Frontage irregularities threaten Freeport gas franchise
City engineer assistants report widespread irregularities in signatures for a proposed gas and electric company petition in Freeport. Signatures sometimes came from nonowners or without consent, with only partial street frontages included, potentially voiding the majority frontage required. A special council session tonight will review findings and decide whether to proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Sistanta
C. BE. Gregory
Gregory
Woodmen Picnic Delegates Meet in New City
William Dunlap and others from Cherry camp travel with Louis Bauscher Pratt and Ezra Darling from Freeport camp to Rockford to attend the Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin Modern Woodmen of America Picnic Association convention. They set dates for the annual picnic and choose Beloit for 1908 while Rockford hosts this year on June 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Dunlap
William Gerberisk
R. M. Gill
J. K. Conley
Calvin Stout
Jacob Boos
EK. B. Creider
Cherry Camp
Louis Bauscher
Filmer Pratt
Ezra Darling
Freeport Camp
Forckford
Rockford
Beloit
Wis
For Sale Nine Room House on Douplge Ave
A nine room house on Douplge avenue is offered for sale at a bargain. Contact Peres Merzce at 110 Gelena Street for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enan. Peres Merzce
Gelena St
Noted Woman Jane Addams of Cedarville Detailing Achievements
Freeporters recall Jane Addams daughter of the late John H. Addams of Cedarville a former state senator and bank president. Her work spans Hull House child labor arbitration typhoid and tuberculosis studies Paris exposition juror lectures and a Chicago school board leadership. She is billed to lecture in Freeport next Saturday with a hoped for full house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John H. Addams
Cedarville
Freeport Bank
Jane Addams
Hull House
Chicago
Illinois
West
Pullman
University of Wisconsin
McMillan
Board of Education
Miss Addams
Settlement Home Board
Freeport Teams Lose at Rockford in Glassy Floor Clash
Freeport High and Freeport Highs basketball teams lost to Rockford Highs on a glassy floor at Armory Hall amid rowdy crowds. Rockford led 56 to 38 and 82 to 2. one Rockford player Reitsch fouled out after rough play. Ellis injured during rough actions, and Freeport coach Rogers refused future Rockford games on hostile conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Rockford
Forest City
Reitsch
Rogers
Rockford Rooters
Northern Illinois
Weather forecast for Chisago County March 23
Illinois generally fair tonight with possible showers and thunderstorms in the northern section. Warmer conditions expected in the far north. Sunrise 5 58 a m sunset 6 16 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chisago
Illinois
Market Report from Chicago and Union Stock Yards
Closing board of trade quotations show May wheat at 7 34, May corn at 45 34, May oats 41 3s, May pork 16 62, May lard 8 77, May ribs 8 60. Union Stock Yards figures: cattle 3 800, steady. bees 34.00 to 34.75, stockers 2.75 to 4.75, hogs 17 000, weak. light 6 25 to 6 42, mixed 6 0 to 6 42, heavy 6 10 to 6 40, sheep 2 500, steady 4 00 to 8 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mch
Board of Trade
Union Stock Yards
Businessmen urged to adopt Hollister Rocky Mountain Weasy item
A promotional note claims many businessmen are short sighted for not adopting the Hollister Rocky Mountain Weasy item. It asserts the product makes and keeps users well and is priced at 35 cents, attributed to Joseph Emmett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mountain
Joseph Emmett
For Sale on Liberty Street with modern improvements
Classified notice records a sale of a single room on Liberty Street offering modern improvements. Listed contact shows Fetzger at 110 Galena Street. Property fragment indicates a private sale with limited readable details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberty St
Fetzger
Galena Bt
Deaths of Mrs Hagerty and others in Freeport area
Obituary notices report the death of Mrs Sherlock Hagerty a longtime Freeport resident and St Marys Church leader at St Francis hospital after a long illness. Also noted are death summaries for Mrs Philip Steffen of Evarts Henry W Helm of Polo and Walter L Hockman of Waterloo with brief funeral details and survivorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherlock Hagerty
Freeport
