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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1906
Page
5
The article argues many city dwellers dream of retiring to farming but misjudge the scope. It lists farm types, notes 4.68 million of 5.73 million farms focus on rural industries, and urges diversified, low maintenance side lines like chickens and fruit, with a focus on profitability and risk management.
The article argues orchards near the house boost farm profits by serving as chicken yards, calf pastures, and bee sites. It notes an average orchard wastes capital unless used, cites bee products valued at over 4.7 million dollars on livestock farms, and urges farmers to seek easy money with minimal effort while tending main income sources.
An old medical note explains how worry and mental work affect digestion and how poor digestion worsens nerves. It promotes Mi o na as a guaranteed cure for stomach diseases except cancer, sold with a no cure no pay guarantee. Wm. F. Jungkunz offers the guarantee with every 50 cent box.
Dr Taylor of Lexington addressed students with humor. The high school track team travels to Beloit for the indoor athletic contest at Beloit College gym and will be joined by the basketball team to play Beloit College tomorrow evening. Miss Guiteau has been ill, Miss Chapman substituting. The Junior class plans a two act play A Line Among Women with a listed cast. The play is a pleasing comedy under Prof Lunt. music clubs practiced. literary societies meet Monday. Senior pins arrived and are worn proudly. Miss Davis directed chorus with King of the Forest am I as a new piece.
A reader argues against cheaper emulsions, noting Scott's Emulsion costs more because it is higher quality and more costly to produce. The ad asserts quality and standard status of cod liver oil product from Scott & Lowerne, 49 Pearl Street New York.
John L. Whitman, Cook County jailer and criminology authority, argues Chicago crime stems from unruly youths. He urges sweeping Hoodlums off streets, focusing on youths forming criminal paths, not seasoned criminals. He warns parents overlook their children's drift and calls police to monitor night rovers and saloon back rooms to curb crime.
Sam Kendall of Phillipsburg Kan. claims the salve will cure burns boils sores scalds wounds piles eczema salt rheum chapped hands sore feet sore eyes. Quickest cure says the testimonial. Only 24c at Joseph Emmert's drug store, guaranteed.
Eleroy correspondent reports a Friday home gathering at James Liberton's. Liberton and family plan to move near German Valley. Several visitors stay with relatives in Scioto Mills Lena and Riley, Kan. Relationships, visits, and local home moves noted, including Guinter moving to C Stout's place and Chester Winters visiting his father J. W. Winters. Donald Davis’s health status is listed as not improving.
W H Brown of Pittsfield Vermont endorses Dr King's New Life Pills as the best remedy beside a placebo. He notes they keep his family in splendid health and cites quick relief for headaches constipation and biliousness. 25c guaranteed at Joseph Emmert's drug store.
The article notes a ten month lockout of 700 shirt waist and laundry workers in Troy New York, all women, prompting appeals for aid from organized labor. It highlights unions expanding life insurance sick and death benefits, large growth in the Order of Railroad Telegraphers with 6709 new members in 1905, and recalls early US union history led by journeymen printers forming the first national trade union in 1850. It mentions P J McGuire’s death, the marble workers convention in Chicago in June, Russia’s child labor restrictions, and rising union organizing among bricklayers in Porto Rico and Hawaii. Texas Farmers Union membership totals across states approach half a million.
Brewers and saloon owners in Illinois plan to form the Liquor Dealers' Indemnity Company to indemnify saloon proprietors against damage suits arising from deaths or injuries tied to alcohol sales. Offices will be in the Reisch building, Springfield, once used by the American Short-Horn feeders’ association, under an attorney with assistants. The venture may later host the Illinois Liquor Dealers' Protective association.
A mail offer promotes Father John’s Medicine by promising six free cathedral engravings with no ad content for a two cent stamp. The notice claims the medicine cures colds throat and lung troubles without alcohol or injurious drugs and notes broad professional and institutional use. It lists Joseph Emmert as the seller in Freeport Hl and references Lowell Mass.
Mrs Maude Fenton Bollman, a renowned singer, will perform at Freeport's First M E church next Tuesday evening. The capacity crowd is expected to be taxed as she repeats Haydn With Verdure Clad and the aria from The Magic Flute by request. F J Burdett and Chas W Sawyer will play the piano numbers. tickets available from W J Young & Co Jourden & Stukenberg.
Mrs. Mary H. Walters of Columbus Ohio suffered severe hunger due to a stomach made weak by drugs and insomnia. She credits Electric Bitters with rapid improvement and a complete cure. The tonic is offered as best on earth for 50 cents, guaranteed by druggist Joseph Emmert.
About 800 firemen on the Illinois Central receive a pay raise from ten to thirty cents per day for engines with large cylinders and for switching engines after a conference between railroad officers and firemen representatives. Railway Telegraphers also discuss wages in Chicago, seeking unity with last year’s scale and small increases for a few key operators.
A Sluiter and 8 Brauer returned from Chicago on Saturday with a fine line of wallpaper curtains mouldings and related items and will soon open a paint store at 18 South Galena avenue. Her man Janssen and W S Bookman will be there to greet old acquaintances.
In every clime its colors are unfurled. Its fame spreads from sea to sea. Be not surprised if in the other world you hear of Rocky Mountain Tea. Joseph Emuinert.
Forest Service offers two ways to identify public trees: on site by a representative or via correspondence using mailed specimens. Officials should send mature foliage, flowers, and fruit specimens with a rough plat showing locations. allow two to three weeks for drying and proper labeling guidance upon request.
Taken as directed it becomes the preatest curative agent for the relief of suffering humanity ever despised. Such is Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea. 35 cents, Tea of Tablets. Joseph Emmert.
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