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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1905
Page
6
A testimonial from C. H. Shoemaker of Allismaa Ohio praising S. S. S. as an effective blood medicine that purified the blood and cured skin eruptions including eczema and acne after using several bottles. The author states prior eruptions and itching ceased and recommends the remedy to others with impure blood.
Low railway fares announced by Chicago Great Western with tickets on sale beginning May 38 through September 28 to Portland Oregon Seattle Tacoma Bellingham Everett Victoria Vancouver and cities in California including San Francisco Los Angeles and San Diego. Contact any Western agent or J P Elmer P A St Paul Minn for sale dates and details.
An old advertisement lists Mrs Hale offering electrical facial massages and Michaud’s method, plus fine toilet creams as a specialty. It notes store hours on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 7 30 to 6 30 p m and provides a phone number and Stephenson Street address alongside Newman Sanitary Dairy Co with another phone listing.
In St Louis on July 35 the police under Captain McNamee, following Governor Volk and Police Chief Kiely orders, raided Delmar race track to halt alleged anti-poor betting. No arrests occurred until a further force arrived and a clash occurred when Constable Loenty attempted to arrest McNamee. he resisted and then released.
Detroit reports Lieutenant Colonel Charles Ke Ta 13. Davis outlines a 21 foot channel plan from Lake Superior to Lake Huron with cost estimates and required appropriations. Davis cites $100,000,000 for the St Marys Canal site and $10,100,000 for full 21 foot dredge from Superior to Huron, noting additional adjustments would raise costs.
The latest forecast covers Illinois and Indiana with generally fair to fresh northerly winds. Lower Michigan expected partly cloudy to mostly cloudy with northwest winds. Wisconsin sees rain with fresh northerly winds turning variable. Iowa forecasts fair weather and warmer temperatures in the west with light northerly winds shifting to southerly.
Chicago Board of Trade quotes feature scattered results across wheat corn and oats with Sept and Oct maturities. Livestock gains and declines appear in hogs sheep and cattle sectors with receipts noted and prices ranging from light stock to high grade export cattle and calves.
A Chicago News summary lists pivotal world treaties, noting Westphalia 1648 ending the Thirty Years War, the Pyrenees 1650, Augsburg 1555 granting religious freedom in Germany, Utrecht 1713 ending the Spanish Succession, and a Paris-treaty lineage including 1768 to 1898. It highlights the 1783 treaty ending the American Revolution, Napoleonic era Paris accords, Crimean War 1856, and the 1898 Spanish American War settlement. It also notes treaties of Berlin 1878 and Frankfurt 1871, and the shift to French in European treaties, with Vienna 1815 protest on the language.
Complaints rise in Paris about growing mendicity as business districts report beggars blocking paths on Avenue de l Opera Rue de la Paix and Rue Royale. Police promise energetic action to curb this nuisance and restore order to the capital.
A famed Bible known as the Blood Bible sold at public auction in Breslau to the descendants of the original owner Fred erlek vou Trenk for 200. The owner was imprisoned by Frederlek the Great for love with the King's sister Princess Amana. He inscribed 200 blank pages with a love sonnet to the Princess.
A testimonial from R E Secord of Toronto praises Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for stomach trouble and loss of appetite. It notes the medicine is alcohol free and narcotic free, and that the author recommends it to countless dyspeptics. The ad offers the 1008 page ConmonSerse Medical Adviser free with a small postage fee.
A tale from the Cincinnati Enquirer recounts General Hoe VY Boynton recalling a lady with a yappy spaniel. An old admiral visited and the dog attacked, snapping at his legs as the cane-wielding elder kept calm. The dog was struck and incapacitated as the admiral refused to strike a small dog.
During the South African war under martial law a British private in a Yorkshire regiment wrote to his parents about his unit. Censor obliterated parts of the letters. the private claimed to reveal the truth by hiding a message under the stamp. At the censor’s office the stamp was lifted and the officer read a line asking who is hard to get off.
An advertised remedy claim describes washing away dandruff without water, warning against products like Canthrarides Vaseline and glyverine marketed as air Vigors. It promotes a supposed germicidal agent Terphiga as the original genuine germicide for scalp care, offered by The Herpmide Co Detroit and Joseph Emmert as special agent, with stamp samples available.
A jumble of brief international items reports London quotes, Philippine forest varieties, missing persons in the U S, a Dutch tramway, Philippine population figures and a British dog-prohibition petition. It notes Neuchatel drinking-water schemes, Tyrolean customs, Tangier arrivals, and various oddities from Canada to Maine.
Ruth Newey, a child from Agnewville Virginia, reportedly survived a severe bout of cholera infantum after her father used Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The account claims rapid improvement within hours and urges purchase from local druggists.
Reduced rate excursion tickets to Glen Ellyn Illinois for the camp meet on Northwestern Line July 12 to 25. Tickets valid for return by July 25. Eastbound trains 80 402 400 72 and westbound 409 418 61 stop at Glen Ellyn Camp Grounds July 12 25. Apply to Chicago Northwestern Railway agents.
A moral on saving and frugality cites that one dollar saved equals ten earned, urging careful spending and inexpensive preventive remedies like Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to avert doctors' bills. Also mentions a remarkable Brussels benefactor event featuring sixty dancers and noble attendees.
North Western Line offers low summer fares to San Francisco Los Angeles Portland Tacoma Seattle and other destinations valid on multiple July dates with favorable return limits. Two daily fast trains to the Pacific Coast including The Overland Limited electric lighted throughout and The California Express with drawing room sleeping cars. For rates and tickets consult Chicago and North Western Railway agents. The emperor of Abyssinia decorates the German emperor and sends gifts. Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets praised for indigestion biliousness and constipation. Sold by all druggists.
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