St. Francis Hospital
Hagerty
Miss Sherlock Dove
Plymouth
England
Thomas O’connell
Ireland
Canada
United States
Galena Street
Beneal Ae
Bernard Hagerty
State Street
St. Mary’s Congregation
Eliza Fluery
Racine
Henry Dove
Ellen Dove
Father Croke
Edward Lawless
Philip Steffen
Evarts
Jas. Colloff
Ridott
John Steffen
South Dakota
Ellen Steffen
Beyers
German Valley
Henry W. Helm
Polo
Globe Hospital
T. R. Schmidt
United Evangelical Church
Bright
Pennsylvania
Naperville
Ill
Helm
Fred Stahler
Walter Griswold
Chicago
Durango
Col
Blacksmith Dies After Prolonged Illness in Webster City
The deceased, born April 12, 1887 in Buckeye township Johnson county Illinois, married May 9, 1877 in Orangeville to Sarah C. Yorder. Family moved from Wright county to Webster City, where he worked as a blacksmith for Lighthead Manufacturing before illness ended his work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckeye Township
Eight Are Fined In City Child Labor Warrants
Warrants charging ten city firms with child labor law violations were issued in Justice Goddard's court. Eight firms pleaded guilty and were fined five dollars and costs each. One firm was absent, another case set for Monday, and one contested case slated for Tuesday in Justice Geib's court.
Pension increases for Stephenson county Civil War veterans
The commissioner of pensions at Washington notified Stephenson county Civil War veterans that their 1907 Act pensions have been approved. Freeport Christian Kamerer will receive $12 monthly, I N Mallory $20, Philip Wentz $12, Jerit Wohlford $12, Orangeville Jeremiah Walters $12, Joseph Sproul $15, Red Oak A C Newcomer $20 per month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Stephenson County
Freeport
Christian Kamerer
I. N. Mallory
Philip Wentz
Jerit Wohlford
Orangeville
Jeremiah Walters
Joseph Sproul
Red Oak
A. C
Boehner Binder Opens New Plant on State Street
Boehner Binder Co secures building on State Street near South Galena Avenue, formerly Dirksen Filigree. Machinery arrived and installation is in progress. Orders to begin next Tuesday with an initial output of 300 books for a major jobbing house. Output to be distributed through three top national jobbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boehner Binder Company
State Street
South
Galena
Dirksen Filigree Manufacturing Company
Doctor on foreign trip plans May return from London visits
Mrs. W. J. Rideout received a letter from her husband Dr. Rideout saying he is enjoying his foreign trip and will return home some time during May. He is taking special courses in major London hospitals including Morefield and St. Bartholomew, the latter being 600 years old with twelve buildings. He will visit hospitals in Vienna Paris and other places before returning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Rideout
Dr. Rideout
London
Morefield
St. Bartholomew
Vienna
Paris
Teachers Examination at Supt Grove Office
Nine young ladies from the high school and John C My ers formerly of Gettysburg take the teachers examination today at the office of Superintendent Grove. The names listed include Mamie Gale Alma Kruse Ruth Collins Sarah Ewing Helen Leitzell Mildred Kaufman Carrie Wagner Genevieve Moore and Isabell Trotter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Myers
Gettysburg
Supt
Grove Today
Mamie Gale
Alma Kruse
Ruth Collins
Sarah Ewing
Helen Leitzell
Mildred Kaufman
Carrie, Wagner
Genevieve Moore
Isabell Trotter
Midwest railworker hurt by sugar barrel mishap
Charles Carmichael an employee of the Illinois Central freight house sustained a badly smashed middle finger on his right hand when a barrel of sugar fell on it this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Carmichael
Ilinois Central
Albright's Laundry Offers Carpet Cleaning Rates
Freeport laundry advertises carpet cleaning at 2 cents per yard in Ingram and 8 cents per yard in Brussels with a mobile wagon calling anywhere anytime. Hart and Albright's Laundry operates at 323d lw 58 Galena St with two phone numbers 276.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freeport
Ingram
Brussels
Hart & Albright
Galena St
Easter Millinery Open 3 18dlw
When you clean house don t forget Janssen and Lacy do first class carpet cleaning. New Phone 21 Old Phone 42 Janssen and Lacy Successors to BE F Branen. 3 20dlw
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janssen & Lacy
Delmas Leads Defense Affidavits in Thaw Lunacy Review
