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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1906
Page
6
Passenger rail prospectus announces reduced round trip fares to Denver, Colorado through the Chicago Great Western Railway. The offer highlights convenient routing via Chicago with limited-time pricing available to travelers seeking affordable mountain trips and scenic excursions.
A German Valley man B A Beauth disappeared Tuesday afternoon while his six year old son waited in a Pecatonica buggy. He was last seen in an alley after shopping with his son. A missing person search yielded no clues until the next day a letter arrived from Chicago, raising questions about the timing and distance. Community officials and family consider mental aberration as a plausible cause, and efforts continue to locate Beauth, last seen wearing blue overalls, a straw hat and work shoes.
The piece warns that fruit trees on lawns are usually disappointing due to pests and diseases. It notes peaches are delicate and prone to San Jose scale, while plums and cherries tend to wormy fruit unless curcalios are jarred early or chickens graze underneath.
A humorous excerpt notes a man fed lime to his hens following a poultry book. Leghorns show agitation as their hot Italian blood rebels, Cochins reply with fatalistic calm, while a Plymouth Rock jokes that they will lay bricks, illustrating comic barnyard misunderstandings.
The article recalls how Gladstone admitted mistakes openly on occasion but avoided apologies. He famously quipped to his private secretary Sir Algernon West that you cannot unpull a man's nose, illustrating his reluctance to acknowledge fault or rely on apologies.
A brief humorous exchange remarks that one spends little of earnings and holds no bank balance with a punchline about being married, reflecting a newspaper quote style from the Houston Post.
The piece highlights a driver who knuckles into harness racing by offering to race wherever placed. It notes James W. Marshall, ’07, of New York, elected Yale track team captain after the Intercollegiate meet in Boston. It also mentions a Scottish desertion case where a husband cites repeated tire punctures by his wife as his motive.
New York jewelers on Fifth Avenue stock a wide range of mortuary urns. Designs vary from simple black onyx to crystal, bronze, or gold, with prices from under 100 to as high as 3000 dollars. Imported urns from Japan and Germany are popular, including vase forms reproducing ancient vessels and even miniature Greek temples.
The piece traces the garter legend linked to the Order of the Garter, noting conflicting medieval authorities. It details Polydore Vergil Segar Attits and others who dispute or support the tale that a Countess of Salisbury or Kent dropped the garter. The author argues the legend is dubious yet worth noting while lamenting modern abridgments.
An experienced mechanic praises rail travel describing how two rails uphill and down, curves and tangents, carry a dozen heavy cars at over a mile a minute. He rails at the flange of a wheel as the sole barrier between passengers and eternity, noting the tiny steel lip supports the entire train.
A Reconstruction era tale from the South describes a jurist in a backwoods county who, facing a jury in a minor case, ends up charging them a dollar and a half apiece after a ribbing comment from a lawyer. The anecdote, attributed to the Virginia Taw Register, is paired with a poem line and an ad-like note about Rocky Mountain Tea from Joseph Emmert.
July schedule lists Morépaugh and Salta Bros elicus Hast Pracpore show grounds with a Diamond badge shoot at Freeport Gun Club Taylor's Park on July 12 and related events on July 14. A Masonie tampla iain institute is noted in connection with the gathering.
A letter recalls a near tragedy from neglected cold and warns that small illnesses can blow into serious lung inflammation. It touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a life saver and claims trials are free at Jos Emmert's drug store with doses priced 50c and 1.
North Western Railway offers limited return excursion tickets for July 4 6 6 and 7 to LaCrosse Wisconsin for the Biennial Festival of the North Western Scandinavian Singers Association. Tickets available through Chicago and North Western Ry agents. Includes men’s fancy Wash Wests at low prices while supplies last.
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