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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1909
Page
8
Sixty two boys attended a Y M C A gathering where General Smith D Atkins spoke on changes since his boyhood and the hardships of olden days. The audience appreciated the opportunities today provides and hopes to welcome Atkins again.
The last will of the late Wm Bruce of Cedarville has been probated. His Cedarville house goes to his widow Mrs Sarah Bruce for life. After her death the property passes to her son George W Bruce. The remaining estate is for the widow to use and the residue goes to the children and their issue. The will is dated November 12 1902. Mrs Sarah Bruce is named executrix without bonds.
Members of the physical culture class for ladies will meet tomorrow evening at 7 30 instead of tonight The Toastmasters club meeting planned for Wednesday evening is also postponed due to speakers not being ready A municipal ownership debate is being prepared and proving challenging
The remains of Miss Bessie Capron arrived this morning and were taken to the home of her sister Mrs. Robert Hunter at 8 Walton Avenue. Funeral services will be Tuesday morning at 10 o clock conducted by Rev H L Moore with Mr William Hall in charge of arrangements. Interment will be in Oakland Cemetery.
Mr and Mrs George Barkley of Chicago former Freeport residents attended the funeral of the late Mrs Shearer at Lena on Sunday. Mr Barkley formerly worked for the American Express company in this city and in recent years has been employed by the same firm in Chicago.
President Harahan of the Illinois Central rode through Freeport Sunday noon en route to California. He traveled with his private secretary John Caldwell, son of former Freeport train master W. T. Caldwell. The party was aboard the private car Marrinette.
O Gugger, after eleven years as district and traveling salesman for McNeil & Higgins of Chicago, has severed his connection and accepted a position with Guyer & Calkins in this city.
Rockford basketball squad faces Freeport at the local YMCA gym tomorrow night in a rivalry game regarded as highly anticipated by fans. The old matchups between the two teams add to the excitement for the local association audience.
A breakdown at the electric power house disrupted electricity users this morning. The issue was resolved by noon, restoring power and reducing inconvenience for customers.
Dan Mowery, who left last week for Springfield on a brief visit, has accepted a position as guard in the house of representatives during the present session.
Dr Seymour will deliver a postponed lecture tonight in the high school auditorium after changing the date from last Friday. The topic is Napoleon.
The condition of Chief Silk is reported to be about the same as Saturday, with him somewhat improved over the early part of the week.
Grace Young and John Young both of Freeport were married by Justice of the Peace Geib late Saturday afternoon.
An old advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a cure for constipation biliousness chills malaria headache indigestion and even appendicitis prevention. The ad claims gentle stimulation of stomach liver and bowels and lists a 25 cent price at Joseph Emmert.
A typo riddled note urges recipients to check the new price list and submit work as soon as possible. It mentions homeowners, city deliveries, cleaning, dyeing, and pressing, with unclear references to spring and delays or troubles.
An advertisement claims a product makes children rugged and hardy, warms and energizes the body, and can cause rapid weight gain in thin people. It invites readers to send four cents and the paper name to Scott & Bowne of New York for a free atlas.
A historical note recalls Amelia Opie’s 1769 nerve training for a sensitive child. The method forced the child to face fears by handling beetles frogs and a skeleton while listening to her mother’s talks with two lunatics, shaping courage and pity.
A London Chronicle note argues Bismarck embodied the number three in fame and fate. It cites his three names, three wars and three treaties, three horses killed, three emperors meeting, and the triple alliance. It mentions a clover leaf, three oak strokes, and the motto In Trinitate Robur.
A sunken reef 850 feet off Stornoway lighthouse bears a remarkable beacon. Cast iron cone plates support a lantern with a glass prism that refracts lighthouse rays to project a false light. Mariners believe a lamp shines on the beacon, while the reflected light marks the rock’s danger. The device, in use over fifty years, guides navigators safely by illusion.
The Ohio State Journal describes three cooking types: negative with no cooking, neutral with eating without awareness, and positive cooking where mind and heart merge to craft and savor details. The piece likens culinary spirit to art, comparing it to sculptors shaping Venus and painters blending world colors.
The excerpt from Shakespeare's Natural History, cited by John Trevisa, describes the hyena as a cruel beast akin to the wolf in gluttony. It allegedly changes sexes, roams at night, mimics human voices, feigns speech, and attacks men to rend and eat them, illustrating Tudor-era pest lore.
A枚 fragmentary tale from Tit-Bits describes Little dohun'e discovering an Ostmehese tied to a beam in a fowl run. The card above reads keep your eye on this and do your beat, suggesting a planned trick or watchful scheme by the boy and his father.
