Officers Named for Automobile Co in Freeport
Incorporation papers for the Stover Automobiles company of Freeport were filed in Springfield. Capital stock is 50,000 with plans to raise it. Officers include President D. Stover, Vice President W. A. Hance, Secretary P. S. Stover, Treasurer J. F. Smith. Directors total nine. Hanke named superintendent, Sethreyer assistant. Officers traveled to St Louis and Moline to inspect plants as work begins. Temporary offices set in Stover Gas Engine works adjacent to the old bicycle plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stover Automobiles Company
Freeport
Springfield
News Company
D. ©. Stover
W. A. Hance
P. 5S
Stover
Preansurer
J. F. Smith
P. S. Stover
Fred Dorman
Ww. A. Hance
F. Schreyer
J. F.smith
A.B. Hanke
J. P. Stover
Winger
Jacob Weiss
Mesgra
D. C
A. BE. Hanke
P. F. Sehreyer
St. Louis Snd Moline
Stover Gas Ingine Works
Bicycle
Hast Freeport
DEFIED MR BRUBAKER BY DISTURBANCE ARREST
August Luedeking was arrested by Captain Silk Bunday on disorderly conduct charges after a sobering episode. He hired a horse and buggy, drove recklessly, and his whip caused the animal to fall. Humane Officer Brubaker reported the incident. Luedeking threatened Brubaker but faced no physical harm. He appeared before Magda Bentley and paid his fine.
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Luedeking
Silk Bunday
Mortiing
Andrew
Brubaker
Andrews
Magda Bentley
Report of Stephenson County Public Schools 1905
1905 county school report to the State Superintendent details ages counts pupil enrollment and attendance finances and assets. It lists totals for male and female pupils under 21, months in session, library volumes, teacher wages and earnings, district taxes and bonded debt, overall funds and expenses, and treasurer balances.
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Stephenson
Bayliss
Cyrus Grove
Iake
Athena of the home Trust Calumet Baking Powder ad
The document records a school year ledger showing $42 148.82 in trust interest for school use, 75 new applicants for certificates with 60 succeeding, 45 visits to schools, one quarter day average time per visit, 10 local teachers’ meetings, 246 teachers employed, and 75 pupils passing final examinations. It lists annual institute instructors to appear in March including Dr L C Lord EB Winship Alfred Bayliss and Prof H H Hewitt.
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Athoo
Rae
L. C. Lord
Winship State Superin
Aca
Alfred Bayliss
H. H. Hewitt
Trainmen Publish Detailed Illinois General Assembly Report
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen releases a thorough report by William G. Edens, detailing the Illinois legislature session. It lists members who aided bills, copies favored, Grand Master Morrisey’s testimony, and a clear, modest tally of expenses and funding sources.
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General Assembly
Legislative Board
The
Brotherhood of Railroad
Illinois General Assembly
William G. Edens
House
Senate
P. EB. Morrisey
Billas
Edens
Will Embark In Business Frank Koenig To Establish Parlor
Frank Koenig, who resigned from William Koenig last Saturday, will soon enter the undertaking business in this city. He will devote his time to the venture and George Schaub will join as a partner. The firm is expected to begin operations soon, backed by Koenig’s wide experience and the confidence of many friends.
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Frank Koenig
William Koenig
Koenig
George Schaub
Seventeen Year Locusts Vanish From Skies
Inquiries rise over the disappearance of the seventeen year locusts once seen in swarms. Observers debate if wet weather caused their exit or if heat and rain drove them away. Seventeen years ago these insects lingered through summer and into fall.
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Onlg
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsements in Freeport Testimony
Citizens in Freeport praise Doan's Kidney Pills with Mrs. FE Emford of 192 Locust Street sharing a case of kidney trouble relief after using the product bought at Emmett's drug store in fall 1897. She asserts lasting benefits and recommends others try the remedy sold by FosterMilburn Co Buffalo sole agents, price 69 cents, remember the name Dean's.
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Freeport
Dean
FE. Emford
Locust Street
Emmett
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
United States
Jos, Emmert
Logan Collection to be Displayed in Illinois Capitol
Mrs. Logan offers her late husband’s historical collection for state display, with the legislature to vote formal acceptance and a capitol display location likely. The collection is extensive with artifacts including General Logan’s desk and a thirty seven walking stick cabinet, plus Mexican sombrero and other memorials. In a separate Greene County dispute the attorney general clarifies that the court holds custody of wills and records, and county clerks must issue hunters licenses under state law, with penalties for neglect.
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Springfield
Logan
Ttinois
Hushanid
Capitol
Liss
Hichides
Congress
Trom Luis
Mexico
Stead
Greene County
Oger
Jays Uimn
Wheeler
Frank O. Welton
Henry County
Ito
Consolidation of coal mines on Southern railway
East St Louis Illinois July 24 Consolidation of all coal mines on the Southern railway between East St Louis and Centralia now controlled by a Belleville and East St Louis syndicate is said to presage control of St Louis soft coal supply. Mines listed include Muren at Belleville New Baden Little Oak at Shilton Maule mine and others. The syndicate has issued denils to the davamut of S600 000 output about 4000 tons daily twelve mines under syndicate control options on forty mines. The Southern railway behind the plan.
