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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1905
Page
5
An old time ad prose lists various insect powders and poisons for pests. It promotes pure Persian insect powder, white hellebore, slug shot for roses, quassia for green flies, Paris Green for potato bugs, disulphide of carbon for ants, Stearns Electric Paste for rats and roaches, moth balls, and bed-bug cures, claiming success in pest control.
The Havana sails from Halifax for a Greenland cruise led by Dr. Frederick Sohon who, backed by Washington business men, seeks to prove outdoor treatment can cure tuberculosis. The ship will anchor at fjords along Baffin’s Land and central Greenland with patients aboard and return to Halifax in September.
Windsor celebrated a royal wedding as Princess Margarite of Connaught wed Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. The ceremony drew attendance from major European royal families amid holiday celebrations in Windsor.
Frank Hastings has lent a $20,000 organ to Society's Beer Garden to be opened at St Nicholas rink in New York. Promoted on suggestions by Henny C. Potter, the venture includes several prominent New York society figures.
In Brooklyn on June 15 a monument was unveiled in the Lutheran cemetery honoring the unidentified dead from the General Slocum tragedy. The cornerstone records the disaster history, relics, and survivor, missing, and death tallies from the sinking near Hell Gate one year ago.
New York June 16 Special The Standard Oil company today declared a quarterly dividend of 92 dollars per share, totaling 8,776,000 dollars. The prior year’s quarter paid only 8 dollars per share, with annual dividends expected to be slightly below last year’s total.
At the national conference in Fuora Indiana on June 14 foreman Michael Montgomery ruled telephones are wicked and their use is forbidden by the church members.
Special weather bulletin notes showers and thunderstorms tonight and Friday. Cooler conditions expected Friday afternoon or tonight.
An old advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Ten as a cure for various pains including rheumatism neuralgia lumbago and pleurisy. It pitches Ten or Tablets at 35 cents and promotes a pretty book as a bonus offer from Brown & Dolmayer.
Bodies pulled from Pecatonica River near Asherville after a man finds a woman floating in the water and a second body later emerges. Identified as Mrs Julia Young and Media Pyles, the sixteen year old, the case ties to alleged infidelity and a family quarrel ending in a double drowning. The inquest will probe motive while the Pyles family seeks warrants and answers amid disputed arrest procedures.
During my Northwest trip I secured farm mortgage loans, offered for sale only with my own money invested. If you have idle funds, I can show you what I have, whether you invest or not. Farm mortgage loans are my specialty and I can secure more to replace loans I dispose of, for a reasonable remuneration. Charles D Knowlton, Banker and Dealer in Investment Securities.
Washington June 15 Special Minister Takahira met the president for one hour and twenty five minutes. He would not reveal details. An official statement says Washington is chosen as the peace conference legation site after both governments requested the capital be selected.
At the United Confederate Veterans Association session the history committee report urged an impartial civil war history in school texts. It demands future histories acknowledge Jefferson Davis was unfairly treated and unjustly shackled, and the proposal was unanimously adopted.
Three people died and sixty were injured after a staged cannibalism contest between traveling players and villagers in Deredigynaz Hungary. Tension rose when the players did not perform as promised and a player bit a spectator’s ear, triggering a broader melee.
Philadelphia June 1. Special. The Republican street railways committee referred back to council the bills repealing ordinances that granted the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company franchises for sixteen miles of streets without city payment.
Jacob Hart, a Black man who lost both legs and an arm in a railroad accident, shot his wife dead and wounded himself after thinking she no longer cared for him. Police reported the tragedy occurred today in Caucada with Hart’s self-inflicted injuries reported as fatal.
A New York jury awarded architect Abner J. Haydel 24,186.75 against Howard Crould for drawing plans for the Gould Castle at Port Washington. Haydel had sued for 36,000 dollars and the verdict was delivered today in the supreme court.
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