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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1906
Page
7
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The Rightesnth County &tage recounts frequent stage disruptions by drunken nobles and foppish patrons. In 1721 an Earl interrupted Macbeth, sparking a clash where Quin and actors drew swords to eject him, while boxes were ransacked until the watch and magistrates intervened. A later incident saw a man rush the stage to embrace Cordelia amid Lear, provoking audience shock.
Mrs J G Phelps Stokes comments on the idle rich in an address. She notes their grief for the poor lacks fullness, comparing it to a young widow at her husband’s funeral. A clergyman praises the dead man as the wife sobs, saying the friend was swept away in a single night, at age 29.
An advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as cleansing the blood and improving nutrition by removing offending microbes. It claims the tea or tablets solve circulatory issues and lists a price of 35 cents, with Joseph Emmert as the seller.
The thirteenth annual convention of the Illinois branch Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society met July 14 17 in Hope church Chadwick with a welcome by the band and a full program of services. Delegates 44 and 20 visitors, the gathering featured inspiring devotions choir singing and a gavel gift from Mrs C N Dubs with a Changsha China heritage. Regular reports and lectures covered city missions reading circles and missionary themes plus a keynote address by Rev E A Marshall on gospel power. The week closed with elections and resolutions endorsing officers a circulating library plan and a training fund for Christian workers, promising renewed effort for the coming year.
In Freeport on July 20 1906 Benj Quigley Co. states rumors of relocation are unfounded. The firm confirms contracts keep it at the Freeport site for at least two years. Signed by Benj Quigley and Co.
The Washington Star lauds Maine’s congressional delegation for years of strong service. Veterans Reed Dingley Boutelle Milliken are cited as models of reform and influence in the House. In the Senate Frye and Hale are praised as enduring fixtures likely to finish their careers in Washington.
The Daily Journal offers mail delivery anywhere in the United States for 10 cents a week. People leaving home for the summer or a brief period can have the home paper mailed to them with flexible post office address changes at no extra charge. The ad promotes the home paper as better than a letter and urges everyone to subscribe.
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A Sterling gathering near the memorial tent recalls the 1858 Freeport debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. Speakers recount Lincoln’s question to Douglas about excluding slavery in new territories, the Brewster House reception, and the famed train ride where Lincoln called out Pap Dixon.
The opportunity of your life awaits in towns along the Chicago Great Western Railway. Openings in nearly all lines of business. Write to E.B. Magill, Manager, Township Department, Omaha, for full information and a copy of Town Walk.
Illinois Central Railroad offers round trip tickets to St. Paul and Minneapolis for 6.65 dollars for the National Encampment in Minneapolis on August 18 1906. Tickets go on sale August 11 12 and 18 with return allowed until September 30 for a small extra charge.
A Dixon Illinois notice describes a Sunday program at the Rock River Assembly featuring Jilly Bi co. 2.0, 8p events, and a Doibt Family of eight with a Smiths Juvenile band of forty five. It lists participants including Marie CO. Brehm state president and Paris Paris Hunka with activities such as meats golf lawn tennis prairies and aerides. Children under sixteen admitted free. special train from Freeport at 9:10 am with return at 6:28 pm and 60 pm. Adult fare 1.00, under 19 0.50, round trip from Freeport 1.00.
The Illinois Central Railroad offers round trip fares for the Rock River Assembly at Dixon July 28 to August 19 with one and one third fare for a July 30 trip returning by July 31, one fare for August 4 return by August 6, and one fare for August 1 return by August 13 plus a certificate plan option during the meeting.
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