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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1907
Page
4
Globe Chautauqua opens July 4 and runs eleven days with former Governor Richard Yates Evangelist William Sunday and many local notables. Opening program features Yates sermon Vaughan lectures and Chicago Ladies Quartet concerts with daily lectures and musical performances through July 14.
A historical program lists events across two days with patriotic addresses by Hon. Richard Yates and Dr. H. V. Adams, sermons by Billy Sunday, and multiple concerts featuring Hearons Sisters, Dixie Jubilees and related performers. Lectures by Sylvester A. Long and Col. George W. Bain are scheduled alongside humorous entertainment and church services.
A schedule of events for Saturday and Sunday July 6 and 7 featuring multiple Hearons concerts by Hearons Sisters and other acts, lectures including The Story of the Stage and The All Sufficient Creed, plus a performance of Just Plain Bill Bone and a sermon by Dr. H V Adams.
The letter from Cedar Grove Maine praises Electric Bitters as curing liver and kidney ailments after suffering and discouragement. It notes one bottle brought relief and three bottles fully cured, sold by Joseph Emmert at 50 cents.
The Daily Journal is delivered to any part of the city for 10¢ a week.
The Wisconsin league all star debate centers on Freeport and Wausau selections with Dope Fiend listing stars like Stark Konetchy and Leahy, while other writers dispute picks including Stark over Erickson and Kroy versus Ives in center field.
An editorial announces McClure's summer issue will feature Ellen Terry Memories a vivid serial of her life on stage Walter Wellman describes a July flying machine voyage for the pole and other pieces The Fight of the Copper Kings ends in July Carl Schurz Reminiscences climaxes at Gettysburg as the Gettysburg panorama unfolds for Gen Gettysburg remains in view.
The notes list fresh stories by Mary S. Watts Will Adams and Lucy Pratt along with known authors Joseph Conrad Henry C Rowland Willa Cather and Viola Roseboro. Illustrations will feature artists including F Walter Taylor James Montgomery Flagg Sigismund de Ivanowski Arthur J Kellar and others as the year’s fiction promises new phases of Mary Baker Eddy history and Schurz’s eyewitness chronicle.
A compilation of historical notes from 1734 to 1905 covering the Bank of England opening, early balloon ascent attempts, deaths and births of notable figures, a Chicago financial panic, the federation constitution defeat in New South Wales, Pretoria’s surrender to Lord Roberts, Volodyovski winning the English Derby, and King Alfonso’s London visit to King Edward.
In Moline Illinois voters approved raising the annual saloon license from 500 to 1000 by a 680 vote margin. Seven wards supported the high license despite organized saloon opposition. City aldermen had deferred the issue to a public vote. the ordinance becomes effective next April.
North Mills North Carolina resident John Garrett recounts discarding his walking stick after a long battle with a chronic sore. He credits Bucklin’s Arnica Salve marketed by Joseph Emmert druggists for healing the wound and restoring happiness. The product is guaranteed for piles burns and related conditions at 26 cents.
Robert J. Long as administrator of Henry Rohrbach seeks court order to sell estate lands to pay debts. Defendants include Sophia Rohrbach and others. property described as lots 1-6 in block 8 in Rock City. Summons issued for July term 1907 at Freeport courthouse. attorney R P Eckert.
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