Freeport Auto Show Promises Big Week Of Displays
Auto dealers report strong demand for 1909 models in Freeport and surrounding areas as farmers buy cars to replace horses. Fred Jastram hosts a large showroom with Buick, Maxwell, Kissel, Overland, Apperson and Ford models, with demonstrations, accessories, and illumination planned.
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Freeport
Rockford
Sterling
Baraboo
Wis
Fred Jastram
Jastram
George M. Stanchfield
Lena
George E. Maurer
Maxwell
Charles L. Best
S. S. Jourden
Clothier
County Cullings Baileyville From Our Own Correspondent
Baileyville March 1 reports a holiday Monday with Mrs. Henry Dikkers improving. Several residents traveled to Forreston and Freeport while others moved, visited, or planned relocations. Benjamin Busker prepares to relocate to Avon South Dakota with family.
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Baileyville
Clark
Forreston
de Boer
Everts
Frank Linneman
Reuben Frie
Brewer Danakas
Ienry Dikkers
Coffman
Benjamin Jiessanius
Helen Johnson
Toba Wubbena
Freeport
Bergner
Mason City
Chris. Schonhoven
Benjamin Busker
Vosberg
Kerr
Mae Smith
Lena
Christine van Ningen
Jacob Nievenhoven
Shannon
Johnson
German Valley
Avon
South Dakota
Sest Wigheg
Ralph van Jeest
Wnovik
Centennial Seventeen Event: Serenade and Oyster Supper
On Wednesday evening the community serenaded Warren Mack and his bride at the Aspinwall home, then funded an oyster supper for lady friends at the Silbermann residence. About forty young people attended with jokes and games before a dining-room reception. Communion services are planned March 7 at the German M E church with Rev. Barr of Girard. Anne Koertner returned to Freeport, while Mrs. Rosenstiel of Dublin visited John Koertner’s family.
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Warren Mack
John Aspinwall
Silbermann
M. BE
F. O. Barr
Girard
Iowa
Anne Koertner
Freeport
William Rosenstiel
Dublin
John
Charles Witte
Carl Witte
Becktold
Henry Berg
Stockton
W. A. Koertner
Theo, Koerner
Local notes on city visitors and appointments
General Superintendent C. L. Ewing of the Illinois Central Railway Polypety was in town briefly today on his way east. Mrs. C Lang, in Freeport visiting her niece Miss Eulah Chapman who recently underwent an operation and remains bedbound. Samuel Y Heisler of 261 North Galena Avenue, once team captain for the Saturday Evening Post, is now exclusive agent for Freeport for the Post and the Ladies' Home Journal and seeks orders.
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C. L. Ewing
Illinois Central Railway Polypety
Carroll Democrat
C. Lang
Freeport
Eulah Chapman
Samuel Y. Heisler
Galena Avenue
Saturday Evening Post
Post
Ladies’ Home Journal
Funeral services for Lena Dismeier held yesterday
Funeral services for the late Mrs. Lena Dismeier were held yesterday afternoon from the family residence and later from the German Lutheran church with Rev. A C Landeck officiating. Burial was in the city cemetery.
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Lena Dismeier
German Lutheran Church
A.C. Landeck
Ways to Halt Coughs and Breath Ailments by Nerve Pressure
A physician notes that sneezing can be checked by pressing the lip nerve near the nose and coughing by slight pressure in front of the ear. Pressing the top of the mouth can stop coughing, and forces of will are claimed to help. For glottis spasms in children or whooping cough, cold water on the feet or tickling the feet may arrest the spasm quickly.
No Romance Left in the World as Girls Dream of Money
A Washington Herald clipping notes a shift in attitudes among young girls who prefer wealth over romance. Two thirteen year olds debate marriage for money and independence, one proposing to support a rich husband with car fare and lunch money if needed.
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Prince Charming
Washington Herald
Appendi citis Threats and a Doctor’s Preventive Pill
A garbled ad-like notice touts Dr. King’s New Life Pill to prevent appendicitis by soothing stomach liver and bowels. It claims to cure constipation biliousness chills malaria headache and indigestion and promotes a 25 cent price at Joseph Emert.
