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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1905
Page
2
The Freeport Journal receives a label from the International Typo aphical Union recognizing the act that employs Union labor in its mechanical departments.
Ed Gilbert is in Dubuque on business. Edward Gilbert went to Rockford. Bert Geiser visited Beloit. Miss Emma VanMater went to Chicago. Alderman Louis Bauscher and A. M. Smith are at Klein. Miss Elizabeth Rame returned from Rockford. Miss Sloan of Sandusky, Ohio visits Miss Edith Knowlton. Mr and Mrs A. O. Clingman visited Cedarville. Miss Ruth Hughes vacationing two weeks at Lake Delavan. Various locals visiting relatives or traveling to Chicago, Ore gon, or Rockford. A North Shore trip for C J Price, two weeks vacation. Freeport lodge Knights of Pythias meeting tonight with second and third degrees and banquet. Pierfishers club leaves for Second Lake. Waddington and Jenks trip to Chicago and Cedar Lake for fishing. Several families plan Red Cedar Lake trip and a concert at Taylors Park.
chaos surrounds La Crosse and Freeport series with manager Malvern seeking to end dispute and forfeit remaining games. Reported results show La Crosse 8 Freeport 1 and 14 1. Green Bay 6 Beloit 1. other scores include Oshkosh 1 Calamity-errers ?. controversy centers on umpire Fay and the Wisconsin town clash as community debate angers fans.
The article describes tactics to manage the Ha Crosse engagement with possible forfeiture of remaining games. Vice President Nie man urges Malven to stay if feasible and finish the series. A catcher replaces Karnell who needs rest. the Pretzels may still break even. President Powers sends a telegraph to President Biersach urging attendance in La Crosse, with Biersach likely to consider Freeport as another needed stop.
In La Crosse Wisconsin on July 15 Cole steered La Crosse to a decisive win, with a final score showing them ahead at all stages. Batteries were Cole and Dodwe as Beloit faced Green Bay Beloit in a separate series, Beloit scoring late in the game while Green Bay pulled away to win.
La Crosse beat Freeport on three pitchers after a batting streak. Beloit topped Green Bay, with Bubser earning his eighth straight win since joining Beloit. Wausau defeated Oshkosh as Garle and O'Brien. Warner and Moore worked the battery.
In Galena on July 16 the Rockford ball team was defeated by the Galena Independents in a one sided game. Rockford’s batters Cleaver and Camp bel key hits as Galena outmassed them throughout.
The White Sox beat the Iroquois Sluggers by six to four in a recent game. Harris and Backes pitched for the White Sox while Young Calonder Ohldorf pitched for the Sluggers. The White Sox have won ten of thirteen games this season.
The notice states My and Mrs A Resh of Apple Street are the parents of a sten pound baby girl born this month. The snippet promotes Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a tonic for the family and mentions Tea for Tablets with a playful sales tone.
Jof Monroe Wisconsin salesmen Rockey and Kuhnke showcased the Little Fox Well and Cistern Cleaner in the city. The device cleans wells and cisterns by suction without removing water and leaves it pure and sanitary. Rockey is reachable at Hotel Metropole for orders. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Ben Greet and his English troupe visit Tuesday for two open air Shakespeare spectaculars at Bailey's park. As You Like It performs at 4 PM, A Midsummer Night's Dream follows in the evening, presented by a trained company famed for Stratford and Cambridge stagings.
Growth of Pawnee Bill’s Wild West reaches a quarter million dollar enterprise with over 500 performers and 425 stock. The season adds Major Lillie Far East acts including Japanese Chinese cavalry alongside Indians cowboys and Mexicans, plus imported Sinese groups. Two distinct cavalcades on arrival and a grand program with three bands fife drum corps and an orchestrion headline the season opener.
Thousands visited the Abraham Lincoln home exhibit at the Lewis and Clark exposition in Portland. The Illinois state building draws reverent crowds with hats off as visitors, including Mrs. Cari of Portland and others, file through. Notable attendees include Mrs. Eubanks of Oakland and Dan Baker of Chicago, Tad Lincoln’s former Sunday school instructor, plus Senator Dubois of Idaho. Illinois Day planned for August 17 with Governor Deneen expected. local registrants from Freeport listed.
Sickening shivering fits of ague and malaria can be relieved and cured with Electric Bitters. This pure tonic medicine is especially beneficial for malaria, exerts a true curative influence, and drives the disease from the system. It is said to be preferred to quinine with fewer after effects, with a testimonial from H Ss Munday of Henrietta Texas. At Joseph Emmert's drug store, price added.
An old advertisement fragment touts Dean's Kidney Pills for kidney and rheumatic back pain and credits Charles Weiss of South Galena avenue with relief after using the product from Emmert’s drug store. It also promotes Dr Kings New Life Pills as a blood and system cleanser from the same retailer and mentions a Stcngerbund concert at Taylor's Park with piano tuner F. J. Burdett.
Regular Journal readers moving for the summer should arrange mail forwarding. The Journal will be sent to many U S post offices without extra charge and addresses can be changed as often as needed. Prompt, regular delivery will be ensured through the summer months.
Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Hildreth and Mr. C. G. H. Stocking describe a six day Yellowstone visit. They tour Mammoth to Norris, witness hot springs and geysers including Fountain and Old Faithful, note bears driven back by light, and praise the park’s grandeur and the inn at Old Faithful with its chime, popcorn, and Ohio teachers singing.
State Superintendent Bayliss endorses Chicago's vacation schools as a model for smaller cities like Springfield Peoria and Quincy. He praises how practical education manual training household arts and play attract children, arguing such programs build citizenship and could be funded by philanthropy to extend to more towns.
Evangelist William A Sunday denounced Elbert Hubbard editor of the Philistine before about 16 000 at Sterling chautauqua. He tore at his collar and sleeves and called Hubbard a wretch dragging people to degradation while praising his own religious leadership in the address.
Harriet Howard of New York recounts long skin trouble, salt rheum, and eczema. She credits Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a quick, sure healer for cuts burns and sores. Sold for 25 cents at Joseph Emmert's drug store.
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