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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1900
Page
6
The piece surveys spring and summer fashion, highlighting pastel yellow fabrics as a preferred choice for neckwear and waistpieces, lace innovations, home made lace, and varied trims. It notes new uses for taffeta, guipure, chiffon, and satin fabrics, with emphasis on necklines, belts, and contrasting black skirts, plus practical homemade lace edging and waist decoration ideas.
A collection of light riddles and punny questions about Henry VIII the North Pole sailors elephants and more. It names authors and wordplay on letters with brief punchlines and playful twists typical of a humor page.
In Unto This Last Ruskin contrasts rich and poor within a demand driven society. He notes the rich are industrious and methodical while the poor include both the foolish and the wise, the idle and the provident, the generous and the deviant.
A compilation of curious facts and records from 19th century reports including lightning striking a Natchez plantation tree seven times, US match consumption, a Maine hunter's pipe lit by lightning, haunted London houses, the Princess of Wales tea service, heavy steel use in pen production, fish versus beef nutritive value, cremation trends in London, horse shod with camel skin and other experiments, Lima and Cordova claiming earliest printing press, and a prolonged 1899 hurricane tracked by the Washington Hydrographic Bureau from Africa toward New York.
From 1631 delays by Governor Endicott to cross fords to the Handel and Haydn Society as first to perform Messiah in 1818 and Creation in 1819. It outlines venues from Stone Chapel to Music Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 1881 start and Wigginson’s off night choice, and Boston’s Saturday night theatre tradition ending in 1880s.
A newspaper quarrel over a published cartoon sparks claims of slander. The editor defends harmless pleasantry while a newspaper man insists the caricature is defamatory and damning, threatening a $25,000 damages suit unless redress is found.
EK Presson of Pressonville Kansas writes that everyone in town who has used Foley's Honey and Tar considers it the best remedy for la grippe, cold and coughs. Letter appears from HJ Moogh, Wm I Jungkunz & Co.
The C M & St P Ry restarts the Midland Route Tourist Car service with a Friday night departure from Chicago at 10 35 p m and a Saturday Omaha stop at 3 55 p m. The train continues via 1 P Ry to Colorado Springs arriving 10 45 p m Saturday and via Col Mid to Salt Lake City arriving 9 30 a m Monday. From Salt Lake City it runs to San Francisco via RGW and So Pac arriving 9 45 a m Wednesday. An extra Salt Lake City layover offers local sightseeing. Eastbound service departs San Francisco Saturdays at 8 00 a m and arrives Chicago Wednesday at 8 25 a m. G H Hearrop, G P T A 9-25d&wtd
Southern Railway offers cheap one way and round trip tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month through October to Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Georgia North Carolina South Carolina Virginia and Florida. Homeseekers pay one fare plus $2 for the round trip, tickets valid 21 days from sale. For details and illustrated matter contact Wu A Tavycog Louisville or J C Beam Jr Northwest Passenger Agent 80 Adams St Chicago.
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