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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1907
Page
8
Mary and Walter marry after a day of wedding day nerves in a village setting. Walter confesses he once loved Leila and sent violets, but chose Mary saying Leila was engaged to him and caused distrust. Mary forgives as their future promises happiness and trust.
A stern father Manders pressures his son Tommy to be a model citizen at school. The boy explains no prize is given for good conduct, and the father storms out slammed door as his wife smiles, ending a tense scene from Pearson's Weekly.
A Boctian with wealth keeps hiring others to brush clothes sort manuscripts care for horses train a puppy and exercise a horse. He sighs at boredom and laments having nothing to do while the text notes the Boetians as barbarians.
A Chicago News clipping notes how tobacco use in churches provoked excommunication by Urban VIII and Innocent XII, mentions Thornton vicar William Breedon and Lilly on smoking bell ropes, and recalls royal and university prohibitions against tobacco in religious and public spaces.
Albany June 7 The public utilities regulator bill signed by Governor Hughes creates two five member boards to oversee all public service corporations in New York. The act removes four state commissions and places broad control over transportation and lighting in the governor appointed panels. One board governs Greater New York four counties and the other covers all remaining counties, including railroads street railways and gas and electric firms.
Two bodies gain complete control to regulate rail and common carriers. They can enforce safe service, fair rates, and prevent rebates. New rules limit capitalization, mergers, and stock holdings. commissions must authorize cross ownership and consolidation contracts.
A Stentenville dispatch says Acme Glass workers idle as fans welcomed Needhans and Bates of the Boston Natomas. Night crews bail off and day workers go missing, leading to a shutdown of the plant amid town unrest and tainted reputations.
Birmingham Alabama June 7 The local union of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America has practically given up the fight against the Birmingham Railway Light and Power Company A statement says it is regarded as useless to continue the boycott.
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution references seasonal terms and a river full of fish amid poetic lines about wishes and weather. The text reads as literary rather than news.
A brief quip from a Chicago Record-Herald exchange shows a caller asking to share a corner lot in the business district. The reply notes LT would be glad to assist if the plot is the desired corner site.
The fragment offers a warm tone of springtime happiness and forgiveness. It evokes good weather and outdoor living with hopeful, old time dialect. The readable text emphasizes cheerful mood and simple pleasures.
A promotional piece argues for knowing a product’s contents and promotes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a potent feminine tonic. It highlights help for painful periods, pregnancy, and nervous symptoms and offers a free booklet from the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo, New York.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich recalled how in James T. Meldins Old Corner Bookstore office a young poet noticed a memorandum book with contracts and proofs. He wrote Do not forget to accept T B A s poem and the editor accepted it yet the poem was never printed.
The London Chronicle traces the phrase the almighty dollar to Washington Irving and his 1887 work The Creole Village. It notes the controversy over whether the term was irreverent and that Irving later explained his intent was not worship of money.
A rich young man Lean dro Ingaprota died by shooting himself in the breast after drafting notes and letters in a Naples cafe. One letter says he sought metempsychosis and wished to be reborn as an animal, revealing a philosophical, sensational motive.
The Indiana reform figure Helen M. Gougar died at age TA after a brief illness from heart disease. Born in Michigan she helped draft the state woman suffrage law and led the Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association as president for twenty three years before spending recent years abroad.
At the Harrisburg state convention, John Sheatz of Philadelphia was named state treasurer while Senator Knox received the presidential endorsement for 1908. The platform emphasizes national affairs and praises President Roosevelt. Philander C. Knox signaled willingness to run if the GOP nominates him.
A jury under Justice Sweetsland awarded 25 cents to Chief Yeoman Fred Buengle of the U S naval training station after he was barred from a Newport pavilion last summer for wearing the navy uniform.
Terre Haute June 6 after an all day session the joint board of mine workers and operators of Indiana has agreed on air differences and the strike threatened to involve 4000 to 5000 miners of district No 116 was averted. Both sides made concessions.
On June 6 Chicago Board of Trade quotations show July wheat at open close around 1.00 a bushel with slight fluctuations. Corn and oats hold mixed bids and Sept contracts up to around 1.00. Live stock in Chicago and East Buffalo markets feature receipts and steady to varied prices for hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep with notable ranges across categories.
Advertisement touts KRodol Kodo as a fast remedy for indigestion claiming it contains jitces like a healthy stomach. Sold by Wm. BF Jungkunz, druggist at 5 Stephenson Street.
The text outlines who draws Queen Alexandra’s checks and the supporting vouchers. It names Lord de Grey as drawee with vouchers, possibly Lord Howe or Mr. Greville as private secretary, or Miss Charlotte Knollys for personal expenses. It states the queen does not sign checks and the treasurer can indorse incoming funds.
A Freeport resident Jerry Driscoll at 156 Cherry Street reports relief from back pain and weak kidney function after using Doan's Kidney Pills. He states the pills cleared dark cloudy secretions, ended fatigue, and restored health, crediting the product and Foster Milburn Co. as sole U S agents.
The monarch maintains one or two special accounts replenished from Lord de Grey’s department. Aggregate payments fund her discreet beneficence to numerous persons and institutions, with funds disbursed for the benefit of many.
A man at Union station questions a passenger about an umbrella. The passenger returns it, noting he found it and restores it to its rightful owner. Moments later the same stranger with a new umbrella asks for directions to Fifth Avenue.
In a Dundee Advertiser piece, Donald and Sandy share a humorous exchange about whether a bumblebee with more than two legs is a bird or a quadruped, sparking a lighthearted theological discussion during a merry evening.
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