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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1905
Page
2
John F. Wallace chief engineer in charge of canal digging has resigned after accepting a higher salary in New York. Yellow fever drives residents away from Panama, making completion appear unlikely for many years.
Gen Stephen D Lee asserts Lincoln as a frontier lawyer who rose to fame and died nobly, comparing him to Caesar. The Fond du Lac Reporter notes President Roosevelt is a dependable ally, admired by supporters and critics alike for his loyalty to trusted officials.
The article notes Missouri accounts for about 80 percent of U S zinc 90 percent of nickel and high lead output with expanding districts. It predicts Missouri may rival California in treasure from base metals as demand grows and new districts develop annually.
The text notes aging leaders, citing Grant Lincoln Taylor Washington and Franklin across ages from their forties to seventies. It argues longevity in public service, concluding with a Senate snapshot: out of ninety members, more than a score will reach seventy before 190%.
A method to slow racing drivers by placing short ridges in highways is adopted in Massachusetts. The ridges are easy for normal cars and at reasonable speed, but uncomfortable for speedsters, prompting them to slow down. The system is self-acting, requires no watchers, and is effective.
On McKinley’s day an anarchist killed him and every Pennsylvania railroad train halted for ten minutes from 1:30 to 1:40 p m across 9000 miles. Streetcars and factories paused nationwide before resuming normal activity. The brief tribute marked a rare national pause.
Secretary Taft mourns John Hay as the greatest statesman of the age saying his death robs America and the world of a firm grasp on international affairs. He credits Hay with 25 years of public life and influence with foreign powers and notes rulers and diplomats took their cue from him.
The piece attacks Pant Morton and a cadre of small officeholders in the Equitable who hold sinecures with perquisites. It claims 100 plus jobs pay up to 7 600 or 10 000 a year without real service while policyholders’ funds flow away. It argues the company is bankrupt despite a large surplus.
The piece condemns state liquor monopoly profits, noting last year’s sales of 2,874,786 and a net state profit of 608,998 with 304,839 paid to the school fund. It argues public vice funds education, praises dispensary harmony, and warns against leaving home for better prospects abroad, urging home settlement and farm productivity.
The President creates a committee led by Charles H. Keep to investigate tax methods and general administration across Washington's executive departments. The aim is to identify misuse of funds and suggest remedies, prompted by recent post office scandals and other department issues.
In Freeport the City of the Churches a ministerial association unites clergy from many denominations to promote moral sentiment and general welfare. The piece praises their work as a powerful advance, noting unity over denouncements, while cautioning zeal must be controlled to avoid excess.
The ministerial association in Freeport urges education of the people to build public sentiment that will push law enforcement by sheriffs, courts, and police. They are doing splendid work, and residents are urged to stand up for Freeport.
Congress grants a charter to dam the Mississippi at Keokuk to improve navigation and unlock vast power, signaling a new era of river damming. Niagara River dam at Lake Erie’s foot aims to raise lake levels and boost upper-lake navigation, amid talk of extending Chicago drainage toward the Illinois River and a shift to water power for urban transit. The era of deep water navigation and river power is just beginning.
John D Rockefeller and other patrons fund education and Y M C A buildings across the country. Southern gifts include W W Cumber's $30,000 single pledge tied to a $50,000 raise, Peabody brothers for a $60,000 Georgia project, and Mrs. Dodge funding an $80,000 Virginia unit. Dayton, Elgin, and Galveston commitments total millions as campaigns close. Ohio and Nichols state plans reach about $7 million across twelve buildings. Houston and Missouri funds also advance.
An odd record from a small town notes a two year old performing a hand spring in public and raises questions about who may own a car while serving as a gospel minister. Citizens compare driving to golf and fishing as common pastor activities, while a farmer comments on home grown discipline speaking to local life.
A harsh comparison portrays the durable, plain-spoken country fighter against pampered urban youth. The piece claims Hoch discarded by a Japanese rival who married his thirty sixth wife, illustrating easy divorce overseas and implying life tested merit outshines refined appearance.
The mountains in labor groaned as crowds gathered to witness birth but a mouse emerged. A fable contrasts great expectations with small outcomes and warns against relying on hastily tested professions, echoing the proverb great cry and little wool.
In Thurso England a 87-year-old superintendent of flagstone quarries still works. He has seven sons six sons a law, twenty nine grandsons and two great grandsons among forty nine family members all in the same trade and area.
Next month Governor Folk and Governor La Follette will headline a reform rally in Ottawa Kansas. Clarence Darrow and Tom Lawson also scheduled to speak. The meeting is nonpartisan though affiliations vary. Reformers from the west will attend to boost unorganized reform forces nationwide.
A regiment gathered for church parade in the barrack square but the church, under repair, could hold only half. The colonel ordered all who did not wish to attend to fall out on the reverse flank. Many complied. He then dismissed the non-fallen-out soldiers and ordered the rest to march to the church, saying they needed it most.
Governor Degeen declares that the new supreme court building in Springfield must be built with brick made at Chester penitentiary under the prison labor law. The $350,000 project may require non union labor as brick layers have refused prison-made brick. authorities must comply with the law.
