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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1900
Page
6
OUR FASHION LETTER surveys summer styles with cigar ash gray and black touches. It highlights hats and gowns with velvet ribbons, lace, and chiffon, notes on train length, perfume etiquette, and travel gowns with tan jackets, detailing colors, trims, and silhouettes.
A compact collection of aphorisms and quotes from Carlyle, Cope, Southey, Alger, Emerson, Bulwer Lytton, Aristotle, Bulwer Lytton, Ebner-Eschenbach, Colton, Joubert, Swift, Shaw, Gladstone, Lavater, Vauvenargues, and a proverb. Topics include order, patience, fate, society, and self.
A collection of pointed paragraphs from the Chicago News and other sources offers aphorisms on vanity honesty love friendship and marriage. It muses on money truth wine fame singing and home with quips about promissory notes hatchets and brides.
A list of women given nicknames reflecting adjectives and traits such as agreeable sweet pleasant seedy clear geometrical orthodox best flower musical profound star nervous muscular lively uncertain sad great big warlike and others, each paired with a surname. The tone mimics a period lexicon cataloging character labels.
An old advertisement proclaims a 60c bottle of Foley's kidney cure as coverage against Brights disease and diabetes, urging men to take no other. It credits H. J. Moogh and W. F. Jungkunz as endorsers.
A mix of old advertisements and notices includes Hall's Catarrh Cure claim by Cheney & Co from Toledo with a sworn oath and a notary, plus Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets advertised as an elegant physic to improve digestion and appetite. Also mentions Siberian farm life and a Jos Emmert drugstore offer for a free sample.
A brief Detroit Tribune quote notes a misperception about a colonel being a hard drinker, countered by another remark that he is the easiest drinker seen. The exchange highlights a contrasting view of the colonel's habits documented in a published item.
A Washington Va editor credits Chamberlain's Pain Balm with rapid relief and complete cure for a serious ankle sprain after unsuccessful prior remedies. Distributor listed as Joseph Emmert. A series of brief notices touts De Witt's products, Mormon mission service, Banner Salve, Foley kidney cure, and farm animal value increase.
Miss Maud Dickens of Parsons Kansas writes she suffered eight years with asthma in its worst form and feared death during recent attacks. After using Foley's honey and tar she states it has never failed to give immediate relief. H. J. Moogh, W. F. Jungkunz.
An advertisement touts One Minute Cough Cure as stopping coughs and curing colds faster than any medicine. It claims to treat croup bronchitis and throat and lung troubles while preventing consumption. Written by C W Williams from Sterling Run Pa and signed H J Moogh.
A paragraph explains artificial silks are made from wood fiber converted to cellulose, drawn into threads like silk. It quotes J. S. Carson praising Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for stomach troubles and digestion. A Chilean government patent grant to the Richmond Gold and Silver Cigarette Co. gives exclusive rights to cover cigarettes for nine years.
Two years of kidney trouble prompt Ira W Kelley of Mansfield Pa to endorse Foley s Kidney Cure after relief. W Shipman of Beardsley Mn testifies to Kodol Dyspepsia Cure enabling he eats freely after 25 years of distress. Otto Korb Boonville Ind praises DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve for skin ulcers and piles. A Belgian Congo warden is set up at Coquilhatville named Kew gardens aiding tropical industries.
A lady praises Allen's Foot-Ease for shaking into gloves to absorb perspiration and protect gloves, calling it a dainty toilet powder. Physicians endorse its purity, with Dr W C Abbott of the Chicago Clinic calling it grand. Sold in drug and shoe stores for 25c, sample free. address Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy New York.
timetable of railroad routes and schedules listing No 8 Omaha Express No 21 Fort Dodge and Lyle Express No 31 Chicago and Dubuque Passenger No 34 Bloomington and Dubuque Passenger No 2 Chicago Limited No 4 Chicago Express No 22 Dubuque and Chicago Express No 82 Dubuque Chicago Express and related Madison Dodgeville and Dodgeville line trains along with notes on stations Rockford Freport Galena and Rock River connections.
Railroad timetable notes departures and arrivals for multiple trains from Milwaukee with connections to Chicago Racine Rockford Janesville Madison and Mineral Point division. Through coaches to Rock Island, baggage checked through to destination, agent J B Swhatt.
The C M and St P Ry resumes the Midland Route Tourist Car with a Chicago departure at 10 35 p m Friday and a sequence through Omaha Colorado Springs Salt Lake City and San Francisco arriving Wednesday 9 45 a m. An optional Salt Lake City layover offers sightseeing. Eastbound departure from San Francisco is Saturdays at 8 a m arriving Chicago Wednesday at 8 25 a m.
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