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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1905
Page
6
Travel notices list round trip rates and ticket sale dates for events in Decatur Denver Niagara Falls and more. Details include sale dates June August and June 12 deadline, fare examples around 24.40, extension options with small surcharges, and agent contact H W Rowary.
The Chicago Great Western Railway announces reduced round trip homeseekers tickets to the north northwest south southwest and east on May 2 16 June 6 20. Additional sales to Minnesota the Dakotas and Canadian northwest occur May 9 23 30 and June 13 27. For details contact any Great Western agent or J P Elmer G P A St Paul Minn.
A five hour conference between employers and a union committee failed to resolve the strike. Key unions demanded withdrawal of police protection and boycotts against non-union firms, while employers refused, keeping protections in place. Riot incidents occurred with injuries including a broken nose to a police officer at Oakley avenue and Madison street.
The Team Owners association plans a mass meeting to press deliveries to all customers after drivers refused to arbitrate the boycott issue. Colonel W B Beurl leads the push, criticizing the union leadership and urging independent arbitration while decline offers from religious leaders. Meanwhile, United States marshals seek William J Baker tied to express-company assaults, with allegations that he was paid to target union members.
A garbled report describes Secretary Hay routing hours and a June schedule. It mentions Mrs Thuy and Dasidon at noon, a White Star Line ship at Liverpool, and a Baltic voyage to New York. It notes a secretary of state and train arrangements for access to a platform or yard.
Residents protest the Metropolitan Elevated Railroad plan to install a funeral elevator at the Gatlin Street station to move coffins to cemeteries, fearing a depressive effect on the neighborhood. Officials confirm funeral trains will operate and elevators may be added at other stations. seven to eight receiving stations planned.
Fringe of a Bloomington scene mentions John Johnson Swedish youth detained by a Chicago Secret Service officer over a year of writing letters to Miss Alice Roosevelt proposing matrimony. Johnson deemed insane and to be sent to an asylum in Jacksonville. Other items note Illinois University commencement with President Roosevelt’s involvement and various local events and speeches.
Backed by over 35 years of cures, the makers offer $500 in U.S. money for any case of leucorrhea, female weakness, prolapsus, or falling of the womb they cannot cure after a fair trial. Correspondence is confidential. Dr. Pierce offers medical advice from Buffalo, New York. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are a gentle, thorough ladies’ laxative.
A compact digest of scattered items: a Dutch periodical debates Rhine flows to the English sea. a 1745 treasury bill valued at $130,000. Umbria’s salute in San Jose de Guatemala sparked a roof fire. China bans metal rimmed spectacles except treaty ports and flags yellow as imperial color. Austrian court dining rituals describe wine and food distribution. Australasia gold output in 1904 totals 4.194 million fine ounces valued at $86.76 million with declines from 1903. Japan names battleships after mountains and warships after natural features. John I Gardner of New York critiques population decline and urban strain. Kaiser frets over uniform color. C M St P announces Minnesota excursion rail fares for spring and summer. Biennial Woodmen meeting affects ticket sales. piano tuner Geo B Vurneaure advertises service.
Local storyteller recounts a dramatic clash in which a widow, backed by a rifle, repels a sheriff named Tom Edgerton over a mortgage dispute. The tale ends with the widow marrying the man and paying off the mortgage, highlighting frontier courage and rough justice amid economic strain.
Fragmentary note from Baltheure News hints at schemes and a mysterious request for money tied to a person named Gayley. Read as a terse bread of phrase, the misspelled line suggests potential manipulation or political intrigue surrounding a loan or payment.
Glasgow shipyard worker Mrs. Ayers srs beheviere lays the first keel of a new Turkish battleship to be named the Agamemnon. The vessel is the most powerful first line ship yet ordered with an estimated 16 500 tons displacement and heavy armor. The report also mentions asthma cures and a Cuban diarrhoea remedy, plus plans for Antwerp universal exhibition in 1913 and a meteorologist Nowak establishing weather stations in Vienna and London.
W L Yancy of Paducah Kentucky reports kidney disease failed to respond to three top Kentucky doctors. Foley's Kidney Cure gave immediate relief after one bottle and total cure after three. Sold by H J Moogk and Wm F Jungkunz. Also notes police seizure of Corteggio painting The Repentant Magunlen in Kassel Germany.
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