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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1905
Page
7
An article argues adulteration harms adults and infants and explains practical at home tests for milk and other foods. It emphasizes basic chemical tests, safe handling, and the role of housewives aided by chemists, noting formaldehyde use in milk is unacceptable and outlining simple procedures and needed reagents.
A description explains mixing hydrochloric acid with ferric alum until a pinhead bead forms then swirling gently. The solution is placed in warm water and left five minutes. If formaldehyde is present the mixture turns purple. Cautions note hydrochloric acid is corrosive and must be greatly diluted before contact with metal vessels or milk.
June, Belvidere. Miss Vera King, graduate of South Belvidere High School, received a prized eighty acre Florida farmland gift from her father Frank King. The deed and a Jersey cow from Attorney J M Huff completed the surprise presentation at the King home as classmates and teachers looked on.
An unidentified, well dressed man was captured in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, suspected of belonging to a gang that robbed stores in Freeport, Beloit, and other Wisconsin and Illinois towns. Three men entered Plummer's store seeking silk goods. while the clerk was away, they packed a grip with black silks and attempted to depart. One accomplice was captured. the other two fled, with police vowing further arrests.
Right time to cure catarrh with Hyomei says Wim F Jungkunz. Complete Hyomei outfit costs one dollar with inhaler and dropper. Extra Hyomei bottles 60 cents. Money back guarantee if it does not cure. Also Electric Bitters praised for stomach and liver troubles. Sold by Joseph Emmert at 50 cents a bottle.
The Pennsylvania Special will run daily between Chicago and New York covering 910 miles in 18 hours. Depart Chicago at 2 45 p m arrive New York 9 45 a m next day. Return from New York at 8 55 p m arrive Chicago 8 55 a m. A Vestibuled electric lighted car train offers dining sleeping and observation cars. For details contact Geo R Thompson Milwaukee.
A collage of notes on society and industry: Japan downgrades wifely duties of sewing buttons, Britain and Ireland at 42.75 million, London’s new fire engine speed, and England’s street railway costs. It reports Sudden political and military shifts, mining finds like the Cullinan diamond, Siam’s gambling ban, Canadian immigration surges, and various European disputes, plus local anecdotes and medical ads.
A coroner led an inquest into George Bollman’s death in Davis after he drank carbolic acid in a personal crisis. The jury, including A N Morris as foreman, found death caused by carbolic acid poisoning from long illness, with no postmortem performed.
An Illinois reader backs Dean's Kidney Pills with personal testimony from 1897 about kidney pain relief. Juxtaposed is a note on Princess Louise Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein, a royal family member who crafts enamel art including a memorial cross for Prince Christian Victor now in South Africa.
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