New York March 23 Special. Affidavits from defense counsel Delphin M Delmas and others were filed in supreme court noon today on Harry K Thaws mental condition and potential lunacy commission. Mrs William Thaw denies generations show any insanity or epilepsy in Thaws family and refutes claims of early brutal influences and feeble intellect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Harry K. Thaw
Supreme Court
Delphin M. Delmas
Thaw
William Thaw
Harry Thaw
Henry Vv. Copley
King Charles declines audience with Jassy students
In Bucharest on March 23 a delegation from Jassy University urged King Charles to back peasants in a current movement. He refused to receive them, sparking pamphlets by the delegates calling the population to aid the revolting peasantry. The Romanian government characterizes the Moldavian peasant uprising as anarchistic rather than antisemitic, with reports of spread toward the south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Charles
Jassy University
Moldavia
Stock market demoralized in panicked trading
New York reports another demoralized slump in stocks and dealings that revived nervousness from last week's panic. Led by Canadian Pacific Union Pacific Reading and Hill stocks the market fell 1 to points. Berlin notes a similar sharp relapse as yesterday's New York advices triggered a panic on the street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Canadian Pacific
Union Pacific
Reading
Hill
Berlin
Wealth of Nation Grows with $18.6 Billion Rise
The 1904 national wealth was estimated at $107,104,192,000, up $18,586,886,000 from 1900. The Census Bureau report notes the four year gain and an annual wealth increase per family of $182 from 1890 to 1904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Census Bureau
Kidnapped Boy Sought in Dover Case
Washington March 23. President Roosevelt asked the postoffice department to aid T. N. Marvin of Dover Del in every possible way in the search for Marvin's young son who is believed kidnapped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roosevelt
Postoffice Department
Tt. N. Marvin
Dover
Del
Marvin
City to ask Schmitz to resign note
San Francisco dispatch reports The Call states the city government may be supervised by a citizens committee if plans of representative men gain public favor. Mayor Schmitz will be asked to resign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Schmitz
Kingston Feels Earthquake Shocks City
Kingston Jamaica March 28 special report when a severe earthquake shock rattled Kingston residents causing panic but no injuries were reported. Authorities and residents began assessing any structural damage and aftershocks were anticipated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Jamaica
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Tonic Ad Varieties
An old style advertisement touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a cure all tonic for bad breath coated tongue and languid feeling. Claims benefit to liver and bowels with a gentle toning effect. Presented with price 385 cents and product forms Tea or Tablets by Joseph Emmett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollister
Joseph Emmett
Cleaning services advertise at RB. B. Dye Works
A compact notice promotes dress cleaning at RB. B. Dye Works offering light suits shirts waists and jackets cleaned to customer satisfaction. The brief implies a local business ad highlighting garment cleaning capabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RB. B
Isdwir
Boys' knee and long trouser suits at E. & W. Clothing House
Plain blacks and blues confirmation style suits for boys offered at E. & W. Clothing House located at 8 21d3t.
Lucky Bob Hats In Soft Sit Shapes Arrive
Robert Luecke announces new Lucky Bob hats in soft sit shapes with prices of $2.00 $2.50 and $3.00. Reader should see the Journal's want column for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Luecke
Also Mentioned on This Page
Woodmen
Ellis
Weather Forecast
Today’s Market Report
Mrs. Sherlock Hagerty
Resi
DENT
Walter Hockman
Waterloo
Walter L. Hockman
Dane Street
Mr. Hockman
Secket
King Charles
Dover, del
Mator
Charles D. Knowlton
Stephenson St
North
Galena Ave
Sanford aZavimai In
Exchange Street
Mechanic Street
The
Journal
Hillmer
H. A. Aillmer Company
Mother Earth Earth
America
Germany
Austria
C.H. Little & Co
Ilb
Aes Ao
Acon
Vaughan
Gladys
Unwin
Wm. I . Jungkunz
Stephenson
Soren
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!