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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
5
Freeport coal dealer promotes hard coal supply with rapid growth, inviting inspections of stock and promising flexible delivery. The company offers a liberal discount for summer orders and emphasizes ongoing efforts to improve service.
An antique ad-like piece touts insect control hardware and powders. It lists remedies for potato bugs, ants, roaches, bed bugs, and rats, promising efficacy with items such as Persian insect powder, Paris Green, Disulphide of Carbon, and Moth Balls.
Syrmnarrenp Ohio June 24 Spe candid remarks by J W O Jackson chief inspector of railroads and telegraphs of Ohio on the Lake Shore wreck from Mentor. He says the switch was moved intentionally and that speed did not cause the accident while noting limited reports and comparing train types. Also Loomis sails for Southampton on a state department mission.
Aggie Myers, found guilty of murdering her husband in Liberty, Missouri, was denied a new trial and sentenced to hang on August 11. The case drew attention as a high profile domestic homicide with a swift verdict and impending execution date.
The Chicago forecast calls for fair conditions tonight with a slow rise in temperatures through Sunday. Expect mild evenings and daytime highs in the comfortable range as the weekend progresses.
Closing quotations for grain meat and stock yard products. Wheat corn oats pork ribs lard hogs and sheep prices with buyers and ranges. Also band concert school election and choral society events with times and offerings. Beautifying ad and Rocky Mountain Tea promotion included.
In Lodz a wave of violence surpassed Red Sunday in St. Petersburg with up to two thousand killed or wounded. Social Democrats and Jewish mobs sought revenge for comrades killed earlier, firing on troops and using vitriol. By noon eighteen more killed or wounded. total deaths around one hundred thirty, forty one dying in hospitals. Shops and factories closed. cossacks and infantry patrol streets. In Warsaw, locksmith Stephen Okreielia was sentenced to death for a March Praga police station bombing injuring six. Disorder feared. streets heavily patrolled.
Local notices show Freeport groups hosting a wedding orchestra, a card party, executions of charitable concerts, and meetings. Highlights include a dog poisoned incident, a high school graduate starting a federal court summer post, an engineer’s return from hospital, church services altered by the pastor’s conference, and temperance speaker Miss Brehm.
George Matter of Fulton and many others are listed as visiting or traveling to cities like Chicago Rockford and Denver. The column notes engagements, trips for summer study, weddings and family visits including Miss Tina Waly as a bridesmaid and Col George R Smith from Denver visiting Mrs Breed.
Mrs. Epke Decknadel of Silver Creek township died last night at 11 after a three month illness of complications. Born October 1880 in Hanover Germany, she came to America in 1866 with her parents and married Epke Decknadel in 1874. Survived by husband and ten children George Elsa Cornelius Mrs Boomgarden Cornelia John Herman Epke Margaret Verne plus two brothers and three sisters. Funeral Monday at 1 pm from the family residence with Rev. Byers officiating.
Last evening during a band concert a police chief was alerted when Mrs Klein called from 47 Hancock Avenue saying her husband George Klein choked her. Chief Sweeney declined involvement as the home lies outside city limits.
An enthusiastic Freeport Alumni Association banquet at the Y M C A drew 200 plus members from a 670 strong group. Bearded elders shared with recent graduates and former students as 1005 cohort additions were welcomed.
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