Public opinion favors the home as the center of order and obedience. Parents should study foundational social principles, stand with law and righteousness, and fortify the family as the basis of the state to inspire children toward industrious, obedient lives.
The governor has appointed James A. Neville and James A. Willoughby to fill vacancies on the railroad and warehouse commission with Charles G. Eckhart also named to fit a vacancy. The selections signal potential fairness in the forthcoming senatorial contest with Neville backing Yates, Willoughby backing Cullom, and Eckhart aligned with Hamlin in the subernational nominating campaign.
A reflection on laughter's role in human life and ethics. The text argues that genuine mirth aids the soul and body, while warns against inappropriate humor at solemn events. It cites Dante on stern virtue and asks if people who do not enjoy earthly beauty can be happy in heaven.
The piece compares the automobile to the bicycle noting it started as a toy and fad but will become a common, necessary conveyance. It predicts the horseless carriage will reduce in cost and become as routine as riding a bike, with horses growing accustomed to fast-moving cars.
The piece imagines the automobile as a soon to be common pleasure car and freight hauler. It predicts cars will deliver merchants goods in town and country at high speed, changing rural life over ten years with people asking if they will go to town or hitch up horses.
An industrial official contrasts college graduates with practicians. He says practical insight outperforms pure theory when equal, but stops learning. The secret lies in continuous inquiry. The eager, ever-learning young worker is on the road to victory.
The passage argues that memories and feelings of youth remain real for both boys and men. It contends adults ruin trust by lacking respect for young people’s emotions and ideas and by imposing rigid plans without explanation, hindering youth’s ambitions and joys.
The piece extols slow wealth building over get rich quick schemes. It cautions that many chase royal roads to riches and risk petty crime. The message urges starting with any feasible income, no matter its size, and stresses careful budgeting and close figuring.
The causes of anarchy are many and fueled by a false notion of God spread by some churches. Despair from this belief leads to anarchism, which must be met by proclaiming the Father and Savior God through Christ. Christianity is presented as the strongest agent in civilization to address this global issue.
The Carmel Republican editorial lauds Senator Shelby M. Cullom of Illinois for his long U S Senate career. It highlights his commitment to public interests, his modest wealth as proof he resists philotocratic influence, and argues Illinois benefits from his continued service in the upper house.
A reflection on how people accept biased reports about friends and foes without verification. The piece laments the persistence of calling others enemies outside a war context and urges critical thinking to avoid repeating derogatory tales.
In a Catholic Citizen critique, schools push against caste bias in early trades, arguing that education should reveal natural talents for carpentry, design, engineering, and mercantile work beyond mere clerking. The piece laments youths clinging to fine school attire, deeming labor with tools as degradation and preferring pen work at small wages in office roles.
A narrator recalls observing the wife of a well fixed farmer dragging a leavy sack and searching a sluice for fuel to cook the evening meal. She adds cobbed sticks or boards to the sack, prompting thoughts on the husband's regard for her.
The passage recounts a humorous southern tale about two clergy men debating chewing tobacco. One rebukes the other for the habit, claiming it unclerical and unclean, while a quip about a hog being the better user of tobacco follows. The old doctor laughs, admitting he has been caught in the exchange.
General Nagaoka of the Tokyo headquarters argues that army sizes have steadily grown since the Franco Austrian wars and cites figures from Liao Yang Sha Ho and Mukden. He notes modern wars mass large national forces, and that past multi army totals sometimes exceed current single campaigns.
A local observer recalls a sudden cyclone near Watkins place as a Baptist church procession crosses fields toward Gray's Center. The storm scatters buildings and supplies while a Newton baseball game featuring Hopkins Blue Stockings is abruptly interrupted as the crowd cheers from the grandstand.
At Louisville the United Confederate Veterans annual meeting rejected a Texas delegate’s bid for a Jefferson Davis controversy resolution and declared no politics. A telegram from Indiana’s Grand Army of the Republic was greeted with cordiality, affirming unity under one flag.
A fragmented dialogue exchanges wordplay and blunt quips among characters including Pat Johnny Mamma Casey Riley Methusaleh and Mrs Spenders. The snippet hints at humor irony and aging with lines about knowledge power pantry pie and a lengthy courtship.
A fragmentary, sentimental passage expresses enduring affection for children and pets, longing for summer and nature, and hope of reuniting with friends and family in heaven. The speaker fondly recalls playful scenes in woods and at home, cherishing every giggle and moment.
The piece contrasts President Eliot and Samuel Gompers on liberty and labor unions, noting a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling against forcing laborers into unions. It argues the closed shop risks a labor monopoly and urges preserving individual freedom while ensuring fair treatment for small rivals and respect for workers’ contract rights.
A Chicago reception honors Susan B Anthony on Friday marking her long work across three generations in abolition temperance and woman suffrage. The article recalls her role from 1852 first national rights convention to 1866 suffrage meetings and her leadership alongside Abby Kelly Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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