Builders in Town and Country Offer Superior Weathered Lumber
The best builders in town and country should use our lumber. We offer good grades, thoroughly well seasoned, and kept under cover to protect from rain and sun and prevent warping.
23 Jun 1899
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1899
Page
1
The best builders in town and country should use our lumber. We offer good grades, thoroughly well seasoned, and kept under cover to protect from rain and sun and prevent warping.
Detroit June 23 special report says Governor Pingree and General Alger plan a united campaign against trusts and for a popular vote senatorial election. Alger arrived from Detroit and confirmed Pingree will make a public statement supporting the candidacy.
Generally fair tonight and Saturday with thunderstorms in the south tonight. Light variable winds.
The Railroad Gazette reports preliminary six month figures totaling 1181 miles of new track. Pennsylvania heads states with 106 miles, followed by Mississippi 85 and Arkansas 63. Illinois Central leads mileage completed at 64 miles, with Choctaw Oklahoma & Gulf 51 and Chicago Rock Island & Pacific 49 miles trailing.
Atlas issues checks for cash lumber pur sghasas only. The note lists payment items and restricts transactions to specified lumber purchases. No additional details or names are provided in the fragment.
We have on hand choice bargains in residence property and a long list of desirable building lots in all parts of the city. It is an exacting customer that cannot be suited by something on this list.
Mr De Staal president of the peace conference introduced a Russian proposal to arrest armament and denied plans to reduce it, urging focus on curbing the rise of armed peace. Col Gilinsky urged a five year no increase in effective peace footing aside from colonial troops, while naval stand-still action was planned for later as the conference adjourned until Monday.
New York dispatch reports Dr. F A Cook of the Belgica Arctic expedition arriving home. He says the crew was frozen in for thirteen months off Alexander Island and drifted about 2000 miles before breaking free and returning directly to Punta Arenas.
Striking street railway workers rejected the settlement terms agreed by their committee last night. The company will withdraw from further talks and city authorities are openly preparing for trouble as tensions rise in Cleveland.
A published statement claims the Carnegie Steel company contracted to supply 80,000 tons of steel rails for the Siberian road. Company members refuse to confirm or deny the report, leaving the matter unresolved.
Officials at the foreign office sent the United States ambassador a formal memorandum detailing the temporary agreement reached on the Alaskan boundary question.
Manila June 22 Aguinaldo seethes at insurgent failures and has assumed command of Luna’s army massing 2000 troops from Antipolo to unleash the largest rebel force yet. McArthur’s forces stay vigilant as rebels strike, wounding two members of the Seventeenth regiment. Sprinarieto Ill June 23 Bicycle rights argued as vehicles in law. drivers must yield part of the road. New York ready to furnish volunteers for Philippines service if McKinley calls. Dallas reports a cyclone sweeping through eastern Texas western Arkansas and northern Louisiana with Pine Bluffs Ark hardest hit and wires demoralized.
In Louisville Kentucky on June 23 the Democratic state convention assembled and adopted resolutions on the death of R P Bland and took a recess until 4 pm to await the credentials committee report.
The central Schuetzenbund continued shooting at Desvaes Iowa with H M Pape of Hartford Conn scoring 94 at 200 yards. In Victoria B C a leper station on Darcey Island burned, one leper died and another was fatally injured.
Bargain event at Winslow and Co. offers children's slippers and Oxfords at reduced prices. Store bills itself as sellers of shoes and satisfaction with a focus on value and selection.
Bids due by 9 am Saturday July 1 1999 at the Lancaster court house for constructing four iron bridges. Details at town clerk office. Bid rejection rights reserved. Irwin Guasser town clerk. Also two rural mail routes in Jo Daviess county for four years pay direct from the government starting July 1 1899 must have three horses per route.
In Peoria on June 22 John Look, a charter member of the Bachelor's club, announced plans to wed Miss Annie Fuches, who is ineligible under club rules forbidding marriages outside widows. A directors meeting dismissed Look from the club following the violation.
Members paid a fine of 85 assessed by the board and the club plans to attend the wedding in a body next Thursday night to administer the punishment. Secretary George Richardson has received letters from widows in several cities asking for member lists to correspond with them. A meeting of local manufacturers will convene at street fair headquarters to discuss an industrial parade during the fair.
Doctors warned Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio that he would die from a rectal fistula after 18 months unless a costly operation was done. He treated himself with Bucklen’s Arnica Salve, sold by Emmert and Burrell, and claims complete cure at 256 cents per box. Also ads for theatrical wigs and H O It hen lay seems.
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