03 Jun 1905
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1905
Page
1
A promotional note attacks local treatments for women ailments and promotes internal High Power Remedies. Doctors Flora Moss Jackson and J. H. Jackson advertise private consultations, claiming cures for diseases of women and nervous ailments, with office hours in Hettinger Block.
Town Clerk Thos Lawless calls a regular town board meeting for Saturday evening June 3 at 7 30 PM to audit bills. All holders of town claims are asked to present them at the clerk’s office at once.
Weather forecast by W Y Foster outlines a cool preceding a warm wave across the continent with highs and lows moving eastward. He notes unusually cool periods in the Midwest, heat for the southern states, and impacts on corn, oats and wheat, plus warnings about cereal market fluctuations.
The Buckeye township Sunday school convention meets at Cedarville Evangelical Church on Sunday June 18. The program includes opening prayer and service, minutes of last convention, treasurer’s report, election of officers, and offering. Local leaders include W. Berlin, Fackler, Neagle, Verbert, and W. Cinglman assisting. all are urged to attend and support the work.
Summary of rail and excursion notices from Illinois Central and associated groups. Includes Decatur meeting round trip rates six dollars seventy cents, discounts for return trips, Denver Eagles event August, and Mystic Shrine trip details with dates and fares. also mentions Sunday excursion trains to Madison Wisconsin from Freeport with specific departure and arrival times, plus a cash register for sale by BRO and DOLLMEYER.
Eyewitnesses recount Beloit and Janesville Woodman picnic events where a supposed daring train hold up featured masked figures. In truth a pickpocket used a disrupted light to steal watches and small sums from passengers. Police assign specials, but no arrests made amid crowded festivities.
A party of five from Whiteside county returned from Scales Mound after a two day inspection of extensive lead mines in Daviess county. Judge F D Ramsey and Charles Bent Sr of Sterling joined the group. They secured ore samples and began negotiations with the Illinois Central for a spur from their line to the mine site to haul machinery and galena to market. The investors plan to enter mining as a venture alongside their regular duties.
Regulity committee of the Bay of Supervisors of Stephenson County Illinois will meet at the Court House Freeport on June 16 1903. They solicit sealed bids from licensed doctors for county medical services through July 1 1906 including wages medicines nursing and care for contagious diseases with territory including Freeport and within one half mile of its boundaries, and separate bids for specialized services and smallpox care. bids open at county court, chairpersons and agents listed. also rail excursion notices and various travel promotions are included in the notice.
Through the North Western Line excursion tickets go one fare for round trip from May 31 to June 2, inclusive with favorable return limits. Apply to agents Chicago and North Western Railways, Glendale.
Ritual reforms threaten to end the lodge goat practice at the Modern Woodmen. Delegates may back a medical examiners board, shift to head physician recommendations, and oppose a biennial head camp. Milwaukee hosts hopeful moves to move headquarters from Rock Island, with invitations to President Roosevelt and strong local interest.
The advertisement lists a varied lineup for the coming week at the Grand theater including The Cuiniest show, Latey and Juucier, Minnie Waite, Adella the dancer, the Life of an American Pneumat, and the Moonshiners. Mildred Grover and her two pickinnies, Powers and read, and the Jere sen-Here company perform with special acts as well. Madloves receive a day after Monday with souvenirs for attendees on select days. Monday tickets are ten fifteen and twenty cents. Umbrellas repaired and covered by WS. Ryan at 67 Galena st.
A Chicago Tribune discussion explains the old lapidary practice of skinning pearls. It describes how irritants inside shells may be covered by secretions, creating value by removing surface flaws. A rare Chicago expert and a pearl owner profited when a skinned pearl rose from 7.50 to 192.50, with further sale potential highlighted.
The late Captain Alfred Rice, famed for shad fishing on the Delaware, prided not only on cleanliness but on enforcing neatness among his crew. A new man with a dirty white shirt endured a month of scrutiny before Rice finally asked who kept borrowing his shirt during the first week.
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