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Dr. King
Joseph Emmert
Lancaster tax collection at Bokemeier & Kaney's store
A. J. Hill, Lancaster collector, will be at Bokemeier and Kaney’s shoe store on Saturday to collect all net taxes due. All taxes must be paid by March 6.
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Freeport Water Co
van Buren Bt
A. J. Hill
Lancaster
Bokemeier & Kaney
Undefined Advertisement Fragments From OCR Page
Fragmented OCR text shows names and bits of advertising lines including Mrs J A Pole and a local address. The readable items suggest an advertisement page with house work and local business references, but content is incomplete and lacks clear event or outcome.
Coming Events and dances at various halls March through April
A garbled list of events includes dances at Ak Tuet hall St. Mary's hall Blunt's hall and A& Blust hall with dates in March and April. It mentions Freeport Tribunal No. W social dances, German society events, a matrons dance, and an annual rendezvous at Freeport Canalistory along with a city and township election and a Germania society party.
March Land Week Woallack Theatre Matinees Schedule
The Woallack Theatre Company lists March matinees on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday with a moving pictures program for March 7 including matinee and night showings. An entry for March 18 notes a broken item in the schedule.
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Woallack Theatre Co
Moving Pictures
Dol
Passport Cards of Vergennes Reveal Hidden Biography
A Sunday Magazine feature explains how Count de Vergennes issued passports in France that doubled as cipher biographies. Color indicated nationality, card shape suggested age, border fillets showed marital status, dots signified wealth, a decorative flower reflected appearance, and punctuation after the name disclosed religion. The pattern aimed to reveal morals and occupations at a glance and to steer officials on surveillance or release.
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Count de Vergennes
Vergennes
Louis XVI
Giumester
Sunday Magazine
Sir James Crichton Browne Frames Critique of Medical Materialism
Sir James Crichton-Browne urged colleagues to resist viewing medical practice as mere material mechanisms. He likened the brain of a patient to a glue-like substance and warned that medicine risks reducing humans to a self-driven motor car propelled by energy shifts, heading to ruin.
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James Crichton-Browne
James
A Prayer for Love and Strength in Life
A devotional invocation asks for divine aid to receive love fully and to give all for the sake of the beloved. It seeks tenderness, high ideals, and unwavering demand, so life remains rich despite loss and sorrow.
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Uamilion W. Mable
I Forgot to Tell You There’s a Vase to Deter Maude
A strict housewife warns the new maid Maude that any breakage will be deducted from wages. Maude, tired of the position, quips that she already broke a hundred dollar parlor vase and will leave at week’s end with only four dollars for pay, challenging the deduction.
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Maude
Argonaut
Strange Sea Horse Pouch Gestures and Class Quiz
A passage explains male seahorses carry eggs in a ventral pouch and release young by pressing the pouch to stones. It notes larvae grow fast and are eaten by many fish. The excerpt also includes a misquoted classroom moment about Latin alter ego with a shy student reply and a sample sentence.
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Myrada
Long Sighted. New Nurse or Why Don’t You Want to Bath Johnny
A quirky dialogue piece presents a child named Johnny resisting a bath, arguing that the good die young and he fears dying in water. The text blends anxious images with fragmented phrases about tomorrow and sorrow.
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Johnny
Freeport Building and Loan Opens 15th Stock Series
The Freeport Building and Loan Association announces the maturation of its fifteenth stock series and the distribution of 86,500,00 among its percent stockholders. The offer invites participation now to join the fortunate investors as the series begins and gains momentum.
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Freeport Building and Loan Association
Ita
Hunchback Confronts One Eyed Acquaintance in Early Morning Walk
A Milwaukee Press story notes a hunchback meeting an one eyed acquaintance on an early street. The one eyed man remarks on the hunchback’s load and the exchange exposes a wry twist about their appearances.
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Milwaukee
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