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East St. Louis
Southern Railway
Centralia
Bolleville
East
St. Louis
St. Lows
Southern
Belleville
New Baden
Little Oak
Shilton
Dominic Miler
John Mame
Old Courthouse Burned in Bloomington Illinois
Bloomington Illinois July 2 A historic building the first house in the town and the oldest courthouse in the state was destroyed by fire at daybreak This structure erected in 1840 by James Allin housed the first circuit court in central Illinois Lincoln Swett Davis and other pioneer lawyers practiced there It was a two room log cabin with later additions and had stood empty for fifteen years The fire likely started from followers of a street carnival that slept in the building efforts to preserve it as a memorial at Miller Park had been debated.
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Bloomington
iBloomington
James Allin
Ilinois
Lincoln, Swett, Davis
J. A. Stipp
Miller Park
A Country Scene in Tibet from Lassa uid Mystery
A vivid Tibet countryside scene depicts colonel L. AL Wardell's book description where cottage dwellers plow and sow in bright attire. Oxen with dyed plumes pull gear as women scatter seed, while birds sing around red peer and whitewish trees and willow hedges.
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Tibet
L. AL Wardell
Swiss school heat holidays inspire new policy
The Louisville Courier Journal cites Swiss practice of maximum school temperatures and hot weather holidays. Teachers praise the idea as a humane way to spare children from grueling heat, allow safe outdoor recreation, and prevent wasted learning time.
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Switzerland
Louisville -Courier- Journal
Green Cocoanut Milk Drink Advocated In Tropics
A dweller in the tropics praises green coconut milk as a delicious early morning drink. He describes cutting off the nut to pour the contents into a glass while noting the coconut should be cold. He recalls a Singapore doctor’s prescription and mentions eating palm heart as a local edible.
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Tropica
Singapore
Huntig
The Way of the Arab traveler in Egypt excerpt
An excerpt recounts a camel caravan in the desert carrying a massive load. A camel’s load shifts to starboard, causing imbalance, and camel engineers trim with four light Arabs to correct the ballast.
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Egypt
Lim
Cnsva
Ava
Lueck and Labor Chronicle A Quixotic Labor Saga
Fragmentary text presents a quixotic scene with Lueck and Labor as central figures. It hints at waiting for news, a bed scene, a post bringing a legacy, and references to a clock, a hammer, and competence. Disorderly fragments mention Luck and Richard Cobden.
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Lueck
Jiter
Iabor
Richard Cobden
Deceived Mrs Blinkers-What Going away Why
A fragment from a New York Weekly piece presents a dialogue where a servant accuses mishandled storage of trunks drawers and chests. Mrs Blinkers recalls trusting the servant with keys. The fragment ends with a cryptic note about travel, poverty, and love as guiding themes.
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Mrs. Blinkers
Right Handed Folks Inherited Tendency and Practice
A historical note argues most people are right handed due to inherited proclivity and constant practice. It cites infancy preferences, brain center alignment, and evolution from primitive use of the right hand in eating and tools. The piece discusses vision links, signaling needs, and potential brain reorganization if left hand cultivation occurs. It ends with a quotation on experience from Shakespeare.
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George M. Gould
Scieice Monthly
Hamid
Gold
Grentee Demauds
Dro Govihl
Andy Devlares
Thiat
Hargely
Bueter
Lamin Butte
Gowld
Gould
Geenter
Jay
Alain Ter Tse
Gould Say
New York Tribune
Reminder of Common Word Errors for Speakers and Writers
A compact guide listing alphabetical DONT S for speakers and writers. It flags common misuses, such as their versus there, affect versus effect, and fewer versus less, with brief guidance to avoid confusion in public speaking and writing tasks.
Correcting English Usage from 1905 Notes
Edward B. War man offers etiquette for language accuracy with spelling, grammar and usage cautions. The author lists pairs of common errors with suggested forms and explains distinctions in time phrasing pronoun use and word choice to improve written style.
Language Notes: Precision in Word Usage
A decoding guide clarifies common pitfalls in spelling and word choice. It contrasts phrases like very badly with badly to avoid overuse of very and superlatives and warns against misusing veterinary vicinity veracity and related terms.
Invention of Paper and Immigrant Tales
A historic piece recounts Tsai Lun’s role in inventing paper in China during early imperial times and follows the spread of papermaking and demand for paper as literacy grew. It notes lighter substitutes and a corn husk process for producer use, then shifts to a satirical segment on service and interracial mingling in America, ending with a frontier-era cowboy encounter.
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Vang Wu
Ts’ai Lun
Ts’al Lim
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D. v. Stover
MR. Brubaker
August Luedeking
Report OF Schools
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Athena
Trust
Calumet Baking
Peoria
Jewishifore
Quenis
Norden
Chieige
Chietgo Tlatt
Cron Norden
Tifta Setartarial
Iistriet i Mietase Twa
Bey Listittres
Sturgethy
Wisde
Pobbi Giacerius
Wis
Ebigil
Roigrit
Votleyman
Arcola
Tira ‘Shornton
Willan Loughbrooke
Longhooke
Rockford, J
John Trang
Stock River
Trank
Ewin
Bloom
Sidney
Edward B. Warman
A.M
Joseph B. Bowies
Alther
Astlass
Prendergast
Washington
Shakespeare
Nolte
Christ
Theah
Spendrite
Cineinnatic Commercial Tribune
America
Oklahoma
Weathercocke
Filipe
Cihle
Zayo Daily Newa A
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