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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1900
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR describes the basis of representation for a district with one delegate per 200 votes and a fractional entitlement for 100 votes and over for William McKinley in 1896. It lists counties and their delegate counts, noting district composition and allocation rules.
Republican voters in Flor enée will hold a township primary at the town lodge on Monday March 19 from 1 30 to 3 o'clock p m for nominating a township ticket Pp W Russell Ward Committeeman
Republican voters in Harlem Township will hold a primary election at West Freeport village hall on Saturday March 17 to nominate candidates for township offices. Polls open from 6 30 to 8 p m. WM I Brady committee man.
Republicans in Freeport township will vote Monday evening March 19 at the county club rooms above Hoffman's dry goods store to nominate township officers. Polls open 6 to 8 p m. Committee members listed include H F Hanze C J Wells Frank Harris B F Tras M M Koeoxner R P Eckert Joan Templeton W J McCann Dr J F Farr.
A flurry of short entries records visits and trips across Illinois and nearby states. C. S. Schelling and J. P. Younger appear in Elgin. Charlie Wringer and Carl Snyder travel to Chicago. Hon. Jacob Krohn returns with his wife from Chicago. Senator Aspinwall and James B. Mitchell pass through for Chicago. Miss Gertrude Burkhart, Helen Hiller, and other residents visit relatives in Milwaukee, Pecatonica, and Chicago as professional and family ties pull people between Freeport, Beloit, Rockford, and surrounding locales.
A humorous exchange notes a fanciful idea of cultivating a fruit tree into a nut tree. The speaker asks if cultivation could alter a fruit tree into a nut tree and another responds skeptically, pointing out how jokers have transformed Washingtons cherry tree into a chestnut.
A Chicago Tribune quote shows a young man balking at a seven dollar price, exclaiming the book costs like sin while the elderly agent claims nothing costs like sin in a light exchange about literary value.
Lucy Price a female farmer near Savanna Illinois has gone insane after years of dressing and working as a man on her rural homestead nine miles north of Savanna and inheriting a family lineage of illness. Born 1839 in Pennsylvania she adopted masculine dress to tend her hilly farm and hoard wealth. her life notable for vegetarianism and wary self sufficiency as she cared for relatives. The piece recounts her family history including a father who was insane and later died in a Galena poorhouse, and notes her estate largely bequeathed to Battle Creek Sanitarium.
John Schwartz and Sons report a large plate glass window installed in the Stoskopf building on Galena street. The Woman's Relief Corps hosts a supper and dance at Blust's hall Saturday from 5 30 to 8 30. J P Byerley, executor of Josephine Betts, urges all bills be presented to the county court at the May term. A Woman's Guild special meeting is set for Thursday at 2 pm at Mrs Atkinson's home. The Society of Women Workers of the First Presbyterian church meets tomorrow at 2 30 pm in the church parlors. Executive board gathers at 2 pm there. Large attendance urged.
Edward Singer recounts a child Willie asking who is the best. Willie’s mother answers that God is first, then Willie’s father, then himself. The piece reflects a child’s loving confusion between whom to praise at night.
A Comhill Magazine excerpt recalls an Irish village belief in doctoring with starch and arrowroot. An old woman seeks care from a neighbor’s bottle, follows directions with sugar, but ends up unable to swallow the mixture as blue dye reveals the misguided remedy. The anecdote highlights superstition amid rising medical knowledge.
Harriet M. Burbank, piano teacher, conducts lessons at Studio 149 West Street. Contact details appear truncated but indicate a local instruction service for keyboard students.
Prof Aroneon to be featured as Col George W Bain the silver tongued orator of Kentucky appears tonight at the Grand opera house as the fifth Y M C A lecture. His subject The New Woman and the Old Man promises wit sarcasm and solid truth in a polished English delivery. A large intelligent audience enjoyed his figure last night and he is hailed as the most popular platform orator before the American public.
A husband returns to a scarred scene as his wife reveals a bold home decor project. She dressed the little drawing room with improvised armor and lamps, bandaged hands, and a bruised eye, proudly explaining she saved $50 by DIY. He praises her ingenuity before a sudden collapse of the couch adornment.
Performances at the Grand opera house feature A Romance of Coon Hollow with New York cast, plus realistic stage scenes and popular buck dancers. An evening recital by Prof. Maurice Aronson at the Y M C A auditorium showcases Chopin, Schumann, Schubert, Tchaikovsky and Liszt pieces. Also noted is a commentary on WWI artillery effectiveness and a Syrup of Figs advertisement.
A young man begs a father for his daughter, then collapses in a storm outside a fashionable residence. The father, surprised by the rejection, counsels him to brace up, while the daughter and suitor exchange banter. The scene ends with hopeful reconciliation and family concern.
Tommy asks what the soothing weed means and fills a dictionary search with a puzzled exchange about tobacco. The teacher corrects him and offers time off if a dictionary finds the word haeen, which Tommy finds as a fruit seed bearer, though the scene ends in confusion.
King Edward III of England indulged in many courses yet forbade his servants from eating meat or fish more than once daily. He also decreed by law that subjects at dinner or supper could have no more than two courses or three dishes per course.
Curcano March 14 closes show July wheat at 67 and corn at 374 July oats 226 and July pork 10 974 with lard 610 and ribs 6023. Curcano stock yard cattle 21000 and hogs 32000 with light to moderate activity and sheep steady. Chicago receipts list wheat 25 cars oats 298 hogs 32000. New York stock market note and Northwestern receipts included.
An advertisement touts Rocky Mountain Tea as a vitality tonic for the body and bones with claims of improved flesh and strength. It cites Dr. Wright of Detroit comparing wealth to Rockefeller or Vanderbilt and mentions 85c price. Also notes Canada cold mining development and Nova Scotia coal areas at 97,200 square miles with undeveloped regions.
Call at Bolender's Art Studio to have pictures copied and enlarged. We discount all offers made by agents and give you first class work. You never loose your small pictures when giving them to us. We give you better prices better frames any kind of work and satisfaction guaranteed. 76 Chicago St between Lee and Exchange. 31 lw
The Pennsylvania System’s bureau of attendants for trans Atlantic travelers in Jersey City and New York City, twenty years established, offers free help to visitors and tourists. Experienced agents meet passengers, arrange steamship tickets, guide to ships, transfer baggage, reserve sleeping car space, and provide cabs and baggage handling free of charge. Inquiries go to H. R. Dering, Ass’t General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
A fragmented OCR item mentions Hawk in all its branches and individuals Mrs A C Thomas and 255 Galeng. The text is incomplete, offering limited context but indicating a local note or caption style entry about people and a place.
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