a quick cure for grippe coughs that may become pneumonia. It claims the remedy heals inflamed lungs, strengthens them, and prevents danger. The product is shown in a yellow package and marketed by H. J. Moogk and Wm. K. F. Jupgkuns.
An inscription declares a dying protest against the Democratic party accusing it of treason and misfortune. It urges readers to beware of the party noted for betrayal and national decline.
Grigsbys heirs resisted the epitaph but a lawyer ruled the will required it. The Lincoln tombstone bears a quirky epitaph from a traveling man, with a marble carved bag at the head and the line Here is where BA stopped last, as quoted by the Kansas City Journal.
In a distant veldt scene a soldier glimpses a woman between boulders then realizes it is his mother. The apparition departs as he nears, and weeks later a letter from home confirms her death and burial. The recollection appears in Grenadier’s South African Reminiscence in Occult Review.
Daniel Lester, a professional gambler, assists a slave mother and her boy in a raffle aboard a St Louis to New Orleans steamer. He buys their freedom, wins the boy in a dice contest, and marries the enslaved mother, becoming a prosperous cotton broker. The story marks a moral turning point in his life.
The employment bureau head recalls a tale from a last week’s visitor. A wealthy mistress who adored bridge gambled with maids for stakes to cover debts. The plan to swap servants failed when one maid refused and sought new work, while others swapped as the game dictated.
A carpenter in an English town refused to build a gibbet ordered by the hangman since he had not been paid for a previous one. When the judge later questioned him at circuit, the carpenter bowed and said he would have completed it instantly if he had known it was for the lordship.
Paris Figaro laments the era of indulgence and praises clever thieves, arguing that society valorizes daring rogues and even heroes for their cunning crimes, while victims are overlooked.
In Illustrated Bits a playful exchange shows Mtr. OlAboyo asking Tommy why he brings so much water while DT only asked for a drink. Tommy teases that DT would need more than a splash as sister calls him the driest old stick known.
A fragmentary item notes Brown and a figure described as a friend engaging in lively action related to motors. The text hints at a modern, informal scene with commentary on appearance and a brisk movement up or down a location. No clear names beyond Brown are confirmed.
The fragment presents a torn phrase about nature and heartbreak, with obscure wording attributed to Tarrow. It lacks clear events, places, or persons to form a concrete news item or summary.
A religious author reports years of kidney trouble culminating in a severe winter attack. He was bedridden eight days and relied on aid to move. After starting Fo ley's Kidney Remedy the pain lessened, ceased, and his urine returned to normal.
The source states there is no recorded case of cough or grippe developing into pneumonia after taking Foley's Honey and Tar, asserting the remedy cures the condition without triggering pneumonia.
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