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Contonce March 8. Clouds tonight with rising temperatures. Friday looks cloudy and warmer with no precipitation expected.
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1900
Page
4
Contonce March 8. Clouds tonight with rising temperatures. Friday looks cloudy and warmer with no precipitation expected.
Mrs Captain Stewart visits the city while J N Galloway sells pop in Pecatonica. Miss Nellie Arlidge visits Winslow. Miss Sophia Brinkman travels to Chicago. J McGrath and George Turneaure ride to Rockford and Chicago. Mrs Mary Lamm visits relatives in Baileyville. Bricker party visits Forreston. Harry and Mrs Gemmel from Shannon visit friends. Louise Camerer to Rockford for a day. Scott Clark injures finger at Illinois Central shops. Nellie Ernest returns to Rockford. Frank Schatzel, editor of the Oregon Reporter, visits. W H Gold, ex-Davis resident and state bank president at Renville, Minn., visits Dakota and friends. Ellis family return from Joliet after garment ceremony at St Francis convent. Anna Ellis to enter religious life as Sister M Floria. sister Susie, Sister M Buheria, teaches at Streator, also attends Joliet ceremony. Anna Ellis leaves many friends wishing success.
Mrs J Showalter remains on the sick list while Miss Wilson resumes teaching after illness. Dr Stealy visited Nora to check on Mrs Samuel Bourne of that village who is quite ill.
A tense scene unfolds as a disorderly voice shouts and attempts to move a bulky horse away from the neighborhood. Mrs. Newcome reacts nervously while Mr. Newcome appears in the alley with his new auto, calming the frenzied commotion and easing the disturbance for the moment.
Dr W S Caldwell writes from Canton describing a Pearl River voyage, crowded streets, floating boat districts, temple scenes, brutal executions, and a stark view of Chinese life. He contrasts wealth and poverty, notes gambling in Canton and Macao, and reflects on crime, medicine schools, and burial customs.
In 1825 Claude Ambroise Seurat drew 10,000 visitors as a startlingly thin man. Born 1797, he appeared at age 28, weighed about 45 pounds, with chest measuring 38 inches. Astley Cooper noted his emaciation and intelligence, saying he lived on crumbs and wine, and died in 1849 at 52.
An advertisement promotes Grain-O as a nourishing substitute for coffee for children. It highlights grain-based composition and a coffee-like taste, noting a price around 4 times cheaper than coffee with packs sold by grocers in measures of 1 lb and 25 cents.
All parties desiring to pay their taxes to me should please call and do so as I will only have the books a short time Very Respectfully J C Koseu Collector.
Closing Board of Trade quotations show July wheat at 6 3 4, July corn 35 1 2, oats 22, July pork 10.85, lard 5 92 5, ribsa 5 92 5. Chicago hogs close steady to strong with mixed, heavy, and light classes listed. Northwest receipts cover Minneapolis and Duluth totals, with cattle and hog movements noted and New York Stock Market data sourced from C W Killen broker.
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