Weather forecast for Chicago on June 17
Special forecast notes thunder storms this afternoon and tonight in the southern area. Friday will be cooler with lower temperatures and unsettled skies.
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
5
Special forecast notes thunder storms this afternoon and tonight in the southern area. Friday will be cooler with lower temperatures and unsettled skies.
June 7 report from Chicago and local markets shows July wheat at 0.693-0.70, July corn 3s, Sept pork 11.85, Sept lard 6.95, with Kansas City cattle at 8,500 head and hogs 27,000. Cattle steady, hogs opened lower but closed stronger, sheep 10,000 with steady demand for good stock. Northwestern receipts list Minneapolis, Duluth figures. Chicago hogs 27,000. New York stock market note from Freeport broker C. W. Killen.
An advertisement asserts Bucklen's Arnica Salve clears pimples eczema tetter erysipelas and other skin eruptions. It also cures cuts burns bruises boils felons ulcers and piles. Sold by Jos Emmert druggist for 25 cents a box with a cure guaranteed.
Excur sion tickets sold at one fare for the round trip June 14 15 16 and 17 limited to June 26 on account of the Republican National Convention. Apply to agents Chicago North Western Ry.
Beginning Monday June 18 the Cascade laundry office will relocate to the building north of Dor man & Co on Van Buren Street. Individuals may leave packages at the barber shop under Second National Bank, and telephone 2 on 191 6-dd2w for inquiries.
Tickets on sale at Chicago Great Western offices on the first and third Tuesdays of May and June at one fare plus 2 dollars round trip. Return allowed within 21 days from sale. Inquiries to Chicago agents or F H Lord 113 Adams St Chicago for details.
A reflective verse piece describes hidden relics beneath eaves, including leather-bound books, a decanter labeled Wine, a cricket, a broken chair, a cow-hide trunk, an old stove, and kitchen junk. A simple cradle evokes motherly memories, and the poem concludes with a plea to save these castaways another day.
Eleanor Ainsworth arrives at the Richard Ainsworth Co. to surprise John Suncliffe. She discovers his attic workspace filled with papers bearing the Ainsworth name and a portrait of her father, hinting at a deep history between them. She plans to visit Suncliffe in person after reading an overdue note she found.
Eleanor challenges guardian John with a reveal of affection and the burden of trust. He admits a hidden love born from years of toil for her father, while she wields leap year logic to claim him as husband, closing with a bold plea and tender promise.
An quoted remark from Ian Maclaren in the Ladies' Home Journal argues that the existence of paid secretaries for philanthropic societies ensures city ministers remain active. The comment frames this as a consolation to the religious public about expenditures on nonprofit staff and limits on personal idleness.
The quote from Ladies' Home Journal says the American girl is bold, chatty with French Academicians, and quick to report conversations to New York papers. She dominates literature, art, golf, and marriage coverage with no veil between public image and reality.
The old circus manager recounts south shows where African American crowds seek free entry by crawling under canvas. In Lexington, Kentucky, two hired canvasmen ward off eager entrants for payoffs, triggering a near riot and the loss of two workers, as the crowd misreads a staged scene.
A city minister recounts a summer supply assignment in which a visiting pastor tried to stump him with a long list of unfamiliar names from Numbers. The minister pretended to read the tricky passage, then switched to the next chapter, sparking a whispered exchange that left the joke unfinished.
In a city strip, Scrawler drafts a mock magazine piece titled How to do the Paris exposition on $100 a minute while Scrawler and Scribbler joke about conscience and writing. Mrs Muggins frets that her husband is losing memory as she notes his memory lapse from his mother’s coffee.
Detroit Journal notes the social ostracism of a trust linked group. Fancy carriages at their porte cochere and snobbery contrasted with curt iceman, rude policeman, aloof pack peddlers, and nonchalant soap samples. The piece portrays a joyless, affected gaiety.
In a sharp exchange a character quips that dentists now perform both extraction and implantation, while another retorts that even a dog could manage it, reflecting a humorous debate over dental procedures.
A Washita Oklahoma report reveals four bottles of Electric Bitters cured Mrs Brewer of scrofula after years of suffering and failed treatments. The letter touts the tonic as the best blood purifier and a remedy for eczema salt rheum ulcers boils and running sores. It promises liver kidney and bowel stimulation and overall strength building at 50 cents per bottle from Joseph Emmert druggist.
The source notes Britain shipped about 5 million tons of anthracite and bituminous coal to Germany in 1899 but will likely spare only around 2 million tons in 1900. Embedded ad copy urges readers to try Rocky Mountain Tea from Madison Medicine Co. for 35 cents.
Ancient Order of Hibernians in Aurora Illinois announces a June 12 to 15 gathering. Chicago Great Western Railway offers round trip excursion tickets from June 8 to 14 on the certificate plan to Aurora with return by June 19 at one fare and one third. Inquiries to any C G W agent or F H Lord G P and T A 113 Adams St Chicago.
The Chicago Great Western Railway offers excursion tickets from June 7 to 11 for the Annual Convention of Coal Dealers of Illinois and Wisconsin in Chicago. Tickets are on the certificate plan good to return by June 14, fare and one third for the round trip. Inquiries to any C G W Ry agent or F H Lord G P and T A 113 Adams St Chicago.
Round trip excursion fares at one fare for June 14 to 16 on account of the Republican National Convention, with travel via the Northwestern Line. Tickets available through Chicago and Northwestern Ry agents, limited to June 26. Also half rates to Chicago via Northwestern Line for June 25 to 27 on account of the Prohibition National Convention, limited to July 2, available through Chicago and Northern Ry agents.
Testimonials from numerous patients claim long standing diseases cured by Professor Gregory in a drugless method. The ad lists diseases including rheumatism paralysis locomotor ataxia constipation eczema nervous prostration hay fever catarrh goitre indigestion lumbago neuralgia dysentery bed wetting dripping eyes deafness female diseases kidney trouble and more.
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