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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1906
Page
7
The report details tadpole growth from hatch to froghood noting early organ visibility and limb development. It mentions a social order of dominance, cannibalistic acts among tadpoles, and a left/right limb development pattern observed by a reader.
President W. O. Thompson at Ohio State University presided as about 1,500 people gathered in Guilliams Hall at Wilberforce University. Booker T. Washington of Tuskegee delivered the commencement address to the graduates on campus before the university building before what may be the largest crowd ever seen at the renowned Negro educational institution.
New York June 22. The resignation of George J. Gould as a director of the Equitable Life Assurance society has been received. It is stated that the resignation stems from bankers and financiers being in loan syndicates and the difficulty of avoiding involuntary infractions of the new Insurance law governing securities sales to life insurance companies.
Detroit june 22 Captain TLiehb reported a steamer seen Wednesday afternoon in Lake Huron near False Presque Isle that appeared sunk or beached. The vessel's name could not be identified from the sighting.
Washington June 22. At the executive council session of the Voeceration of Labor a committee was appointed to draft a statement for labor and its friends. The document urges support for campaigns to defeat labor's opponents and elect friends to Congress.
Socialists of Wyoming meeting in Cheyenne nominated a full slate at Laramie. William Brown of Sherman named for congress and W O Neil of Laramie for governor.
Indianapolis June 22. WiN Rogers of St Louis won first prize in the Armentean handicap with a score of 87 targets out of 100. He shot from the seventeen yard line.
Severe frosts hit various parts of Wyoming causing significant crop damage. Reports from Cheyenne indicate substantial harm to growing crops across the state.
Scores from leagues and associations include Boston 1 Chicago 0, Philadelphia 2 St Louis 2, New York 6 Pittsburgh 4, Washington 7 Philadelphia 1 in nine innings, Detroit 9 Cleveland 6, second game Cleveland 8 Detroit 9 in ten innings, Louisville 3 Columbus 1 in eleven, Toledo 5 Milwaukee 3, Des Moines 5 Denver 4, with other listed pairings and a closing Dickens quote.
Advertisement copy touts Kennedy’s Laxative Honey and Turcough Byron as a non opiate remedy for constipation. It claims relief from the cold and promotes availability at all druggists with no opiates.
For sale a residence at 3 38 N Galeng Ave offering steam heat bath rooms city water sewer and gas with a barn. Modern conveniences described as first class condition and a bargain if taken quickly. Opportunity noted.
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for weak or fatigued women and Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for indigestion liver and biliousness. It claims honesty on the bottle wrappers, non secret formulas, glyceric extracts, no alcohol, and free consultation from Buffalo New York. Also promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets for constipation as a gentle laxative.
The piece weighs whether the two thieves were bound or nailed to their crosses and if the Saviour was nailed. It cites early writers saying all three crosses bore nails and notes tradition holds Christ uniquely nailed, referencing the Empress Ticlen tale and a St. Louis Republic report.
In a review of marriage notices the column notes origins of the modern wedding ad trade. It cites Vil laume in late empire Paris as early universal agency creator supplying apartments domestics wives and husbands per Journal de St. Petersburg.
A historical method used to validate money loans involved tally sticks. The lender and borrower each broke a plain stick. when repayment was due, the holder with the matching stick received the funds. Since two sticks never matched exactly, disputes over entitlement were avoided.
In Toronto Their Revsyard, Dr Strachan, bishop of Toronto, is waited upon by two churchwardens who complain their clergyman wears out the congregation by repeating the same sermon. He has preached it twelve times. The bishop asks for the text, but the wardens cannot recall it. He orders them to ask the clergyman to preach it once more and then report the text.
In Trondhjem June 22 Wil Haut J Bryan, observing coronation festivities, rejects phrases about him while asserting a steadfast anti private monopoly stance. He links the trust issue to the Democratic platform, arguing trusts must be exterminated, not merely controlled or regulated.
Pasadena contractor C A McCartney survived after a hay wagon incident drove sand into his chest through a wooden spike piercing his breast. Surgeons removed the heart, washed particles from it, replaced it, and treated other injuries. He is expected to recover.
At the sixty second commencement of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on June 22, 824 students received diplomas. Bliss Perry of Boston delivered the commencement oration on the topic Adjectives, criticizing Congress thinkers for using slogans like In time of peace prepare for war and Trade follows the flag.
Chicago Board of Trade quotations show varied prices across Wheat Corn Oats Pork Lard Hogs and Cattle plus cash sales for winter and spring wheats and oats. East Buffalo live stock prices list car receipts and market levels for cattle sheep lambs and calves with steady to slow business.
The advertisement claims imitation proves DeWitt's Witch Haze Salve is the best for burns scalds chaffed skin eczema tetter cuts bruises boils and piles. It urges asking for DeWitt's and notes it is highly recommended and sold by all druggists.
Laura M. Gemmill hosts watercolor sessions at Bows & Dollmeyer's with sample works on display. Griddlwe
A Kansas City Star joking exchange has a choir lender debating how to arouse male interest. The lender remarks that TJ could place a widow in the act but notes women would lose interest.
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