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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1908
Page
8
The text shows fragmented times and stray letters, listing arrivals and departures without clear context. Several entries include invalid times such as 6:86 am 9:76 am and stray characters, making interpretation of schedule impossible.
Old timetable fragment lists rail numbers, parlor car services, and connections. Mentions No. 200 204 211 routes east and west with buffet parlor and cafe services. Notes connections at Rockford Beloit Janesville Milwaukee Madison Belvidere Sycamore DeKalb and Pacific coast routes.
Timetables indicate departures from Freeport on weekdays at 6 35 am and every 85 minutes until 12 35 pm with a final 11 00 pm car. Oars from Rockford depart weekdays at 6 00 am and 8 00 pm on even hours until 11 00 pm with a 1 hour W minutes travel to Freeport. Sunday service starts at 6 34 am Freeport and 7 00 am Rockford. Direct Rockford Beloit connection noted. routes to Janesville Belvidere Elgin Aurora Chicago. WM NE ESE, Agent.
State Bank Freeport Illinois reports capital stock of 126000 and undivided profits of 110000. Directors listed include J. Fred Smith Fred W. Hoefer H. H. Antrim Dr J H Stealy and others with a Savings Department noted.
Archibald Harris nicknamed Redney befriends a homeless girl named Bess. He helps her buy bread and cakes then joins amateur night acts at a theater. A manager offers work with a pay split, totaling fifty three dollars for their partnership.
The Daily Journal promotes home or business delivery to any city area for 100 a week. The offer highlights convenient coverage and reliable service across the urban area.
An embellished court scene features Sergeant Wilkins instructing a jury in a breach of promise case. He mocks the plaintiff’s suitor as a repulsive, diminutive man, and leads to an instant verdict for the defendant as reported by the London Globe.
A Westminster Gazette reader notes playful shop window signs from across England. A south end bird fancier offers doves for sale with a quirky “Bond of children” line, while a Burrington road butcher seeks two respectable boys for beef sausages.
A fragmentary exchange features MecJigger and Thingumbob debating forgiveness. They argue forgiveness is easy in theory but hard in practice and hinge on admitting the foe’s deserveability.
He claims to be cultivating his voice and says he irrigated it early this morning, with She observing the routine.
The article explains two main methods to build wheat shocks with caps for wind resistance and moisture protection. It emphasizes uniform construction, cap bundles, and the dangers of uncapped shocks during wet weather. Includes a stray note about a Balm product and an advert-like line.
A farmer recalls purchasing a 160 acre farm from a widow and overcoming poor clay and black soils by deep but careful plowing not when wet, ditching, and spreading manure. He reports yields rising from ten to forty bushels of corn per acre to thirty to sixty, and clover increasing, without commercial fertilizer.
A simple cart can be built using any light wheels such as old buggy or wagon wheels and a stout box of suitable size. Use an axle from an old walking cultivator if available, otherwise obtain any old axle and a garden cart frame. The cart should be narrow for doorways and light enough to push with a removable end gate for easy loading and unloading. Also included is a cheap spray remedy to control mites in hen roosts by soaking or spraying inside the coop to ease suffering and save costs.
Apples yield profit but worms eat poorly policy. A garden fence saves annoyance and a row of grapevines behind the garden adds value. Grafting works best in orchards. Free delivery of soil and seed noted. Good seed, soil, and cultivation are essentials. Avoid overspending on outdoor tools. invest in household conveniences.
The prompt presents a fragmented dialogue between a needy person asking an old man for ten dollars for a week and an implied response from the other party. No clear event, date, or organization is identifiable in the readable text.
The Daily Journal is available citywide at a rate of 10 cents per week.
Executors announce a public auction on July 15 1908 at 10 am for 80 acres east half of northeast quarter section 35 township 27 north range 7 east in Stephenson County Illinois adjoining Freeport. Property includes a two story six room house barn granary cow crib well windmill and outbuildings with running spring water. sale offered in nonestate tracts with complete title abstract provided. Auctioneer A H Miller and attorney W N Cronkrite listed.
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