Garden Seed Catalog Ad Announces Fresh Varieties
Local shop promotes spring seed selection with a large variety of new seeds sourced from a renowned seedsman. Customers are urged to buy garden and flower seeds to start the season.
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Newspaper
Freeport Daily Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1900
Page
3
Local shop promotes spring seed selection with a large variety of new seeds sourced from a renowned seedsman. Customers are urged to buy garden and flower seeds to start the season.
Republican senators caucused two and a half hours to chart Porto Rico legislation but reached no accord. The harmony committee was discharged, free traders and tariff advocates remained obdurate, and talks aimed at a vote on the bill continued under tight party lines.
Governor Stennenberg testified before the house military affairs committee that active rebel opposition persists in Coeur dAlene, with about 200 cavalry in the district and troops moved from guard duty to garrison on December 1. He denied a stockade with federal troops, citing persistent representations to the contrary.
A Star report from Washington notes Miss Helen Gould of New York funds nine to ten army chaplains at her own expense, criticizing the shortage of chaplains in volunteer regiments in the Philippines and beyond.
In Manila on March 27 during a Tagalo language production titled For Love of Country at Pagalo theatre, disorder grew as independence references and a rebel flag sparked shouts of Vive Filipinos and Vive Aguinaldo. Police arrested the theatre manager and the play's author, a Tagalo newspaper proprietor warned to curb radical utterances. American authorities had forbidden the play.
Cincinnati reports the death of Rabbi Isaac Wise at 6 p m after a period of sinking spells and weakening health. Born in Steingrad Bohemia April 3 181? he led the Plum Street Temple. Funeral arrangements and obsequies are entrusted to the congregation for tomorrow afternoon.
Chicago reports John Alexander Dowie readies a church wedding for himself and his stepmother Eliza beth North at Aion tabernacle. The 66 year old father and 65 year old fiancée were engaged after a five year acquaintance begun at the Zionist preacher’s Auditorium.
Madison Wisconsin faces a shortage of domestic help as employers seek workers. Reports cite a growing gap in labor supply and rising household needs across the city.
A Texas drover Anthony Hunt recalls finding his daughter Dolly on a dark prairie road after a storm. He carries the soaked child home to a relieved family, revealing Dolly wandered out to meet her father while her mother worked. Dolly’s rescue becomes a cherished memory for a father.
An old fox seeks grapes beyond reach and vows not to eat them. After failing to reach the fruit he declares virtue, but then explains his self restraint to friends. The story ends with the moral that virtue offers comfort when vice seems impossible.
Local ad urges customers to seek DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve, sold by H.J. Moogk, touting it as a cure for piles and skin diseases while warning that counterfeit products are dangerous and worthless.
A survey of remarks and social notes from a recent Ohio society banquet. President Mel Kinley drank wine briefly, Senator Horr cultivates flowers in his garden, and King Leopold is noted for a Congo colony investment. Banter about dances for charity and grooming breeds such as Pomeranian spaniels appears in the society gloss.
Readers are urged to try Foley's Kidney Cure with guarantees from H J Moogh and Wm F Jungkunz. A remark on organic chemistry cites 1888 counts rising from 16 000 to 67 000 carbon compounds per Richter. Rev E Edwards praises Chamberlain's Pain Balm for rheumatic relief. Emmert & Burrell sell the balm. Californians plant tomato trees as trade grows with Ceylon exports to London.
Shake Into Your Shoes. Allen's Foot-Ease powder cures painful swollen nervous feet and instantly relieves stinging from corns and bunions. Promoted as the greatest comfort discovery of the age, it eases tight shoes and sweating. Sold by druggists and shoe stores, 25c by mail, trial package free. Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy NY.
Mrs C A Thomas announces agency for St Louis pressed brick praised as best for store fronts sidewalks chimneys and graves. A carload available for inspection at Cummings' lime house near Henney buggy factory or at her North Galena avenue home. Brick and workmanship guaranteed.
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