A fragmentary quote features a man praising animals and a woman named Mrs. Torkins lamenting racing dangers. The items include a caution about speaking carelessly, reflecting newspaper chatter and stray attributions from the era.
Chicago figure Pat Crowe, famed kidnapper of Kid Cudahy, has fallen from public favor after weeks of evangelical services at Belvidere. Once seen as a leading man in Freeport, Crowe's recent actions include a quarrel with a cab driver and a saloon incident on Quincy Street after refusing to pay fare.
Petit jurors reported at 1 50 this afternoon except H B Buss who moved from the county. F M Bear Freeport Peter Benne tham Freeport Roy Nesbit Lancaster and G F Gastman Buckeye were excused. Stilson Courtney and James Miller are the first indicted to be tried. At 3 o'clock the jury had not been accepted.
Tomorrow is Germania ladies day. F A Read has gone to eastern markets to purchase goods. G A R ladies meet Wednesday afternoon at G A R hall. Card party tonight at K of G hall open to public. Freeport Shakespeare society meets this evening with Misa Jean Knowlton. St Agnes guild meets 2 30 Tuesday with Mrs Murphy. Mr and Mrs Ringdaell arrive from Aledo Tr to visit daughter Mrs H E Morrison. City union of King's Daughters meets Tuesday at 3 at Y M C A parlors. Dr A C Schadle of Warren visits on business with Cosmopolitan Life Insurance. Judge Farrand of Dixon spent Sunday in Freeport and leaves for Mt Carroll. Illinois Central stock traffic unusually heavy Sunday. 161 loaded cars to Chicago stock yards. Silver Creek school hosting necktie social Friday night March 12. bring necktie and lunch. Florence Voigt of Company B US Infantry passed through Freeport Sunday returning to Minneapolis after inaugural festivities in Washington DC. soldiers on seven-car special train. Ladies Aid of Embury church meets Tuesday afternoon at 2730 p m with Mrs A M Dustman. Decor and re finishing of Wagner Albert store interiors underway after Blust fire. Basket social by Greenville school one and a half miles northwest of Scioto Mille Friday night March 12. program by pupils. bids requested to bring baskets. Admission 40 cents. Louetta M Voigt, teacher.
Observations trace annual romance patterns in Baltimore from October evenings when couples seek warmth to Christmas halls and post holiday tensions. By February and March Clarence and Angellhe propel plans for bridesmaids and trousseau, while loans and honeymoons unfold through spring, ending with Mendelssohn and seaside memories in Atlantic City and Niagara Falls.
Great painters sculptors masicians and actors avoid losing control in emotion. Edwin Pooth, in The King's Wool role Bertuccio, once gave himself wholly to a character and felt elated and energized, yet his daughter Edwina Booth in a stage box said she had never seen him act so poorly.
Monks in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries isolated themselves to reproduce the Bible in illuminated manuscripts. The process was slow, taking at least thirty five years, with Guido de Jars noted as a producer. A bible copy finished after fifty years was sold with St W Burrell’s books in 1790, begun in 1244 and not completed until much later.
Charles H. Green appointed by the city council to audit city books has supplied the city clerk with the books and papers needed for the investigation. Green said he will begin his checking this evening.
The Freeport Whist club will meet at the home of Judge and Mrs. O Ik on Tuesday evening, sharing an evening of bridge and sociable play in a local gathering.
The Dutchman Van Centen determined the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. He found that with diameter 1 the circumference equals 3.1415926, accurate to thirty six decimal places, achieved by painstaking arc bisection.
A single grain of the resin of Indian hemp will produce catalepsy in a man. Effects reach a climax in a few hours, allowing limbs to be held in almost any position without difficulty. Once placed they remain, resisting gravity, and the body is insensible to impressions during the catalepsy.
A Philadelphia Record item notes that many men claim fortune is self made yet admit the unseen inspectors shape the structure of success. The comment reflects skepticism toward self made claims and credits unseen forces.
John Burroughs argues in Outing Magazine that birds mourn for lost offspring via parental alarm cries rather than genuine sympathy. He notes cross species alarm triggers among animals during breeding season, but doubts lower orders truly feel another's pain or understand death with empathy.
Mrs Hoyle reports her husband believes corsets harm health and shorten life. Mrs Doyle challenges the claim with a query about the number 807. Mrs Hoyle recalls a man who lived over 100 without wearing corsets, noting the New York Press as the source.
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